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...Pigs suck.They provide much less resources than the cow, and are god-awful as mounts.Do you guys remember when the pig was everyone's favorite animal in Minecraft? When he was sort of Steve's sidekick? No? Well, he was, to me anyway. Until the 1.8 update. Since then, I've avoided pigs entirely.

So I got some ideas.

First off, BALANCE THE DROPS. Either make beef less saturating, or make cows drop less of it. Either one works.

Also, FIX PIG-RIDING. I was super-stoked when they announced controllable pig mounts. But apparently they thought "control" meant "feed him ten carrot-on-a-sticks to make him move faster than a Slime on Monday morning". Make the pig have a consistent speed, probably as fast as a horse. Use the carrot-on-a-stick to make him sprint for, let's say 8 seconds. Now, to balance it out, a saddled pig will still have a pig's normal health, and you'll still have to jump manually (maybe when you press the space bar it could oink, too!).

Also maybe a little nose wiggle when he oinks.
And a curly-wurly tail, courtesy of Gatefox.

I want pigs to be a more beloved mob again. That's all I'm saying. They've always been my favorite mob, and I don't think the current game does them justice. VIVA LA PIG! *coughs*

Support? Ideas? Blatant Flaming? Gimme stuff people.
Also click the green thing if you like this, I'm very poor and got cancer from looking at the PS3 suggestion forum.

The only part I support is the wiggly nose.

I think it would be great to make pigs more controllable; That's all I support.

So +/- Support the idea for now.

Pigs should also have a floppy, prominent curly tail.

I don't think pig armor would work really well, besides it isn't really needed. You already have horses, i mean I understand you like pigs but not everyone likes them as much as you, I'd say stuff is as good as it is now.
Also please don't ask for upvotes or whatever, it makes you look a bit desperate, no offense.

i personaly think you should add oink oink as an answer to each poll questions

I've been suggesting that Pork has a higher saturation for a while now, so that's a "yes" there.
I think the riding is fine as is.
I'm on the fence with armour. It may look a little odd. =\
Nose wiggliness: Yes.

I was liking the better riding suggestion, then I saw speedier than a horse. Also, your armour suggestion is a bit unnecessary for pigs, just ride a horse.

Your other suggestions are fine though. Support for everything but the riding and the armour!

Quote from rarekwiebus

Pigs as steve's sidekick? Good idea! Pigs should be able to dig, swim, hit enemies (not as strong as steve, but its about the idea) and allow pigs to have boosters (fireworks on the sides of the pig so the pig gets hyperspeed and is able to fly for 5-10 seconds, after that you've to place new fireworks on your pig to get hyperspeed again).

That hyperspeed flying sounds overpowered, but its expensive so its not overpowered at all. Its a great but expensive option for fleeing from situations when you're for example surrounded by monsters/players that want to slay you.

I know this would make about 3 billion people play minecraft so Mojang might not want to add it (when something is extremely awesome like the Aether mod Mojang refuses to add it for unknown reasons).

I'm pretty sure the hyperspeed thing wouldn't make another 3 billion people play Minecraft. Some old-timers would even quit because of that. And the Aether is too big of an overhaul to be in Vanilla. If you want it, just install it as a mod.

OT: I don't see anything wrong with this, except the pig armor.
So, I Support everything except that.

Pigs having higher drops is useful but unnecessary .
I like the idea of better riding but it doesn't need to be faster than a horse.
Pig armor would look a bit odd.
Loving the nose twitch. Sounds beautiful.
Lastly the pig having special abilities as rarekwiebus suggested is cool, but would be better for a mod so people who don't love the pig that much can avoid it if they want to.

Quote from GateFox

Pigs should also have a floppy, prominent curly tail.

Done.

Quote from DarkStar634

I was liking the better riding suggestion, then I saw speedier than a horse.

Yes, I forgot horses are really really fast. Fixed it so they're just as fast as a horse.

All this feedback

I feel so loved

Why would pigs be as fast as horses? We already have a "riding animal" and it's the horse, the pig is a secondary animal now, it's useful if you don't have access to horses, but pigs being as fast as horses just doesn't make sense. Same with pig armor.
And don't say "all in minecraft doesn't make sense" because there's a limit

Hmm.... *looks at pigs currently in-game*

They aren't as useful to breed and in order to breed them you need carrots, which are harder to obtain than wheat. Horses are also better mounts.

I support. I want better pigs!

Yes, yes, please! But they shouldn't be as fast as horses, top speed without a carrot on a stick should be about 2-3 blocks per second faster then a player sprint jumping. I've always had a pig as my sidekick (Cubie :3) and I'd love for this to be added It would also be cool if, for protection, you could give them helmets (Like in Slamacow's animation Cube Land). You should also put this on Reddit, so Mojang sees it. Anyways, max piggy support!

Support! I'm getting bored of building horse stables and racetracks!

If you want a mob to be "special" then it should have a unique quality, not a watered-down quality of another mob. Chickens drop feathers. Cows drop leather. Sheep give you wool. Pigs should do something unique, for example, being able to "sniff" for something.

No support.