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Forgotten Foods

Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkin pie is a stackable eight-point meal made from a pumpkin, sugar and an egg.

SurvivalJava & Bedrock

What is Pumpkin Pie?

Pumpkin pie gives eight hunger points, the same visible refill as steak, with less saturation. It uses a crafting table and ingredients that can all come from farms. There is no cooking step once you have harvested the pumpkin and collected the egg and sugar.

Why players overlook it

The ingredients come from separate setups. A wheat field or a potato patch already feeds you without connecting a pumpkin row, sugar cane and egg collection. Even a steady pie supply can use up more servings during active travel because the saturation refill is modest.

How to get it

  • Grow or collect pumpkins, turn sugar cane into sugar and collect an egg from a chicken.
  • Combine the pumpkin, sugar and egg in any order. Use a plain pumpkin, not a carved one.

Crafting recipe

Shapeless crafting

  • 1×Pumpkin
  • 1×Sugar
  • 1×Egg
1× Pumpkin Pie

What is it used for?

  • Pack pies for a trip when you have plenty of farm output and want full stacks. The crafting method leaves your furnace available for stone, ore or cooked food.

When it comes in handy

A dispenser chicken project or an egg collection hopper often leaves a large supply of spare eggs. Pair it with a few pumpkin stems and use the overflow as an expedition ration or a shared food chest for visitors.

Limitations

The recipe depends on three inputs, and pies do not keep the hunger bar steady as long as higher-saturation staples under similar activity. The carved pumpkin you kept for a costume is a different item.

Editorial recommendation

Is it worth using?

Make pies if eggs and sugar cane would otherwise fill chests. Their best case is a base with the production already running, rather than an early start with one food crop.

Alternatives

Use bread or baked potatoes for a single-crop setup. Save steak or golden carrots for a long route where saturation matters more than kitchen convenience.

Java and Bedrock

The item is available in both editions. The guide covers the uses checked for the listed releases.

Sources

Checked for Java 26.3 and Bedrock 26.60 series (including 26.63 where available).

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