This guide will let you know 14 things you didn’t know about Bastions in Minecraft.
How do you keep safe in the most hostile place in Minecraft?
Remnants
The developers added Bastion remnants in 1.16, containing lots of loot. The chests here have the loot you can’t get anywhere else.
Piglin Banner Patterns
You can sometimes find the piglin banner patterns in them and the pig step music disc that you are hearing now. They also contain dangerous creatures. These huge, menacing structures spawn in most biomes except for the basalt data.
Findings
It means you can find them in the soul and valleys, warped forests, crimson forests
and the nether wastes.
Types
Bastions can be generated in four possible types, each unique terrain.
Each variant has the same chances of spawning, but they look very different.
Treasure Room Variant
The treasure room variant contains two rooms connected with a bridge. There are plenty of areas to explore within the walls. Its main attraction is the larger room of the two which contains a bunch of bridges. A lava floor and a couple of chests and some gold blocks.
Magma Cube
It’s also the only place where magma cube spawners are found.
Piglin
The second version is called the bridge, and it’s identifiable by the double-layered bridge with some gold and a huge piglin face carved in it. If you go into the mouth, you will find a bunch of walkways covered by lava and with loot chests scattered.
Housing Unit
Then there’s the housing unit variant. This one’s laid out like an apartment block for piglins, and it contains one big area surrounded by ‘rooms’ with loot in.
Hoglin Spawn
There are also wall tunnels that lead to even more loot. It even has some nether wart growing in the middle, and lastly, there are the hoglin stables. Now usually when hoglins and piglins meet in the wild. They are not very good friends. But here, they don’t fight at all. As the name suggests, this is the bastion where hoglins spawn.
Changing Modes
If you are playing in a peaceful mode. The bastions aren’t too dangerous apart from lava and holes. But if you are not, you need to take care when exploring. Piglins won’t attack you if you are wearing gold armor, so make sure to take some with you.
But there are a few things they shall still attack you for.
Hoglins Attack
If you open a chest or break a block of gilded black stone. And while the piglins and hoaglins don’t fight each other, and the hoaglins will still always attack you or just hit one, they’ll all swarm you. So if you are going looting, make sure to hide from them first.
Worth Loot
However, if you know how to defend yourself, the loot is worth it. The chests contain items from soul speed enchantments to netherite scraps and string. But the treasure room bastion hides even more treasure.
Diamonds
The chests near the lava have even more riches. From diamonds, enchanted diamond gear and gold blocks. To netherite armor and weapons.
While Exploring
When you are exploring these structures, make sure to be very thorough. Small caves often spawn below and can even house small pockets of gold. And depending on where the bastion spawns. Chests can sometimes spawn in the walls, so it never hurts to dig around a bit after exploring.