Bastion Remnant Finder

The Four Bastion Types

Every Bastion fits one of four types. Knowing which one you're walking into helps you plan the route.

• Hoglin StableThis variant has a Crimson Forest feel, with a central stable room packed with hoglins behind fences. The walls are dotted with gold blocks, so it's a solid pick if you're hunting raw gold to mine on the way out.
• Housing UnitsThis type is a cluster of small house-like rooms, usually with several piglins standing guard. A central bridge spans a lava drop in the middle, and the chests inside lean toward piglin trade items rather than rare drops.
• TreasureThis is the jackpot variant. A central podium room holds multiple chests in a tight cluster, giving you the highest concentration of loot of any Bastion type — and the best chance at a Netherite Upgrade Smithing Template.
• BridgeThe Bridge variant is a long arched walkway extending out over lava, defended by piglin brutes at each end. Fewer chests than the Treasure variant, but still decent gold and the occasional ancient debris — and the brutes are worth clearing for the Brute-dropped golden axe and the XP.

What to bring when exploring a Bastion

Gold armour (1+ piece)

Wearing any piece of gold armour stops regular Piglins from going hostile on sight — they treat you as "one of them" and ignore you while you walk past. Gold boots are the cheapest piece to craft (4 gold ingots) so they're the easiest insurance for a Bastion run. Note that this trick does not work on Piglin Brutes (the bigger axe-wielding variant), which always attack you regardless of what you're wearing.

Fire Resistance potions

A Fire Resistance potion is the single most important item you can bring to a Bastion. The structure is suspended over lava on every side and Piglin Brutes knock you backwards hard — one bad hit near an edge and you're swimming in lava. Water buckets don't work in the Nether (water evaporates on contact), so Fire Resistance is your only real safety net. Brew from Magma Cream (slimeball + blaze powder) and a bottle of awkward potion, and bring at least three.

Shield

A Shield blocks Piglin Brute axe swings and regular Piglin crossbow bolts, both of which hit hard at close range. Hold right-click to raise the shield and you'll absorb the hit instead of taking damage. Skip Thorns enchantment on your armour for this trip though — Piglin Brutes are immune to Thorns reflection damage, so it doesn't help against the one mob you actually need help with.

Cobweb

Cobweb is the Nether's fall-catcher. You can place it on any block face mid-air (right-click while falling) and it will catch you immediately, then let you climb safely back up. It also doubles as a piglin trap — drop a few cobwebs in a corridor behind you while you're escaping with chest loot and any piglins chasing get stuck in them long enough for you to break line of sight.

Golden apples

Keep a stack of regular Golden Apples (8 gold ingots around an apple) on your hotbar for mid-fight healing. Each one restores 4 hunger and gives 2 minutes of Absorption (4 extra yellow hearts of damage buffer) plus 5 seconds of Regeneration II. That's a survivable buffer against back-to-back Brute axe hits when you can't safely retreat.

How to clear a Bastion

1. Identify the Bastion type before you commit to a route in. Each of the four variants has a clear visual signature: Hoglin Stable has a fenced central pen full of pink hoglins and crimson tree decorations; Bridge has a long arched walkway extending out over lava; Housing Units is a cluster of small house-like rooms with several piglins per room; Treasure has a tall central hall with a podium of clustered chests at its top. Knowing which one you're looking at tells you where the chests will be and which mobs to expect first.
2. Sneak in slowly with shift-walking. Hold the sneak key (Shift by default) and your footsteps make no sound — Piglins won't detect you even when you walk past them, as long as you're wearing gold armour. Opening any chest in a Bastion always aggros every Piglin within line of sight regardless of what you're wearing, so before you touch a single chest, scout the room and plan a retreat path back to the structure's edge.
3. Take out Piglin Brutes first if a fight breaks out. Brutes are bigger than regular Piglins, carry golden axes and ignore the gold-armour trick — they always attack on sight and hit for several hearts even through diamond armour. Raise your shield, wait for them to swing (the shield breaks their attack and staggers them), then counter-attack with three fast sword hits before lifting the shield again. Brutes don't respawn — once you've cleared them, they're gone — and each one drops around 20 XP plus a chance of its own golden axe.
4. Open one chest at a time and back off between each loot. Every chest opening triggers nearby Piglins, but the aggro is per-encounter — break line of sight for around 30 seconds and the un-aggroed ones forget about you. So loot a chest, sprint behind cover (a wall, a pillar, around a corner), wait until the chase music fades, then approach the next chest. Trying to clear several in a row is what gets people killed in here.
5. If things go badly, head for the edge of the structure and use the lava as a barrier. Piglins won't willingly walk into lava and rarely chase you off the edge of a Bastion — putting the lava ocean between you and them resets the fight. Place cobweb on the way out to catch your fall (so you can't plummet straight into the lava yourself), and from below the structure you can pillar back up safely once the heat dies down.

The loot that justifies the risk