Hoglin Farm (Porkchops)
Intermediate Java + Bedrock
Produces: Raw or cooked porkchops and leather - the Nether's answer to the cow farm
Quick answer: Hoglins breed with crimson fungi and drop 2-4 porkchops each. Pen a herd in a crimson forest, breed with fungi, and drive the adults to a lava blade - cooked porkchops straight from the Nether.
How it works
- Hoglins spawn in herds of 3-4 in crimson forests and respawn there over time - the only hostile mob you can breed.
- Drops: 2-4 raw porkchops plus 0-1 leather, +0-1 of each per Looting level; killed while burning, the porkchops come out pre-cooked.
- Breeding: crimson fungi on two adults, 5-minute cooldown, babies mature in 20 minutes (a fungus shaves 10%).
- Hoglins generated in bastions never despawn; those in crimson forests respawn over time.
- Hoglins flee 7 blocks from warped fungi (even potted), Nether portals and respawn anchors - that is how you steer them.
- Lava burns them; killing them while burning drops pre-cooked porkchops.
Materials
- 2+ hoglins from a crimson forest (bring crimson fungi and a lead)
- Crimson fungi stocks - bone-meal crimson nylium for more
- Warped fungi on sticks-or-pots to repel and steer
- A pen of nether-rack-proof blocks, and lava or a fall for the kill floor
- Looting III sword if you finish by hand
Build steps
- Find a herd in a crimson forest and fence it, or lead two hoglins home with a lead.
- Feed each a crimson fungus to lock them against despawn, then breed the pair.
- Build the pen so one corridor, lined with potted warped fungi, leads to the kill chamber - they run from the fungus straight into it.
- Cull adults with a lava blade or fall damage; burning kills deliver cooked porkchops automatically.
- Re-breed every 5 minutes and fungus-feed the babies to speed the cycle.
- Keep the farm away from your portal: hoglins will not come near it, which breaks the drive corridor.
Rates
A modest 6-adult herd with regular breeding yields stacks of porkchops per play session - with Looting III and a fire kill, about 4-7 cooked porkchops per hoglin.
Tips
- Cooked porkchop is 8 hunger and 12.8 saturation - top-tier food, and this farm runs entirely inside the Nether.
- Outside the Nether hoglins turn into zoglins: keep the farm in the Nether.
- Respawn anchors repel hoglins too: never charge your anchor next to the pen.
- Piglins hunt hoglins - a nearby piglin group will 'help' by killing your herd, so pick a forest clear of piglin patrols.
- Source: minecraft.wiki Hoglin.