Pumpkin

For other uses, see Pumpkin (disambiguation).

Pumpkin

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	1
Hardness	1
Luminous	No
Transparent	Partial (blocks light)
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	15 COLOR_ORANGE
Note block instrument	Didgeridoo
Sulfur cube archetype	Fast Flat

A pumpkin is a block found in patches in grassy biomes or grown from pumpkin seeds, which it can also be crafted into. Using shears on a pumpkin carves a face into it and drops pumpkin seeds.

Obtaining

Breaking

Pumpkins can be mined using any tool, but axes are the quickest way.

Block	Pumpkin
Hardness	1
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	11.5 (JE) 1.5 (BE)
Wooden	10.75 (JE) 0.75 (BE)
Stone	10.4 (JE) 0.4 (BE)
Copper	10.3 (JE) 0.3 (BE)
Iron	10.25 (JE) 0.25 (BE)
Diamond	10.2 (JE) 0.2 (BE)
Netherite	10.2 (JE) 0.2 (BE)
Golden	10.15 (JE) 0.15 (BE)
Sword	11 (JE) 1 (BE)
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

When a pumpkin is pushed by a piston, it breaks and drops as an item. It cannot be pulled.

Natural generation

Pumpkins naturally generate with the terrain in most biomes in the Overworld^[1] in the form of random patches. They require only grass blocks with air above (clear of any plants such as flowers or short grass), and can generate regardless whether that grass block has a layer of snow cover. Practically speaking, this means that the occurrence of pumpkins in stony or sandy biomes, or in grassy biomes with few clear grass blocks, is comparatively rare. Each chunk has a ¹⁄₃₂ chance to generate a pumpkin patch, making naturally-generated pumpkins rarer than diamond ore.

Pumpkins naturally generate in stem farm rooms in woodland mansions.

4 pumpkins generate naturally in woolen tents in pillager outposts.

Pumpkins generate naturally as a pile (and in some farms) in taiga and snowy taiga‌^{[BE only]} villages.

Pumpkins also generate in abandoned camps.

Mob loot

An enderman holding a pumpkin drops the block upon death.

In Bedrock Edition, wandering traders have a chance of 25% (increased by 1% per level of Looting) to drop 1 pumpkin when killed while showing the item as trade offer, if the player holds an emerald.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Pumpkin	Shipwreck	Supply chest	1–3	14.4% { "item": "Pumpkin", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.14367923534041638, "structure": "Shipwreck", "container": "Supply chest" }

Trading

Wandering traders may sell a pumpkin for 1 emerald.

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Wandering Trader	Ordinary	6%	6%	Emerald	Pumpkin	4	—	—

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Pumpkin Pie	Pumpkin + Sugar + Any Egg
Pumpkin Seeds	Pumpkin	4

Farming

Pumpkin farming strategies parallel those of melons. Planted pumpkin seeds grow a central stem that, after maturing, generates pumpkins randomly on adjacent vacant dirt-based blocks (dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, grass block, farmland, podzol, mycelium, moss block, pale moss block, mud, or muddy mangrove roots). If a pumpkin is harvested without also cutting the central stalk, another pumpkin generates afterward without requiring replanting or waiting for the stalk to mature again.

Pumpkin stems take around 10 to 30 minutes to fully develop. They require a light level of 9 or higher to grow. Bone meal can also be used on pumpkin stems to become fully-grown, but this does not produce a pumpkin immediately.

Carving

A placed pumpkin can be made into a carved pumpkin by using shears, which drops 4 pumpkin seeds in Java Edition and 1 in Bedrock Edition. The targeted side becomes the face of the carved pumpkin, unless the top or bottom face of the pumpkin are targeted, in which case the carved side is on the side facing the player‌^{[JE only]} or south‌^{[BE only]}.

Trading

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Farmer	Apprentice	67%	100%	6 × Pumpkin	Emerald	12	10	0.05

Composting

Placing a pumpkin or carved pumpkin into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Since both pumpkin variants have equal compost values, carving pumpkins first and composting the additional Pumpkin Seeds can increase Bone Meal yield per pumpkin.

