Pumpkin

A pumpkin is a fruit block that appears in patches of grassy biomes. Pumpkins have the same texture on all 4 sides.

A carved pumpkin is a carved version of a pumpkin that can be worn or used to spawn golems. It can be made by placing a pumpkin on the ground and then using shears on it.

Natural generation
Pumpkins naturally generate with the terrain in most biomes in the Overworld, requiring only a grass block with air above (clear of any plants such as flowers or grass) and can generate whether or not 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.

Pumpkins naturally generate in stem farm rooms in woodland mansions.

4 pumpkins generate naturally in woolen tents in pillager outposts.

Pumpkins generate naturally in taiga and snowy taiga villages.

Carved pumpkins generate in rail rooms in woodland mansions.

Carved pumpkins also generate in pillager outposts as a part of scarecrows.

Breaking
Pumpkins can be mined with anything, but axes are the quickest.

When a pumpkin is pushed by a piston, it breaks and drops as an item.

Mob loot
Zombies, zombie villagers, skeletons, wither skeletons, drowned, husks, strays, and zombie pigmen have a chance of wearing a carved pumpkin if they spawn during Halloween (October 31). If a mob wearing a carved pumpkin is killed using a tool enchanted with Looting, there is a chance equivalent to the level of Looting used to drop the carved pumpkin, up to a maximum of a 3% chance of a drop.

Trading
Wandering traders can sell a pumpkin for one emerald.

Post-generation
A carved pumpkin (and 4 pumpkin seeds) is obtained by shears on an uncarved pumpkin. Once carved, a pumpkin cannot be changed back to uncarved. This changes the rotation of the top texture.

Placement
Pumpkins can be placed without a block under them. When placed, carved pumpkins automatically face the player. Pumpkins can be placed on a transparent block.

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/grass/farmland/podzol/coarse dirt. 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. If a carved pumpkin is desired, simply use the shears on the pumpkin on the ground, and then harvest it as normal.

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 be used on pumpkin stems to become fully-grown, but this does not produce a pumpkin immediately.

Helmet
A carved pumpkin can be equipped as a helmet without any actual armor value. It functions as a mask that allows the player to look at endermen without provoking an attack. When worn, they limit the player's viewing area to a mask pattern that resembles the carved pumpkin's carved face.

Dispensers
Dispensers can equip a carved pumpkin on a player, mob or armor stand with an empty helmet slot, within the block the dispenser is facing.

Building golems
Carved pumpkins can be used to make snow golems and iron golems as shown below. Snow golems require snow blocks for their bodies, while iron golems require iron blocks. The carved pumpkin must be placed last or the golem does not spawn. The orientation of the carved pumpkin does not matter while building an iron golem or snow golem. Iron golems cannot be built in water.

Trading
Apprentice-level Farmer villagers buy 6 pumpkins for an emerald as part of their trades.

Apprentice-level Farmer villagers have a $2/3$ chance to buy 6 pumpkins for one emerald.

Enchantments
Carved Pumpkins can receive the following enchantments, but only through an anvil.


 * Curse of Binding
 * Curse of Vanishing

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

Note blocks
Pumpkin can be placed under note blocks to produce didgeridoo sounds.

ID




Block data
$$, carved pumpkins use the following data values:

