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Pickable Piglins

by ShiftTheDev

Pickable Piglins lets players pick up Piglins, carry them in an item form and place them back down, adding a Fabric utility for handling the mobs.

FabricClient and serverAll rights reserved1.16.5 – 1.21.4

What it does

A Piglin picked up with the mod turns into an item that keeps its inventory, so the items it carried stay with it. Placing the item back restores the mob where it was set down. Picking up a Piglin costs experience, and the cost is set at two levels. Baby Piglins cannot be picked up by default, and a Piglin that has died more than four blocks away cannot be collected.

The mod also brings a Barter Block, which takes up to four Piglins per block and trades gold for items through automated input and output. The amount of items produced per operation depends on how many Piglins are inside, and each operation takes 240 ticks, or 12 seconds. Gold Ingots are inserted from the top, outputs are extracted from the bottom, and bartering halts when all four output slots are occupied or the input is empty. Adding or removing a Piglin resets the bartering time, and broken items inside drop out. A Piglin block is filled by right-clicking it with a Piglin item, and right-clicking the block opens its interface.

Pickable Piglins runs on Fabric and needs both the client and the server, under All rights reserved, so it is not open source. It requires Alexandria Lib, Architectury API, Cloth Config API and Fabric API. Files are published for 1.16.5 – 1.21.4 across 17 release versions, with 3.0.2.1 for 1.21.1 as the latest Fabric file.

Key features

  1. Picking up Piglins

    A Piglin can be picked up as an item that holds the items it was carrying, then placed back where it was picked up.

  2. Experience cost

    Picking up a Piglin costs two levels of experience, and baby Piglins are excluded by default.

  3. Barter Block

    A block holding up to four Piglins that trades gold for items with automated input and output.

  4. Bartering timing

    Each operation takes 240 ticks, and changing the number of Piglins inside resets the timer.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

1.21.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.21.42.2.3b
1.21.32.2.3
1.21.22.2.3
1.21.13.0.2.1
1.212.2.3
1.20.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.20.62.2.3
1.20.42.2.3
1.20.22.0.0+1.20.2
1.20.12.2.3
1.202.0.0+1.20.0
1.19.x4 of 4 versions with builds
1.19.42.0.0+1.19.4
1.19.32.0.0+1.19.3
1.19.22.2.3
1.192.0.0+1.19.0
1.18.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.17.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.16.x1 of 1 version with builds
ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.

Requirements

Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.

Required 4

Fabric APILightweight and modular API providing common hooks and intercompatibility measures utilized by mods using the Fabric toolchain.
Required
Architectury APIAn intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.
Required
Alexandria LibAlexandria is a lightweight Minecraft library mod that provides shared utilities and a common foundation for other mods. It doesn’t add gameplay on its own but serves as a core dependency to make mods easier to build and maintain.
Required
Cloth Config APIConfiguration Library for Minecraft Mods
Required

Optional 1

Mod MenuAdds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.
Optional

How it compares

Full comparison

Dried Ghast from Piglin Bartering is server-side only, not open source, and published for 1.21.1 under All rights reserved. Gentle Picking is client and server, open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, and covers 1.16.4 – 1.20.1. Less Annoying Piglins is server-side only, open source under the MIT License, and covers 1.16 – 1.16.3.

ModLoadersGame versionsEnvironmentUpdated
Pickable PiglinsFabric1.16.5 – 1.21.4Client and server2026-02-25
Dried Ghast from Piglin BarteringFabric1.21.1Server-side only2026-05-04
Gentle PickingFabric1.16.4 – 1.20.1Client and server2023-06-07
Less Annoying PiglinsFabric1.16 – 1.16.3Server-side only2020-10-26

Questions

Does Pickable Piglins need Fabric API?

Yes. Fabric API is required, along with Alexandria Lib, Architectury API and Cloth Config API.

Does the server need the mod?

Yes. Every player and the server need a copy of the mod.

Can Mod Menu change the settings?

Mod Menu is optional. It provides access to the config file, where features can be disabled or changed.

In the catalog

Pickable Piglins is one of 36,990 Utility mods on ModsFinder, and one of 25,772 Utility mods for Fabric. 17,979 mods support Minecraft 1.21.4.

Utility mods36,990Fabric modsMods for 1.21.417,979

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What the author says

Info This mod gives you the ability to pick up Piglins, keep them as Items and place them back where you want. The Barter block allows to auto-trade with Piglins by adding them into it.
ShiftTheDev, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Owner
ShiftTheDev
Published
2024-04-23
Updated on Modrinth
2026-02-25
Facts verified
2026-10-15

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