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Piglin Brute

Mobs

Piglin Brute — mob.

Natural generation

Piglin brutes guard bastions in the Nether and do not spawn as ordinary wandering mobs.

Obtaining

Piglin brutes are associated with bastion-remnant encounters rather than ordinary Nether creature spawning. Their brain is initialized when the structure encounter creates the entity.

Data: Obtaining
Structure encounterBastion remnant
Spawn contextNether structure
AI initialization`PiglinBruteAi.initMemories`

Drops

A defeated piglin brute can leave gold nuggets and its golden axe.

The brute entity loot table contains no item pool. Its golden axe is equipment rather than a guaranteed entity drop, so the generated loot record intentionally has no reward entries.

Data: Drops
Entity loot table`data/minecraft/loot_table/entities/piglin_brute.json`
Loot poolsNone
EquipmentGolden axe

Combat

The brute starts in a fight-oriented activity, targets nearby valid living entities, and reacts to damage through its dedicated AI. It does not pick up arbitrary items; only a golden axe is accepted by its pickup rule.

Data: Combat
Combat brain`PiglinBruteAi`
TargetingNearest valid attack target
Held weaponGolden axe
Pickup ruleGolden axe only

Sounds

Separate sound events cover ambient, hurt, death, step, anger, and conversion-to-zombified-piglin events. The sound choice belongs to the piglin-brute implementation.

Data: Sounds
Ambient`entity.piglin_brute.ambient`
Hurt`entity.piglin_brute.hurt`
Death`entity.piglin_brute.death`
Step`entity.piglin_brute.step`
Angry`entity.piglin_brute.angry`

Behavior

A piglin brute is immediately hostile to players and is not distracted by gold items.

The piglin brute is an aggressive Nether monster that does not hunt for gold or barter. It uses a combat brain, attacks with a golden axe, and keeps a shorter targeting range than many other hostile mobs.

Data: Behavior
Categoryhostile
Max health50
Width0.6
Height1.95
SummonableYes
Fire immuneNo
Mob categoryMonster
Maximum health50
Movement speed0.35
Attack damage7
Follow range12 blocks
Experience20
Main-hand itemGolden axe
Gold huntingDisabled

Data values

The entity is registered as `minecraft:piglin_brute`. It is a monster with a dedicated brain provider and a piglin-brute spawn egg item model.

Data: Data values
Identifierminecraft:piglin_brute
VersionMinecraft 26.2
Entity IDminecraft:piglin_brute
Entity typeMonster
Spawn egg`minecraft:piglin_brute_spawn_egg`
Entity loot`data/minecraft/loot_table/entities/piglin_brute.json`
Piglin Brute mob image — Piglin brute
Piglin brute · Local asset
Piglin Brute mob image — Piglin brute spawn egg
Piglin brute spawn egg · Local asset
Piglin Brute mob image — Golden axe
Golden axe · Local asset
Piglin Brute mob image — Gold nugget
Gold nugget · Local asset

References

Data: References
Local sourcePiglin Brutepiglin_brute
Entity implementation`net/minecraft/world/entity/monster/piglin/PiglinBrute.java`
AI implementation`net/minecraft/world/entity/monster/piglin/PiglinBruteAi.java`
Entity loot`data/minecraft/loot_table/entities/piglin_brute.json`
Spawn egg model`assets/minecraft/models/item/piglin_brute_spawn_egg.json`
Structure registration`net/minecraft/world/level/levelgen/structure/BuiltinStructures.java`

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Data and provenance

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Facts

Categoryhostile
Max health50
Width0.6
Height1.95
SummonableYes
Fire immuneNo
Data source051abe8c3d0f3e19cbd3d59422d030e5e94e0752ca549a6a4f5165fcf7203e24

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Entity identifier
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