Hoglin
hostileBreedableOurs, not the game's own: how a hoglin behaves. Bedrock v1.26.40.05 differs: spawn weight 9 on Java against 20 on Bedrock; groups of 3 to 4 on Java against 4 on Bedrock. Checked 2026-08-22, and here is how we check.
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The Hoglin is a hostile mob in Minecraft, which means it will attack players on sight whenever it is able to reach them.
In practice you will recognise it quickly, because aggressive beast that flings players into the air.
It carries 40 health points, 20 hearts, and yields 5 experience when it dies.
Players have been encountering the Hoglin since the 1.16 update.
Also worth noting: Repelled by Warped Fungus.
Because it breeds and drops useful materials, the Hoglin is a staple of self-sufficient survival bases, supplying raw porkchop on demand.
Damage by Difficulty
Spawning
Hoglins spawn in Crimson Forest and Bastion Remnant.
The spawn table draws that line differently: it gives the Hoglin one biome, Crimson Forest, and has no entry at all for Bastion Remnant.
Spawns in Crimson Forest biomes in the Nether in groups of 3-4.
Being a Nether mob, it ignores the Overworld's darkness rules and can spawn regardless of light level within its home biomes, which makes the Nether dangerous even in well-lit areas.
They tend to arrive in clusters of 3-4 rather than alone, so expect to meet more than one at a time.
Both places it spawns, Crimson Forest and Bastion Remnant, lie in the Nether, so a portal comes before anything else.
A Hoglin farm is built around its own spawn rule rather than around the light level, so start from what makes them appear at all.
Its name turns up in the spawn rule of the zoglin, created when a Hoglin enters the Overworld or End.
Where the Hoglin spawns
Crimson Forest is where it stands strongest: weight 9 on the monster list and 60% of it, arriving 3 to 4 at a time. There it shares the list with Piglin at 5 and Zombified Piglin at 1, 15 weight together, of which 9 is hoglin. That is the whole list.
| Biome | Weight | Share | Group |
|---|---|---|---|
 Crimson Forest | 9 | 60% | 3 to 4 |
Drops
Here is what you can expect to collect from a Hoglin:
Every kill yields 2 to 4 Raw Porkchop.
On top of that, you may come away with 1 Leather.
You also collect 5 experience for every Hoglin you defeat.
Farming hoglins is the standard way to stockpile raw porkchop in quantity.
The Looting enchantment on your sword raises the quantity and, for many of these items, the drop chance of the rarer rolls, so it is well worth using when you grind this mob.
Across many kills the guaranteed items pile up steadily while the chance-based extras trickle in, so consistent farming is the way to build a meaningful stockpile.
| Item | Count | Chance | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raw Porkchop | 2 to 4 | always | Looting III up to 7, cooked when burnt |
| Leather | 0 to 1 | not every kill | Looting III up to 4 |
That Raw Porkchop row is not its own: the pig drops 1 to 3.
Hoglin attributes
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
 Knockback resistance | 60% |
 Size | 1.396 x 1.4 blocks |
 Tracking range | 8 chunks |
 Health | 40 points |
 Experience | 5 |
 Attack damage attribute | 6 |
 Movement speed | 0.3 |
| Follow range | 16 blocks |
Hoglin: 0.91% of its category, rank 35 of 52
On 1 of the 66 biome lists (1 spawn entry in total), and 0.91% of every spawn the game puts in its monster group is a hoglin.
