Overview
Pumpkin Pie restores 8 hunger points from three cheap ingredients and, unusually for a food that good, stacks to 64. That combination makes it the best bulk travel food in the game for anyone who has a pumpkin farm: 8 hunger per item is tied with steak, the saturation of 4.8 is lower, but you can carry a full stack in one slot and never touch a furnace. Every ingredient is renewable and automatable. Pumpkins grow on farmland stems and can be harvested by an observer-and-piston farm that runs unattended; sugar comes from sugar cane, which is the easiest crop in the game to automate; and eggs come from chickens, which lay one every 5 to 10 minutes on their own. Build all three and pie production becomes genuinely infinite with no player input. It is also the traditional food to hand out on a server, since one stack feeds a group through an evening's building. No cooking is required despite the name — the crafting grid does the work. It is the food a well-run base gives away by the stack without noticing the cost.
Bulk travel food that restores 8 hunger and stacks to 64, from three ingredients that can all be farmed automatically without a furnace or fuel.
As food, Pumpkin Pie is judged on two numbers: hunger restored and saturation. It gives back 8 hunger and 4.8 saturation. It stacks to 64.
You make it with Pumpkin, Sugar, and Egg. No recipe takes it as an ingredient.
How to get it
Craft 1 from 1 Pumpkin, 1 Sugar and 1 Egg. Chickens lay 1 egg every 5 to 10 minutes, so a coop of 10 produces enough eggs for continuous pie production.
Tips
- Automate all three ingredients and pie becomes free forever — pumpkins, sugar cane and a chicken coop.
- It stacks to 64 unlike stew, which makes it the best food per inventory slot for a long expedition.
- No furnace is needed at any stage, so pies can be made on the move if you carry the ingredients.
- Carve pumpkins with Shears if you need lanterns; the recipe wants the uncarved block.
Properties
Eating it restores 8 hunger and 4.8 saturation — a ratio of 0.6, which is what decides how long you stay full rather than how fast the bar refills. One inventory slot holds 64, so a double chest holds 3,456.
- Renewable
- Yes
- Category
- Food
Crafting recipe
Crafting Table
Shapeless recipe
Pumpkin Pie
How it compares to other foods
Sorted by saturation ratio, Pumpkin Pie is 20 of 41 foods in the game. Ratio is saturation divided by hunger restored: it is what decides how long the hunger bar stays still, not how fast it refills.
Golden Carrot leads the list at a ratio of 2.4, and anything at or above 1.6 is worth carrying on a long trip.
| Item | Hunger restored | Saturation | Saturation ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrot | 3 | 3.6 | 1.2 |
| Beetroot | 1 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Pumpkin Pie ← | 8 | 4.8 | 0.6 |
| Apple | 4 | 2.4 | 0.6 |
| Chorus Fruit | 4 | 2.4 | 0.6 |
| Raw Porkchop | 3 | 1.8 | 0.6 |
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Frequently asked questions
How do you make Pumpkin Pie in Minecraft?
Pumpkin Pie is crafted from Pumpkin, Sugar, and Egg.
What is the stack size of Pumpkin Pie?
Pumpkin Pie stacks to 64.
Is Pumpkin Pie worth eating?
It restores 8 hunger and 4.8 saturation, a ratio of 0.6. Anything above a ratio of 1.6 keeps you full longer per slot, so treat this as a stopgap rather than a staple.
