Umbrella

An umbrella is an object used in Bad Piggies. It increases the Air resistance of your vehicle, in other words, decrease the velocity of your vehicle from the opposite direction it is facing, if opened.

The Black Umbrella as they appear in the game.

Black and Yellow

The Umbrella currently has only two types:

• Black Umbrella(Manual)
• Yellow Umbrella(Automatical)

Black Umbrellas cannot be powered by any kind of Motor but Freckles himself can open and close the umbrella by clicking/tapping it on the contraption or the button below the screen. The use of the umbrella is to decrease the velocity of the contraption of the opposite ways the umbrella is pointing(e.g. if your vehicle is falling downwards and the umbrella is pointing upwards, opening it will slow it down).

Yellow Umbrellas can be powered by any kind of Motor and the Pig himself but it's main purpose is to move the vehicle instead of slowing it down(although the black umbrella can do the same by repeatingly tap/click on it's button). Unlike the black umbrella, it also rapidly opens and closes, making the vehicle move to where it is pointing.

Appearance

The umbrella first appeared in When Pigs Fly, and in the Sandbox bonus levels including Field of Dreams.

Tips

• Always remember, the umbrellas force will pull it back where it is pointing. 

• Umbrellas will decrease speed but not change the direction.

• With high enough speed, you may be able to make a glider-airplane design, however, this is risky as your contraption may take a 360 or a 180 turn. however, if done sucessfully, it can be extremely powerful.

• Only do this if the umbrellas point of balance is in the middle, or 2 umbrellas are positioned so it will not break the point of balance (basically balancing it if you thought of it as a scale).

• The only known way to make an airplane without any airplane parts (tail, propeller, wing) is done with yellow and black umbrellas, however, to control it is extremely difficult.