Minecraft: How To Ride A Pig

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Minecraft's open world comes with a variety of mobs for players to interact with. Most of the passive mobs will drop food that can be consumed to keep hunger up, but a few of these mobs also have additional functionalities, including being used as mounts to move from one point to another.

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Currently, players can ride all types of horses in the game and their variants, Striders which are found in the Nether in lava lakes, llamas found in a few overworld mountain biomes, and pigs which are fairly common overworld mobs. Here's how players can ride pigs in Minecraft, as there are a few important tools needed for this.

Pigs are not typical mounts in Minecraft. First of all, they won't be able to compete with horses when it comes to cost-efficiency and speed. The maximum speed of horses is nearly double of pigs, according to the Minecraft Wiki, so the choice of riding a pig is a bit inefficient and strange, usually done as a novelty thing.

That said, it's a cool experience, one that does require two key items that players will need to get their hands on: a saddle and a carrot on a stick. Without these items, it's impossible to ride a pig in vanilla Minecraft.

Saddles will be the difficult part of riding a pig in Minecraft because saddles cannot be crafted by the player as of right now. Saddles are instead considered somewhat valuable loot that can be found in a variety of locations in Minecraft's world.

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First of all, players can go to a village and approach a leatherworker villager and trade with them for a saddle. They have a 50/50 chance of selling one once they are a master-level trader, and this can take some time for players to level the villager up.