In Minecraft, there are many different foods you can use to refill your hunger bar. Meat is especially effective, but it can be tedious to farm it over and over. What if you could build a fully automatic farm that gives you tons of porkchops? One of the best sources is hoglins, the large boars of the Nether. They drop plenty of tasty porkchops and also give you enough leather for armor or books. That makes a hoglin farm a great addition to all the other farms in your world. Let’s look at how to build one and which special mechanics you can take advantage of.
Hoglins in Minecraft: Traits and spawns in the Crimson Forest
You’ll first encounter hoglins in the Nether, but only in the Crimson Forest or in some Bastion Remnants. They’re among the biggest mobs in Minecraft and can be very aggressive if you’re not careful. They look like wild boars, with large tusks and pinkish skin. They often appear in herds of three to four, sometimes with a baby hoglin.
On all difficulties except Peaceful, hoglins attack you on sight. They have 20 hearts, which is twice as much as you. That makes them hard to kill, so it’s better to avoid them. Depending on difficulty, they deal different amounts of damage, from 2.5 hearts on Easy up to 6 hearts on Hard. Even the babies can attack you, though they deal only minimal damage.
Using hoglin mechanics: Warped fungus, light levels, Peaceful, and zombification
Hoglins have several unique mechanics. Many of them help make a hoglin farm more efficient, making this farm for porkchops and leather useful for almost any playstyle.
- Unlike many other mobs, they spawn at any light level. It doesn’t have to be dark for them to appear.
- Hoglins are among the few mobs that also spawn in Peaceful mode. There, they won’t attack you unless you provoke them. A farm is possible without other hostile mobs.
- One of their most interesting traits is their fear of warped fungus. They avoid the turquoise fungus within a radius of seven blocks. They have the same fear of Nether portals and respawn anchors.
- Like piglins, hoglins turn into a zombified version when they leave the Nether and enter the Overworld (a “zoglin”). Their texture changes and they only drop rotten flesh, which is mostly useless.
- You can also breed hoglins yourself using crimson fungus. This bred status prevents the hoglins from despawning.
Materials for the Minecraft hoglin farm in the Nether
A hoglin farm isn’t complicated, and you can build it as soon as you reach the Nether. The location matters, since you need a specific biome and access to the Nether roof. The farm is expandable, more on that later. Adjust quantities as needed.
- Access to the Nether roof: ender pearl, ladders, 10x obsidian, flint and steel
- several stacks of scaffolding
- 16 hoppers
- 16 signs made from non-flammable wood
- several chests
- lava bucket
- two stacks of glass blocks
- 6 stacks of building blocks of your choice
- several stacks of torches
- 12x nylium (warped or crimson) and 12x warped fungus
- 10x trapdoors
Build a Minecraft hoglin farm: Step by step
Step 1: Find a spot in the Crimson Forest and reach the Nether roof
As with many Nether farms, head up to the roof. You’ll get much higher spawn rates there and can build freely without clearing large areas. If you already have a portal on the roof, even better.
Hoglins naturally spawn only in the Crimson Forest, a biome that tints the sky red. Find this biome and then make your way to the roof from there. Dig up and locate a bedrock block at Y-level 127. Use ladders to climb up and then aim an ender pearl through a gap. Once you’re up top, build a portal to get back.
Step 2: Build the item collection and lava-kill chamber
It’s worth building the farm slightly above the bedrock so you have more room for chests. Start with 16 hoppers, place them in a 4x4 grid, and connect them to at least one double chest. Surround the hoppers with a glass wall that’s 4 blocks high.
Fill the lowest layer above the hoppers with signs made from non-flammable wood. Above that, let lava flow over the signs from a corner at the glass. This ensures the raw porkchops cook immediately and the hoglins die.
Step 3: Spawn platforms with warped fungus steering
Above the glass collection area, build out seven blocks in each direction and connect everything into an 18x18 platform. Leave the center open and place 10 trapdoors along the edges so hoglins walk over them and fall into the trap.
Use their fear of warped fungus to drive hoglins toward the center. Replace the platform corners with nylium and plant warped fungus. Repeat this with two more nylium blocks along the edge at even intervals. You should end up with 12 warped fungi placed.
Lastly, we need to prevent piglins from spawning. Hoglins spawn at any light level, so you can light up the platform with torches, ideally every third block.
Step 4: AFK position and boosting output
The hoglin farm is ready to go. Hoglins spawn, get driven to the center by warped fungus, and are burned there. Cooked porkchops and leather land in the hoppers and are stored in the chests.
For more output, you can build additional platforms upward. Three to four layers are usually enough. The farm is completely automatic, so you can go AFK. Build up with scaffolding to about Y=230. That way hoglins will still spawn as long as you’re within a 128-block radius of the farm below.
Conclusion: Hoglin farm for porkchops and leather in the Nether
A hoglin farm uses the mobs’ special traits to maximize efficiency. Their fear of warped fungus is perfect for funneling them to the center. The yield of cooked porkchops and leather is impressive, so you’ll never go hungry in the Nether again.
On your own Minecraft server from us, a hoglin farm is perfect. Rent a server and start building right away. It’s even more fun with friends, and you’ll have more than enough leather and meat to supply everyone.
