How do you get Pumpkin in Minecraft?

Pumpkin is obtained through mining, Pumpkin from natural world generation, and Pumpkin from farming. It is not craftable, but it is an ingredient in 2 recipes.

Where do you find Pumpkin in chests?

Pumpkin is chest loot in one place and one only: shipwreck supply chests (about 14%, 1 to 3 at a time). No other generated chest lists it, so that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.

How long does Pumpkin take to break?

What Pumpkin comes down to is 1 against a tool on it and 1 against a blast. Equal values mean Pumpkin was never built as a blast wall, whatever else it is good for. The tool tag on Pumpkin is an axe, with no tier requirement behind it. Java 26.2 lists Pumpkin exactly this way, which is how it is printed here.

How many Pumpkin can you stack?

Pumpkin at 64 a slot, and Pumpkin Pie takes 1 per craft, so a full slot is 64 Pumpkin Pie with nothing left over. A double chest of Pumpkin comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

When was Pumpkin added to Minecraft?

Pumpkin was added in version Beta 1.8.

What is Pumpkin used for?

Pumpkin is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Pumpkin Pie and Pumpkin Seeds.

Utility Blocks

Pumpkin

A naturally generating crop block that can be carved with shears into a carved pumpkin. It is used to build snow golems and iron golems and to craft pumpkin pie.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Pumpkin at a glance

Pumpkin, a block out of mining, natural world generation, and farming, sits under Utility Blocks. A slot of Pumpkin holds 64, nine slots hold 576, and 1728 fill a chest.

Pumpkin additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Pumpkin Pie and Pumpkin Seeds. Hardness 1 is what Pumpkin is worth in the block data. The tool tag on Pumpkin is an axe, with no tier requirement behind it. Mining Pumpkin and blowing it up both run into 1. Generated chests only ever hold Pumpkin in one place: shipwreck supply chests (about 14%, 1 to 3 at a time). It sits between Prismarine Bricks and Purple Banner in Utility Blocks, number 252 of 340 there.

Used to craft

2 items take Pumpkin on the crafting grid, Pumpkin Pie and Pumpkin Seeds among them, with Food accounting for 1. Each link below opens that recipe with Pumpkin in the grid.

How to obtain

Mining
Natural generation
Farming

Notes

Grows from a pumpkin stem planted with pumpkin seeds. Using shears on it yields a carved pumpkin and 4 pumpkin seeds.

Frequently asked questions about Pumpkin

How do you get Pumpkin in Minecraft?
Pumpkin is obtained through mining, Pumpkin from natural world generation, and Pumpkin from farming. It is not craftable, but it is an ingredient in 2 recipes.
Where do you find Pumpkin in chests?
Pumpkin is chest loot in one place and one only: shipwreck supply chests (about 14%, 1 to 3 at a time). No other generated chest lists it, so that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.
How long does Pumpkin take to break?
What Pumpkin comes down to is 1 against a tool on it and 1 against a blast. Equal values mean Pumpkin was never built as a blast wall, whatever else it is good for. The tool tag on Pumpkin is an axe, with no tier requirement behind it. Java 26.2 lists Pumpkin exactly this way, which is how it is printed here.
How many Pumpkin can you stack?
Pumpkin at 64 a slot, and Pumpkin Pie takes 1 per craft, so a full slot is 64 Pumpkin Pie with nothing left over. A double chest of Pumpkin comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.
When was Pumpkin added to Minecraft?
Pumpkin was added in version Beta 1.8.
What is Pumpkin used for?
Pumpkin is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Pumpkin Pie and Pumpkin Seeds.

Building with it

Pumpkins grow on farmland-adjacent blocks and can be sheared into a carved pumpkin, which is the head for a snow golem, an iron golem or a player who wants to look at endermen safely. Uncarved they craft into pumpkin pie and into seeds for a farm that never needs replanting.

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