Introduction:

This datapack improves piglins and rebalances piglin brutes by following changes and it supports minecraft versions from 1.16 to 1.20.

Changes from datapack:

1. Piglin Brute's New Stats:
   • HP ♥️: Then = 50 (25 hearts), Now = 20 (10 hearts)
   • Armor 🛡️: Then = No Armor, Now = Random Golden and Netherite Armor
   • Weapon ⚔️: Golden Axe (70% chance), Netherite Axe (30% chance)
   • Attack Damage 🩸:
     • Golden Axe 🪓: 13 (6.5 hearts)
     • Netherite Axe 🪓: 16 (8 hearts)
   • Will spawn naturally in Bastion Remnant (this means Piglin Brute will spawn naturally in bastions, instead of spawning only once).
   • Will alert nearby piglins about "your presence", and "the purpose of your presence", if you break into their bastion.
   NOTE: Piglin Brute will never drop any armor or weapon on death to maintain game balance of obtaining netherite. It will only drop its death loot which is mentioned further.


2. Piglin's New Stats:
   • HP ♥️: Then = 16 (8 hearts), Now = 20 (10 hearts)
   • Protects and respects you if you respect them by wearing their golden armor uniform.
   • Cannot be distracted by gold ingots when in attack mode.
   • Piglins, that are alerted by piglin brutes, will attack you. Doesn't matter if you wear golden armor uniform.
   • Hunts Hoglin more oftenly.
   • Sometimes, instead of attacking you, they will only threaten you if you are not wearing gold armor. Eventually, they will start attacking.
   • Instantly detects any entity which wants to attack them (you can test this by summoning an Iron Golem near Piglins).
   NOTE: Piglin's permanent anger memory of remembering players is fixed. Now if you run away and come back, Piglins will not recognize you.


3. Zombified Piglin's New Stats:
   • Hostile to piglins and players just like how real zombies should.
   • Have a chance to convert piglins into zombies. The chance depends upon the following game difficulty:
   • Easy : Lower Chance
   • Normal : Moderate Chance
   • Hard : Higher Chance
   NOTE: Zombified Piglins, and Zoglins are restricted to spawn as first mobs of nether. This feature was added to avoid zombified piglin from accidentally spawning in the restricted areas like bastion and nether forests.


4. New Death Loot Tables:
   • Piglin: 1-2 Gold Nuggets
   • Piglin Brute: 1-2 Gold Ingots, 1 Golden Carrot
   NOTE: Looting Enchantment will not work on Golden Carrot dropped by Piglin Brute.


5. New Game Mechanics:
   • Piglin Brutes will naturally spawn in Bastion Remnant instead of spawning only once.
   • Hoglins are restricted to spawn in Piglin Brute's territory.
   • Zombified Piglins, and Zoglins are restricted to spawn anywhere near Piglin Brute's Territory.
   • Zombified Piglins, and Zoglins are restricted to spawn in a crimson forest and warped forest.
   • Zombified Piglins, and Zoglins will have more chance to spawn as a baby variant. This only feature is an exception for the below notation.
   NOTE: The above features will not work if there is a player 8 blocks nearby, this avoids the mobs spawned by the player (using commands or spawn eggs) from being replaced or deleted. And mobs do not naturally spawn in 24 blocks area from player, so basically you will face no inconvenience. Spectators do not count as player in this case.
   

Admin Commands:

• /function toggles:rebal_piglins

  Here, you can toggle datapack specific features as you want. These features are:
  1. Chainmail Helmet for Ranged Piglins : When Enabled, Piglins carrying crossbows will have 50% chance to spawn with Chainmail Helmet.
  2. Fill Piglin Brute Empty Armor Slots : When Enabled, each of the empty armor slots of every Piglin Brute will be filled with Gold Armor. This feature requires "Modify Original Piglin Brute" to be turned on.
  3. Leather Boots for Piglins : When Enabled, Piglins will have 50% chance to spawn with Leather Boots.
  4. Modify Original Piglin Brute : When Enabled, Piglin Brute's Health will be reduced to 20 HP and it will have random golden and netherite gear.
  5. Piglin Brute's natural spawn in Bastion : When Enabled, Piglin Brutes will naturally spawn in Bastion Remnant instead of spawning only once.
  6. Piglin Zombification : When Enabled, no Piglin will be immune to zombification.
  7. Restrict Hoglins : When Enabled, Hoglins will be restricted to spawn in Piglin Brute's territory.
  8. Restrict Pig Zombies : When Enabled, Zombified Piglins and Zoglins will be restricted to spawn near Piglin Brute's territory and Forests of Nether.
  9. Zombified Piglins attack Piglins : When Enabled, Zombified Piglins will attack Piglins on sight. Disabling this will not stop already attacking zombified piglins.
  10. Zombified Piglins attack Players : When Enabled, Zombified Piglins will attack Players on sight. Disabling this will not stop already attacking zombified piglins.

• /function uninstall:rebal_piglins

  Uninstall this datapack removing all the features.

Pros:

• Piglin Brutes have same power and protection as before but it makes more reasonable sense why is it so difficult to defeat.
• Piglins are more intelligent now.
• Killing Piglins and Piglin Brutes is now so worth it because of the modified death loot table.
• Nether makes more sense bcoz of following conversion:
  • Piglin : Neutral -> Protective & Neutral
  • Zombified Piglin : Neutral -> Hostile

Cons:

• It's more harder to loot a bastion remnant.

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License:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Conditions that apply:

1. You must give appropriate credit to the creator if you publicly showcase this work.
2. You may not use this work for commercial/business purposes. (this does not include having the datapack installed in your server)
3. You may modify this work, but may not distribute the modified work.

Installation:

Open your .minecraft directory. Put the datapack into the saves/world_name/datapacks directory.