I'm playing on a vanilla survival server, and made myself an underground pig farm. I finally found carrots, and tried to breed my pair of pigs, but the babies seem to disappear after a while. I've made five or six piglets from the same parent pair. I was near one of the piglets at one point, and while I didn't see it actually take damage, I did spot pork on the ground after, which makes me think that they die when they grow up? I am unsure if this a is a bug... or is there some rule about how tall the enclosure for pigs must be? It's 1 block high in some spaces, and 2-3 blocks in others.
My adult pair seems to have survived just fine thus far.
I have an open-air pig farm and it works fine. I don't see why the babies would die if the adults were fine, but maybe when they grow they glitch up into the ceiling and suffocate. Not sure.
I have an open-air pig farm and it works fine. I don't see why the babies would die if the adults were fine, but maybe when they grow they glitch up into the ceiling and suffocate. Not sure.
What this guy said. Especially if the ceiling is low.
It's because the surrounding blocks cause them to suffocate. Try making a 3-4block high enclosure surrounded by transparent blocks like glass leaves or fences, that way they don't separate.
Thanks for all the advice! I made the area much deeper, and it seems to have helped. Thanks for all the advice! I'd thought that adult pigs were only one block high, and thus that the 1-block wouldn't hurt.
I am pretty sure no one is killing the piglets - I have been the only one on when it's been happening, and it's a bit more of a friendly server than anything (my friends and I).
I'm playing on a vanilla survival server, and made myself an underground pig farm. I finally found carrots, and tried to breed my pair of pigs, but the babies seem to disappear after a while. I've made five or six piglets from the same parent pair. I was near one of the piglets at one point, and while I didn't see it actually take damage, I did spot pork on the ground after, which makes me think that they die when they grow up? I am unsure if this a is a bug... or is there some rule about how tall the enclosure for pigs must be? It's 1 block high in some spaces, and 2-3 blocks in others.
My adult pair seems to have survived just fine thus far.
Thanks for the advice!
I am pretty sure no one is killing the piglets - I have been the only one on when it's been happening, and it's a bit more of a friendly server than anything (my friends and I).