
Now that you’ve carved it all up, there’s one important thing left for you to do. So, be sure to add those seeds to your inventory. You’ll also notice that four pumpkin seeds have been dropped, so you can use those to grow more pumpkins. Once you do this, the pumpkin has been carved! Congratulations – it’s now ready to be used as decorations. (if you’re on mobile, do the equivalent of a right-click.) Once the shears are equipped, you need position your pointer (plus sign) on the pumpkin and then right-click on your pumpkin. So, first equip your shears by selecting them in the hotbar.

You should already have shears in your inventory to do this part. Now that you’ve either grown a pumpkin from seeds, or found on already grown, it’s time to carve that baby up. You can use Bone Meal to accelerate the growth of the seeds.įind a pumpkin: You can find pumpkins in the Extreme Hills or Plains biomes, woodland mansions, snowy taiga villages, some shipwreck supply chests, and the taiga. We’ll give you tips for both options.Ĭrafting a pumpkin from seeds: Till the soil with a hoe, then just tap the soil with the pumpkin seeds. You can either craft one from your seeds, or you can find one that is already grown. There are actually two different ways that you can get a pumpkin. Here’s exactly how you take transform that regular pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern style pumpkin. So, you’ve decided to get into the Halloween spirit by locating a pumpkin patch to get yourself the pumpkin and you have the shears ready to carve.

So, get ready to carve up some pumpkins so you can decorate your base. And don’t worry – these steps work in every version of the game, so don’t worry about if it will work in your version.
MAKE A JACK O LANTERN MINECRAFT HOW TO
So, now what?īelow is our tutorial on how to carve a pumpkin in Minecraft. Yup, that’s it – just those two things are all that you need in the inventory. So, there are a couple of things that you will need to have in your inventory before you can carve a pumpkin in the game. First things first – you can’t just make a carved pumpkin out of thin air! And you can’t just magic the carvings into the flesh of the orange squash.
