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Carved Pumpkin in Minecraft | MinecraftBible

Carved Pumpkin is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4, dropping Carved Pumpkin.

What is Carved Pumpkin?

Carved Pumpkin is a Minecraft block classified under the plant;mineable/axe material group. It has a hardness of 1 and a blast resistance of 1. It stacks up to 64 per inventory slot. It is a solid, opaque block. Carved Pumpkin does not emit light. Carved Pumpkin filters 15 levels of light passing through it, which is why it blocks skylight below it.

Namespaced identifier: minecraft:carved_pumpkin. Command: /give @p minecraft:carved_pumpkin 1.

How to mine Carved Pumpkin

Carved Pumpkin can be broken with any tool, or even by hand.

Break times (unenchanted, no Haste or Mining Fatigue):

  • With the correct tool: approximately 1.5 seconds
  • By hand (no tool): approximately 5 seconds

Using an Efficiency-enchanted tool, Haste beacons, or a Diamond/Netherite tier drastically reduces these times. Water and being airborne slow mining by 5×.

Carved Pumpkin drops

When broken, Carved Pumpkin drops:

Silk Touch preserves the block itself; Fortune increases quantity of ore-style drops but has no effect on ordinary blocks.

What Carved Pumpkin is used to craft

Carved Pumpkin appears as an ingredient in 1 known Minecraft recipes:

Block tags & properties

  • Opaque
  • Hand-Mineable
  • Crafting Material

Carved Pumpkin technical properties

  • Flammable: No
  • Burns from lava: No
  • Renewable: Yes
  • Emits light: No (luminance 0)

Values sourced from Minecraft Wiki: Carved Pumpkin (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Verified for Java Edition 1.21.4.

Technical properties

  • Namespaced ID: minecraft:carved_pumpkin
  • Material family: plant;mineable/axe
  • Hardness: 1
  • Blast resistance: 1
  • Stack size: 64
  • Transparent: No
  • Blocks light: 15
  • Emits light: 0
  • Diggable: Yes
  • Craftable: No
  • /give command: /give @p minecraft:carved_pumpkin 1

Overview

Carved Pumpkin is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4. This page covers mining requirements, real drop data, and crafting relevance.

Step-by-step walkthrough

  1. Carved Pumpkin can be broken by hand or with any tool, though using a tool is usually faster.
  2. Expect to collect Carved Pumpkin once it breaks.
  3. With the correct tool this takes about 1.5s to break (unenchanted); by hand it's roughly 5s.

Pro tips

  • Use /give @p minecraft:carved_pumpkin 1 in creative mode to prototype builds before committing resources.
  • No special tool is required, so hand-mining is a valid fallback in an emergency.

Difficulty and time commitment

  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Estimated time per run: 1-5 min

Frequently Asked Questions

What tool do I need to mine Carved Pumpkin?

Carved Pumpkin can be broken by hand or with any tool - no specific tool tier is required.

What does Carved Pumpkin drop when mined?

Breaking Carved Pumpkin drops Carved Pumpkin.

How hard is Carved Pumpkin to mine?

Carved Pumpkin has a hardness value of 1. That works out to roughly 1.5s with the correct tool or 5s by hand (unenchanted, no Haste/Mining Fatigue).

What is Carved Pumpkin used to craft?

Carved Pumpkin is used as an ingredient in 1 other recipe.

What is the internal Minecraft ID for Carved Pumpkin?

The namespaced ID is minecraft:carved_pumpkin, usable with /setblock, /fill, and /give.

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