Topic

Stirrups

Assuming that we will have both fabric and metalworking, I propose we be able to create one of mankind's most profound simple tools - the stirrup.  

Glitches with fabric and metalworking skills can make stirrups with spurs.   Glitches who have a sufficient level of animal kinship and who are carrying a pair of stirrups will find an additional menu item on piggies -- 'Mount'.  

Once mounted, piggie riders can proceed through the landscape at 1.3 times normal walking pace.  They cannot harvest from pigback.  The spurs allow small to moderate jumps, but ladders and stone steps will not be navigable.    

Once mounted on a piggie, the user menu will contain a 'Dismount' entry. 

YeeHaw!   Who's with me!!

Posted 8 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • me. this sound perfectly Glitchy.
    Posted 8 months ago by Kookaburra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yep!
    Posted 8 months ago by Carl Projectorinski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hahahaha! This idea is perfect!
    Posted 8 months ago by starrkittyface Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would dearly enjoy creating stirrups to ride a piggy. Though my preference is generally to ride sidesaddle.
    Posted 8 months ago by Voluptua Sneezelips Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So. Awesome.
    Posted 8 months ago by EightBitBlonde Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sidesaddle.  Right.  However you like, Dear. 
    Posted 8 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *insert Queen wave here*

    In seriousness, though, I think this idea could be used to great effect if we were able to have piggy races. Can you imagine the brilliant ridiculousness of a bunch of glitchen all leaping onto their mounts and racing piggyback along a street or series of streets? We could keep a racing pig stabled at our homes and trotter them out (har har) for the monthly running of the Giants' Plate (or suitable object).
    Posted 8 months ago by Voluptua Sneezelips Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ Voluptua Sneezelips, You win ALL the awards. Such a fantastic idea, not to mention funny. Little trophies and ribbons for winning Piggy races would look cute in houses too!
    Posted 8 months ago by EightBitBlonde Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you for the compliment! You've inspired something else, which neatly ties this back to WalruZ' suggestion. For winning races, you get ribbons you can display on walls, and when you win a set number of races...the Molybdenum Stirrup trophy.
    Posted 8 months ago by Voluptua Sneezelips Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I want to ride the piggies!
    Ah, to feel their porcine muscles moving beneath my saddle, propelling me on to my destiny!
    'Twould be a brilliant thing!

    L~Bp
    Posted 8 months ago by Lord Briarphart Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 if you also allow us to feed piggy spinach for appropriate bounding ability.
    +2 if you allow us to feed piggy rainbow potion for rocket-like forward acceleration.
    +3 if you allow piggy to momentarily sprout wings.
    +4 if you let us ride our piggies in Toxic Moon antigravity wells.
    Posted 8 months ago by CrashTestPilot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    Posted 8 months ago by Rook Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hope it is in development already, if not, I'd like to see it.
    Posted 8 months ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • haha i like this idea +1000000000000
    Posted 8 months ago by Misty Power Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Even better, if you're carrying Stirrups, other Glitches would have a menu choice called "Mount".   :) 
    Posted 8 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • LOL WalruZ...love it! Hilarious and so very, very *wrong*. What a surprise *that* would be! Minding one's own business, forgetting one has stirrups, and then suddenly one has a rider! It'd have to be opt-in, and there would need to be a suitable companion command for the recipient, like "buck", to get someone off one's back.

    I'm quite certain that someone, somewhere, would create an alt named "I Have Stirrups". :D
    Posted 8 months ago by Voluptua Sneezelips Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think I want to ride foxes or sloths instead of piggies.  Or better yet, butterflies.
    Posted 8 months ago by KhaKhonsu Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I want to ride piggies! Great idea!
    Posted 8 months ago by Mocha Maid Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oooh, riding piggies sounds like fun!
    Posted 8 months ago by Kouki Sangoma Subscriber! | Permalink
  • yaaaaayyyyyy
    Posted 7 months ago by Misty Power Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Still an awesome idea ;)
    Posted 7 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes to the idea and every other idea in the comments. Let the piggy races begin!
    Posted 7 months ago by Aglet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm having flashbacks to my first pig saddle in Minecraft!  I hope Glitch piggies would be better behaved.
    Posted 7 months ago by Lucille Ball Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    Posted 7 months ago by Golden Apple Subscriber! | Permalink
  • first you want to nibble and now you want to ride .... oh  my those poor poor piggies. :D  next you will want to glue wings on to them.

    Savages!
    Posted 7 months ago by Thursday Soleil Subscriber! | Permalink