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Pumpkin Seeds
MiscellaneousCraftable

Pumpkin Seeds

A planting item that grows a pumpkin stem on farmland, which then produces pumpkins on adjacent blocks. They are also a food item for chickens.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

Beta 1.8

Item ID

pumpkin_seeds

Pumpkin Seeds at a glance

Miscellaneous hold Pumpkin Seeds: items out of crafting and natural world generation. 64 Pumpkin Seeds fit in a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 3456 in a double chest.

Of the 4 kinds of generated chest that can hold Pumpkin Seeds, taiga village houses are the best bet at about 41% per chest. They sits between Prismarine Shard and Purple Dye in Miscellaneous, number 101 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
PumpkinPumpkin
Pumpkin SeedsPumpkin Seeds4
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting

How to obtain

  • Crafting
  • Natural generation

Notes

Not a block. One pumpkin crafts 4 seeds. Also found in chest loot and by using shears on a pumpkin.

Frequently asked questions about Pumpkin Seeds

  1. Pumpkin going into Pumpkin Seeds, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Pumpkin Seeds in Minecraft?

    Pumpkin Seeds is crafted from Pumpkin at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 4. They also comes from natural world generation, not just the recipe above.

  2. Pumpkin Seeds coming forward out of the past, in the game since Beta 1.8

    When was Pumpkin Seeds added to Minecraft?

    Pumpkin Seeds was added in version Beta 1.8.

  3. 64 Pumpkin Seeds drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Pumpkin Seeds can you stack?

    64 Pumpkin Seeds fill one slot, and filling it costs 16 Pumpkin, since each one returns 4: 16 crafts. A double chest of Pumpkin Seeds comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

  4. A chest beside Pumpkin Seeds, the loot this answer lists

    Where do you find Pumpkin Seeds in chests?

    Pumpkin Seeds is chest loot in taiga village houses (about 41%, 1 to 5 at a time), abandoned mineshaft chests (about 27%, 2 to 4 at a time), dungeon chests (about 19%, 2 to 4 at a time), and woodland mansion chests (about 14%, 2 to 4 at a time). Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

  5. Pumpkin Seeds on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Pumpkin Seeds used for?

    A planting item that grows a pumpkin stem on farmland, which then produces pumpkins on adjacent blocks. They are also a food item for chickens.

Building with it

A pumpkin in the grid gives four seeds, and the stem that grows from them makes a new pumpkin on an adjacent block over and over. That is what makes pumpkins the easiest fully automatic crop in the game, and the pumpkins go on to pies, lanterns and golems.