Zombified Piglin mob in Minecraft
The Zombified Piglin is one of the most common mobs of the Nether, and it is harmless as long as you leave it alone. Hit one, and every Zombified Piglin around joins in. That group anger is the whole story of this mob: avoid it while exploring, or use it on purpose in a gold farm.
- Health
- 2010 hearts
- Behavior
- Neutral
- Main drop
Rotten Flesh- Found in
- Nether Wastes+1 more
Zombified Piglin stats
- Health
- 20 10 hearts
- Behavior
- Neutral
- Main drop
- Rotten Flesh
- Spawns in
- 2 biomes
- Size
- 0.6 × 1.95 blocks
- XP when killed
- 5+1 to 3 per item it wears · baby: 12
- Speed
- 0.23
- Detection range
- 35 blocks
- Armor
- 2
// Experience drops only when a player kills it. Speeds are the game’s internal values, not blocks per second.
How much damage Zombified Piglin deals
Damage to a player without armor, by world difficulty. 1 ♥ = 2 damage points.
+3 with Golden SwordWhat else changes with difficulty
- Turns villagers into zombie villagers: Easy 0 %, Normal 50 %, Hard 100 %
- Can call other zombies for help when hit: Hard only
- Breaks wooden doors: Hard only
// Armor, Protection and Resistance reduce these values. Base values read from the game code (26.3).
Where to find Zombified Piglin
Biomes where it spawns naturally, with its share of the spawns in each group.
- Group size
- 42 to 4 · depends on the biome
Structures
Zombified Piglin drops
The weapon or armor it spawned withEach piece: 8.5% chance, +1% per Looting level. The item comes back damaged.8.5%Items it picked up off the groundAlways dropped. Only some of them can pick items up.100%
Zombified Piglin and its family
Mobs built on the same base in the game code, compared on their game values.
| Mob | Health | Armor | Attack | XP | Speed | Burns in daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Drowned | 20 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0.23 | ✓ |
 Husk | 20 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0.23 | · |
 Zombie | 20 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0.23 | ✓ |
 Zombie Villager | 20 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0.23 | ✓ |
| Zombified Piglin | 20 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0.23 | · |
Traits
Properties set in the game files.
Baby Zombified Piglin
Spawns as a baby 5% of spawns All baby mobs → Advancements with Zombified Piglin
Advancements whose criteria involve this mob, from the game files.
Command
/summon minecraft:zombified_piglin ~ ~ ~Why the whole group attacks
A Zombified Piglin ignores you, with or without gold armor. As soon as you hurt one, it alerts the others nearby, and they all chase you with their golden swords. A stray arrow or a sweep attack aimed at something else counts too. The anger wears off after a while if you get away, but in a crowded area it can follow you a long way.
On the other hand, they do not share the piglins' love of gold. Opening chests or mining gold ore near them changes nothing. Watch out for the babies: they are smaller and faster than the adults, and harder to hit in a crowd.
Where they come from
- They spawn in groups in the Nether Wastes and the Crimson Forest, and inside Nether Fortresses.
- A Nether portal in the Overworld can spawn them now and then, so do not be surprised to find one next to your portal.
- A pig struck by lightning turns into one.
- A piglin or a piglin brute that spends about 15 seconds in the Overworld or the End becomes one.
How to fight them
- Do not start a fight you are not ready for. Check what is around before you attack anything near a group.
- Use Smite. They are undead, so Smite deals extra damage to them.
- Forget fire. They are immune to it, so Fire Aspect and Flame are wasted.
- Back into a corridor. In a one-block-wide passage, only one of them can reach you at a time.
Gold and experience farms
A Zombified Piglin drops rotten flesh, gold nuggets and, when a player kills it, sometimes a gold ingot. Looting improves all three. Because they spawn in such numbers, farms built around them are the classic way to get gold and experience in bulk. The gold then pays for bartering with piglins, which closes the loop nicely.
✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 1 November 2026
Zombified Piglin — FAQ
Why are Zombified Piglins attacking me?
You, or one of your arrows or sweep attacks, hurt one of them. The whole group nearby then turns hostile until the anger wears off.
Do Zombified Piglins burn in daylight?
No. Unlike zombies, they do not burn in the sun, and they are immune to fire in general.
Can you turn a Zombified Piglin back into a piglin?
No. There is no cure, unlike for zombie villagers.
Where does the Zombified Piglin spawn?
In Nether Wastes and Crimson Forest.
What does a Zombified Piglin drop?
Rotten Flesh, Gold Nugget and Gold Ingot. Only when killed by a player: Gold Ingot. It also drops the weapon or armor it spawned with (8.5% chance per piece) and any items it picked up off the ground.
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