Bastion Tweaks
Restores 1.16-style piglin bartering odds and swaps out piglin brutes for extra regular piglins, making bastions feel like they did before the Nether…
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Brings bastion remnants and piglin bartering back to how they felt in the 1.16 Nether Update, before piglin brutes and the ender pearl bartering nerf. What it changes
Better ender pearl bartering odds — restores the original 1.16.1 rate (~4.2% chance, 4–8 pearls per trade) instead of the current nerfed rate, so bartering for pearls actually feels worth it again. No more piglin brutes — every piglin brute is automatically replaced with two regular piglins the moment it spawns. More piglins in bastions — since brutes get swapped for piglins instead of just removed, bastions end up noticeably more piglin-dense, closer to the classic 1.16 feel.
Why The Nether Update's later patches quietly cut pearl bartering rates in half and added piglin brutes as tough, non-barterable guards. This datapack undoes both changes for anyone who prefers the original, more generous, more chaotic-in-a-good-way bastion experience. Compatibility
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 26.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Downloads as bastion tweaks.zip
- Download size: 3 KB
- Download link checked 24 Aug 2026 — working
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