Java Edition guides/Nether Update

• Crimson forest
• Hoglin stables in bastion remnants

• Raw Porkchop (2–4)
• Leather (0–2)
• 5XP (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

• Run from warped fungi, respawn anchors, and nether portals.
• Turn into zoglins if in the Overworld or the End after 15 seconds.
• Can be bred with crimson fungi.
• Are hostile toward the player.

• Crimson forest
• Nether wastes
• Bastion remnant

• 8.5% of chance to drop their naturally-spawned equipment.
  • Which can be a golden sword, a crossbow, or random golden armor.
• 5XP (12XP if it's a baby), plus 1–3XP per armor piece (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

• Adults are neutral and babies are passive.
• Adults can be bartered with.
• Run from placed soul fire and soul fire items.
• Don't attack the player if player is wearing a piece of golden armor.
• Turn into zombified piglins if in the Overworld or the End after 15 seconds.
• Occasionally hunt hoglins and wither skeletons, with a 10% chance of doing a ”victory dance” after killing a hoglin by jumping and running around the area.
• Up to 3 baby piglins can ride on a baby hoglin at one time. The top one(s) piggy-back.
• Also hold, but not barter for, gold items (golden carrots, golden armor, etc.)
• Attack any player that has opened a chest in the bastion, mined the nether gold ore, or mined a gold block in front of them.

• 8.5% chance to drop their held item (a golden axe with random durability).
• 20XP (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

• Tougher and stronger variants of piglins.
• Always hostile unlike other piglins.
• Attack the player even when they're wearing golden armor.
• Do not run away from placed soul fire and soul fire items.
• Don't hunt hoglins.
• Turn into zombified piglins if in the Overworld or the End after 15 seconds.

• String (0–5)
• 1–2XP (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

• Can walk on top of the surface of lava.
• Can be saddled, and can be controlled with warped fungus on a stick.
• Attracted by warped fungi.
• Can be bred using warped fungi.
• Shiver and turn purple outside of lava.
• Damaged by rain and water.

• Rotten Flesh (1–3)
• 5XP (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

• Attack all nearby mobs and players except for creepers and other zoglins.
• Incapable of breeding.
• Do not flee from warped fungi.
• Unlike baby hoglins, they do not play with baby piglins.
• Piglins flee from zoglins if not engaged in combat.

• Reduced the maximum distance a bee can wander away from its home hive when randomly wandering to around 22 blocks.
• Grow up and count down their breeding cool down when inside a beehive.

• Spawn in the Nether more commonly again, especially in warped forests.
• Now pick up nylium, crimson roots, warped roots, and fungi variants.
• No longer pick up netherrack.

• Can now be milked in Creative mode.
• Mushroom stew and suspicious stew can also be obtained in Creative mode.

• Imitate hostile mobs less often.
• No longer randomly imitate hostile mobs on Peaceful difficulty.

• Are now damaged by splash and lingering water bottles.
• Now drop carved pumpkin when they are sheared.

• Can now put seeds in the composter to create bone meal.
• Can now use bone meal to grow crops.

• Renamed to "zombified piglin" and given a new model and texture.
• Now also spawn rarely in crimson forests.
• No longer attack players who have not attacked a zombified piglin.
• Now stop being angry if the targeted player dies nearby. (But only if gamerule forgiveDeadPlayers is set to true)

• Found in the Nether, but is extremely rare.
• Never generates exposed to air, and is most common between Y levels 8 and 22.

• Can be smelted into netherite scrap.
• Can be used in blast-resistant doors, as it can't be destroyed by TNT or creepers, but it can be pushed by pistons.

• Can be used decoratively, as a storage block for netherite ingots, or as part of a blast-resistant wall/door.
• Can be used in the base of a beacon.

• Can be used to link one or more compasses to its position, acting as a waypoint.
• Can be used in any dimension.

• Found in the Nether making up basalt pillars within soul sand valley biomes.
• Basalt deltas contain an abundance of basalt blocks, as it is one of the main blocks that form the biome.
• Formed when lava flows over soul soil next to blue ice.

• Can be used decoratively.
• Can be crafted into polished basalt.

• Found in large patches in basalt deltas.
• Found in all nether biomes at the lava level.

• Can be used as a substitute for cobblestone in certain crafting recipes.
• Can be made into slabs, stairs and wall variations.
• Can be crafted into polished blackstone.
• Blackstone's bottom texture is changed with the top texture.

• Can be used decoratively.
• Polished blackstone can be made into slabs, stairs and wall variations.
• Polished blackstone slabs can be used to craft chiseled polished blackstone.

• Can be used decoratively.
• Polished blackstone bricks can be made into slabs, stairs and wall variations.
• Polished blackstone bricks can be smelted in a furnace to create cracked polished blackstone bricks.

