Did you know pumpkins are more rare then diamonds | Fandom (2024)

Pumpkins are a charm

Diamonds: 0.033% of blocks between layers 4 and 16: ~1.1 diamond ores per chunk

Pumpkins: ~0.03 pumpkin patches per chunk, as seen in https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Pumpkin_and_melon_farming

Also, each patch has at most 16 pumpkins, so average is probably ~0.24 pumpkins per chunk. Thus they are rarer than diamonds, but not by much.

However, with diamond ores you can only see them exposed, and you can't mine them if they're behind layers of stone.

With pumpkins, you can see them 50 blocks away, and harvest them at any time.

I'd say pumpkins are somewhat easier to find, as you don't need to mine out several full chests of stone to reach them.

"Hey, can you get pumpkins in the ocean? Can you still get diamonds?"

I think it's possible when there's a small island in the ocean that technically is part of the ocean biome, but that's assuming that the fact it's an ocean biome doesn't immediately make it impossible.

K