Piglin Mob Wiki Guide

This Minecraft tutorial explains all about piglins with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. Let’s learn about piglins in Minecraft.

Background

The following is a picture of what a piglin looks like in Minecraft:

Hostility Level	Hostile Mob (but turns Neutral if you wear any piece of gold armor)
Health Points	16 health points  x 8
Where to Find	Crimson Forest biome or Bastion Remnant in the Nether
Weapon	 Golden Sword or Crossbow
Attack Method	Depending on the weapon it is holding – Strikes you with its Golden Sword or shoots an arrow at you with its Crossbow.
Drops	 Golden Helmet (if equipped)  Golden Chestplate (if equipped)  Golden Leggings (if equipped)  Golden Boots (if equipped) Golden Sword (if equipped)  Crossbow (if equipped)  Certain golden items, if picked up by Piglin (see list further down on page)
Experience Points	5 experience points
Special Skills	1. Can pick up any golden item off the ground 2. Can pick up raw porkchop off the ground to use for food 3. Can equip any piece of golden armor that it picks up off the ground 4. Can barter with a player by accepting Gold Ingot and then throwing back another item in exchange

Hostility Level (Hostile)

A piglin is a hostile mob. The term mob is short for mobile and is used to refer to all living, moving creatures in the game such as chickens, creepers, and piglins. Because a piglin is a hostile mob, it will attack you in Survival mode but not Creative mode.

However, if you are wearing any piece of gold armor, the piglin changes from a Hostile mob to a Neutral mob and won’t attack you unless you provoke it (ie: you attack it first).

Health Points

In Minecraft, a piglin has 8 hearts

 for health. This gives a piglin 16 health points (because 1 heart = 2 health points). To kill a piglin, you need to inflict 16 points of damage to the piglin.

Where to Find Piglins

In Minecraft, you can find piglins in the Crimson Forest biome or in the Bastion Remnant, both of which are in the Nether.

Crimson Forest

Bastion Remnant

If you haven’t been to the Nether, you need to build a nether portal to take you to the Nether. When you walk through a nether portal, it will transport you between the Overworld and the Nether.

This is what a nether portal looks like:

If you are having trouble finding a piglin, you can summon a piglin using a cheat or you can use a spawn egg.

Weapon

The piglin is armed with either a golden sword or a crossbow.

Attack Method

In Minecraft, a piglin will attack differently depending on the weapon it is holding. If it is carrying a golden sword as a weapon, it will move towards you and strike you with its sword. If it is carrying a crossbow, it will shoot an arrow at you.

However, if you are wearing any piece of gold armor, the piglin changes from a Hostile mob to a Neutral mob and won’t attack you unless you provoke it (ie: you attack it first).

A baby piglin is Passive and will not attack you (even if you attack it first).

Behavior

Piglins like anything made of gold and love to wear golden armor.

Piglins will pick up golden items and examine it in their Left hand. If they switch the item to their Right hand, it becomes their new weapon (which can change how much damage they inflict when they attack you). Other times, they will store the item in their inventory. If the item is golden armor, the piglin will put it on.

You can barter with a pilglin. See our tutorial on how to barter with a piglin to learn more.

Piglins are afraid of soul fire and soul fire items such as soul torches, soul lanterns, and soul campires:

Piglins are also afraid of zombified piglins.

Drops

When you kill a piglin in Minecraft, there is a small chance that the piglin may drop the weapon or golden armor that is naturally spawned with:

The piglin will also drop certain gold items that it has picked such as golden apples, enchanted golden apples, golden carrots, gold horse armor, golden shovel, golden pickaxe, golden axe, golden hoe, gold ore and blocks of gold:

But the piglin WILL NOT DROP the gold ingot, gold nuggets or raw porkchops that it has picked up:

Make sure you pick up any dropped items before they disappear. They are useful and should be kept in your inventory to be used later.

Experience Points

As you play the game, you will gain experience. The most common way to gain experience is by killing mobs. When a mob is killed you will see tiny green and yellow balls appear and move towards you.

These orbs represent experience points. When you kill a piglin, you will gain 5 experience points.

Special Skills

The piglin has some special skills that should be noted:

1. The piglin can pick up any golden item off the ground.
2. The piglin can pick up raw porkchop off the ground to use for food.
3. The piglin can equip any piece of golden armor that it picks up off the ground.
4. The piglin can barter with a player by accepting Gold Ingot and then throwing back another item in exchange.

Spawn Egg for Piglin

You can spawn a piglin using the following spawn egg:

 Piglin Spawn Egg

Things to Do with Piglins

Here are some activities that you can do with piglins in Minecraft:

 How to turn a Piglin into a Zombified Piglin
How to Barter with a Piglin
How a Piglin changes its Weapon
How a Piglin puts on Armor

Command Examples

Here are some game command examples for a piglin in Minecraft:

How to Summon a Piglin

NBT Tags for Piglin (Java Edition)

Here are the NBT tags (formerly called data tags) that you can use in game commands for a piglin in Java Edition:

NBT Tags for Piglin

Spawn Events for Piglin (Bedrock)

Here are the spawn events that you can use in game commands for a piglin in Bedrock Edition:

Spawn Events for Piglin

Other Mobs

Here are some of the other mobs in Minecraft:

Allay
  Axolotl
Bat
  Bee
  Blaze
  Camel
Cat
Cave Spider
  Chicken
Cod
  Cow
  Creeper
Dolphin
Donkey
Drowned
Elder Guardian
  Ender Dragon
  Enderman
  Endermite
  Evoker
Fox
  Frog
  Ghast
  Giant
  Glow Squid
Goat
Guardian
Hoglin
  Horse
  Husk
Illusioner
  Iron Golem
Killer Bunny
  Llama
Magma Cube
  Mooshroom
Mule
Ocelot
Panda
  Parrot
  Phantom
  Pig
  Piglin
  Piglin Brute
  Pillager
  Polar Bear
Pufferfish
  Rabbit
  Ravager
  Salmon
  Sheep
  Shulker
Silverfish
Skeleton
Skeleton Horse
Slime
  Snow Golem
  Spider
Squid
Stray
Strider
Tadpole
Trader Llama
Tropical Fish
Turtle
Vex
Villager
Vindicator
Wandering Trader
Warden
Witch
Wither Boss
 Wither Skeleton
Wolf
Zoglin
Zombie
Zombie Horse
Zombie Villager
NPC