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HOSTILE Added in 1.16

Zoglin mob in Minecraft

The Zoglin is what a Hoglin becomes outside the Nether: an undead, rotting beast that attacks almost every creature around it. It cannot be bred and no longer fears warped fungus. You usually meet one only after a Hoglin has gone through a portal, by accident or on purpose.

Health: 4020 hearts
Behavior: Hostile
Main drop: Rotten Flesh
Found in: Not in the wild

Zoglin stats

Health: 40 20 hearts
Behavior: Hostile
Main drop: Rotten Flesh
Spawns in: —
Size: 1.396 × 1.4 blocks
XP when killed: 5
Speed: 0.3
Detection range: 16 blocks
Knockback resistance: 60%

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

How much damage Zoglin deals

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

Melee attack

Peaceful00 ♥

Easy2.5–51.25–2.5 ♥

Normal3–81.5–4 ♥

Hard4.5–122.25–6 ♥

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

Where to find Zoglin

Doesn’t spawn naturally in a biome: it comes from a structure, a spawner, a block or an event.

Zoglin drops

Zoglin dropsFrom the loot table · chance per kill

Rotten Flesh+1 per Looting level1–3

Health compared

Health vs other hostile mobshealth points

Elder Guardian80

Piglin Brute50

Hoglin40

Zoglin40

Breeze30

Guardian30

Shulker30

Traits

Properties set in the game files.

Breathes underwaterDoes not drown.

Ignores Poison and RegenerationThese two effects have no effect on it.

Inverted healingInstant Health hurts it and Instant Damage heals it.

Weak to SmiteSmite deals extra damage to it.

UndeadThe game counts it among the undead, which affects how several effects and enchantments treat it.

Ignored by the WitherThe Wither does not target it.

ZombiePart of the zombie family.

Baby Zoglin

Spawn egg on an adult All baby mobs →

Advancements with Zoglin

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

Monster HunterKill any hostile monster Monsters HuntedKill one of every hostile monster

Command

Summon a Zoglin/summon →

/summon minecraft:zoglin ~ ~ ~

How a Hoglin turns into a Zoglin

A Hoglin that ends up in the Overworld or the End starts shaking, and about 15 seconds later it turns into a Zoglin. A baby Hoglin becomes a baby Zoglin. Zoglins never spawn naturally, so every one of them was once a Hoglin that left the Nether. There is no way to turn it back.

Why it is worse than a Hoglin

It attacks nearly everything. Not just players: villagers, animals and most other mobs nearby. Only creepers and other Zoglins are left alone.
Nothing scares it. Warped fungus, Nether portals and respawn anchors, which keep Hoglins away, have no effect on it.
It cannot be bred. Crimson fungus does nothing, so a Zoglin is the end of a hoglin farm.
It drops only rotten flesh, no porkchops and no leather.

It keeps the Hoglin's size and its tusk attack, which launches you into the air. Out in the open that knockback is less deadly than over Nether lava, but it still sends you flying off cliffs and into ravines.

How to fight a Zoglin

Use Smite. It is undead, so Smite deals extra damage.
Turn potions around. As with every undead mob, a Splash Potion of Healing hurts it, while Poison and Regeneration have no effect at all.
Do not wait for sunrise. Unlike a zombie, it does not burn in daylight.
Raise a shield when it charges, and fight with solid ground behind you.

Keeping hoglins in the Nether

Most Zoglins are accidents: a Hoglin follows a player into a portal, or walks into one near a farm. Build your hoglin pens well away from any portal, and close the pen properly: a Hoglin that slips out and wanders through a portal comes back as a problem.

✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 1 November 2026