• Can be used decoratively.
• Walls can also be used as a barrier to keep mobs both inside a space, or outside one.

• Has a chance to drop gold nuggets or the block itself.
  • Affected by the Fortune enchantment.

• Drops gold nuggets.
  • Affected by the Fortune enchantment.
• Requires Silk Touch to be obtained.
• Otherwise behaves exactly like normal gold ore.

• Can be used decoratively.
• Have a different pattern than stone bricks.

• Grow upward.
• Can be used decoratively.
• Can be climbed like vines.
• Can be grown using bone meal.

• Placed on the bottom of a block and grow downward.
• Can be used decoratively.
• Can be climbed like vines.
• Can be grown using bone meal.

• Can be used decoratively.
• Randomly offset.
• Can be obtained with shears.

• Can be used decoratively.
• Can randomly offset.

• Can be used as a decorative block.
• Crimson fungi can be used to breed hoglins, while warped fungi repel them. Warped fungi can be used to breed striders.
• Fungi can be grown into huge fungi when bonemeal is used on it.

• Crimson or warped fungi grow on their respective nylium variant.
• Only drop themselves when broken with Silk Touch, otherwise they drop netherrack.
• Spread to an adjacent block when bone meal is used.

• Can be placed directionally, similarly to logs.
• Do not burn and cannot be used as fuel in a furnace.
• Can be stripped.

• Does not burn and cannot be used as fuel in a furnace.
• Can be stripped.

• Can be used to craft respective slabs, stairs, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, buttons, doors, trapdoors, and signs.
• Do not burn and cannot be used as fuel in a furnace.

• Prevent mobs and players from jumping over them.
• Fence gates can be opened and closed.

• Display custom text.
• Text color can be changed with dyes, or brightened with glow ink sacs.

• Used to craft respawn anchors.
• Has the same blast resistance and hardness as obsidian.

• The player can set their spawn point by clicking the respawn anchor in the Nether.
• Only four charges can be set at once, and one is used up for every respawn.
  • Respawn anchor can be recharged with glowstone.
  • Respawn anchor emits 4 different light levels depending on what charge it is at.
• Explodes if used in the Overworld or End.
• Can be charged with a dispenser.

• Fire lit on soul soil appears as soul fire.
• The player does not sink and is not slowed when walking on soul soil.
• Soul soil can be used to summon the wither.

• Generates naturally in the soul sand valley biome in the Nether.
• Fire lit on soul soil is soul fire regardless of dimension.

• Deals damage at a rate of 2 per second as opposed to the 1 per second of regular fire.
• Repels piglins.
• Has a hitbox.

• Emits a light level of 10, instead of 15 by the regular one.
• Has a blue flame instead of orange.
• Deals damage at a rate of 2 per tick as opposed to the 1 per tick of regular campfire.
• Has all behaviors of the regular campfire.
• Repels piglins.

• Gives off a light level of 10.
• Repels piglins.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Iron Nugget + Soul Torch

• Crafted similarly to a normal lantern, using a soul torch instead of a normal torch.

• Gives off a light level of 10.
• Repels piglins.

• Can be used decoratively.
• Can be used to suspend bells and both types of lanterns.

• Emits a redstone signal for 1 second when hit with most projectiles.
• The closer a projectile hits to the center, the stronger the signal it gives off.

• Can now have a base composed of blocks of netherite.
• Can now use netherite ingots as fuel.

• Now generates as part of nether fossils in soul sand valleys.
• Now has its own sound, instead of using the stone sound.

• Can now saddle pigs, striders, and tamed horses, donkeys and mules.
• Can now put horse armor on tamed horses.
• Can now put carpets on tamed llamas.
• Can now put chests on tamed llamas, donkeys, and mules.
• Can now shear mooshrooms and snow golems.
• Now displays a new death message: [player] went off with a bang due to a firework fired from [item] by [player/mob]

• Now has a proper hitbox (¹⁄₁₆ blocks).
• Can no longer be put out by swords or tridents in Creative mode, akin to other blocks, and can be modified via the debug stick.
• Now has loot tables.

• Can now have one of 12 orientations.
• Now has a new "Keep Jigsaws" option that controls whether jigsaw blocks in the resulting structure after using "Generate" remain as jigsaw blocks, or are replaced by their "Turns Into" block.
  • Defaults to "ON".

• Now generates as a part of huge crimson fungi.
• The texture of nether wart block is slightly changed.

• Using bone meal on netherrack adjacent to nylium converts it into nylium.
  • If two nylium blocks of different types are present, it chooses the type at random based on how many blocks of each type are around it.