A hoglin averages 3 Raw Porkchop a kill on the rolls Minecraft Java 26.2 makes for it, before Looting, which puts a full stack of 64 Raw Porkchop at 22 kills. Leather runs at 0.5 a kill, 128 hoglin kills for a stack of its own.
| Item | Average per kill |
|---|---|
 Raw Porkchop | 3 |
 Leather | 0.5 |
How this average is worked out
| Weapon | Attack damage | Full swings | Swings per 64 Raw Porkchop |
|---|---|---|---|
 golden sword, wooden sword | 4 | 10 | 220 |
 stone sword | 5 | 8 | 176 |
| iron sword | 6 | 7 | 154 |
 diamond sword, golden axe, wooden axe | 7 | 6 | 132 |
 netherite sword | 8 | 5 | 110 |
 diamond axe, iron axe, stone axe | 9 | 5 | 110 |
 netherite axe | 10 | 4 | 88 |
Coming the other way, a hoglin hit is 30% of a player's 20 health, 4 of them a full bar, all out of the hoglin's 6 damage on Normal. On Easy the same hoglin hit is 15%, on Hard 45%, so 7 hits against 3.
Behavior & Combat
Behaviourally, aggressive beast that flings players into the air. Fears Warped Fungus and Nether Portals. The only breedable hostile mob.
Hitting it barely moves it: 60% knockback resistance, where almost every other mob has none.
On the offensive it deals 3 on Easy, 6 on Normal and 9 on Hard, and you will need to chew through 40 health (20 hearts) to bring one down.
The fastest way to win is to lean on what it fears: Warped Fungus (repels them) and Nether Portals.
To breed them, hand Crimson Fungus to a pair of adults; they enter love mode and a baby Hoglin appears, maturing in roughly twenty minutes.
The practical takeaway is to respect its strengths, exploit the weaknesses listed above, and you will rarely lose a fight you choose to take.
Hoglin commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| /summon minecraft:hoglin | Puts a hoglin on the block you are standing on. |
| /give @p minecraft:hoglin_spawn_egg | Hands you the hoglin spawn egg, so you can place hoglins where you want them. |
| /kill @e[type=minecraft:hoglin] | Removes every hoglin that is loaded around you. |
Entity id minecraft:hoglin, spawn egg minecraft:hoglin_spawn_egg.
Hoglin farm
A hoglin farm copies the rule the game already uses for hoglin spawns. Spawns in Crimson Forest biomes in the Nether in groups of 3-4.
Crimson Forest is where the hoglin has the biggest slice of the roll, 60% across the 1 list the hoglin appears on, and that is the biome to build a hoglin farm in.
3 to 4 hoglins arrive per roll, so give the hoglin platform width instead of stacking it.
Breeding beats waiting on spawns here: crimson fungus given to two adults produces a baby, and the pen keeps working in a lit, walled space where nothing new would ever spawn.
Each kill is worth 5 experience and up to 4 raw porkchop, or 7 with Looting III, and that figure is what decides how big the hoglin farm has to be.
Hoglin version history
23 June 2020 is the day the hoglin arrived, in Minecraft 1.16, and the hoglin has been part of the game for 6 years since.
3 other mobs here came with it: the piglin, the zoglin and the strider. That puts the hoglin behind 63 of the 88 mobs here and ahead of 21.
All of the hoglin data above is taken from Java 26.2, so it describes the hoglin as it is today.
What Hoglin sounds like
Turn subtitles on and every hoglin sound names itself in the corner of the screen. These are the 8 lines a hoglin can put there, and you can play any of them yourself with /playsound minecraft:entity.hoglin.ambient master @p.
| Sound | What you hear |
|---|---|
| entity.hoglin.ambient |  Hoglin growls |
| entity.hoglin.angry | Hoglin growls angrily |
| entity.hoglin.hurt | Hoglin hurts |
| entity.hoglin.death | Hoglin dies |
| entity.hoglin.step | Hoglin steps |
| entity.hoglin.attack | Hoglin attacks |
| entity.hoglin.converted_to_zombified | Hoglin converts to Zoglin |
| entity.hoglin.retreat | Hoglin retreats |
Advancements that need Hoglin
3 advancements ask for hoglin by name, and each of them counts other mobs too.
Two by TwoBreed all the animals!- Monster HunterKill any hostile monster
- Monsters HuntedKill one of every hostile monster
