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So I am living upto my name. After 3 different abandon mine hunts all I can find is those damn melon seeds. The upside of this we have found 8 dungeons, 2 of which we are now farming so it wasn't a total waste.

So am I the only unlucky bloke on these forums or are there others out there with my kind of luck? Find anything interesting in your mine travels that made up for not finding any pumpkin seeds?

So far in my brief exploration into abandoned mineshafts I have yet to see pumpkin seeds.

But I have barely begun to explore it so... who knows maybe I just need to look some more.

If I end up like you I might use an inventory editor and 'trade' some of my melon seeds for some pumpkins.

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Pumpkin

As of Beta version 1.8 it is possible to farm pumpkins in the same way as melons; planted pumpkin seeds grow into a central stem that grows until it reaches its maximum size, at which point pumpkins will randomly spawn in vacant spaces next to the stem. However, seeds are only found in Abandoned Mine Shafts, which makes them hard to find.

According to the wiki you need to keep looking. I've only found melons so far as well.

To be fair, they're rare for a reason. Finding pumpkins can be a bit tricky on the surface, since they tend to be rare and spawn in clusters from 1-19.

Aye, it seems that they're ridiculously rare - many people are having trouble finding them:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/630006-pumpkin-seeds-in-mineshafts/

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/624330-has-anyone-found-pumpkin-seeds/

I've had to use InvEdit to start up a pumpkin farm.

Oh don't get me wrong, I am fully aware of how rare they are. But 3 huge mineshaft's just made me think I am living up to my name.

It was a ton of fun exploring them so even without finding pumpkin seeds it was not a "waste" of time by any means.

How many chests did you find in those mineshafts? I've checked well over fifty, but still couldn't find any of those elusive pumpkin seeds. They're far, far rarer than diamonds, which is just silly.

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How many chests did you find in those mineshafts? I've checked well over fifty, but still couldn't find any of those elusive pumpkin seeds. They're far, far rarer than diamonds, which is just silly.

Good question. It was a lot of chests but I honestly didn't keep track. I broke down every chest I found. I would guess near the number you did but honestly don't know for sure.

My estimate would be between 40-50.

I'm having trouble on my 1.8 (not 1.8.1) map as well, 2 full mines, 3 dungeons.

Plenty of melon seeds, bread, iron and gold ingots, even diamonds, but no pumpkin seeds . . .

There's gotta be a way to craft them . . . sooner or later . . . not now of course.

I've already filled an entire map, so I'll have to venture further out to find 1.8.1 generated chunks, try this and maybe it'll work.

i was looking all night for pumpkin and melon seeds.
then i went to the MC wiki to see how rare they were.

the wiki says:

Due to a bug, it is not be possible to find pumpkin seeds in 1.8.1 in Abandoned Mineshafts, rendering them unobtainable unless you had obtained them prior to the update.

-->Pumpkin seeds on MC wiki

i haven't found any melon seeds yet.
and i have found 2 abandoned shafts.
so... many... SPIDERS. D:

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Bummer . . . Oh well I'm used to starting new maps all the time.

Just deleted my Alpha map, and my Early Beta . . . Lota hard work, dissapeared real quick. Luckily I took pics though :happy.gif:

That Wiki page must have been edited within the past hour, since I checked it not too long ago and it said they were merely rare.

Ah well, it doesn't surprise me in the least if there's actually a bug causing them to be unobtainable. Now I feel happier about my decision to use InvEdit!

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That Wiki page must have been edited within the past hour, since I checked it not too long ago and it said they were merely rare.

Ah well, it doesn't surprise me in the least if there's actually a bug causing them to be unobtainable. Now I feel happier about my decision to use InvEdit!

Same Yrael. I was on it last night and it said only rare. Interesting if that bug is true.

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it should be changed so that if you find a pumpkin on the surface (which is not often) then if you break it, some seeds will be left behind.

u know..... like in real life :smile.gif:

u know..... like with melons? =P

Quote from liquidmonkey

it should be changed so that if you find a pumpkin on the surface (which is not often) then if you break it, some seeds will be left behind.

u know..... like in real life :smile.gif:

When you turn a pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern is when you should get the seeds. That way they can be placed and picked up without destroying them.

Not sure how accurate this is but from the last line in the Wiki

"NOTE: Cannot be found in 1.8.1, StructureMineshaftPieces.java (MCP) indicate, that pumpkin seeds never placed into chests and completely unused expect drop from stem. "