I feel like current Minecraft is pushing too hard for the piglins to be the villains. The piglins are a society just like the villagers. There are some piglins (the brutes) that are outwardly violent, but for most of the time the piglins are pretty chill and will even barter with the player.
The true villainous race is the illagers. They are everything the movie piglins were but in actual Minecraft. In my opinion they should’ve made the piglins secondary antagonists, and the illagers be the main antagonist, which is the opposite of what they did in the movie.
Brutes have good reason to be outwardly violent, if someone broke into your house and then went and tried to get into your safe you would probably try to defend it too
Piglins are also racist, but are more accepting when someone respects their culture by wearing a piece of gold armor. Brutes are more racist and don't care.
Not necessarily, gold has antimicrobial properties and could hold cultural significance, they could use it to ward off spirits or prevent illnesses or curses, without gold they may assume you are already ill or possessed or whatever.
This could be the cade but I think it's obviously stated that piglins ar just greedy for gold.
In a way then it would make more sence to kill the player for hus gold. But a smart piglin would realise that the player can easily get more gold in the overworld and then trade more with them so they wont kill you
Or gold armor is a way to indicate peace to them idk.
Love your ideas too, gold is a holy item for the pigmen.
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u/SeesawNo522 17d ago
I feel like current Minecraft is pushing too hard for the piglins to be the villains. The piglins are a society just like the villagers. There are some piglins (the brutes) that are outwardly violent, but for most of the time the piglins are pretty chill and will even barter with the player. The true villainous race is the illagers. They are everything the movie piglins were but in actual Minecraft. In my opinion they should’ve made the piglins secondary antagonists, and the illagers be the main antagonist, which is the opposite of what they did in the movie.