The carved pumpkin must be placed last or the golem does not spawn. Snow golems require snow blocks for their bodies, while iron golems require iron blocks. It can also place the carved pumpkin as a block, if a snow or iron golem can be spawned after the pumpkin is placed.Ĭarved pumpkins can be used to make snow golems and iron golems as shown below. ‌ Ī player wearing a carved pumpkin does not aggravate endermen when looking at them.ĭispensers can equip a carved pumpkin on a player, mob or armor stand with an empty helmet slot, within the block the dispenser is facing. It also doesn't appear when the heads-up display is disabled by pressing F1. The pattern does not appear when using the third-person view (toggled by F5 by default).

When worn, it limits the player's viewing area to a mask pattern that resembles the pumpkin's carved face.

Bone meal can be used on pumpkin stems to become fully-grown, but this does not produce a pumpkin immediately.Ī carved pumpkin can be equipped as a helmet without any actual armor value. They require a light level of 9 or higher to grow. Pumpkin stems take around 10 to 30 minutes to fully develop. If a carved pumpkin is desired, simply use the shears on the pumpkin on the ground, and then harvest it as normal. 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. 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, mud or muddy mangrove roots). Pumpkin farming strategies parallel those of melons. Main article: Tutorials/Pumpkin and melon farming When placed, a carved pumpkin automatically faces the player. This changes the rotation of the top texture. Once carved, a pumpkin cannot be changed back to uncarved. Wandering traders can sell a pumpkin for one emerald.Ī carved pumpkin (and 4 pumpkin seeds in Java Edition or 1 unit of pumpkin seeds in Bedrock Edition) is obtained by using shears on an uncarved pumpkin. The carved pumpkin cannot be put back on the golem. The carved pumpkin of a snow golem can be obtained by shearing its head, revealing the golem's face. When a pumpkin and a carved pumpkin is pushed by a piston, it breaks and drops as an item. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds.

Pumpkins can be mined using any tool, but axes are the quickest way. Pumpkins generate naturally as pile (and in some farms) in taiga and snowy taiga‌ villages.Ĭarved pumpkins generate in rail rooms in woodland mansions, as well as in pillager outposts as a part of scarecrows. Pumpkins naturally generate in stem farm rooms in woodland mansions.Ĥ pumpkins generate naturally in woolen tents in pillager outposts. Each chunk has a 1⁄ 32 chance to generate a pumpkin patch, making naturally-generated pumpkins rarer than diamond ore. 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. They require only grass blocks with air above (clear of any plants such as flowers or grass), and can generate regardless whether that grass block has a layer of snow cover. Pumpkins naturally generate with the terrain in most biomes in the Overworld, in the form of random patches.

Moldy pumpkin stem