How to Barter with a Piglin in Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains how to barter with a piglin with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

In Minecraft, you can exchange items with a piglin to get valuable items back including boots enchanted with Soul Speed. Let's explore how to barter with a piglin.

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Required Materials to Barter with a Piglin

In Minecraft, these are the materials you need to barter with a piglin:

TIP: You only need one piece of golden armor to safely barter with a piglin. You don't need them all!

Steps to Barter with a Piglin

1. Wear Golden Armor

Piglins are naturally Hostile mobs that will attack you. But if you are wearing any golden armor, they will become Neutral and won't attack you (unless you provoke them).

So make sure you are wearing at least one piece of golden armor. You can choose from: golden helmet, golden chestplate, golden leggings or golden boots.

golden helmet golden chestplate golden leggings golden boots

In this example, we will wear a golden helmet to keep piglins from attacking while bartering.

how to barter with piglin

2. Find a Piglin

Next, you need to find a piglin. Piglins can be found in the Crimson Forest biome or in the Bastion Remnant, both of which are in the Nether dimension.

Crimson Forest

piglin in crimson forest biome

Bastion Remnant

inside of bastion remnant

This is what a piglin looks like:

piglin

If you are having trouble finding a piglin, you can summon a piglin using a cheat or you can use a spawn egg.

3. Throw (or use) the Gold Ingot

To start the bartering process, throw a gold ingot on the ground next to the piglin (you can also "use" the gold ingot on the piglin to initiate the bartering process).

bartering for soul speed

4. Piglin will Examine the Gold Ingot

The piglin will turn around and pick up the gold ingot and examine it for a few seconds.

bartering for soul speed

5. Piglin will Throw Back an Item

Once the piglin accepts the gold ingot, it will throw back another item in exchange and the bartering process is done.

bartering for soul speed

In this example, we got boots enchanted with Soul Speed!

TIP: You can barter more than once with a piglin, but you have to wait for the piglin to finish examining the gold ingot first.

6. Bartering Party!

The bartering process will attract more piglins. So keep throwing gold ingot and create a bartering party!

bartering party

Congratulations, you just learned how to barter with a piglin in Minecraft!

Things to Do with Piglins

Here are some activities that you can do with piglins in Minecraft: