Saddle
Saddles are items that can be placed on pigs, which allows the player to ride them by right-clicking the saddle. However, the pig's movement cannot be controlled by the Player. Saddles cannot be placed on any other mobs. The player can climb off and on the pig as they please, and the saddle will remain on the pig indefinitely. If a saddled pig is killed, the pig will not drop the saddle.
Saddles are only found in the chests that are inside dungeons, though it is likely that a recipe for saddles will be added, with leather as an ingredient, since on the Achievements page you must get the "Cow Tipper" achievement before the "When Pigs Fly" achievement.
[edit] Achievements
The Saddle is featured in the "When Pigs Fly" Achievement.
[edit] History
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Saddles were added in Infdev Seecret Friday Update 2 on the 25th of June, 2010.
Pig Carting
Since the Alpha 1.2.4 update,(not sure, needs verification) the Player can continuously ride a saddled pig in a minecart without stopping. Pig carting is when a player puts a Saddle on a pig and pushes the pig into a Minecart. The pig can then be ridden while it is in the cart, allowing a self-propelling minecart ride. The player on the minecart with the saddled pig travels significantly faster than a regular minecart with a mob or player on it. The player can actually overlap the Powered Minecart and rebound off of it to go in the opposite direction before rebounding from that direction and going back to the original direction. This will happen continuously if the tracks are a closed loop. When you kill the pig the saddle will disappear.
[edit] Trivia
- By throwing chicken eggs or snowballs at the pig while riding it, it is possible to ride a pig high into the air. However, this is tricky to pull off because when you right click on the pig to throw something, you dismount the pig.
- If you would like a pig to walk if it is sitting still you may point your cursor directly down at the pig and hit it. Be careful however, after so many times it will die. If you walk it off a cliff or mountain, it, and you, may die.
- If the pig you are riding enters an area with an overhang, it's possible for the pig's jumping to phase you into the overhead blocks, damaging you through suffocation.
- Leg armor is invisible while riding a pig. When you crouch, you see both the armor, and your legs. The armor is down, but the legs are sitting.
- When on a saddle, blocks are destroyed slower than on foot, and at roughly the same speed as when underwater.
- Since passive mobs no longer seem to despawn as of 1.8, placing a saddle on a pig no longer wastes the saddle when you walk away, as long as the pig can't go anywhere.
- One of the splashes which shows up on the title screen reads "Ride the pig!" (Possibly a reference to the TV show Invader Zim).
