When Notch added pumpkins, he didn't have time to include carving. This suggestion will expand on that.
Pumpkins look stupid. They grow already carved.
Pumpkin stems will grow proper pumpkins, which can be picked up and placed as a block. Right-clicking one with a sword will carve the pumpkin into a pumpkin head. The sword will take one hit and several pieces of pumpkin mulch will pop out. You can eat the mulch for 1 Food Point Crafting it with a bowl of water (right click water with bowl to get a bowl of water) will get you pumpkin soup, by drinking it restore 2 1/2 Food Points, or use it as a substitute for orange dye. You can also cook it in a furnace to get pumpkin seeds. Oh and if you carve the pumpkin while attached to the stem the stem will detach.
EDIT: Changed method of eating to pumpkin soup. I got that brainwave thinking of the pumpkin soup I had last night.
It could also just be done on right-click. No tool required. It would give the pumpkin a face and make orange dye a little easier to get. I like.
You punch precise holes into the pumpkin with your fists? It's fine to punch down trees but the arm is too blocky to carve a pumpkin by hand.
EDIT: Also, bump. I edited the topic. EDIT notes: Changed method of eating to pumpkin soup. I got that brainwave thinking of the pumpkin soup I had last night.
You punch precise holes into the pumpkin with your fists? It's fine to punch down trees but the arm is too blocky to carve a pumpkin by hand.
EDIT: Also, bump. I edited the topic. EDIT notes: Changed method of eating to pumpkin soup. I got that brainwave thinking of the pumpkin soup I had last night.
The pumpkin is also a block.
Anyway, if I could only find a pumpkin I'd show you what I could do with my fist.
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Overall, I like this idea. But bowls of water are not even necessary for mushroom soup.
However, if bowl utility were expanded (like it probably should be), then I could see it.
I'm not sure if they were ever INTENDED to spawn uncarved . . . what you said implied they were.
But being able to get pumpkins uncarved as well as carved would be convenient.
Although a MUCH more convenient and realistic way to do this would have them spawn uncarved and right-clicking them with an axe will make it carved.
And by 'realistic' I meant 'Mojang will realistically do this as opposed to a more complicated system'.
TL;DR: I agree, just make it a much simpler system.
I'm not sure if they were ever INTENDED to spawn uncarved . . . what you said implied they were.
But being able to get pumpkins uncarved as well as carved would be convenient.
Although a MUCH more convenient and realistic way to do this would have them spawn uncarved and right-clicking them with an axe will make it carved.
And by 'realistic' I meant 'Mojang will realistically do this as opposed to a more complicated system'.
TL;DR: I agree, just make it a much simpler system.
*blinks* I already said it spawns uncarved. Right click with a sword and you say an axe, which has the wrong shape for precision. Did you even read the whole thing?
Oh and the teaser poster for the Boo! Update was 'Carve your own pumpkins!' or something to that extent.
EDIT: After some scouting, I found the teaser poster which implies you had to carve it yourself.
I think this is an amazing idea and would most likely work. Only problem I can see with this one is, I don't see many people using pumpkins, so maybe give people more of a need for pumpkins?
Pumpkins should grow un-carved, yes.
But to produce a carved pumpkin, I think it would be better to just place the whole pumpkin in a crafting space which would produce the carved version.
From that point onward, pumpkins would behave exactly as they do now:
placing a carved pumpkin into a crafting space yields seeds and a carved pumpkin + torch makes a lantern.
Pumpkins look stupid. They grow already carved.
Pumpkin stems will grow proper pumpkins, which can be picked up and placed as a block. Right-clicking one with a sword will carve the pumpkin into a pumpkin head. The sword will take one hit and several pieces of pumpkin mulch will pop out.
You can eat the mulch for 1 Food PointCrafting it with a bowl of water (right click water with bowl to get a bowl of water) will get you pumpkin soup, by drinking it restore 2 1/2 Food Points, or use it as a substitute for orange dye. You can also cook it in a furnace to get pumpkin seeds. Oh and if you carve the pumpkin while attached to the stem the stem will detach.EDIT: Changed method of eating to pumpkin soup. I got that brainwave thinking of the pumpkin soup I had last night.
Endermen weren't around then. Notch just didn't have enough time to code carvings before the release of the new version.
It could also just be done on right-click. No tool required. It would give the pumpkin a face and make orange dye a little easier to get. I like.
Enter that and you'll score one hundred thousand rupees for us both, along with a spiffy card!
You punch precise holes into the pumpkin with your fists? It's fine to punch down trees but the arm is too blocky to carve a pumpkin by hand.
EDIT: Also, bump. I edited the topic. EDIT notes: Changed method of eating to pumpkin soup. I got that brainwave thinking of the pumpkin soup I had last night.
The pumpkin is also a block.
Anyway, if I could only find a pumpkin I'd show you what I could do with my fist.
Enter that and you'll score one hundred thousand rupees for us both, along with a spiffy card!
What I mean is, the arm is too big to be precise. Could you paint a thin precise line with an awfully thick brush?
More like smoothstone to cobblestone.
Then you wouldn't be able to carry a pumpkin around!
However, if bowl utility were expanded (like it probably should be), then I could see it.
But being able to get pumpkins uncarved as well as carved would be convenient.
Although a MUCH more convenient and realistic way to do this would have them spawn uncarved and right-clicking them with an axe will make it carved.
And by 'realistic' I meant 'Mojang will realistically do this as opposed to a more complicated system'.
TL;DR: I agree, just make it a much simpler system.
*blinks* I already said it spawns uncarved. Right click with a sword and you say an axe, which has the wrong shape for precision. Did you even read the whole thing?
Oh and the teaser poster for the Boo! Update was 'Carve your own pumpkins!' or something to that extent.
EDIT: After some scouting, I found the teaser poster which implies you had to carve it yourself.
But to produce a carved pumpkin, I think it would be better to just place the whole pumpkin in a crafting space which would produce the carved version.
From that point onward, pumpkins would behave exactly as they do now:
placing a carved pumpkin into a crafting space yields seeds and a carved pumpkin + torch makes a lantern.