How to grow pumpkins in minecraft fast

This is a tutorial on how to farm pumpkins and melons, both manually and automatically. For other types of farming see Farming.

Growth mechanics[]

Melons and pumpkins use essentially the same mechanics for growth and can be easily farmed with the same techniques.

Once the plants are mature, they provide a steady supply of fruit for your needs. Surprisingly, water is not needed to grow pumpkins or melons.

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When planted, they create a stalk that starts out short, but grows and becomes yellow as it matures. Only mature stalks can grow pumpkins and melons.

Finding Seeds[]

To begin farming, seeds must first be found.

You can either find seeds in chests or find whole melons or pumpkins and craft them into seeds.

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How to plant pumpkin seeds

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If you do have a whole pumpkin or melon, but no seeds, simply place the pumpkin in a crafting grid, which yields 4 seeds, or, alternatively, place the pumpkin somewhere and use shears on it. The melon drops melon slices when mined, yielding 1 seed each when putting in a crafting area.

On average, it takes around 272 seconds (4 minutes, 31 seconds) for each stem to gener

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