Minecraft carving pumpkin tutorial

As Spooktober approaches, Minecraft players are decking their worlds and carving pumpkins in the festive spirit. To ward off the spooks, you can create your favorite Jack-o'-lantern in-game and place them around your house or anywhere else. Carving pumpkins in Minecraft is a rather simple procedure and needs the most basic resources.

This article will detail how you can carve a pumpkin, to go along with the festive energy.

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How to carve pumpkins in Minecraft

You can carve pumpkins rather easily in Minecraft. Carved pumpkins are cosmetic decorations that you can place in your to deck it up or add a spooky touch for the upcoming Halloween season. Here's what you will need to carve pumpkins in Minecraft:

• 1 Pumpkin
• 1 Shears

Place iron ingots like this to craft Shears (Image via Mojang Studios)

In case you do not have Shears, you can work with two Iron ingots. Take them to the crafting table and place them in this grid to craft the Shears. Now you are all ready to craft your pumpkin in Minecraft.

Here's how you can carve a pumpkin in Minecraft:

You will find pumpkins in the wild (Image via Mojang Studios)

Find a pumpkin plant growing in your world. Pumpkins are usually found in flat and jungle biomes like the Plains, Windswept Hills, or the forest. Pumpkins are recognizable from their unique orange shade and can be found aplenty.

Grab your shears and interact with the pumpkin (Image via Mojang Studios)

Once you find a pumpkin, head over to it and equip your shears in the quick bar. Point your cursor at the middle of the pumpkin and use your interact/action button on it to carve it. PC players can right-click on their mouse while Xbox players and PlayStation players can select LT and L2 respectively, if the default layout is followed.

Carving the pumpkin will drop four seeds (Image via Mojang Studios)

After you carve the pumpkin, four pumpkin seeds are dropped. Keep them handy, as you can use them to plant new pumpkin crops if needed, saving you from the need to hunt for pumpkins.

You will find a carved pumpkin floating on the ground (Image via Mojang Studios)

Now, hold the attack button on your carved pumpkin and wait for the block to disintegrate, leaving behind a small floating carved pumpkin that you can collect and place in your inventory. You can now place the carved pumpkin anywhere in your world and get immersed in the Halloween mood.

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How to use carved pumpkin in Minecraft

Functional uses

Carved pumpkins serve as a great defense against endermen and the creaking (Image via Mojang Studios)

A Carved pumpkin can serve as a great helmet if you wish to look scary in-game. While it has no armor or defense power, this helmet can save you from the enderman as well as the creaking mob after the latest update.

One of the most important uses of the carved pumpkin is to make snow golems and iron golems in-game. The iron and snow golems are great neutral mobs that you can craft to defend your village from hostile mobs and other pesky intruders.

The carved pumpkin block can also be fed to a composter and get up to a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

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Decorative uses

You can use the carved pumpkin to place as a spooky decor in your world or you can upgrade it and use it to make a glowing Jack-o'-lantern. To make a Jack-o'-lantern, you will need to following resources:

• Carved pumpkin
• Torch

craft a torch to use as an ingredient for a Jack-o-lantern (Image via Mojang Studios)

In case you do not have a torch, you can craft one using coal and a stick by placing them in the following format. Now, you have everything you need to make a Jack-o'-lantern:

Place the materials in this format to craft the Jack-o'-lantern (Image via Mojang Studios)

Head over to the crafting table and place the carved pumpkin and the torch in the following format to craft the Jack-o'-lantern in Minecraft. Once done, add it to your inventory and place it anywhere you wish to.

Jack-o-lanterns can illuminate your world at night (Image via Mojang Studios)

Jack-o'-lanterns and carved pumpkins are the perfect spooky decor that you can add to your world ahead of Halloween as well as the arrival of the eerie Pale Garden.

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Minecraft carved Pumpkin FAQ

Are there carved pumpkins in the wild?

You will not find carved pumpkins in the wild (Image via Mojang Studios)

No, there are no carved pumpkins in the wild. The only way to get your hands on carved pumpkins in the game is by carving them with your shears. Jack-o'-lanterns, on the other hand, can be found in the wild on occasion.

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Are there any uses for the carved pumpkin as a helmet?

Use the carved pumpkins as a functional helmet (Image via Mojang Studios)

The carved pumpkin is a great helmet if you wish to avoid aggravating endermen or triggering the new creaking mob. Apart from that, it does not protect any armored advantage.

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Can carved pumpkins be enchanted?

Carved pumpkins can be enchanted (Image via Mojang Studios)

Yes, you can enchant carved pumpkins to create a Curse of Binding and a Curse of Vanishing using an Avil.

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