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!!