Talk:Pig House/@comment-71.178.102.77-20150704202023

I don't have definitive confirmation of this, but I think the pigs spawning from houses works both ways. That is, if a pig becomes homeless due to the house getting destroyed for whatever reason, if it survives long enough, it appears to eventually build a new house.

I had some pigs that were displaced during some attacks at my village from various giant seasonal bosses. Some time later I found at least 1 more house than before in the small forest nearby. I can only imagine it must be the pigs building a new one.

The main thing is the homeless pig must survive long enough for a new house to be built, so this is hard to confirm. I'll assume that the new house may take the same 4 days that it takes a new pig to respawn from an empty house. A homeless pig will turn into a werepig at night, so a player won't be able to stay near it often to observe. Then there's all the other wandering dangers it can run into, such as spiders. You have no control over where it goes, it's only generally safe around other pigs, but it would be hard to keep track of which one it is and impossible to control where it goes. Perhaps someone can help with confirming this?