How to breed the pigs in Minecraft?
There are a number of strange features and effects in the Minecraft gameplay that you may have come across while playing it for a while. Be it getting milk from a creature like or breeding the animals or creatures to produce some new offspring there.
These things make me believe more about the fact that the Minecraft gameplay is inspired by the real world in many ways. You will find a lot of other features and specifications that closely resemble the real outside world in which we live.
You may have thought of the very ways of increasing your livestocks in the Minecraft gameplay. What could be the better way of increasing the livestock then actually breeding them. By breeding the existing livestock in your settlement or farm, you easily get to add the livestock to your gameplay by following the respective method.
Other than that you get to add a really cute and adoring version of the livestock to your gameplay that really adds some extra values to your settlement or place. If you think of adding some more livestocks on your farm by breeding the existing ones there, then this article here is certainly for you.
In this article given below, we will be considering the various aspects of breeding the pigs to create a small pig in the Minecraft gameplay. So do follow this article to the very end in order to get the whole thing done.
You can actually breed the pigs in the Minecraft gameplay by bringing them together and allowing them to meet there. There is a certain process that you need to follow for breeding the pigs so that they provide you with a little pig there.
Before we move onto the actual process of breeding the pigs in the Minecraft gameplay, let us consider the varying editions of Minecraft that do support the following process.
The editions of Minecraft that support the process of breeding the pigs in the Minecraft gameplay are;
Java Edition
Pocket Edition
Xbox 360
Xbox One
PS3
PS4
Wii U
Nintendo Switch
Windows 10 Edition
Education Edition
So these were the respective editions that allow you to breed the pigs in your gameplay.
Here, let us also get a closer look at the various required items that we will be needing for breeding the pigs inside the Minecraft gameplay to get a baby pig there.
The required items for breeding the pigs in the Minecraft gameplay are;
- Two pigs
- Two carrots
Here in this process of breeding the pigs, as we suppose that the pigs are the first and foremost element of the process. As pretty much everything does revolve around the pigs in the following process.
So you need to find the pigs inside your respective Minecraft gameplay in the very first place for beginning the due process
The other element that you do need here is the carrot, you will be required to feed sone food to the pigs in your respective Minecraft gameplay, so that they begin to breed. There could not be any other good food to feed a pig than carrot.
Now, moving onto the actual process of breeding the pigs in Minecraft, we have;
- Finding the pigs
The very first step towards the process of breeding the pigs in Minecraft is to actually find the pigs in the first place.
There are various means by which you can easily find a cow in the Minecraft gameplay. Here, you need to roam the works in your Minecraft gameplay and look for the pigs, where you think they would be
Normally, you will find a cow somewhere near the settlements or farms in Minecraft. You can find a cow in the farm of some other player in the gameplay.
If you are unable to find the cow inside the Minecraft world then you can switch to some other ways of doing so.
Well, if you were not able to find the pigs in the Minecraft world, then the other way is by using the ascertain command for calling the pigs to the real gameplay.
There are various set commands for performing the required action or thing in the Minecraft gameplay, like you can use the locate command to place the coordinates of a certain place in Minecraft, or you can use the title command to depict the name of the player in the gameplay.
Here, you can use the summon command for requesting Minecraft to provide the two pigs in the gameplay.
In this way, you will receive the pigs in your Minecraft gameplay at some location or point.
So, that was about finding the two pigs in the Minecraft gameplay for continuing the breeding process.
Now that you have added the pigs to some place in your gameplay, it’s time to breed the two pigs to get the baby pigs.
- Breeding the pigs
Now, that you have found the two pigs in your respective Minecraft world, you need to combine the two pigs together, so that they can breed the baby pigs.
For breeding the pigs to produce a small pig in your respective gameplay, you need to confine the two pigs together in a confined space inside your respective gameplay so that they do not get away from there.
As you would be able to perform the process of breeding the cows, if they kept moving away from each other.
