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How To Build/Make a Piglin Trading Farm
All Piglin Trades In Minecraft
In Minecraft, you can use Gold Ingots to trade with Piglins for a wide range of useful items. Piglins are inhabitants of the Nether, a hellish otherworldly realm that's the only source of some of Minecraft's rarest items and materials. They aren't usually open to trade, but there are ways for you to convince Piglins to trade gold for rare items, such as Enchanted Books and armor pieces.
To reach the Nether, you have to construct a Nether Portal using Obsidian blocks and light it with Flint and Steel. Some of the best seeds in Minecraft have incomplete portals that require fewer resources to complete. However, Piglins are also extremely hostile mobs and will attack you unless you're wearing at least one piece of Gold Armor as you find them in the Nether.
Piglins will often spawn in the Nether Wastes and Crimson Forest biomes, both of which are extremely commonplace in the Nether itself.
How To Trade With Piglins In Minecraft
Show Off Your Gold Armor
If you have at least one piece of Gold Armor (Golden Helmet, Golden Chestplate, Gold Leggings, or Gold Boots) equipped, Piglins will turn neutral, and you can approach them safely. To trade with a Piglin, you can either toss a Gold Ingot at their feet or right-click (left trigger on controllers) them while holding a Gold Ingot.
Be aware of your surroundings. Gold Armor also offers minimal protection, and the Nether can be much more dangerous than the Overworld due to the presence of lava and tough, hostile mobs.
If done correctly, the Piglin will ponder your offering momentarily before dropping a random item from a list of possible Piglin trades. Drop rates vary, so some of the best trades won't appear often. However, most items Piglins will trade are worth at least one Gold Ingot.
Gold has some uses in Minecraft, such as crafting Powered Rails, Netherite Ingots, and Golden Apples. However, it isn't particularly rare and is weaker than Iron when used to craft tools or armor, so feel free to smelt it into Ingots and spend them on Piglin trades. If you lack Gold, you can always build one of Minecraft's mob farms.
How To Build/Make a Piglin Trading Farm
Trap Mobs For Endless Trading
A Piglin Mob Farm is a great, albeit slightly sinister, way to obtain items offered by Piglins in exchange for Gold quickly. You want to trap a single Piglin mob behind iron blocks and glass to start building this device, then place a Dropper over its head. The Dropper will allow you, with the help of a Redstone Torch, to continuously drop gold ingots onto the Piglin, where it will endlessly trade items if it keeps getting gold.
It may be a good idea to have a lever to activate and deactivate the Redstone Torch used to power the Dropper, just in case you want your Piglin to take a break from trading in the farm.
Placing a large chest one block under and one block to the side of where the Piglin is standing will store all the items the mob trades for gold. This way, your farm is constantly producing random items given by the Piglin mob you've trapped. As long as you keep feeding the Dropper gold ingots, the Piglin will keep putting items in the chest, as you can see in the video below by YouTube creator Triloms.
All Piglin Trades In Minecraft
Discover What Items The Mob Could Drop
According to the Minecraft Wiki, Piglins will trade the following items:
Item | Drop Rate |
|---|---|
Enchanted Book with Soul Speed Enchantment (random level) | 1.09% |
Iron Boots with Soul Speed Enchantment (random level) | 1.74% |
Splash Potion of Fire Resistance | 1.74% |
Potion of Fire Resistance | 1.74% |
Water Bottle | 2.18% |
10-36 Iron Nuggets | 2.18% |
2-4 Ender Pearls | 2.18% |
3-9 String | 4.36% |
5-12 Nether Quartz | 4.36% |
Obsidian Block | 8.71% |
1-3 Crying Obsidian Block | 8.71% |
Fire Charge | 8.71% |
2-4 Leather | 8.71% |
2-8 Soul Sand | 8.71% |
2-8 Nether Bricks | 8.71% |
6-12 Arrows (Spectral Arrows in Java Edition) | 8.71% |
8-16 Gravel | 8.71% |
8-16 Blackstone | 8.71% |
Unfortunately, there's no way to determine which items a Piglin will trade, so you will need many Gold Ingots to get everything you need reliably.
Many Piglin trades in Minecraft, such as Fire Resistance Potions and Soul Speed-enchanted boots, benefit Nether exploration. Ender Pearls are also essential for traveling to the End dimension and completing Minecraft, and trading with Piglins is one of the easiest ways to get Ender Pearls. On the other hand, certain materials, such as Gravel, have virtually no practical value and can be discarded, saving some inventory space by throwing it into the nearest lava pit!
Anyone looking to get the most out of Piglin trades in Minecraft should check out the video from Eyecraftmc below, which details how to make a massive automated Piglin farm:
As of the most recent update, there are no new items Piglins offer in their random trades. However, the fact that you can make use of nearly every item on a Piglin's trade list in Minecraft proves that almost no item is worthless, especially the gold ingots used to make offers to these mobs.
Source: Minecraft Wiki, Youtube/Eyecraftmc, Triloms/YouTube
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