In a future Minecraft release that's now in testing, you won't need to hunt or fish for a saddle, as it's finally going to be an item you can just craft.
Yeah I never really understood why they weren’t craftable. It’s not an overpowered item in any way, and a leather-based recipe makes perfect sense. Now if only they’d make horse armor craftable too…
At the start, horses didn’t exist. But saddles did. Why? Because pigs can use saddles too. You couldn’t even direct them, you’d just be on top of them while they wandered on their own.
Saddles weren’t a tool, they were just a fun useless toy. Which makes sense you couldn’t craft them. It was just a silly reward for finding a dungeon.
Then they introduced horses, which used the same saddles, but forgot why they weren’t craftable in the first place.
EDIT: they did have a use. It was for the achievement of falling to death from a pig. Which makes it make extra-sense it being uncraftable. That is, until they introduced horses.
As I said in the comment. You couldn’t direct the pigs back then. There weren’t carrots in a stick. There weren’t even carrots. Saddles are very old items.
It’s basically what calcopiritus said, they were kind of pointless back then. Already a sign of adding fluff for the sake of fluff, instead of integrating it with the rest of the gameplay.
Yeah I never really understood why they weren’t craftable. It’s not an overpowered item in any way, and a leather-based recipe makes perfect sense. Now if only they’d make horse armor craftable too…
At the start, horses didn’t exist. But saddles did. Why? Because pigs can use saddles too. You couldn’t even direct them, you’d just be on top of them while they wandered on their own.
Saddles weren’t a tool, they were just a fun useless toy. Which makes sense you couldn’t craft them. It was just a silly reward for finding a dungeon.
Then they introduced horses, which used the same saddles, but forgot why they weren’t craftable in the first place.
EDIT: they did have a use. It was for the achievement of falling to death from a pig. Which makes it make extra-sense it being uncraftable. That is, until they introduced horses.
You can also lead pigs around with a carrot on a stick (carrot + fishing rod), but I don’t know if that was always an option or added later
As I said in the comment. You couldn’t direct the pigs back then. There weren’t carrots in a stick. There weren’t even carrots. Saddles are very old items.
It’s basically what calcopiritus said, they were kind of pointless back then. Already a sign of adding fluff for the sake of fluff, instead of integrating it with the rest of the gameplay.