Pig

Overview

Riding a Pig is slower than walking, and players still do it, because the carrot on a stick turns the game's plainest animal into a vehicle you can steer. Saddle one, hold the carrot on a stick, and it follows the carrot; use the item and the Pig sprints at the cost of durability, which is enough to clear ground faster than it manages unprompted. As transport it is a novelty. As livestock it is straightforward: 10 health, 1 to 3 raw porkchops per kill — already cooked if fire killed it — and breeding on carrots, potatoes or beetroot, all of which also lead a Pig around without a lead. It spawns on grass in most temperate Overworld biomes at light level 9 or above, in groups of four, so the supply is never a problem. There is one genuinely strange interaction worth knowing. A Pig struck by lightning becomes a Zombified Piglin, which is the only way to produce one in the Overworld without a portal — a trident with Channeling during a thunderstorm makes that repeatable. Otherwise it wanders, grunts, and threatens nothing at all.

Porkchops, which cook into one of the best early foods at 8 hunger restored, and a steerable mount when saddled and driven with a carrot on a stick.

Saddle a pig and you can ride it, steering with a carrot on a stick, though it is slower than walking and mostly a novelty; the carrot on a stick can be used to make it sprint at the cost of durability. Pigs follow carrots, potatoes and beetroot, and breed on them. A pig struck by lightning becomes a zombified piglin, which is the only way to create one in the Overworld.

In Minecraft, Pig is classified as a passive mob. It has 10 health points, or 5 hearts. Expect 3 experience per kill.

Properties

Pig has 10 health, which is 5 hearts. It drops up to 3 experience when a player kills it. Its hitbox is 0.9 blocks wide and 0.9 tall, which is what decides whether it fits through a gap or a one-block-high opening.

Added in: 1.0.0
Breedable: Yes

Spawns in

Spawns on grass in most temperate Overworld biomes in groups of four.

It has no biome restriction, so anywhere in the Overworld that meets the light and space conditions is a valid spawn.

Dimension: Overworld
Light level: ≥ 9
Added in: 1.0.0

Dimension: Overworld · Added in 1.0.0

Drops

Killing Pig drops Raw Porkchop, plus up to 3 experience. Looting raises the maximum on most of these by one per level.

Raw Porkchop: 1–3 — Cooked porkchop if killed by fire.

How it behaves

The Pig never attacks. The only reason to be careful around one is that killing it is often not what you want: breeding it is worth more than the drop.

Killed by a player it drops up to 3 experience; killed any other way it drops none.

Command

In a world with cheats on, this spawns one Pig where you are standing.

Summon

/summon minecraft:pig ~ ~ ~

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Frequently asked questions

How do you ride a Pig?

Put a saddle on it and hold a carrot on a stick. The Pig follows the carrot, and using the item makes it sprint.

What do pigs eat?

Carrots, potatoes and beetroot. Any of the three breeds them and leads them; wheat does nothing.

What happens when lightning strikes a Pig?

It becomes a zombified piglin — the only way to create one in the Overworld without a nether portal.

How much food does a porkchop give?

Cooked porkchop restores 8 hunger, matching steak as the best straightforward food in the game.

How much health does the Pig have in Minecraft?

The Pig has 10 health points, which is 5 hearts.

What does the Pig drop?

It drops Raw Porkchop, plus 3 experience when killed by a player.

Where does the Pig spawn?