Guides

PigWars guides

Everything you need to know before you send a pig to war. All of it comes straight from the game's rules.

Getting started

Your first pig, step by step: stats, skills, your first battle and how to deal with permadeath.

The eight stats

What Strength, Health, Intelligence, Agility, Vision, Aura, Will and Empathy actually change in a fight.

How pigs decide

Every action a pig can take, what unlocks it and why it chooses it.

Epithets

The fourteen titles a pig can earn and the exact conditions behind each.

Skin Studio

Make a clothing skin in your browser: garment, colour, texture, images, and how to submit it.

Community skins

How a skin goes from review to the collection: votes, reports and removal.

Community maps

Design a battlefield, send it for review, win 500 likes and earn 200 truffles.

Truffles

The in-game currency: what you earn, what it buys, and what authors get.

The six garments

What each garment covers, which go together, and how to design for it.

Skin ideas

Thirty outfits with recipes, from bacon stripes to a very polite long coat.

The wardrobe

Custom outfits, props, garment looks and the community shop.

FAQ

Short answers about the game, the skins and the truffles.

Looking for the full skill list and personas? See Pigs & Skills. New to the idea? Read how the game works.

Keep reading

The Game

How PigWars works: build, fight, lose.

The Sow

Where the piglets come from.

Enough theory. Lose a pig.

PigWars is free and runs in your browser.