How to Carve a Pumpkin in Minecraft

As is already known, you can wear helmets on your head to give you extra protection. But did you know you can also put a carved pumpkin on your head in Minecraft? And no, it is not only for the silly appearance. Besides that, carved pumpkins have many other applications, which make them quite useful. Today, in this guide though, we will teach you how to carve a pumpkin and where to find it in your Minecraft world.

Required Resources

In order to carve a pumpkin, you will need just to get a couple of items. Those are:

Apart from growing and harvesting yourpumpkins, you can also only find them in the wild. They generate as patches or blobs in mostMinecraft biomesin the Overworld. You can easily break them with your hands, but the axe is the preferred tool.

If you want pumpkins in bulk, considermaking a pumpkin farm.Shearscan be crafted in the 2 x 2 crafting grid in the player’s inventory using two iron ingots. Simply place the ingots diagonally from each other, as shown in the image below.

Iron ingots are generated in loot chests across multiple structures. Moreover, you can easily make them yourself, by smelting the raw iron in aMinecraft furnaceor blast furnace. Breaking iron ore with at least a stone-tier pickaxe will yield raw iron. And if you’ve already got yourself the fortuneMinecraft enchantment, you have a chance to triple the raw iron output.

How to Carve a Pumpkin: A Step by Step Guide

If you collected the two basic necessities, let’s learn how to carve a Minecraft pumpkin. Follow the step by step process explained below to accomplish just that.

Find a Carved Pumpkin in Minecraft World

The most reliable way of obtaining a carved pumpkin is by shearing the regular pumpkin. But, you can bypass the whole process if you can find this item in your world. So, the places you can stumble upon a carved pumpkin in Minecraft are:

Woodland mansions contain fairly strange rooms where a carved pumpkin can generate in. When it comes to the pillager outposts, you’ll often see the carved pumpkins on top of hay bales surrounding the main structure, serving as practice dummy heads.

Though, you cannot really get a substantial number of these blocks unless you locate and raid plenty of the mentioned structures. So, we recommend you stick with making the carved pumpkin yourself.

So that’s all we have to share on how to carve a pumpkin in Minecraft and where to find it. If you’re wandering why should you even have carved pumpkins, feel free to check out our separate guide on the uses of a carved pumpkin to find out more. However, that’s it for now. This block is fairly easy to get, so you shouldn’t have any difficulties with it.

If you try to carve a pumpkin on a crafting table, it won’t work. You have to carve it with shears while it’s in the world.

Radojka Travar

I’m a gaming enthusiast with a strong passion for writing. My expertise lies in creating simple, to the point and clear content teaching you about various features, mechanics and community-based inventions related to Minecraft. In spare time, I love flying around in my Minecraft world and exploring stories of other pixelated games.

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