Pumpkin Info

[MICHAEL CAMPBELL]

SO I found that if I plant pumpkins in a way where you use cobble or any none soil block on the corners of a tilled tile you can increase yields

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The pumpkin vines tend to travel north south east and west in long runs so keep them 5 to 6 blocks apart. I generaly  put my tilled block three away from a water source block cover it with a chisseled cover and then put in my solid blocks around my tilled tile. hope this helps. on average im seeing a solid 4 pumpkin average per plant in this pattern often with 5 or 6 pumkins per plant. pumpkins can and do grow on the non soil blocks but when the vines grow in long runs rather than bunching up all around the main plant when flowering they tend to have more places to drop fruit.

Edited January 26, 2020 by MICHAEL CAMPBELL

[breeze108]

How do you harvest pumpkins and get seeds? I'm not getting any seeds back.

Can you show a picture?

Edited April 4, 2020 by Elizabeth Wilhoit

[redram]

1 hour ago, Elizabeth Wilhoit said:

How do you harvest pumpkins and get seeds? I'm not getting any seeds back.

Just put the pumpkin in the crafting grid.  You don't get flesh though, in that case.  It's seeds or flesh, not both.

[breeze108]

Thanks

[MICHAEL CAMPBELL]

Kinda strange becuase in real life you do get both and I think this being added would be a good change. would be nice to be able to break down pumpkins for both seeds and flesh!

[Jorlana]

Just coming in to add that this really works like a dream. I'd been having trouble even getting one pumpkin per plant and the last one I just tried this method and got four!