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Discover where to find pumpkins in Minecraft, how to farm them efficiently, and the many creative ways to use them.
Did you know that naturally generated pumpkins in Minecraft are rarer than diamond ore? Thankfully, unlike diamonds, once you find even one pumpkin or its seeds, you can have an infinite supply. The winter squash may be an elusive find in the game, but it has several important roles to play, from expanding your culinary options to providing home security in the form of golems.
Here’s how to find, farm, and use pumpkins to their full potential.
Where To Find Pumpkins in Minecraft?
Pumpkins have a small chance of generating randomly in nearly any biome. However, running around the world looking for one isn’t the best solution. Instead, here are some map areas where you have a higher chance of finding one:
- Wandering Traders: These colorful merchants are accompanied by two llamas and may have a pumpkin to sell you for one emerald.
- Pillager Outpost: A dangerous location to visit, pillager outposts often have 4 pumpkins in woolen tents.
- Villages: Some villages can have a pile of pumpkins instead of a pile of hay or melons.
- Woodland Mansions: Stem farm rooms in woodland mansions have a high probability of containing pumpkins.
- Shipwrecks: Major landmarks near the coast, shipwrecks have a one-in-seven chance to contain a pumpkin in their supply chests.
You may find pumpkin seeds in dungeon, mineshaft, or woodland mansion chests.
How To Farm Pumpkins?
Once you have at least one pumpkin or pumpkin seed, you can start a pumpkin farm. Place a pumpkin in a crafting grid to get pumpkin seeds or carve it using shears.
- Till dirt with a hoe using right-click (use button) to turn it into farmland.
- Dig a hole nearby and place water in it using a bucket. This will turn your farmland into hydrated farmland soon.
- Hold pumpkin seeds in your hand and place them in tilled farmland by right-clicking on it.
- Ensure each seed has an empty dirt or farmland block next to it, as pumpkins grow on adjacent blocks, not the block their stem is planted on.
- Use bone meal to speed up stem growth.
- Once the stem is fully grown, it will produce a pumpkin in an adjacent block.
- Harvest the pumpkin, preferably using an axe.
- The pumpkin stem will continue to periodically produce pumpkins without needing to be replanted.
Tip: Fence the farm to prevent any mobs from treading on the farmland and turning it back into regular dirt.
How To Use Pumpkins in Minecraft?
will drop four pumpkin seeds
Pumpkins have a surprising number of uses that increase further once you turn them into carved pumpkins. To make a carved pumpkin, place a pumpkin on the ground and right-click (use button) it with shears. This will produce 4 pumpkin seeds and give you a carved pumpkin.
Note: Each of these images belong to Mojang Studios.
Here are all the uses for pumpkins and carved pumpkins in Minecraft:
- Snow Golem: Stack two snow blocks vertically and place a carved pumpkin on top. Try using the shears on the golem’s head to reveal its hilarious face. Snow golems will take damage in hot biomes and rain.
- Iron Golem: Place iron blocks in a “T” as demonstrated in the picture above and add a carved pumpkin on top.
- Jack o’Lanterns: Place a torch below a carved pumpkin in the crafting grid to create a themed light source that works underwater as well.
- Helmet: You can wear a carved pumpkin as a helmet. In addition to giving you a spooky look, it will prevent Endermen from becoming hostile when you look at them.
- Pumpkin Pie: Crafted using a pumpkin, sugar, and an egg—great for restoring hunger.
- Trading: Farmers at apprentice level will often buy pumpkins in exchange for emeralds.
- Bone Meal: You can add excess pumpkins and pumpkin seeds into a composter to farm bone meal.
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