
In Peaceful difficulty, piglin brutes despawn in Java Edition and become passive in Bedrock Edition.

Piglin brutes spawn in all difficulty settings. The only stronger mobs are the iron golem, which deals up to 32.25 × 16.125 melee damage, and the warden, which deals up to 45 × 22.5 melee damage.

Piglin brutes, along with vindicators, deal a high amount of raw melee damage, inflicting 19.5 × 9.75 points of damage on Hard difficulty. Other mobs that accidentally shoot another piglin or another piglin brute causes the piglin brute to become hostile toward that mob. Examples include retaliation for attacks by snow golems and iron golems. They also attack any mob (except for goats) that attacks any piglin, or piglin brute, either by accident or purposefully. Piglin brutes attack players, wither skeletons, and withers within 16 blocks and are not distracted by golden items or blocks. 20 experience points are dropped upon death if killed by a player or a tamed wolf.

