Minecraft fixes a 10-year-old bug, affecting zombie piglin XP farms

Minecraft has finally fixed a decade-old bug affecting zombie piglin farms, and it might just bring a major change to how players farm XP in-game. The community has always been creative in finding efficient methods to obtain XP, and exploiting this glitch with zombified piglins was one of the most popular strategies.

Here's everything you need to know about Minecraft fixing the zombified piglins XP farm.

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Minecraft finally fixes a decade-old XP farm glitch

Mojang finally fixes the zombified piglins XP glitch (Image via Mojang Studios)

As part of the latest bug fixes, Minecraft confirmed resolving MC-56653, which addresses the bug where zombified piglins would drop XP and rare items when killed by anything while in an angered state.

This bug essentially allowed players to farm gold and massive amounts of XP by eliminating the mob. They would stack zombified piglins in an area and place a hostile mob around it, transforming it into an angered mob. As the hostile mob eliminated the piglins, players received XP even without interacting with said entities.

The bug was first spotted back on June 12, 2014, and was eventually resolved by Mojang. The change was followed by a string of backlash from the community and the developers finally decided to revert the change with a warning that the glitch would be fixed in the future. Bug spotters in the official tracker confirmed that the glitch is active even in the latest 1.21.4 release.

Players can expect Mojang to push out an update soon to resolve the glitch and make additional changes or introduce features to improve gameplay. It is finally time for players to move on from the zombified piglins farm and look for alternate methods to farm XP in-game.

Since XP is vital for leveling up, enchanting, repairing, and more, it’s understandable that the community is sad to see it go.

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Minecraft community in splits after Mojang announces fix for piglin farm glitch

The gaming community was in splits after Mojang announced on their bug tracker that MC-56653 had been resolved. Being a popular way to farm XP and gold in the game, some players were frustrated by the removal of this method:

On the other hand, others commented that the piglin farm was an outdated XP farming method, especially with newer and more efficient strategies like guardian or raid farms, which can help players level up massively:

The gaming community is well-known for its creativity in coming up with inventive workarounds and solutions. It's only a matter of time before Mojang is busy addressing another hare-brained scheme by clever players.

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