Minecraft Pumpkin is one of the best crops to farm. You can harvest and carve it for a Jack-O-Lantern ornament on Halloween. Let's check out how to get and carve pumpkins in Minecraft here.

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#1. How To Get Minecraft Pumpkin

Minecraft players can farm Pumpkin in nearly all biomes. These fruit blocks always spawn on the grass biomes, in villages, and stem farm rooms in woodland mansions. You can pick it up by hand or use a tool.

When you find its seeds in woodland mansion chests, dungeons, villages, and mineshafts, you can start these seeds to grow your own pumpkin farm. You can shear the pumpkin for its seeds and grow it on a hydrated soil bed in your farmland.

Pumpkin Minecraft
You can grow pumpkin from seeds in Minecraft for various uses.

Make sure that you leave enough space for the pumpkin to spawn. Leave an empty block next to the seed to make room for it. You can make a pumpkin farm on a flat field near your house and surround this farm with fences to cultivate this fruit as you need lots of pumpkins for various uses.

#2. How To Carve Minecraft Pumpkin

You need a shear to carve a pumpkin in Minecraft. Hold the shear on your hand and right-click on the pumpkin. Then, you will get the carved pumpkin and its seeds for planting. Here are some tips for using the carved pumpkin in Minecraft.

  • Make Jack-O-Lantern

After having a carved lantern, you can make a Jack-O-Lantern for decoration. Put the carved pumpkin in any slot on the top or middle row of the crafting table. Then, place a torch right beneath the slot of the pumpkin. After that, take the lantern to your inventory and place it in the desired corner for decoration.

Minecraft How To Grow Pumpkin
You can craft a Jack-O-Lantern for decoration from a carved pumpkin.

  • Spawn Golems

You can use carved pumpkins to spawn snow or iron golems that can guard your village or house from many hostile mobs, such as skeletons, creepers, and zombies. These golems will not attack you. Moreover, you can manage them to stay safe and protect your farm.

Pumpkin Golem Minecraft
You can spawn many golems in Minecraft.

  • Wear Carved Pumpkin

You can also carve a pumpkin to wear and prevent the Enderman from attacking you. When wearing a pumpkin on your head, you can stay safe from this mob when exploring some biomes where it spawns.

Minecraft Pumpkin
Wear a carved pumpkin to stay safe from the neutral mob - Enderman in this game.

#3. How To Make Pumpkin Pie In Minecraft

Pumpkin is also a cooking ingredient in Minecraft. You can make pumpkin pie from sugar, a pumpkin, and an egg. Put them into the crafting table to make a pumpkin pie. Then, use four pies to exchange for an emerald. You can also eat these pumpkin pies to fill the food bar.

Craft Pumpkin Pies
Craft pumpkin pies to eat or exchange for items from villagers.

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