You can easily restrict their movement in your respective gameplay by setting a fence or something like that so they cannot get out of it.
After you have found the two pigs in the Minecraft world, place them on some point and cover them with the fence, so that they are confined there.
- Follow the required steps or gestures in your device or editions of Minecraft for placing the fence around the pigs.
Thereby, you have restricted the movement of the two pigs on that spot or place in your respective gameplay.
Now, they would not be able to go to some other place. And you would not need to place them in the same place again and again.
After you have placed the two pigs inside the fence together, you need to feed them with the carrots to continue the process of breeding them.
As we said it earlier, you would need two carrots for breeding the pigs for producing the baby pigs. You have to add the two carrots to the inventory in your Minecraft gameplay. If you have successfully added the two carrots to the inventory then you can follow the below given process.
After you have added the carrots to the inventory, you will notice that the carrots seem to appear inside the bar, present on the bottom of the screen in Minecraft.
Here, we will be feeding the two pigs with the carrots to continue the process of breeding.
- First of all, you need to select the carrot from the below given bar on your respective device or editions of Minecraft.
As you select the carrot from the below given bar, you will see that the carrot appears on your hand in the Minecraft screen.
Thereafter, you need to feed the two pigs with the carrot that you have selected in the above process.
Here, you will be performing some different actions or gestures for feeding the carrot to the two pigs in the Minecraft gameplay, as the functions and steps for doing a certain thing does differ in every edition of Minecraft.
The steps or gestures for feeding the carrot to the pigs in the varying editions of Minecraft are;
Java Edition
For feeding the carrot to the twov pigs in the Java Edition of Minecraft, you need to click on the right button of the mouse while pointing at the respective pigs.
Pocket Edition
For feeding the two pigs with the carrot in the Pocket Edition of Minecraft, you need to tap on the respective pigs one by one while pointing the plus sign arrow at the respective pigs.
Xbox One and Xbox 360
For feeding the two pigs inside the fence with the carrots in the Xbox One and Xbox 360 editions of Minecraft, you need to press the LT button on your respective controllers while pointing the plus sign arrow at the two pigs one by one.
PS3 and PS4
For feeding the two respective pigs with carrots in the PS3 and PS4 editions of Minecraft, you need to press the button L2 on your respective controllers while pointing the plus sign arrow at the two pigs one by one.
Wii U
For feeding the two pigs with the carrot in Wii U edition of Minecraft, you have to press the button ZL while pointing the plus sign arrow at the respective pigs one by one.
Nintendo Switch
In order to feed the two pigs with carrots in the Nintendo Switch edition of Minecraft, you have to press the button ZL while pointing the plus sign arrow at the two respective pigs accordingly.
Windows 10 and Education Edition
In order to feed the pigs with carrots in the Windows 10 and Education Edition editions of Minecraft, you need to press the right button of the mouse while focussing the plus sign at the respective pigs one by one.
So, these were the required steps for feeding the two pigs with the carrot in the respective editions of Minecraft.
Here, you have successfully fed the two pigs with carrots in the Minecraft gameplay.
Now, the real process of breeding is about to begin here.
As you feed the two pigs with carrots in Minecraft, you will notice that the love sign appears on their heads. This is the sign that the two pigs are entering the love mode in the Minecraft gameplay.
Thereby the required pigs will enter the love mode, the love sign appearing on their heads also increases in numbers significantly as the time passes.
The number of love signs will increase from two love signs to four love signs and then on.
This process of love sign increasing will continue for a while.
Thereafter some time, you will see that the love sign has stopped increasing, and the baby pigs have emerged from the two adult pigs.
Here, the baby cow will be standing in between the pigs on your respective Minecraft screen.
If you think of using the same method again and again to add some more small pigs to your gameplay.
Then you would have to wait for five minutes after each session of breeding, in order to continue the process of adding baby pigs.
Now you can begin feeding your own pig livestock inside the Minecraft gameplay.
So, that was all about breeding the pigs in Minecraft.
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