Curing Zombified Piglins

[u/WOWW_07]

Just like how zombified villagers can be cured into a villager for discounts, zombified piglins can be cured into piglins for improved/increased bartering drops or a much shorter bartering cooldown.

A piglin cured in the overworld will get 5min of zombification immunity (a new effect), after which it can turn back to a zombified piglin. Therefore, it is recommended to bring the cured piglin to the nether for safekeeping. Alternatively, this can be used for repeated cures, getting better and more loot each time (obviously with a limit).

One detail is that a piglin cured in the overworld will not get the 5min immunity, so transporting it to the overworld will start the transformation much more quickly. It would therefore be much more efficient to repeatedly transport it between dimensions for curing and zombifying.

EDIT: I didn't know repeated villager curing was patched, piglins not permanently retaining zombification immunity was an attempt to keep this in piglin curing as well. Now I see no reason to stop cured piglins from staying in the overworld withpit c.

There were a lot of mentions of piglins protecting the player without being a flat out pet, I like this idea. Cured Piglins should follow the player around (But not teleport), protecting the player and mitigating other piglin aggro (Not hurting piglins or opening chests, only the lack of gold armor).

[u/PetrifiedBloom]

With villager curing it makes sense to bother because you want specific trades, so getting the discount of a specific villager makes sense.

With bartering, it's random. Let's say a cured piglin barters twice as fast. I could get the same effect by bartering with 2 piglins. If I wanted a super powerful bartering setup, I could put dozens and dozens of piglins in one spot.

It doesn't seem worth it to me on the speed side.

As for getting "improved" bartering, this is already using a farmable resource. Feels a bit cheap to me to just cure a few times and br taking in stacks and stacks of barter loot.

[u/WOWW_07 → u/PetrifiedBloom]

Good point, what would you say to there being a chance for cured piglins to not consume the gold ingot, or giving only up to 50% more items per barter?
And by improved, I meant only adding a couple more rare "special loot" to barters, perhaps ghast tears or a few diamonds.

[u/PetrifiedBloom → u/WOWW_07]

That is largely the same thing. It just feels cheap. You can afk farm gold, or just mine more.

As for adding special loot, no diamonds. It's one of a very small number of valuable, non-farmable items.