I have noticed that if you switch to peaceful mode in range of piglins or hoglins, they will not despawn. The hoglins don't attack you but the piglins still do. However, they do not deal any damage. They also don't drop anything apart from experience.
MCPE-91744
Piglins and Hoglins don't despawn in peaceful mode
Resolved
Duplicate
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Alexander Meszaros
(Unassigned)
Unconfirmed
Xbox
1.16.1
Retrieved
Thank you for your report!
We're actually already tracking this issue at MCPE-74135, so I will resolve and link this ticket as a duplicate.
That ticket has already been resolved as working as intended, which means this is not considered a bug and won't be fixed. Please do not leave a comment on the linked ticket.
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