Piglin Head

Piglin Head

Rarity tier	Uncommon
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	1
Hardness	1
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Waterloggable	JE: No BE: Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	0 NONE
Note block instrument	Piglin snort

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A piglin head is the head of a piglin in the form of a block. It can only be obtained by killing a piglin using a charged creeper's explosion.

Obtaining

Breaking

No tool can accelerate the breaking process of piglin head.

Block	Piglin Head
Hardness	1
Breaking time (secs)
Default	11.5 (JE) 1.5 (BE)
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Piglin head drops itself upon destroyed. When destroyed by an explosion, the piglin head always drops as an item.

Mob loot

Piglin heads are always dropped by a piglin if it dies from a charged creeper's explosion. In Bedrock Edition, if multiple mobs are killed by the same charged creeper, all of them drop their heads; however, in Java Edition, only one mob selected at random drops its head.

Java Edition:

Mob		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Piglin	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00

Mob		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Piglin	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Mob		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Piglin	1	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)

Drops		1
Mob		Expected Number of Kills
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Piglin	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00

Bedrock Edition:

Mob		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Piglin	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00

Mob		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Piglin	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Mob		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Piglin	1	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)

Drops		1
Mob		Expected Number of Kills
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Piglin	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00

Usage

Decoration

Piglin heads can be oriented in 16 different directions on top of a block and 4 directions on the sides of blocks, similar to signs. They can be placed on top of, or beside each other by shift clicking.

When placed and powered by redstone, the piglin head flaps its ears (2 times per second for the right ear and 2.5 times per second for the left ear). The same animation occurs when worn by a (horizontally) moving player, zombie, skeleton, or armor stand (note: the animation does not play if the NoGravity tag is set to 1)

Wearing

The player can wear piglin heads, similarly to pumpkins or helmets. This overlays the second layer of the player's skin.

Disguise

Wearing a piglin head reduces the detection range for piglins and piglin brutes to 50% of the normal range. This is similar to (and stacks with) the reductions in detection range from sneaking and from the Invisibility status effect.

Locator bar

Like all other mob heads, a piglin head can be worn by a player to hide their location, as it will prevent other players from finding them using the locator bar.

Dispensers

A dispenser can equip a piglin head on a player, mob, or armor stand with an empty helmet slot, within the block the dispenser is facing.

Crafting ingredient

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Notes
Piglin Head + Gunpowder + Any Dye		Forms Creeper shape

Enchantments

Piglin heads can receive the following enchantments, but only through an anvil.

Name	Max level	Method
Curse of Binding	I	Anvil
Curse of Vanishing	I	Anvil

Note blocks

Placing a piglin head above a note block causes the note block to play the piglin's ambient sound when activated.

The block below the note block does not affect the mob sound it creates.

Piston interactivity

Piglin heads are destroyed when pushed by a piston and cannot be pulled by a sticky piston.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

v t e stone sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e stone sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.stone	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.37	0.5
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.4	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.3	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.12	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.22	1.0

Unique

Java Edition

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Piglin snorts	Jukebox/Note Blocks	When a piglin head is played using a note block	block.note_block.imitate.piglin	subtitles.entity.piglin.ambient​	1.98	1.0	16
	​Gear equips	Players	When a piglin head is equipped	item.armor.equip_generic	subtitles.item.armor.equip​	1.0	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​ ?	Jukebox/Note Blocks	When a piglin head is played using a note block	note.piglin	​ ?	?	0.84
	​ ?	Players	When a piglin head is equipped	armor.equip_generic	​ ?	1.0	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Item tags	Translation key
Piglin Head	piglin_head	Block & Item	skulls	block.minecraft.piglin_head
Piglin Wall Head	piglin_wall_head	Block	—	block.minecraft.piglin_wall_head

Name	Identifier
Block entity	skull

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	Translation key
Piglin Head	piglin_head	skull / 6	-970	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	item.skull.piglin.name

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	Skull

Block states

Java Edition:
Floor

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
powered	false	true	The block receives a redstone signal.
		false	The block receives no redstone signal.
rotation	0	0	The block is facing south.
		1	The block is facing south-southwest.
		2	The block is facing southwest.
		3	The block is facing west-southwest.
		4	The block is facing west.
		5	The block is facing west-northwest.
		6	The block is facing northwest.
		7	The block is facing north-northwest.
		8	The block is facing north.
		9	The block is facing north-northeast.
		10	The block is facing northeast.
		11	The block is facing east-northeast.
		12	The block is facing east.
		13	The block is facing east-southeast.
		14	The block is facing southeast.
		15	The block is facing south-southeast.

Wall

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
powered	false	true	The block receives a redstone signal.
		false	The block receives no redstone signal.
facing	north	east north south west	The direction the head is facing. Opposite from the direction a player is facing when placing it.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
facing_direction	0x1 0x2 0x4	0	1	1	On the floor (rotation is stored in the tile entity)
			2	2	On a wall, facing north
			3	3	On a wall, facing south
			4	4	On a wall, facing east
			5	5	On a wall, facing west
			0	0	Same as 5, but unobtainable without commands or editing.

Block data

A piglin head has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

Java Edition:

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Block entity data
  • Tags common to all block entities see Template:Nbt inherit/blockentity/template
  • [String] custom_name: Optional. The custom name of the head or skull. Represents the minecraft:custom_name component.
  • [String] note_block_sound: Optional. If this block is a player head, this is the sound event produced by the note block that this head is placed on. Does nothing if present on any other head or skull type. Represents the minecraft:note_block_sound component.
  • [String][NBT Compound / JSON Object] profile: Optional. The textures and/or player profile used to render a player head. If specified as a string, it corresponds to [String] name and is always saved as a [NBT Compound / JSON Object] compound. If omitted, a the wide Steve skin is used. Does nothing if present on any other head or skull type. Represents the minecraft:profile component.
    • A player profile and/or textures object see Template:Nbt inherit/profile/template

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Camouflage	Kill a mob while wearing the same type of mob head.	—	30	Bronze

History

Announcement

November 14, 2022							Piglin heads are announced to be added in Java Edition 1.20 and Bedrock Edition 1.20.0 on the Minecraft website.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.19.3 Experiment Update 1.20			22w46a				Added piglin heads behind the "Update 1.20" experimental data pack.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w03a				Piglin heads can now be placed on top of note blocks without sneaking.
			23w05a				Piglin heads can now be swapped with other pieces of headgear in the head inventory slot by using them.
1.20			23w12a				Piglin heads are now available without using the "Update 1.20" experimental datapack.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.19.60 Experiment Next Major Update			Preview 1.19.60.20				Added piglin heads behind the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
			Preview 1.19.60.25				Piglin heads can now be placed on top of note blocks without sneaking.
1.20.0			Preview 1.20.0.21				Piglin heads are now available without using the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
1.21.30			Preview 1.21.30.21				The rarity of piglin heads has been changed from "Common" to "Uncommon" to match Java Edition.

Data history

Bedrock Edition
1.21.40			Preview 1.21.40.20				The separate and direct item forms of the skull block ID have been merged and its data values have been split up into their own IDs.

Issues

Issues relating to "Piglin Head" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Renders

• 
  Alex wearing a piglin head
• 
  Ari wearing a piglin head
• 
  Efe wearing a piglin head
• 
  Kai wearing a piglin head
• 
  Makena wearing a piglin head
• 
  Noor wearing a piglin head
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  Steve wearing a piglin head
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  Sunny wearing a piglin head
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  Zuri wearing a piglin head

In other media

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  Sunny using a piglin head to make noise in a crimson forest