Minecraft started 2025 off with a bang by adding falling leaves, new flowers, and the absolute pinnacle of development, different pig variations. Now, instead of just having the boring old pink pig in your farm, you can also keep the cold pig and the warm pig in the pen alongside it.
There have been pigs in Minecraft for the last 15 years, but until now, they've all just been cut from the same cloth. The new warm pig can be found in hot biomes like the desert or the badlands, while the cold pig is covered in fluffy fur to keep them warm in sub-zero temperatures found in the snow biome.
If, like me, you can't wait to get your hands on these little fellas, then you can test this and the other new features out by enabling snapshots for the Java Edition or turning on previews/betas in the Bedrock Edition.
If you do end up checking this update out early, then you can also report any bugs you encounter: «The Pig Positivity Score (which I’m pretty sure pigs themselves made up) has shot through the roof since this came into testing,» the official Minecraft blog post says. «But when you trek out to meet our new pigs, please report any oink-usual behavior to your nearest pig representative at bugs.mojang.com.»
I'm just so happy that we're finally getting more variations for pigs. Last year, Mojang introduced nine new dog types to vanilla Minecraft, which was a huge move for collectors like myself. But since then, I've been eagerly waiting for more mob variants. There are a couple of options for animals, like cows, which also have the Mooshroom and the sadly deceased Moobloom, but otherwise, animals in Minecraft can get a little boring at times.
There's nothing wrong with this, but as someone who likes customising builds for the biome that I'm in, I've ended up using mods to give me more animal variations for every kind of climate.
My favourite mod right now is the More Mob Variants pack, which adds more types of cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, dogs, and more. With this, I can
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