Pickable Piglins [Fabric]
Piglins are some of the most frustrating and fascinating mobs in Minecraft. They guard bastion remnants, throw gold at you for bartering, and turn hostile the second you mine a block of gold nearby. Wouldn't it be convenient if you could simply pick one up and carry it home like a pet? That is exactly what Pickable Piglins [Fabric] delivers. This lightweight quality-of-life mod lets you scoop Piglins into item form, transport them safely, and release them wherever you need a trading partner.
What Pickable Piglins [Fabric] Does
At its core, the mod gives you the ability to pick up living Piglins and keep them as items in your inventory. Once captured, you can place them back down in the Nether, the Overworld, or anywhere else your build demands. It is a simple concept that opens up a surprising number of possibilities for farms, trading halls, and decoration projects.
There are a few sensible restrictions to keep things balanced. Piglins that are already dead or more than four blocks away cannot be grabbed. Picking one up also costs experience, two levels by default, so mass collection still requires some investment. Baby Piglins cannot be picked up unless you change that in the configuration file, which makes the mod flexible for players who want a stricter or looser experience.
How to Pick Up and Place a Piglin
- Sneak and right-click a Piglin to capture it instantly.
- Alternatively, press the key shortcut, which defaults to G.
- Place the Piglin item down to release the mob at your chosen spot.
- Adjust the experience cost, baby Piglin behavior, and other options through the config.
The Barter Block
Version 2.1.0 introduced the Barter Block, and it is the feature that turns this mod from a novelty into a genuinely useful automation tool. The block lets you auto-trade with Piglins by inserting them directly into it. Each Barter Block holds up to four Piglins at once, and the number of items produced per operation scales with how many are inside.
Each bartering cycle takes 240 ticks, roughly twelve seconds. You can fully automate the process by feeding gold ingots into the top and extracting the results from the bottom. If all four output slots are full, bartering pauses until you clear space. If the input runs empty, it halts as well. Adding or removing a Piglin resets the timer, and breaking the block drops everything inside, including the Piglins themselves.
Using the Barter Block
- Right-click the block with a Piglin item to insert it.
- Sneak and right-click with an empty hand to remove a Piglin.
- Right-click normally to open the block's graphical interface.
- Pipe gold ingots in from above and pull loot out from below for a hands-free gold farm.
If you would rather skip manual file management entirely, the foxygame.net launcher offers a one-click install path for Pickable Piglins [Fabric], pulling the correct build straight into your mod profile. Its add-on catalog also tracks version compatibility automatically, so you spend less time matching jars and more time building your bartering hall.
Supported Versions and Loader
Pickable Piglins [Fabric] is built for the Fabric loader, as the name suggests, and it is actively maintained for Minecraft 1.21.1 and 26.1.2. Because it relies on Fabric rather than Forge or NeoForge, you will need Fabric API installed alongside it. The mod is designed to be lightweight and has no known incompatibilities so far, though the developer welcomes reports if you discover a conflict with another add-on.
How to Install Pickable Piglins [Fabric] for Minecraft
Getting started is straightforward. First, make sure Fabric is installed for your game version. Next, download Pickable Piglins [Fabric] from a trusted source and drop the jar file into your mods folder. Launch the game through the Fabric profile, and the mod will load automatically. If you want to tweak experience costs or enable baby Piglin pickup, open the config file generated in your config directory after the first launch.
For players running servers, the mod works on both client and server, so everyone needs it installed for the full experience. Once set up, you can build compact Piglin storage rooms, relocate traders without risk of them despawning, and design bartering stations that run while you are off exploring.
Final Thoughts
Pickable Piglins [Fabric] solves a small but genuinely annoying problem in Minecraft and adds a clever automation block on top of it. Whether you want to ferry a Piglin across dimensions or build a fully automatic gold-to-loot farm, this mod handles it cleanly. If you enjoy quality-of-life tweaks that respect vanilla balance, this one is well worth adding to your Fabric mod list.