How to Get Pumpkin Seeds in Minecraft: 4 Step-by-Step Tutorials

Do you love Pumpkin seeds? So, do John in your Minecraft world for various other reasons such as making powerful golems making pumpkin pies, etc.

To get Pumpkin Seeds in Minecraft: Harvest a pumpkin by shearing it to get 4 Pumpkin seeds. Trade from a Wandering Trader for 1 emerald. Open Chests such as the Taiga Village Chest, Dungeon Chest, Minecart Chest in Mineshafts, and Woodland Mansion Chest for Pumpkin Seeds.

In this tutorial, we will guide you to craft pumpkin seeds with step-by-step instructions.

Materials to Make Pumpkin Seeds

• 1 Pumpkin
• Crafting Table

How to Craft Pumpkin Seeds in Minecraft

Follow the tutorial below to craft seeds from Pumpkin manually:

Step 1: Open the 3×3 Crafting Table

First of all, load up your crafting menu options of the 3×3 crafting grid with 9 grids in total.

Step 2: Add Pumpkin to Craft Pumpkin Seeds

In the crafting grid, Place 1 pumpkin in any of the boxes.

Just for this example, in the 2nd row, place 1 Pumpkin on the crafting table.

That is the Minecraft crafting recipe for the pumpkin seeds.

Once you have added 1 Pumpkin to the crafting table, 4 pumpkin seeds will appear in the right box.

Step 3: Drag and Drop the Pumpkin Seeds into Inventory

Move the Pumpkin seeds to your inventory for later use.

Congratulations, you have successfully created Minecraft pumpkin seeds.

How to get Pumpkin Seeds

There are a few ways to get Pumpkin seeds naturally in the world.

1. Harvesting Pumpkins (4 Seeds)

To Harvest Pumpkin, you need to travel around the forest biomes and search for Orange looking Blocks on the ground.

They Generate in most biomes of the world with greenery requiring a grass block below and an air block above. They can also be found and grow in the Snow layers.

Find a Pumpkin and shear it to get 4 Pumpkin seeds and the husk will turn into a carved Pumpkin.

Pumpkin can also be found in the Woolen Tents which is an outpost of the Pillagers. You can also find them in 15.6% of the shipwrecks in stacks of 1-3.

2. Pumpkin Stems (0-3 Seeds)

You can also get Pumpkin Seeds by breaking down a Pumpkin Stem. You cannot get the stem to your inventory.

So, chop the stem down to get 0-3 Pumpkin seeds, depending on the age of the stem.

Pumpkin and Pumpkin Stems can be found in the Stem Rooms of Woodland Mansion, Taiga Villages and Snowy Taiga Villages.

3. Trade with Villagers

To start trading, you’ll first need to find a wandering trader. They have a chance of selling Pumpkin and Pumpkin Seed for an emerald which is quite expensive.

The NPC trader will often follow you along with his group of pet llamas.

You can also sell back Pumpkins to an Apprentice-level Farmer villagers for an emerald with 6 pumpkins.

4. Chest

You can also find Pumpkin seeds in Chests such as the

• Taiga Village Chest with a percentage chance of 40.6%,
• Dungeon Chest (18.5%),
• Minecart chests in Mineshafts (31.6%)
• Woodland Mansion Chest (18.5%)

How to Grow Pumpkin for Pumpkin Seeds

TIP: Pumpkins can only be planted on farmland which is created by tilling grass and dirt.

The Pumpkin seeds will first grow into stems and later on into full-grown size Pumpkins.

Step 1: Find a Land with Water

Locate an area of land with water. Next, we are gonna prepare the land.

Step 2: Till the land with Hoe

Select the hoe in the Hotbar to create the land into farmland ready for plantation.

Here is the game control to use the hoe depending on the Minecraft Version:

• Windows 10 Edition, Java Edition (PC/Mac), Education Edition: Right-click on the block.
• Pocket Edition (PE): Tap on the block.
• Xbox 360 and Xbox One: Press the LT button on the Gamepad.
• PS3 and PS4: Select the L2 button on the controller.
• Nintendo Switch & Wii U: Press the ZL button on the gamepad.

Step 3: Plant the Pumpkin

Select pumpkin seeds from the hot bar.

To plant the seeds:

• Windows 10 Edition, Java Edition (PC/Mac), Education Edition: Right-click on the block.
• Pocket Edition (PE): Tap on the block.
• Xbox 360 and Xbox One: Press the LT button on the Gamepad.
• PS3 and PS4: Select the L2 button on the controller.
• Nintendo Switch & Wii U: Press the ZL button on the gamepad.

After you have planted the Pumpkin seeds in the soil, you will begin to see the plants sprout and start to grow.

Step 4: Fertilize with Bone Meal

Similar to the real world, there are chemicals that help in speed up the growing process.

Choose a Bone Meal from the Hotbar and

• Windows 10 Edition, Java Edition (PC/Mac), Education Edition: Right-click on the plants
• Pocket Edition (PE): Tap on the plants
• Xbox 360 and Xbox One: Press the LT button on the Gamepad.
• PS3 and PS4: Select the L2 button on the controller.
• Nintendo Switch & Wii U: Press the ZL button on the gamepad.

Now that your pumpkins are full-grown, you need to start harvesting the Pumpkins.

Step 5: Harvest the Pumpkins

To harvest the Pumpkins, you need to break the plant. T

The game control to harvest the Pumpkin depends on the Minecraft Versions:

• Windows 10 Edition, Java Edition (PC/Mac), Education Edition: Right-click on the plants
• Pocket Edition (PE): Tap on the plants
• Xbox 360 and Xbox One: Press the LT button on the Gamepad.
• PS3 and PS4: Select the L2 button on the controller.
• Nintendo Switch & Wii U: Press the ZL button on the gamepad.

You have successfully farmed, grown, and harvested the Pumpkin in Minecraft.

Benefits of Pumpkin Seeds

• Powerful golems – Make an Iron Golem in Minecraft using carved pumpkin and Iron blocks.
• Pumpkin pies – Bake Pumpkin pie to replenish your food meter when consumed.
• Breeding – Pumpkin seeds can be used to breed and lead chickens and grow baby chickens faster by 10%.
• Taming – It can be used to tame parrots.
• Compost – Put the pumpkin seeds into a composter to create compost.

Pumpkin Seeds Command

 /give @p minecraft:pumpkin_seeds

Note: Enable Cheats to use the Pumpkin seeds command in Creative Mode.

1. Open chat (by pressing “T” on the keyboard)
2. Enter command /give @p minecraft:pumpkin_seeds
3. Click “ENTER” to send the command.

Pumpkin seeds may be small, but they’re much essential item in the Minecraft world being a main ingredient for many of the crafting recipes.

Small but resourceful and a great value to the Minecraft world.

Also Read: How to Make a Pumpkin Pie in Minecraft: Crafting & Pie Command