Melon and Pumpkin Farm

Although automated melon and pumpkin farms can be made in vanilla Minecraft, Create makes it much easier to build and Create can automatically craft melon slices back into whole melon for trading.

Compact Melon and Pumpkin Farm

Compact Melon and Pumpkin Farm

This design produces a very efficient farm that can be extended in length and tiled in width. This tutorial will create a balanced production of whole Melons and Pumpkins.

Balancing Production

Pumpkins harvest whole. Melons harvest as Melon Slices which must be crafted together to create whole melons. Melon harvests provide an average of five slices while crafting requires nine slices to produce a whole melon. This means that more melons must be planted than pumpkins.

Planting nine melons for every five pumpkins will give a balanced production rate. The farm then should be built in multiples groups of fourteen (nine melons plus five pumpkins.) This tutorial builds a 28-plant farm which is two groups of fourteen. Therefore, eighteen melon plants and ten pumpkin plants are needed.

Items Needed

Contraption	Rail & Timer	Farm	Crafter
8 -  Linear Chassis 9 -  Mechanical Drill 1 -  Chest or Barrel 2 -  Portable Storage Interface 1  -  Slimeball	1  -  Cart Assembler   1  -  Minecart 14 -  Rail   3 -  Powered Rail   2 -  Redstone Torch   2 - Solid Blocks   2 -  Redstone Repeater   1  -  Pulse Repeater   1  -  Lever   4 -  Redstone Dust	18 -  Birch Slab   2 -  Water Bucket   3 -  Torch 10 -  Pumpkin Seeds 18 -  Melon Seeds	9 -  Mechanical Crafter 2 -  Chest or Barrel 4 -  Andesite Funnel 2 -  Brass Tunnel 4 -  Shaft 3 -  Gearbox 2 -  Mechanical Belt 1 -  Rotation Speed Controller 1 -  Large Cogwheel 1 -  Cogwheel 1 -  Windmill Bearing 1 - Solid Block 32 -  Windmill Sail