Piglin Bartering Farm
Intermediate Java + Bedrock
Produces: Ender pearls, obsidian, crying obsidian, quartz, string, potions of Fire Resistance and Soul Speed books - for gold
Quick answer: Drop gold ingots to an adult piglin and it throws back loot after about 6 seconds: ender pearls at ~2.1% (2-4 per hit), obsidian and crying obsidian at ~8.5% each. Pair it with a gold farm and a piglin pen for infinite barter loops.
How it works
- Only adult piglins barter: babies keep the ingot in their inventory without bartering, and piglin brutes ignore gold. They examine each ingot for 6 seconds on Java (8-second cycle on Bedrock), then throw one item from the table.
- The headliners: ender pearls 2-4 at ~2.13% (~16 ingots per pearl), quartz 5-12 at ~4.26%, string 3-9 at ~4.26%, obsidian 1 at ~8.53%, crying obsidian 1-3, gravel 8-16, soul sand 2-8, and Soul Speed books or boots at ~1.07% and ~1.71%.
- Bartering is the only renewable source of nether quartz, crying obsidian, soul sand, blackstone, gravel, dried ghasts, Soul Speed and (Java only) Nether brick.
- Piglins pick up ingots from dispensers and droppers - automation is a gold farm feeding a dispenser line over a piglin pen, with hoppers catching the loot.
- Piglins turn hostile unless you wear at least one piece of gold armor; wear it while you work near the pen.
- A piglin that just offered Soul Speed iron boots may equip them - offer golden boots to make it drop the prize.
Materials
- Adult piglins (lure from a crimson forest or nether wastes with gold, boat-free: they follow ingots... or zombify-proof name-tag them)
- Gold ingots - ideally a zombie piglin gold farm upstream
- Dispensers or droppers, a clock, hoppers and chests
- A gold helmet or boots for yourself
- Building blocks the Nether cannot burn down
Build steps
- Trap 2-4 adult piglins in a small pen with a hopper floor - name-tag them so they never despawn.
- Feed ingots by hand first to see the rhythm: toss, wait ~6 seconds, catch the loot.
- Automate the feed: dispensers on a slow clock dropping ingots in front of the piglins.
- Wire a gold farm (zombified piglin farm on the Nether roof is the classic) into the dispenser line.
- Collect from the hoppers and sort: pearls and Soul Speed books to the vault, gravel and blackstone to the bulk chest.
- Keep one gold piece on your body whenever you work the farm.
Rates
Output depends on the design, the version and how much of it you build, so we do not quote an hourly figure. Build the layout below, time it for a few minutes in your own world and scale from there.
Tips
- This is the renewable quartz and crying obsidian source - builders, take note.
- Dried ghasts now come from bartering too - the start of your happy ghast stable.
- Do not let the pen touch a bastion: piglin brutes ignore gold and do not barter.
- Sort the string (3-9 per barter): it covers wool and bows.
- Source: minecraft.wiki Barter.