A Java Edition snapshot is adding the piglin brute to `the Nether Update`
(Windows Phone Central)

The Java gets the Brute. What you need to know The Nether Update is the most recent major Minecraft release, changing the entire Nether dimension. Despite the update being officially released, it`s still getting new features and changes in recent beta builds. The newest snapshot for the Java Edition adds the piglin brute, a new hostile mob that resides in bastion remnants. The piglin brute already came to the Bedrock Edition`s beta, so this snapshot brings them up to date. Just under a week after a beta for the Bedrock Edition added piglin brutes to the Nether Update, the Java Edition is getting in on the action with snapshot 20w27a. This is all in preparation of a future 1.16.2 update for the Nether Update that will tweak and alter existing features, as well as add one all-new feature. You guessed it, I`m talking about the piglin brute, a truly hostile mob that guards bastion remnants with their lives (aided by rather nasty looking axes). Here`s what you need to know about pig...