Piglin Brute
hostileOurs, not the game's own: where it turns up, its whole drop list, how a piglin brute behaves. Same on Bedrock v1.26.40.05 for health. Checked 2026-08-22, and here is how we check.
Added InOverview
In Minecraft, the Piglin Brute is classified as a hostile mob: it will attack players on sight whenever it is able to reach them.
Piglin Brutes make their home in the Nether, turning up in Bastion Remnant.
What sets it apart is its behaviour: always hostile to players regardless of gold armor.
With 50 HP (25 hearts) on its bar, killing one rewards 20 experience.
Players have been encountering the Piglin Brute since the 1.16.2 update.
One thing worth knowing: Does not respawn once killed.
Knowing how the Piglin Brute behaves is mostly about survival: recognising it early and reacting correctly is what keeps a night-time excursion from ending in a respawn.
Damage by Difficulty
Spawning
Piglin Brutes spawn in Bastion Remnant.
Spawns only in Bastion Remnants during world generation. Does not respawn.
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.
Left alone far from any player, wild piglin brutes eventually despawn, so use a name tag if you want a specific one to stick around.
Farming piglin brutes is not a matter of a dark platform: it is the spawn rule above that a farm has to reproduce.
Bastion RemnantDrops
The Piglin Brute drop table breaks down like this:
Nothing here is guaranteed: a kill can give you 1 Golden Axe (occasionally, 8.5% chance).
In terms of experience, each kill is worth 20 XP orbs.
Farming piglin brutes is the standard way to stockpile golden axes in quantity.
With nothing guaranteed, output is swingy: over many kills the averages hold, but any single Piglin Brute may give you little, so farm in volume rather than expecting a jackpot each time.
| Item | Count | Chance | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Axe | 1 | 8.5% |
Piglin Brute attributes
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
 Size | 0.6 x 1.95 blocks |
 Eye height | 1.79 blocks |
 Tracking range | 8 chunks |
| Follow range | 12 blocks |
 Experience | 20 |
 Health | 50 points |
 Attack damage attribute | 7 |
 Movement speed | 0.35 |
Where the Piglin Brute lands, it has company: the creaking, whose 0.4 movement speed has nothing we list nearer than this 0.35, the piglin on the same 0.35 movement speed and the vindicator at that same figure.
Piglin Brute: 4 values straight out of Minecraft Java 26.2
Nothing in the biome spawn lists and nothing in the rolls on death names the piglin brute, so the numbers on this page come from one place only: the game's own entry for it in Minecraft Java 26.2sets 50 health, 7 attack damage, 0.35 movement speed and 12 blocks follow range.
753 piglin brute kills fill a stack of 64 Golden Axe, because the ranges Minecraft Java 26.2 rolls for it come out at 0.085 per kill before Looting.
| Weapon | Attack damage | Full swings | Swings per 64 Golden Axe |
|---|---|---|---|
 golden sword, wooden sword | 4 | 13 | 9789 |
 stone sword | 5 | 10 | 7530 |
| iron sword | 6 | 9 | 6777 |
 diamond sword, golden axe, wooden axe | 7 | 8 | 6024 |
 netherite sword | 8 | 7 | 5271 |
 diamond axe, iron axe, stone axe | 9 | 6 | 4518 |
 netherite axe | 10 | 5 | 3765 |
On the receiving end a piglin brute takes 65% off a player's 20 health per hit, so 2 of them land the kill; that share is the piglin brute's 13 damage on Normal. On Easy the same piglin brute hit is 35%, on Hard 95%, so 3 hits against 2.
Behavior & Combat
In the field, always hostile to players regardless of gold armor. Extremely strong. Does not barter or retreat. Guards Bastion Remnants.
It notices a target from 12 blocks, 86th of 88 for follow range, with the cow its nearest at 16.
Its combat profile is 50 health (25 hearts) with attacks dealing 7 on Easy, 13 on Normal and 19 on Hard.
When fighting back, remember it is weak to Fire (but immune to lava) and Smite enchantment (becomes zombified in Overworld).
A sword enchanted with Smite shortens the fight considerably against this mob.
Native to the Nether, it is completely immune to fire and lava, so burning strategies that work elsewhere are useless here.
The practical takeaway is to respect its strengths, exploit the weaknesses listed above, and you will rarely lose a fight you choose to take.
Piglin Brute commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| /summon minecraft:piglin_brute | Puts a piglin brute on the block you are standing on. |
| /give @p minecraft:piglin_brute_spawn_egg | Hands you the piglin brute spawn egg, so you can place piglin brutes where you want them. |
| /kill @e[type=minecraft:piglin_brute] | Removes every piglin brute that is loaded around you. |
Entity id minecraft:piglin_brute, spawn egg minecraft:piglin_brute_spawn_egg.
Piglin Brute farm
There is no platform that produces piglin brutes. Spawns only in Bastion Remnants during world generation. Does not respawn. Anything you build has to feed that source instead of a dark floor.
Each kill is worth 20 experience and up to 1 golden axe, so the size of the piglin brute farm follows the number you need of that one item.
20 experience per killGolden Axe up to 1Piglin Brute version history
The piglin brute was added in Minecraft 1.16.2, which came out on 11 August 2020, so the piglin brute has been in the game for 6 years.
No other mob on this site arrived in 1.16.2, so the piglin brute is the only page here that carries that version. 67 of our 88 mobs are older than the piglin brute, 20 are younger.
The piglin brute numbers here come from Java 26.2, the version running now, and not from the one that introduced it.
What Piglin Brute sounds like
Turn subtitles on and every piglin brute sound names itself in the corner of the screen. These are the 6 lines a piglin brute can put there, and you can play any of them yourself with /playsound minecraft:entity.piglin_brute.ambient master @p.
| Sound | What you hear |
|---|---|
| entity.piglin_brute.ambient |  Piglin Brute snorts |
| entity.piglin_brute.angry | Piglin Brute snorts angrily |
| entity.piglin_brute.hurt | Piglin Brute hurts |
| entity.piglin_brute.death | Piglin Brute dies |
| entity.piglin_brute.step | Piglin Brute steps |
| entity.piglin_brute.converted_to_zombified | Piglin Brute converts to Zombified Piglin |
Advancements that need Piglin Brute
2 advancements ask for piglin brute by name, and each of them counts other mobs too.
- Monster HunterKill any hostile monster
- Monsters HuntedKill one of every hostile monster
