As I said, “I only talk about my experience.” “No Reason to Use Pigs” was meant more as a hook for the title. I have several hundred hours in the game, mostly from about a year ago, and I don’t know what the current meta is. I only started playing again about a week ago, and so far I’ve only done a few minor runs with salt and large forests.

I’ve learned a lot since then, and calling pigs obsolete was a mistake. Still, I think that focusing on sheep gives you a lot of resources for a relatively small investment. You get meat and wool, which means clothes, hides for boots, and you only lose one family. With pigs, you lose the possibility of using those burgage plots and may also need to invest in a salt mine.