Bartering

A reference table of piglin bartering.

Bartering is a gameplay mechanic that allows players to exchange gold ingots for various items with piglins.

Mechanics

Adult piglins can trade gold ingots for certain items when they pick up nearby gold ingot items, or when the player uses gold ingots while looking at them. After the piglin takes the gold ingot and examines it for six seconds (120 gameticks) in Java Edition, but the whole process (the time between one ingot collection and the next) is 6.05 seconds (121 gameticks) or eight seconds (160 gameticks) in Bedrock Edition, it tosses a random item to the player, or upward if no player is in sight. Baby piglins take the ingot but do not barter, they instead hold the ingot in their inventory. Piglin brutes ignore gold ingots and do not barter.

Piglins can pick up other items that are in piglin_food or piglin_loved tags; however, ingots are the only items that piglins accept for bartering.

Hitting a piglin causes it to "confiscate" the ingot; the piglin does not complete the barter. It cannot be bartered with again unless it puts another item in its inventory. Piglins who are killed in one hit before they finish examining always drop the ingot.

When a piglin is admiring a gold ingot, it can still be angered by the player breaking a container or a gold-related block nearby, although its behavior differs depending on the game edition. In Java Edition, the piglin finishes the barter on the original schedule, and starts attacking the player only after the barter finishes. In Bedrock Edition, the piglin immediately finishes the barter and starts attacking the player, leading to a bartering transaction much shorter than the default 8 seconds. This allows piglins in Bedrock Edition to barter rapidly when gold-related blocks are repeatedly broken nearby, or when a gold-related block is repeatedly pushed and pulled by pistons.

A piglin looking at a gold ingot.

Bartering is controlled by the loot table minecraft:gameplay/piglin_bartering. If the game rule mobGriefing is false, piglins barter only when the player uses a gold ingot on them.

In Java Edition, if a piglin is zombified into a zombified piglin before the bartering is complete, the newly-zombified piglin drops the gold ingot immediately. In Bedrock Edition, the zombified piglin continues to hold the gold ingot after zombification and drops it upon death.

When a piglin is admiring a gold ingot while bartering, it does not run away from nearby zoglins or nearby zombified piglins.

Piglins sometimes pick up and equip the iron boots enchanted with Soul Speed that they have just offered while bartering. A player wanting to obtain the iron boots without killing the piglin can induce the piglin to discard the iron boots by offering a pair of golden boots.

Items bartered

The item the piglin throws may be one of the following:

Bartering items

Item given	Quantity	Chance	Ingots needed per item (average)
Enchanted Book with Soul Speed (random level)	1	5⁄459 (~1.09%)	91.8
Iron Boots with Soul Speed (random level)		8⁄459 (~1.74%)	57.375
Splash Potion of Fire Resistance
Potion of Fire Resistance
Water Bottle		10⁄459 (~2.18%)	45.9
Iron Nugget	10–36		1.996
Ender Pearl	2–4		15.3
String	3–9	20⁄459 (~4.36%)	3.825
Nether Quartz	5–12		2.7
Obsidian	1	40⁄459 (~8.71%)	11.475
Crying Obsidian	1–3		5.7375
Fire Charge	1		11.475
Leather	2–4		3.825
Soul Sand	2–8		2.295
Nether Brick
Spectral Arrow‌ Arrow‌	6–12		1.275
Gravel	8–16		0.96
Blackstone

Bartering is the only renewable source of nether quartz, crying obsidian, soul sand, nether brick ‌, gravel, blackstone, and the Soul Speed enchantment (Which results in products of these items also being only renewable because of barteeing).

History

Java Edition
1.16			20w07a				Added bartering.
			20w09a				Soul sand, mushrooms, crimson fungi, flint, rotten flesh, and raw porkchops have been removed from the possible barters.
							Crying obsidian, string, Fire Resistance potions and splash potions, and netherite hoes have been added to the possible barters.
							Barter chances have been tweaked.
							Due to a bug, all barters give stacks of 1–5 items.
			20w10a				Barters now give the correct amounts of items.
							Warped nylium, warped fungus, and shroomlights have been removed from the possible barters.
							Iron nuggets have been added to the list of barters and soul sand has been re-added.
							Barter chances have been tweaked.
			20w11a				Enchanted books and iron boots with Soul Speed have been added to the possible barters.
			20w13a				Items enchanted with Soul Speed are now slightly more common.
			20w20a				Netherite hoes can no longer be obtained through bartering.
1.16.2			20w28a				Water bottles, spectral arrows, and blackstone have been added to the possible barters.
							Magma cream and glowstone dust have been removed from the possible barters.
							Barter chances have been tweaked.
							Many barters give fewer items.
Bedrock Edition
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.51				Added bartering.
			beta 1.16.0.57				Updated the loot table to match Java Edition 20w13a. Previously, right-clicking the piglin would give the player obsidian or flint and steel, while dropping gold onto the ground would result in a Nether wart block
							Piglins now "inspect" the gold ingot before giving the player an item, as opposed to giving the item instantly.
1.16.100			beta 1.16.100.54				Updated the loot table to match Java Edition 1.16.2. Arrows are used in place of spectral arrows.

Issues

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

Gallery

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  A piglin bartering in warped forest.

See also

• Piglin
• Gold Ingot