Pigman

A Pigman is a Pig in a humanoid form. Although currently not implemented into the game, their skin can be found within the game files, and their counterpart, Zombie Pigmen, have been part of The Nether since the Minecraft Alpha 1.2.0 Halloween Update. They have the same dimensions as the player. No coding is present within the game to spawn them.

History
Minecraft user Miclee came up the idea for Pigmen. He was given the Bacon Cape as a reward, but when Notch was asked for personal capes by other users, the Bacon Cape was taken away from Miclee to prevent further commotion.

Notch mentioned April 25th, 2011 that he might add Pigmen as NPC Villages' townspeople. In Beta 1.9 Pre-releases, a different Villager mob was introduced.

Regular pig models were changed in Beta 1.8 to have a protruding snout. Whether this will be applied to Pigmen or Zombie Pigmen in the future is unknown, although possibly unlikely due to them sharing the same shape as Zombie Pigmen, Giants, Zombies, Humans, and Players.

The only way to show a Pigman in-game is by the use of mods for now. The Pigman in the mod acts like the player-with some exceptions. When killed, Pigmen drop raw porkchop, or it could possibly not, according in which mod your using. It does not pick entities up, nor reacts to any of them, It just simply walks around, being aware to it's enviroment. In some mods, the pigman can be breeded, with wheat (with carrots in older versions of mods). In the mod, the pigman also makes the same sounds as the regular pig mob. It walks at the same speed as the player, and like all passive mobs, it runs away when hit.

According to mods, some users modified them to compete with players. When modified at this state, they can collect blocks, place blocks, craft items, ect. But this also creates a griefing mob, unless it doesn't destroy player-created structures. However, since they have never been added in-game, the Pigman will never exist until something happens at minecon or Jeb decides to add Pigman in-game.

Trivia



 * The model used in the source is called a "Biped". A lot of other models use this as a base, such as the Creeper model.
 * If you can find the skin file in your minecraft.jar, you can wear the Pigman skin like any other skin.
 * In the 2nd Skin Pack for the Xbox 360 Edition, a Pigman is a selectable character.