Nice Pig Tweaks
by NiceRon
Nice Pig Tweaks changes how pigs behave in a world, adding a few new pig-related features on top of vanilla mobs for players and server owners.
What it does
Pigs gain some additions, and a player who rides a pig receives the Resistance 3 effect. Pigs may also harvest mature potatoes and beetroots and then replant the crop, letting a single pig maintain a small patch. Treasure pigs can spawn in newly added pig pens and drop loot when hit, with a loot style similar to Minecraft Dungeons.
The mod runs on the server, and clients may add it for their own side. Installing it on a server is enough for the server features to work, while a player who joins without it can still play. It is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, across the 1.21.3 and 1.21.4 game versions, and the latest file is 1.1+mod for 1.21.4. The code is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, so the project is open source.
On PaperMC and its forks, such as Purpur, the scoreboard setting allow-non-player-entities-on-scoreboards must be enabled in the paper configuration for the features to work as intended. The config files have to be set in order for everything to work properly.
Key features
Pig additions
Pigs receive a set of extra behaviors that change how they interact with the player and the world.
Riding Resistance
A player riding a pig gets the Resistance 3 status effect while mounted.
Crop harvesting
Pigs can harvest grown potatoes and beetroots and replant them, keeping crops producing without manual work.
Treasure pigs
Treasure pigs spawn in newly added pig pens and drop loot when struck, in a style similar to Minecraft Dungeons.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Server farms
Server owners can run the tweaks for a community world where pig pens and crop replanting add activity to the farm.
Who it’s for: Server owners who run PaperMC or a fork such as Purpur, and players who want pig behavior changed in their world.
How it compares
Unrideable Pig is a NeoForge mod for 1.21.1 that runs on client and server, under the MIT License, so it covers a different loader and version range. Pigs Might Fly is a Fabric mod for 1.21.1 that runs on client and server, released under CC0 1.0 Universal. Pigs Eat Mushrooms is a Fabric server-side only mod for 1.21.5 with the same CC0 1.0 Universal license, so it needs no client installation.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nice Pig Tweaks | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.3 – 1.21.4 | Server required, client optional | 2024-12-04 |
| Unrideable Pig | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-07-30 |
| Pigs Might Fly | Fabric | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2024-09-14 |
| Pigs Eat Mushrooms | Fabric | 1.21.5 | Server-side only | 2025-08-18 |
Questions
Does Nice Pig Tweaks need to be installed on the server?
Which loaders does Nice Pig Tweaks support?
What setting does PaperMC need for the pig features?
In the catalog
Nice Pig Tweaks is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 17,979 mods support Minecraft 1.21.4.
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What the author says
Features: - Players riding a Pig receive Resistance 3 effect - Pigs have a chance to harvest fully grown Potatoes and Beetroots (as well as replant them) - Treasure Pigs have been added which spawn in the also newly added Pig Pens. Treasure Pigs drop loot when hit (similiar to those in Minecraft Dungeons) But if you…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/nice-pig-tweaks
- Owner
- NiceRon
- Published
- 2024-11-07
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-12-04
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15