Minecraft Piglin Bartering Guide: How to Trade with Piglins

Piglin bartering in Minecraft lets you exchange Gold Ingots for random items, including Ender Pearls, Obsidian, Fire Resistance Potions, and rare Soul Speed enchanted books. Trading with Piglins requires you to travel to the Nether dimension, wear at least one piece of Gold armor, and offer them a Gold Ingot. So, if you’re wondering what the hidden mechanics are and how to trade with Piglins in Minecraft, dive right in.

Where Can You Find Piglins in Minecraft?

Piglins are Nether-exclusive mobs that spawn naturally in the Crimson Forest and Nether Wastes biomes of Minecraft. You can also encounter them inside the Bastion Remnant structures, where they may be accompanied by dangerous Piglin Brutes.

To visit this area, you need to gather some obsidian and make a Nether portal in Minecraft. Light it up using Flint and Steel and enter the Nether dimension. Now, you can find the Piglins in these areas:

• Crimson Forest: A biome full of red vegetation, blocks, and crimson trees
• Nether Wastes: A relatively open biome with lava pools, gravel, soul sand, blackstone, and more.
• Bastion Remnants: These structures are occupied by Piglins and Piglin Brutes. They can contain valuable loot and additional dangers.

Piglins spawn in groups of 2-4 in the Crimson Forest and Nether Wastes biomes.

In addition, if a Bastion Remnant structure is generated in one of the other biomes, it will still be occupied by piglins, since they spawn with the structure.

Note: Baby Piglins and the hostile Piglin Brutes do not participate in bartering.

What Do You Need to Barter with Piglins?

You only need one essential item to begin bartering with Piglins: a Gold Ingot. However, in order to keep the Piglins from attacking, you must wear at least a single piece of Gold armor on your body.

Gold Ingots can be obtained by smelting Raw Gold or Gold Ore. Although you can always use our Minecraft ore distribution guide to find such ores in the Overworld, this becomes a lot easier in the Nether. Here, you can get loads of Gold ingots embedded in the Netherrack blocks.

Gold ingots are a product of smelting raw gold or gold ores from the Overworld or Nether gold ore. They can also be crafted with nine gold nuggets.

Piglins will drop a certain item or multiple of the same item after you give them a single gold ingot. So, we suggest you first make a gold farm in Minecraft since bartering with piglins can be pretty expensive otherwise.

Furthermore, you cannot barter with piglin brutes or zombified piglins, even if they were converted in the Overworld or the End.

How to Barter with Piglins in the Nether

After you made or smelted the gold ores in Minecraft to get the ingots and found piglins in their natural habitat, it’s time to barter with them. So follow the steps below:

• First, make sure you locate an adult piglin because only they are capable of bartering.
• Also, look out for any baby piglins. These little thieves will take the gold ingot you drop on the floor and won’t give you anything in return.
• You can offer a gold ingot to a piglin in two ways. Either drop it near the piglin, like any other item, by pressing the Q key, or right-click the mob with a gold ingot selected.

• After the piglin has accepted the gold ingot, it will start examining it. This process lasts for exactly 6 seconds on the Java edition and 8 seconds on the Bedrock edition.

• When they’re done, the piglin will drop one or multiple of the same item towards you. Don’t forget to put out any fires that may be nearby, so the drops don’t burn.

• Piglins don’t have any kind of bartering cooldown, so you can repeat the same thing right away.
• Make sure you don’t accidentally hit the piglin, as they’ll “confiscate” the ingot and won’t finish the bartering attempt.

Piglin Bartering Trade List in Minecraft

Now that you know how to trade with piglins, let’s go over what everyone is interested in – the loot piglins can barter and the chances of getting it.

How to Make a Piglin Bartering Farm in Minecraft

Making a bartering farm is not overly complicated, but it can get frustrating. The point is to have gold ingots dispensed to a piglin every 6 seconds (Java edition) or 8 seconds (Bedrock edition). This way, you’d be able to get as much loot as possible. Piglins should sit in a 1×1 walled-up area, so they cannot escape and wander too far away from the dispenser.

Just by adding a simple collection system below the mobs, all the drops would end up safely in the chest. Also, make sure to use a Minecraft name tag on a piglin, so they don’t despawn when you leave the area.

One module or space for one piglin in the bartering (or trading) farm should consist of a dispenser constantly dispensing the gold ingots, a holding chamber for the piglin to stand in, and a collection system that’s going to pick up the drops.

Dispensing the gold ingots can be manual, but we suggest you hook it up to a redstone clock such as a hopper clock, so you can go AFK and still get the loot.

You can set up as many of these modules as you want for even more precious drops. Moreover, try to mob-proof the surroundings, so the farm stays safe from any random ghast’s fireballs. You can even build the farm on the Nether roof, but you’ll first need to learn how to break bedrock in Minecraft.

To help you out, here is a useful bartering farm tutorial video from an amazing Minecraft YouTuber Adil Gamez.

Now you’re ready to venture into the scary Nether and barter with those piggy-like mobs. So, if you are planning to create a long-term world, then setting up some kind of bartering farm is a must. Anyway, what do you think is the coolest drop from piglins? Tell us in the comments below!