- Players need a pair of shears and a pumpkin to carve it in Minecraft.
- Place the pumpkin on the ground and right-click it with shears to turn it into a carved pumpkin.
- Players can find carved pumpkins in Woodland Mansions and outside Pillager Outposts.
Helmets can be worn on your head in Minecraft to give you extra protection. But did you know you can also put a carved pumpkin on your head? And no, it is not only for a silly appearance or a simple decoration for a Halloween theme. Carved pumpkins have many other applications, like making golems and light blocks. So, here we will teach you how to carve a pumpkin in Minecraft and where to find it in your world.
Items Required to Carve a Pumpkin in Minecraft
You don’t need any complicated materials to carve a pumpkin in Minecraft. Here’s everything you will require:
Item Quantity How to Get Pumpkin 1x Find or grow pumpkins in the Overworld Shears 1x Craft using two iron ingots
Apart from growing and harvesting your pumpkins, you can also find them in the wild. They generate as patches or blobs in most Minecraft biomes in the Overworld. You can easily break them with your hands, but an axe is the preferred tool. If you want pumpkins in bulk, consider making a pumpkin farm in Minecraft.
The next thing you need is a pair of shears. It can 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. Or, you can smelt the raw iron in a Minecraft furnace or blast furnace to get them.
How to Carve a Pumpkin in Minecraft: Step-by-Step Guide
If you collected the two basic necessities, let’s learn how to carve a pumpkin in Minecraft. Remember that a crafting table is not required for this process. So, follow the simple steps below.
- Select the pumpkin on your hotbar and right-click the ground or any side of a block to place it in your world.
- Select the Minecraft shears and simply right-click the pumpkin.
- By doing so, the pumpkin texture will instantly turn into a carved pumpkin, and you’ll receive four pumpkin seeds in item form.
- After that, you can collect the carved pumpkin by breaking it with a hand or an axe.
How to Find a Carved Pumpkin in Minecraft World
Although the most reliable way of obtaining a carved pumpkin in Minecraft is by shearing the regular pumpkin, you can sometimes find them naturally generating in the world as well. So, the places you can stumble upon a carved pumpkin in Minecraft are:
- Woodland Mansions
- Pillager Outposts
Woodland Mansions in Minecraft contain fairly strange rooms where a carved pumpkin can generate. 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.
However, 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.
Now that you know how to carve a pumpkin, you can learn more about the uses of Minecraft carved pumpkins in our detailed guide. So, 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.
Yes, a carved pumpkin can be placed in your helmet slot and worn on your head. Although it doesn’t provide armor, it prevents the Endermen from becoming aggressive even if you look at them.
Carved pumpkins can generate in Woodland Mansions and around the Pillager Outposts as well.
