Piglins are the creatures of the Nether with whom I bartered many times in exchange for valuable items, but approaching them without foreknowledge can be very dangerous! Here's the definitive Minecraft Piglin guide that will teach you everything you need to know about Piglins.
Where to find Piglins in Minecraft
Piglins can only be found within The Nether dimension, spawning most commonly in the Crimson Forest biome, but can sometimes be seen in the Nether Wastes biome. If you're having trouble finding one of these biomes, use the new Locate Biome (/locate some [biome name]) command! You can look at the All Minecraft Cheat Codes & Command List for a command refresher course.
- Locations:
- Nether Wastes
- Crimson Forests
- Bastion Remnants
- Light Level: The light level must be up to 11 max (up to 7 max in Bedrock).
- Difficulty: Piglins will spawn on all difficulty levels, but their spawn rates and damage will vary:
- Ranged attack: 2-5 on Easy and Normal (2-4 in Bedrock), 3-5 on Hard (2-5 in Bedrock)
- Melee attack: 5 on Easy, 8 on Normal (9 in Bedrock), 12 on Hard (13 in Bedrock)
- Baby Piglins: Each Piglin has a 20 percent chance of spawning as a Baby Piglin (five percent chance in Bedrock). Baby Piglins are passive and cannot grow up.
- Gear: Piglins have a 50 percent chance to spawn with a crossbow or a sword and around 35 percent chance to spawn with full armor. They have a 10 percent chance to spawn with golden armor per slot.
Piglin Behavior
All Piglins are naturally hostile towards players on all difficulties, bar Peaceful. However, there are a few ways to distract or pacify them. These methods don't apply to Piglin Brutes since they will attack you regardless of the circumstances.
- Drop Items: Piglins are temporarily distracted by most gold-related items, and should you drop a Gold Ingot, they'll even give you something back in return! The list of what they might give you is shown in the Piglin Trades & Bartering section below.
- Wear Gold Armor: If you're going into the Nether, we recommend changing your Boots or Helmet to Gold Armor instead of Diamond or Netherite. Piglins will not be inherently hostile toward players equipped with a piece of gold armor.
- Break a Gold block: When you destroy a Gold-related block, attack/kill the Piglin, and distract them up to five times while wearing a piece of Gold armor, the Piglin will stop attacking you.
These methods will work, but you mustn't do the following:
- Attack a Pigling or Piglin Brute with any type of weapon.
- While near them, open or break one of the following:
- Chest
- Trapped Chest
- Ender Chest
- Shulker Box
- Barrel
- Minecart with Chest
- Boat with Chest
- While near them, break one of the following:
- Block of Gold
- Gold Ore
- Gilded Blackstone
- Nether Gold Ore
- Block of Raw Gold
- Deepslate Gold Ore
You can try wearing a piglin head for a chance to stay undetected, or you can use the Invisibility effect and break items without angering them at close range.
Zombified Piglins
These Piglins won't attack you if you don't provoke them, but if you try to pick a fight, every Zombified Piglin in a 20-block radius will run after you with their Golden Swords and Crossbows. Zombified Piglin Brutes are even more dangerous, wielding Golden Axes and having twice the health as a regular Zombified Piglin.
Minecraft Piglin Trades & Bartering
The main interest of Piglins is that you can trade with them to obtain a random item that comes from a set list, but you will receive some more often than others. Piglins only barter with Gold Ingots, which you can hand or throw to them on the ground, and they will reward you with one item listed below.
The Piglin will briefly stare at the Gold Ingot, during which you cannot give them another one. Once they put the ingot away, you can give them another one and receive a new item.
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Piglin Barter List
This is the list of all the possible items the Piglins can barter, including the percent chance of getting a particular item and the amount you can get!
- ~8.71 percent chance to receive
- Obsidian (1)
- Crying Obsidian (1-3)
- Fire Charge (1)
- Leather (2-4)
- Soul Sand (2-8)
- Nether Brick (2-8)
- Spectral Arrow (6-12)
- Gravel (8-16)
- Blackstone (8-16)
- ~4.36 percent chance to receive
- String (3-9)
- Nether Quartz (5-12)
- ~2.18 percent chance to receive
- Water Bottle (1)
- Iron Nugget (10-36)
- Ender Pearl (2-4)
- ~1.74 percent chance to receive
- Iron Boots with Soul Speed Enchantment (random level) (1)
- Splash Potion of Fire Resistance (1)
- Potion of Fire Resistance (1)
- ~1.09 percent chance to receive
- Enchanted Book with Soul Speed (random level) (1)
If you're into learning more about Minecraft, check out Best Enchantments for all weapons and more on Pro Game Guides!
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Minecraft Piglin Guide – Trades, Bartering, & More!
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