• A single redstone wire is now represented as a cross.
• Redstone provides power to blocks on sides it shows a visual connection to, and not do so on those sides without a visual connection.
• A wire on top of a block, which is redirected from below, now powers the sides it is redirected to.
  • Wires that redirect upward to wires on non-conductive blocks used to only be redirected visually, now this redirection applies to their behavior as well.
• A wire that is redirected to go over a block now always provides power to the block. This is most noticeable when the wire has signal strength 1.
• Hitbox now adjusts to its shape.
• Now visually connects when traveling up soul sand and 8-layer snow stacks.
• Now visually connects when going up the back (including far-side) of stairs.
• Particles are now generated across the entire area of the redstone dust. (Fixed bug: MC-181566)

• Now has a GUI.
• Can now be used to upgrade diamond gear to netherite.

• Now generates in soul sand valley biomes at the lava level of the lava ocean.
• Soul sand with a rail on top no longer slows down minecarts.
• Doors, buttons, torches, pressure plates and redstone can now be placed on soul sand.

• Walls in the middle of a row have longer pillars when stacked vertically.
  • Block state now uses none, low, and tall for east, west, north, and south directional values.

• Does not burn in lava.
• Floats on lava.
• Tougher than diamond armor.
• Have higher durability and enchantability than diamond.

• Does not burn in lava.
• Floats on lava.
• All items, except the hoe, deal 1 more damage than their diamond counterparts.
• Have higher durability, mining level, breaking multiplier, and enchantability than diamond.

• Can be used to control striders.
• Functions similarly with striders as carrot on a stick separately would with pigs.

• Can now be used to grow kelp, weeping vines, and twisting vines.
• Now grows fungus, roots, and nether sprouts if it is used on a nylium block.
• A fungus can be grown into a huge fungus on its corresponding nylium.

• Using a compass on a lodestone creates a lodestone compass, which points to that block.
• Can now be enchanted with Curse of Vanishing.

• Each tier now has a different speed at which it mines blocks it is effective against.
• Can now be enchanted with Efficiency, Fortune, and Silk Touch through the enchanting table.
• Are now the appropriate tools for mining hay bales, targets, dried kelp blocks, sponges, wet sponges, leaves, shroomlights, nether wart blocks, and warped wart blocks.

• An open space made mostly of soul sand and soul soil.
• Basalt pillars span from floor to ceiling.
• Nether fossils generate across the valley.
• Ash falls through the air.
• A light blue glow envelopes the valley.
• Ghasts and skeletons traverse the valley.
• Soul sand can be found in this biome at the lava level of the lava ocean.
• Biome-exclusive ambient sounds can be heard within the valley.
• The music track 'So Below' composed by Lena Raine plays inside this biome.

• Nether fossils
• Basalt pillars

• Warped nylium carpets the cave floor with nether sprouts and warped fungi growing throughout the biome.
• Huge warped fungi make up the "trees" of this forest, with shroomlights lighting up their interiors.
• Many twisting vines grow upward from the floor of the biome.
• A dark blue fog covers the forest.
• Warped spores swirl through the air.
• The least hostile places in the Nether.
• Endermen can be found more frequently within the forests.
• Biome-exclusive ambient sounds can be heard within the forests.

• Crimson nylium makes up the floor of the crimson forest with nether sprouts, crimson roots, and crimson fungi growing throughout the biome.
• Huge crimson fungi grow abundantly throughout the biome, providing crimson stems and shroomlights, as well as nether wart blocks.
• Weeping vines often grow down from the nether wart blocks on the huge crimson fungi.
• A red fog covers the entirety of the biome.
• Red ashes and particles often flow through the air.
• Many hoglins, piglins and zombified piglins can be found spawning within the crimson forest.
• Has many new, exclusive ambient sounds.
• The music track 'Chrysopoeia' composed by Lena Raine plays inside this biome.

• Basalt is found in an abundance in this biome.
• Patches of blackstone generate inside the basalt formations.
• A gray fog covers the deltas.
• White ash swirls through the air.
• Magma cubes spawn very frequently within the deltas.
• The basalt deltas come with a variety of ambient sounds.
• The music track 'So Below' composed by Lena Raine plays inside this biome.

• The "Nether" biome is renamed to nether wastes.
• Piglins and striders now spawn here.
• Added new ambient sounds.
• The music track 'Rubedo' composed by Lena Raine plays inside this biome.

• Piglins
• Magma cubes
• Hoglins
• Piglin brutes

• Serve as the home of piglins.
• Piglin brutes spawn only in this structure.
• Gilded blackstone naturally generates only in this structure, both as one of the blocks that make up the structure and as chest loot.

• Naturally generated damaged nether portals.
• Overworld materials in Overworld, Nether in Nether.

• Similar to huge mushrooms.
• Huge crimson fungi are made from nether wart blocks and crimson stems and huge warped fungi are made from warped wart blocks and warped stems.
• They can also contain shroomlights, which can be used as a light source.
• Huge crimson fungi can also generate with weeping vines.

(bastion remnants)