In the 1.8 update, cows and chickens dropped meat. Now, pigs are less valuable than cows and chickens. Evaluate:
Pigs:
- drop meat
- can be ridden (unique but not useful)
Cows:
- drop meat
- drop leather (unique)
Chickens:
- drop meat (hunger effect)
- drop eggs (can easily multiply chicken population)
- drop feathers (unique)
Doesn't it seem pigs are worthless compared to the others? My suggestion is that cow meat have a hunger effect similar to chickens so that pigs can then be the lone meat that don't hunger poison you and for once be useful in farms. I'm just throwing this one idea out here, not necessarily THE solution to fixing pig unbalance.
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On a more serious note, I've found cows to be one of the more rarer of the animals. I can never seem to find any. And pigs are almost everywhere, meaning some of the first food sources I use are pigs. Using your argument, you could also argue that other mobs should be removed due to no use (Bats mainly.) Still, thats just my opinion, I can sort of see your point.
I don't know, since pigs are now a rideable mount it seems to me things have balanced out nicely. I can't really comment to how useful a mount actually is seeing I can't find a ******* carrot.
I find the fact sheep don't drop mutton more plerplexing.
No nerfing of cows please. Besides, who's to say pigs won't get their day in the sun via some future update? Maybe more versatility for pork in recipes. Or pigskin. Or maybe pig fat for cooking or lubricating grease. Time will tell.
Pigs:
- drop meat
- can be ridden (unique but not useful)
Cows:
- drop meat
- drop leather (unique)
Chickens:
- drop meat (hunger effect)
- drop eggs (can easily multiply chicken population)
- drop feathers (unique)
Doesn't it seem pigs are worthless compared to the others? My suggestion is that cow meat have a hunger effect similar to chickens so that pigs can then be the lone meat that don't hunger poison you and for once be useful in farms. I'm just throwing this one idea out here, not necessarily THE solution to fixing pig unbalance.
I would love it if you checked out my "about me" page on my profile and looked at my threads
I'm always happy to see new posters.
Cooked porkchops and steak both restore 8/20 hunger points.
On a more serious note, I've found cows to be one of the more rarer of the animals. I can never seem to find any. And pigs are almost everywhere, meaning some of the first food sources I use are pigs. Using your argument, you could also argue that other mobs should be removed due to no use (Bats mainly.) Still, thats just my opinion, I can sort of see your point.
I don't think that cows ( or mooshrooms ) should be nerfed though.
I find the fact sheep don't drop mutton more plerplexing.
That's the same thing I was thinking. Sheep are the only mob that drop wool though, so I guess that sort of makes up for it.
Anyway, I think pigs are fine the way they are. Even if they only drop meat, they provide food when you can't find cows or chickens, so...