Pigs | Pigs Don't Starve Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Two legged pigs play an important role in the game, so it is a good idea to have a closer look at them. First of all, they live in wooden houses called Pig Houses, which are generated at random, and can also be created by the player themselves.

Putting up such a house requires 4x Boards, 3x Cut Stone and 4x Pig Skin. If you kill a pig, it will respawn in its house 4 days later. .

Secondly, pigs are an excellent source of various materials. A killed pig gives you Meat and Pig Skin sometimes, which you can use to create various items. If you feed vegetables to the animal, you will also get Manure, used in cultivation.

Pigs are also intelligent creatures which you can make friends with. To make this happen, you simply need to feed any kind of meat to one. The more it eats, the longer it will keep you company (2,5 days, at most).

If, however, you feed to it four pieces of meat that lowers health (Monster Meat, Monster Jerky, Ham Bat or Monster Lasagna), it will turn into a Werepig. This same happens to any pig at full moon.

Werepig are strong and aggressive beasts that attack anything in sight. You can still use the transformation to your advantage. If you are bent on obtaining resources, lure one of the animals away from the others and feed monster meat into it, and then kill as quickly as possible.

Once killed, werepig leaves behind two pieces of Meat and Pig Skin.

How can you profit from the friendship with pigs? First of all, their presence keeps on increasing your sanity levels (+25 per minute). Remember though, that this works only when you are standing close to the animal. Secondly, friendly pigs follow you around, help chop trees and fight. To make them more resistant, you can equip them with any headgear. A Football Helmet is best for this purpose. It is available in the Fight tab. To create it, you are going to need 1x Pig Skin and 1x Rope.

Apart from the pigs, and werepigs, you can also encounter a Pig King lying on the ground. If you give it food during the day, or treasures dug up from graves, you will receive Gold Nuggets in return. All exchangeable items and the size of rewards have been listed in the below table.

Item	Received gold
Any kind of meat except: Monster Meat and Frog Legs	1
Pig Skin, Koalefant Trunk, Winter Koalefant Trunk, Egg, Cooked Egg	1
All items found in graves except: Blue Gem, Red Gem, Nightmare Fueal, Gears, Amulet	2-8