Navigation

Similar to sunflowers, which always face east, the stalk on the top of a pumpkin always points northwest.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

wood sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wood.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.wood.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wood.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wood.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

wood sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.wood	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.wood	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8
	​Axe strips	Blocks	When an axe strips a log or wood block [sound 1]	use.wood	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	1.0	0.8
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.wood	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.23	0.5
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.wood	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.4	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	step.wood	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.3	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.wood	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.12	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.wood	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.18	1.0

Unique

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Pumpkin	pumpkin	Block & Item	enderman_holdable mineable/axe	block.minecraft.pumpkin

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Pumpkin	pumpkin	86	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.pumpkin.name

Block states

Bedrock Edition:

Videos

History

Java Edition

Java Edition Alpha
v1.2.0			preview				Added pumpkins, which are always carved.
							Un-carved pumpkins currently exist as invalid metadata states of pumpkins.
Java Edition
1.8			14w26a				Un-carved pumpkins have been removed due to the replacement of block metadata with block states.
1.13			17w47a				Un-carved pumpkins have been reintroduced as the default variant.
							Shearing a pumpkin now turns it into a carved pumpkin, and drops 4 pumpkin seeds.
							Pumpkins can now be placed without a block beneath them.
			18w11a				Pumpkins now sometimes generate in shipwreck chests.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of pumpkins have been changed.
			18w47a				Pumpkins can now generate in pillager outpost tents.
			18w50a				Pumpkins can now generate in taiga villages.
			19w03a				Placing any pumpkin into the new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
			19w05a				Pumpkins now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
							Added wandering traders, which sell pumpkins.
			19w09a				Pumpkin can now be used to play the didgeridoo, if they are under note blocks.
			19w11a				Farmer villagers now buy 6 pumpkins for 1 emerald.
1.17			21w11a				Changed the top texture of pumpkins.[2]
1.18			pre5				The generation of pumpkins are about 6 times more common than in previous snapshots.
26.2			snap1				Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb pumpkins, providing the golf ball/fast flat effect to the mob.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
October 15, 2013							Johan Bernhardsson announces pumpkins for 0.8.0.
v0.8.0			build 1				Added pumpkins, which are always carved.
v0.9.0			build 1				Pumpkins now generate naturally.
v0.12.1			build 1				Snow golems now spawn wearing a pumpkin, which can be removed with shears.
							Pumpkins can now be used to make iron golems.
v0.14.0			build 1				Pumpkins can now be worn as armor.
Pocket Edition
1.0.4			alpha 1.0.4.0				Pumpkins can now be sold to farmer villagers, at 8–13 pumpkins for 1 emerald.
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Pumpkins now generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				The textures of pumpkins have been changed; they no longer look carved.
							Shearing a pumpkin now turns it into a carved pumpkin, and drops 1 pumpkin seeds.
							Pumpkins can be found inside shipwreck chests.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of pumpkins have been changed.
							Pumpkins now generate in pillager outpost tents, taiga villages and snowy taiga villages.
							Pumpkins can now be bought from wandering traders.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Pumpkins can now be used to fill up composters.
			beta 1.11.0.4				Farmer villagers now buy 6 pumpkins for one emerald.
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.9				Pumpkin can now be used to play the didgeridoo, if they are under note blocks.
1.16.0			beta 1.15.0.51				Pumpkins can now be placed without a block beneath them.
1.20.30			Preview 1.20.30.21				Added unique sounds for using shears to carve pumpkins.
1.21.30			Preview 1.21.30.21				Iron golems can no longer be created with un-carved pumpkins.
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.23				Pumpkins now generate in larger patches.
26.20 Experiment Drop 2 of 2026			Preview 26.20.23				Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb pumpkins, providing the golf ball/fast flat effect to the mob.
26.30			Preview 26.30.20				Implemented all features from the "Drop 2 of 2026" experiment in vanilla gameplay.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU0	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added pumpkins, which are always carved.
TU5							Pumpkins can now grow onto dirt instead of only farmland.
							Pumpkins grow from stems much faster.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Added un-carved pumpkins.
							Shearing a pumpkin now turns it into a carved pumpkin, and drops 1 pumpkin seeds.
							Pumpkins can now be found inside shipwreck chests.
			1.90				The texture of pumpkins have been slightly changed.
			1.91				Added wandering traders, which sell pumpkins.
							Pumpkins now generate in pillager outpost tents, taiga villages and snowy taiga villages.
							Farmer villagers now buy 6 pumpkins for one emerald.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Pumpkin" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  A group of pumpkins
• 
  A screenshot of a pumpkin on a stem
• 
  A floating pumpkin due to ponds being generated after the rest of the terrain
• 
  A group of pumpkins generated in a snowy tundra
• 
  Pumpkins in a jungle
• 
  Naturally spawning pumpkins in a village
• 
  A pumpkin patch in a windswept hills biome
• 
  A pumpkin generated on top of grass
• 
  A pumpkin patch in a field
• 
  A pumpkin patch on a mountaintop

In other media

• 
  Mobs in a pumpkin patch
• 
  A pumpkin as seen in Minecraft: Story Mode
• 
  A White Pumpkin as it appears in Minecraft: Story Mode

References