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NEUTRAL Added in 1.16

Piglin mob in Minecraft

Piglins are the gold-loving inhabitants of the Nether. They attack on sight unless you wear at least one piece of golden armor, and they trade: give a piglin a gold ingot and it hands back a random item. That bartering is one of the best sources of ender pearls, Fire Resistance potions and obsidian in the game.

Health: 168 hearts
Behavior: Neutral
Food
Found in: Nether Wastes+1 more

Piglin stats

Health: 16 8 hearts
Behavior: Neutral
Spawns in: 2 biomes
Size: 0.6 × 1.95 blocks
XP when killed: 5
Speed: 0.35
Detection range: 16 blocks

// Experience drops only when a player kills it. Speeds are the game’s internal values, not blocks per second.

How much damage Piglin deals

Damage to a player without armor, by world difficulty. 1 ♥ = 2 damage points.

Melee attack

Peaceful00 ♥

Easy3.51.75 ♥

Normal52.5 ♥

Hard7.53.75 ♥

+3 with Golden Sword

Ranged attack · Arrow

Base 2, multiplied by the projectile’s speed: the faster it flies, the harder it hits.

What else changes with difficulty

Aim gets more accurate as difficulty rises (spread 10 / 6 / 2)

// Armor, Protection and Resistance reduce these values. Base values read from the game code (26.3).

Where to find Piglin

Biomes where it spawns naturally, with its share of the spawns in each group.

Nether Wastes

Crimson Forest

Spawning

Group size: 43 to 4 · depends on the biome

Structures

With the structureBastion Remnant

Piglin drops

Nothing from its loot table.

Carried items and gearDropped on death, outside the loot table (game code)

The items it picked upAlways dropped100%

The weapon or armor it spawned withEach piece: 8.5% chance, +1% per Looting level. The item comes back damaged.8.5%

Also gives you

BookBartering1.1%

Iron BootsBartering1.7%

PotionBartering2.1%

Splash PotionBartering1.7%

Iron NuggetBartering2.1%

Ender PearlBartering2.1%

Dried GhastBartering2.1%

StringBartering4.3%

Nether QuartzBartering4.3%

ObsidianBartering8.5%

Crying ObsidianBartering8.5%

Fire ChargeBartering8.5%

LeatherBartering8.5%

Soul SandBartering8.5%

Nether BrickBartering8.5%

Spectral ArrowBartering8.5%

GravelBartering8.5%

BlackstoneBartering8.5%

Health compared

Health vs other neutral mobshealth points

Drowned20

Panda20

Zombified Piglin20

Piglin16

Spider16

Nautilus15

Zombie Nautilus15

Piglin and its family

Mobs built on the same base in the game code, compared on their game values.

Mob	Health	Attack	XP	Speed
Piglin	16	5	5	0.35
Piglin Brute	50	7	20	0.35

Food and breeding

Items it eats, follows or breeds with.

Cooked Porkchop

Raw Porkchop

What you can do with Piglin

Items to use on it and what happens.

BarterGold IngotThrow or give it a Gold Ingot: it looks at it, then gives you an item in return.

Stay safeGolden HelmetWear at least one piece of golden armor and piglins leave you alone.

Baby Piglin

Spawns as a baby All baby mobs →

Advancements with Piglin

Advancements whose criteria involve this mob, from the game files.

Oh ShinyDistract Piglins with gold Monster HunterKill any hostile monster Monsters HuntedKill one of every hostile monster

Command

Summon a Piglin/summon →

/summon minecraft:piglin ~ ~ ~

How to stay safe around Piglins

Wear one piece of golden armor, any of them: helmet, chestplate, leggings or golden boots. Boots are the usual choice because they cost little gold and leave your best armor where it matters. Piglins then ignore you, but they still turn hostile if you:

attack a piglin, as nearby piglins join the fight;
open a chest, a barrel, an ender chest or a shulker box while they are near;
mine gold ore, gilded blackstone or a block of gold close to them.

Piglins are also afraid of soul fire. They back away from a soul torch, a soul lantern or a soul campfire, which makes these blocks useful to guard a path through a Bastion Remnant.

How bartering works

Piglin in Minecraft: A Piglin admires the Gold Ingot it just picked up, before tossing something back — A Piglin admires the Gold Ingot it just picked up, before tossing something back Scene setup: Natural bastion; Piglin held in place, the ingot dropped by command and picked up by the Piglin. In-game screenshot · Java Edition 26.3, seed 2026 Same spot in a world with seed 2026:

/execute →

`/execute in minecraft:the_nether run tp @s 594.5 68 221.5 -71.6 8`

Throw a gold ingot to an adult piglin, or use it on the piglin. It holds the ingot up, admires it for a few seconds, then throws you one random item. Each ingot is one draw from the bartering table. Only gold ingots work: piglins also pick up gold items they like, such as a golden apple or golden tools, but they keep those and give nothing back. Baby piglins never barter.

What is worth bartering for

Ender pearls, 2 to 4 at a time, very useful before the End.
Potions of Fire Resistance, as drinkable or splash potions.
Obsidian and crying obsidian, for portals and respawn anchors, without a diamond pickaxe.
Soul Speed books and iron boots. Apart from bastion chests, bartering is the only way to get this enchantment.
String, nether quartz and the Dried Ghast, the block that grows into a rideable Happy Ghast.

The rare items are the useful ones, so bring a full stack of ingots or more. Most draws are gravel, blackstone, soul sand, nether bricks, leather or spectral arrows.

Piglins outside the Nether

Take a piglin to the Overworld or the End and it starts shaking. After about 15 seconds it turns into a Zombified Piglin, which no longer barters. Keep your bartering setup in the Nether.

Piglins have other habits worth knowing. They love pork: they pick up and eat raw porkchops and cooked porkchops. They hunt hoglins in groups, and they flee from zombified piglins and zoglins. They fight with golden swords, crossbows or, more rarely, golden spears.

✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 1 November 2026