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Easy Piggy Nibbling Video

Many of you have seen the threads where people have posted a technique involving setting a horde of pigs to a 'Very Tight' Piggy Stick configuration. However, I also noticed that some have found the explanations confusing and may not have fully comprehended the idea behind this technique.

Therefore, I have created a video to demonstrate its use. Pick 720p or 1080p from the 'gear' looking button under the video for best readability and quality, if you have at least a half-decent computer/connection.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGK...

Keep these things in mind.

* Piggy Stick *MUST* be set to "Very Tight". If not, the pig order will constantly change.
* You must stand in the center of the piggies, where the stick is.
* Do not spam Enter too quickly, or else you will hit the tree instead or sometimes the pig you just petted or nibbled may not show up in the list, causing a temporary shift (which could lead to unwanted actions). The latter issue is likely a bug.
* If you accidentally interact with a fully used up pig, you can stop yourself with ESC key or very lightly tapping the sky directly above your character to clear unwanted rename or feeding boxes or stuck menus.

Alternate method: If you move with WASD keys and can reach the 'n' key easily with the same hand, you could press W T enter W T enter W N enter W N enter with the mouse in the correct position to do this same technique, and will often avoid the risk of feeding. However it can be annoying in other ways.

Posted 6 months ago by Lorraine ♪ Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • You should just eat them instead. More productive.
    Posted 6 months ago by OMG BACON!! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Great video!, who's singing?  I love the version of the song
    Posted 6 months ago by Princess Zircon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It's a dubstep by Glebstar called Major Tom. Nice little song.
    Posted 6 months ago by Lorraine ♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Once upon a time in the land called Ur there were Free Range Piggies and all was right with the World and Humbaba, the Giant of Walking Creatures was pleased.

    One day a Walking Creature (a Glitch, if you must know) imagined and invented a Magic Stick.  This in itself was a miracle because only the Giants can Imagine things.  This Magic Stick could control piggies.  This, in the beginning, seemed a very good thing because until the Stick, the piggies got into gardens and ate crops and made it hard for Glitches to plant and harvest.  All were happy except maybe Humbaba himself who was not crazy about this idea.  After all, Humbaba imagined and created piggies to be Free Range creatures.

    One day there was an "improvement" made to the Stick.  Now the Magic Stick could control piggies even better than before.  Now piggies could be confined into a very small area and all could be petted and harvested much faster.

    Now Humbaba became very worried.  You see, he had also imagined and created Butterfly and Chicken Sticks too and (oh the horror) those Sticks were also "improved".  What could he do?  This could change the entire Universe and the Giants could not stop it!  What will happen next?  Rapid harvests?  Water falling from the skies?  Endless Zilloween?  We, and the Giants, can only wait and see.
    Posted 6 months ago by Brib Annie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Forgot to mention: in the video, there's a reason I zoomed out before nibbling. It places the pigs, and therefore their popup menus, a little lower on the screen than where the selectors appear. It helps avoid your mouse being over 'feed' or 'capture' when doing this.
    Posted 6 months ago by Lorraine ♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Lorraine, would you mind if I posted this at the Bitchin' Glitchen Gazette? Your video is unlisted, so I wanted to be sure it would be okay with you, first.
    Posted 5 months ago by Abby Cadabra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh go right ahead Abby. :) It's unlisted because it probably wouldn't make sense to the rest of the world (the non-glitch playing world, that is) Don't need the rest of the world making dumb comments about a game they don't understand, since to an outside, this would appear like a kiddie game or such. Besides, if someone was interested in playing-- they can't right now.
    Posted 5 months ago by Lorraine ♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I do the exact same thing when I see a chicken horde. Just stand there and mash enter.
    Posted 5 months ago by le beebs Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Princess Zircon
    Specifically, it's a remix of the "Major Tom" cover by Shiny Toy Guns:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9OSXsB946k
    Posted 5 months ago by Impspindle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @le beebs: this is a tad different. unlike chicken mashing, positioning your mouse cursor and watching which actions just transpired is important. With chickens the order is constantly changing and there's no consequence for overinteracting with a chicken, you just get a harmless 'you have no eggs' message. This method, the order of pigs never changes so you can hit enter 4 times, move mouse, hit enter 4 times, move mouse.. etc.
    Posted 5 months ago by Lorraine ♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm confused by your "with chickens the order is constantly changing" statement. In my backyard, I do the exact same thing with my chickens that you've done with the pigs in the video (and that I do with my piggies as well). The order for my chickens does not change so long as they are also in a very tight radius. Is this somehow different for everyone else?
    Posted 5 months ago by foolbunny Subscriber! | Permalink
  • things would be so much easier if nibbled piggies just went to the back
    Posted 5 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Or if they went into flight mode for 5 minutes with the help of a potion or something, I guess. (The price of meat would rise on auction, should it be abused.)
    Posted 5 months ago by Rook Subscriber! | Permalink
  • again... simpler if they went to the back.... I don't know why we need such a painful rigamarole to nibble piggies.

    it's obviously easy for some, but I just want to click 'em and I can't
    Posted 5 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I agree shhexy corin. It would be easier if we could just click em and not have to fight the awkward and cumbersome UI to get them all.

    The worst is when someone puts 40 pigs on a stick, but does NOT set it to very tight. It's a nightmare because you can't use my video method NOR regular clicking to get them. Basically, if you tie a lot of pigs to a stick without using very tight radius, you just made your army of pigs impossible to nibble past about the 7 or 8 that you see in front.

    Nibbled piggies going to the back would be swell. I also posted ideas in the idea forum about perhaps making fully nibbled pigs (and milked butterflies and fully squeezed chickens) turn grey in the selector panel, too.
    Posted 5 months ago by Lorraine ♪ Subscriber! | Permalink