Combat profile
For Minecraft 26.3 / NeoForge, wave base values and supported behavior can be changed per registry entry: see health, damage and base armor and mob abilities. Tier, size and wave scaling still apply.
Behavior
The separate Mole uses Dirt construction and covered tunnels with 3× mining, a pickaxe and shovel. It attacks only its Nexus objective and does not inherit Engineer zombification.
Related ranged engineers: Skeleton Builder uses Dirt and Wither Skeleton Builder uses Nether Bricks. Both can leave summoning gravestones on tower platforms.
It walks toward and attacks the Nexus, fights nearby players, breaks blocking terrain, bridges fluids and gaps with planks, and builds ladder towers when needed. It spawns holding a ladder, iron pickaxe, or Engineer Hammer and can upgrade armor from nearby drops.
Zombification
In environments where piglins zombify, a living Engineer with AI enabled can become a Zombified Engineer after roughly 15 seconds. It keeps its current health, attributes, equipment and Nexus binding. Setting overworld-piglin-conversion=off on the server prevents this in the Overworld. The zombified variant has fireproof defaults and drops Rotten Flesh as its bonus item.
For descending spiral staircases, shared tower reuse and repair, see advanced terrain construction. These behaviors depend on the entity's configured abilities and server building rules.
For current Minecraft 26.3 / NeoForge block mining and construction clearance, this Builder uses a 1× digging multiplier. The held tool, Efficiency, Haste, Mining Fatigue and water/air conditions determine the actual rate; construction headroom is cleared through the same timed process.
Drops
There is no vanilla equivalent. On death it always drops one bonus item: a 50% chance for Leather, otherwise Raw Porkchop (Cooked Porkchop when burning).
Leather • 50%
Raw Porkchop • 50%
Cooked if killed while burningVanilla replacement
No vanilla mob converts into a Pigman Engineer; it appears in waves or through its spawn egg.
Another builder is the Shroom Bandit: it steals and consumes real block supplies, delivers equipment to hostile mobs and cannot mine through obstructions.
See the family conversion rules and registered spawn eggs.