What foods do pigs eat in Minecraft?

Exactly three: carrots, potatoes and beetroot. Holding any of them makes pigs follow you, and feeding two adults puts them in love mode so they breed.

Where is the easiest place to find pig food?

Village farms. Plains villages can grow carrots, potatoes and beetroot all in one place. Carrots and potatoes also appear in shipwreck and pillager outpost chests.

How do I get beetroot seeds in Minecraft?

Beetroot seeds are found in chests in dungeons, mineshafts, end cities, woodland mansions and trail ruins. Once you harvest a mature beetroot crop, it drops seeds for replanting.

Can you tame a pig in Minecraft?

No. Pigs cannot be tamed or kept as pets. You can ride one with a saddle and steer it using a carrot on a stick.

What Do Pigs Eat in Minecraft? (Breeding Food Guide)

Pigs are one of Minecraft's original farm animals, and their menu is refreshingly short. Three vegetables do everything: lure them, breed them, and speed up piglets. The catch is that one of the three is much rarer than the others, so knowing where each food comes from saves a lot of wandering.

What Pigs Eat: The Full List

Carrots
Potatoes
Beetroot

That is the entire list. Unlike some animals, pigs are not picky beyond it — wheat, seeds and other crops do nothing. If a pig ignores what you are holding, you are holding the wrong vegetable.

Where to Find Pig Food

Village farms

The fastest start is a village. Plains villages are the best bet because their farm plots can grow all three crops at once; other village types usually carry one or two of them. Harvest what you need, but replant a few — a village farm you keep alive is a food supply that regrows itself.

Chests and mob drops

Carrots and potatoes also turn up in shipwreck and pillager outpost chests, and in some village chests. Zombies, husks and zombie villagers occasionally drop a carrot or a potato when killed — a Looting sword improves the odds, though it is never a reliable farm.

The beetroot problem

Beetroot is the awkward one. Pigs eat the beetroot itself, but to grow more you need beetroot seeds, and those hide in chests inside dungeons, mineshafts, end cities, woodland mansions and trail ruins. If you find seeds early, plant them before you feed them away — one harvest turns a rare drop into a permanent crop.

Growing Your Own Pig Food

Once you have a starter supply, farming removes the problem forever. Till dirt with a hoe next to water so the farmland stays hydrated, then plant:

Carrots and potatoes plant as themselves — hold back a few from every harvest to replant.
Beetroot plants from seeds, which drop when you break a fully grown beetroot crop.

Harvest with a Fortune-enchanted tool to raise your yields, and a modest 9×9 plot produces more pig food than a herd can eat.

How to Feed and Breed Pigs

Hold a carrot, potato or beetroot and nearby pigs will turn and follow you — the standard way to lead them into a pen.
Use the food on an adult pig and heart particles appear: it has entered love mode.
Feed a second adult the same way. The two meet, and a piglet is born.
Babies take about 20 minutes to grow up. Feeding a piglet its foods speeds up the wait.

Things Pigs Will Not Do

Pigs cannot be tamed — feeding never makes one your pet. What you can do is ride one: put a saddle on a pig and steer it with a carrot on a stick. It is slower than a horse and considerably sillier, but it works.

A final curiosity for Nether explorers: hoglins, the Nether's tusked answer to pigs, are hostile and cannot be tamed either — but they can be bred, using crimson fungi. Keep your carrots for the Overworld herd.