History
{{History||?|Endermen no longer become hostile when players look at them if they're wearing a pumpkin.{{info needed|Were pumpkins wearable before this? If so, when?}} {{History|java}} {{History||1.0.0|snap=?|Pumpkins can now be crafted into pumpkin seeds.}} {{History|||snap=Beta 1.9 Prerelease|Snow golems have been introduced, which can be "crafted" by stacking two snow blocks on top of each other, then placing a pumpkin on top of the snow.}} {{History||1.1|snap=?|Pumpkins no longer require farmland to grow on.}} {{History||1.2.1|snap=12w08a|Pumpkins can now be used to make iron golems.}} {{History||1.3.1|snap=12w22a|Inventory sprites for blocks have been flipped from left to right, changing to {{InvSprite|Carved Pumpkin}}.}} {{History||1.4.2|snap=12w37a|Pumpkins are now used to craft pumpkin pie.}} {{History|||snap=unknown|Some zombies, skeletons, zombie pigmen, and wither skeletons wear pumpkins during Halloween on the player's computer's clock.}} {{History||1.7.2|snap=13w37a|Block ID 104, pumpkin stem, has been removed from the {{cmd|give}} command.}} {{History||1.8|snap=14w02a|Pumpkins can now be sold to farmer villagers, at 8–13 pumpkins for 1 emerald.}} {{History|||snap=14w04a|Dispensers can now be used to place the pumpkin to activate iron golems and snow golems.}} {{History||1.9|snap=15w31a|Faceless pumpkins have been removed from the game, presumably due to block states not including it.}} {{History|||snap=15w32c|Pumpkins now generate in end ships, replacing beacons.}} {{History|||snap=15w33c|Pumpkins no longer generate in end ships, they have been replaced by a hopper.}} {{History|||snap=15w39a|Dispensers can now equip pumpkins onto players, mobs and armor stands.}} {{History||1.11|snap=16w39a|Pumpkins now generate in woodland mansions.}} {{History|||snap=16w44a|Pumpkins can now be now enchanted in survival mode using an anvil with cursed books.}} {{History||1.13|snap=17w47a|The ID of pumpkins has been changed from  to. {{History|||snap=18w11a|Pumpkins now sometimes generate in shipwreck chests.}} {{History||1.14|snap=18w43a| The textures of pumpkins have been changed.}} {{History|||snap=18w44a| The texture of carved pumpkins have been slightly changed.}} {{History|||snap=19w03a|Placing any pumpkin into the new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.}} {{History|||snap=19w05a|Pumpkins now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.}} {{History|||snap=19w09a|Pumpkin can now be used to play the didgeridoo, if they are under note blocks.}} {{History||1.15|snap=19w35a|Carved pumpkins can now be enchanted in survival mode.}}
 * "Pumpkin" has been renamed to "Carved Pumpkin".
 * Pumpkin JE1 BE1.png Added new pumpkins that have no faces; these generate naturally and from pumpkin stems rather than carved pumpkins.
 * 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.
 * Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 86.}}

{{History|pocket alpha}} {{History||0.8.0|snap=build 2| Added pumpkins.}} {{History||0.9.0|snap=build 1|Pumpkins now generate naturally.}} {{History||0.12.1|snap=build 1|Pumpkins can now spawn golems.}} {{History||0.14.0|snap=build 1|Pumpkins can now be worn as armor.}} {{History|pocket}} {{History||1.0.4|snap=alpha 1.0.4.0|Pumpkins can now be sold to farmer villagers, at 8–13 pumpkins for 1 emerald.}} {{History||1.1.0|snap=alpha 1.1.0.0|Pumpkins now generate in woodland mansions.}} {{History|bedrock}} {{History||1.4.0|snap=beta 1.2.14.2| Pumpkins no longer have faces when naturally generated. {{History||1.10.0|snap=beta 1.10.0.3| The textures of pumpkins have been changed. {{History||1.11.0|snap=beta 1.11.0.1|Pumpkins can now be used to fill up composters.}} {{History|||snap=beta 1.11.0.4|Farmer villagers now buy 6 pumpkins for one emerald.}} {{History||1.13.0|snap=beta 1.13.0.9|Pumpkin can now be used to play the didgeridoo, if they are under note blocks.}} {{History|bedrock upcoming}} {{History||1.16.0|snap=beta 1.15.0.51|Pumpkins can now be placed without a block beneath them.
 * "Pumpkin" has been renamed to "Carved Pumpkin".
 * Shearing a pumpkin now turns it into a carved pumpkin, and drops 4 pumpkin seeds.
 * Pumpkins can now be found inside shipwreck chests.}}
 * Pumpkins now generate in pillager outpost tents, taiga villages and snowy taiga villages.
 * Carved pumpkins now generate in pillager outpost targets.
 * Pumpkins can now be bought from wandering traders.}}
 * Carved pumpkins can now be enchanted in survival mode.}}

{{History|console}} {{History||xbox=TU1|xbone=CU1|ps=1.0|wiiu=Patch 1| Added pumpkins.}} {{History||xbox=TU69|ps=1.76|wiiu=Patch 38|"Pumpkin" has been renamed to "Carved Pumpkin". {{History||xbox=none|xbone=none|ps=1.90|wiiu=none|switch=none| The textures of pumpkins have been changed.}}
 * Pumpkin JE1 BE1.png Added new pumpkins that have no faces; these generate naturally and from pumpkin stems rather than carved pumpkins.
 * Shearing a pumpkin now turns it into a carved pumpkin, and drops 4 pumpkin seeds.}}

{{History|new 3ds}} {{History||0.1.0| Added pumpkins.}} {{History|foot}}

Trivia

 * The carved pumpkin is the only headgear that obstructs the player's view.
 * Pumpkins, mob heads and banners are the only blocks that can be placed in an armor slot without commands.
 * Each chunk has a $1/32$ chance to generate a pumpkin patch (grass blocks are required).
 * This makes naturally generated pumpkins rarer than diamond ore.

Halloween Mobs
Not Pictured above: Drowned, Baby Drowned, both wearing a pumpkin.