Where it spawns
Placed in bastion remnants when they generate, and never respawns.
How it thinks
Its brain switches between activities, each a set of behaviours, and keeps memories of what its senses pick up. Read from the game's code and put in our own words.
Activities
- Admire itemstopping to look at gold it picked up (bartering)
- Avoidrunning away from something it fears
- Celebratedancing after its target died
- Corealways running: looking, moving along its path, swimming, reacting to damage
- Fightfighting its current target
- Idlewhen there is nothing else to do: wandering, looking at players, socialising
- Rideriding on another mob
What it can do
- Backs off after a spear jab
- Backs off when too close
- Celebrates a kill
- Chases its target
- Climbs on another mob
- Closes in with a spear
- Drops a target that is gone or out of reach
- Finishes admiring (and barters)
- Gets off a mount
- Gives up on gold that is too far
- Hunts hoglins
- Jabs with a spear
- Looks where it means to
- Melee attacks
- Opens and closes doors
- Picks a target
- Remembers a hoglin hunt
- Runs away from things
- Shoots a crossbow
- Stops to admire gold
- Walks its path
- Walks to items it wants
- Wanders
What it notices
- What hurt it
- Items on the ground
- Nearby creatures
- Nearby players
- Nearby piglins and enemies
How Emma beats it
A brute is too strong to trade hits with on the ground, so she gets above it or traps it.
- She counts one brute as a whole pack and builds a 3-high pillar to fight from, measured from the highest ground next to her.
- With a boat she drops it on the brute's path. A mob that walks into a boat gets in and can't get out, and she hits it from just out of its reach.
- Her paths avoid a brute's line of sight within 16 blocks. In a bastion she skips gold within 13 blocks of a brute, and mines gold from inside a sealed pocket so the piglins don't see her.
- She never blocks an axe with a shield: an axe disables it.
Lab result: One brute, two brutes, and brutes with crossbows: no deaths. A group of six in a bastion: 10 of 10. A lone brute on flat ground beat her twice; from a pillar she won 2 of 2 without a scratch.
From Emma's own fighting code and our combat lab (Hard difficulty). All the hard fights