Back before 1.8, pigs had to be the most useful and demanded animal to be found on your Minecraft world, because they dropped food! They were the only mob to drop food pre 1.8. However after the addition of hunger and steak, chicken, giant mushrooms, etc food stuff, pigs have become rather useless as compared to other farm mobs.
You can get food AND leather from cows
You can get food AND feathers from chickens
And sheep can give you wool (honeslty expected lambchops to be added but whatever...)
The only uses for pigs is to get their porkchops to either eat or feed to dogs for sexy time (which you can do with any other meat)
I think that pigs should have their own special drop or catch that brings them back up to par with the other farming mobs, like maybe if they dropped a potion ingredient (hoof of pig, pig tail)? Any thoughts?
We could...
A ) Make riding pigs fully controllable then they would be the mount for the game. (so much cooler then horses)
or
B ) candles are made with tallow which (I think) is made with animal fat or something that could be dropped from pigs.
Like a pet?
A testing SCIENCE MOB11!1111!
THESE are my current uses of the PEEGZ.
But the saddle idea is nice. we need it. But maybe only on surface, because it could make the rails useless
In reality, pigs give birth to litters of around 2-12 piglets. Perhaps Minecraft would have that, just dumbed down for balancing issues, creating one or two piglets at a time with a chance for an extra on the side.
But the saddle idea is nice. we need it. But maybe only on surface, because it could make the rails useless
That would be reasonable; you can already hurt yourself from low hanging leaves when riding pigs. The cramped space of a cave would result in a very sore cranium.
Edit: Of course, even if pigs became a suitable form of transportation, the reliability and speed of carts would let them share the spotlight with the valiant porcine steeds.
You can get food AND leather from cows
You can get food AND feathers from chickens
And sheep can give you wool (honeslty expected lambchops to be added but whatever...)
The only uses for pigs is to get their porkchops to either eat or feed to dogs for sexy time (which you can do with any other meat)
I think that pigs should have their own special drop or catch that brings them back up to par with the other farming mobs, like maybe if they dropped a potion ingredient (hoof of pig, pig tail)? Any thoughts?
Dig them holes.
Why would the pig turn into a horse?!!
Dig them holes.
A ) Make riding pigs fully controllable then they would be the mount for the game. (so much cooler then horses)
or
B ) candles are made with tallow which (I think) is made with animal fat or something that could be dropped from pigs.
A testing SCIENCE MOB11!1111!
THESE are my current uses of the PEEGZ.
But the saddle idea is nice. we need it. But maybe only on surface, because it could make the rails useless
That would be reasonable; you can already hurt yourself from low hanging leaves when riding pigs. The cramped space of a cave would result in a very sore cranium.
Edit: Of course, even if pigs became a suitable form of transportation, the reliability and speed of carts would let them share the spotlight with the valiant porcine steeds.