Pig Riding

Pig Riding – raise your boar, saddle it, ride it into battle

Tame a boar and it grows up beside you: every walk together and every enemy it finishes makes it bigger and stronger, up to level 10. Once it is big enough to carry you, put a saddle on it and ride: it trots, runs, gores, charges and leaps on your command. Give it light or heavy barding for a fight, saddlebags for your load, and later a war harness that binds all three. Saddle, barding and bags start in the Meadows, where the boars live, and get better with the materials of each biome after that.

Now and then a wild boar is a Boarborn, a rare boar with golden, ash-grey or night-black bristles. It is born bigger, grows to twice a boar's size, gets far more health and tusk with every level, and once tame, when it falls it sleeps off its wounds instead of dying.

No other mod is needed. Works next to Wolf Riding, Better Riding and Starborn Breeding.

| Piece | What it does | Crafted at | Cost (quality 1) | |---|---|---|---| | Boar Saddle | lets you ride the boar | Workbench (level 2) | 4 deer hide, 6 leather scraps, 4 wood, 2 resin | | Light Boar Barding | armour and health, no slowdown | Workbench (level 2) | 6 deer hide, 8 leather scraps, 4 resin | | Heavy Boar Barding | much more armour and health, slower | Workbench (level 2) | 10 wood, 10 leather scraps, 4 deer hide, 6 flint | | Boar Saddlebags | 4 to 20 slots of storage | Workbench (level 2) | 4 deer hide, 6 leather scraps, 2 wood | | Light / Heavy Boar War Harness | saddle, barding and bags in one | Artisan table | a saddle, a barding and saddlebags of quality 5 or better, 10 linen thread, 2 lox pelt, 4 black metal |

Growing up

Every tame boar has a level from 1 to 10.

• Experience: 2 for every 25 m it walks beside you (following you or under your saddle), 15 for every enemy it finishes. "Stay" gives nothing. Level 2 needs 50, level 5 needs 500, level 10 needs 2250 – about 28 km of walking together, less with fights.
• Size: a plain boar grows from its own size to 1.5 times at level 10. Stars add the game's own size on top (★1 1.1, ★2 1.2); boars with more stars from Starborn Breeding keep growing, 0.1 per star.
• Strength: a plain boar gains 40 % health and 10 % tusk per level.
• Follow and stay: tame boars now take commands like wolves. Press E on a tame boar to have it follow you or stay.
• The hover line under the boar's name shows its level and experience.

> Level 4 · 312/500 XP > Too small to carry you yet

Big enough to ride

A boar carries a rider once it is 1.2 times a boar's size (config RideMinSize). That is:

| Boar | Rideable from | |---|---| | Boarborn | level 1 | | two-star boar | level 1 | | one-star boar | level 3 | | plain boar | level 5 |

A smaller boar happily wears barding and saddlebags; the saddle waits until it has grown.

The Boarborn

One wild boar in 20 is a Boarborn (config BoarbornChance). You know it by its bristles – gold like Gullinbursti, Freyr's boar, ash-grey or night-black – and by its name.

• It takes half as long again to tame.
• It is born at 1.25 times a boar's size and grows to twice a boar's size at level 10.
• Health: five times a boar's per level, 50 at level 1 and 500 at level 10 (twice and three times that with one and two stars).
• Tusks: 1.5 times a boar's at level 1, six times at level 10.
• It does not die. A tame Boarborn that falls sleeps for three minutes and wakes with 30 % health. While it sleeps nothing can hurt it. A blow from a player (the butcher knife) still kills it.
• Blood: a piglet of a Boarborn sow grows into a Boarborn one time in four (config BoarbornInheritChance). Piglets of plain boars never do.

Seven qualities, seven biomes

Each piece is upgraded like any vanilla item, but every quality is made at the station of its biome and asks for that biome's materials.

| Quality | Biome | Station | Materials (saddle) | |---|---|---|---| | 1 | Meadows | Workbench, level 2 | deer hide, leather scraps, wood, resin | | 2 | Black Forest | Forge | troll hide, bronze, leather scraps | | 3 | Swamp | Forge, level 2 | iron, deer hide, leather scraps | | 4 | Mountains | Forge, level 3 | wolf pelt, silver, leather scraps | | 5 | Plains | Artisan table | lox pelt, linen thread, black metal | | 6 | Mistlands | Black forge | scale hide, carapace, blue jute | | 7 | Ashlands | Black forge, level 3 | asksvin hide, flametal, Morgen sinew |

The look changes with the quality: raw deer leather, wooden slats and undyed wool in the Meadows; troll hide and bronze in the Black Forest; dark leather, iron and red wool in the Swamp; silver and white wolf pelt in the Mountains; black leather, black metal and linen in the Plains; scale hide, carapace and blue jute in the Mistlands; asksvin hide and flametal in the Ashlands.

Putting tack on

1. Tame a boar.
2. Use the piece on it: point at the boar and press its hotbar key.
3. To take it off, point at the piece (saddle, bags or barding) and press Shift + E. It drops beside the boar with its quality.

A boar wears one piece at a time. To ride, fight and carry at once, bind a war harness. Bags must be empty before they come off. A boar that dies drops its tack and everything in its bags.

Riding

1. Point at the saddle and press E to mount.
2. Steer with the mouse: W trots, Shift runs, S stops, block turns on the spot.
3. E gets you off.

| Key | On the boar | |---|---| | Attack | a gore with the tusks (10 mount stamina) | | Secondary attack | a charge: almost a second straight ahead at 1.6 times the speed, then a gore that hits 75 % harder and throws the target back (25 stamina) | | Jump | a leap forward (15 stamina) |