Since pumpkin pies were added to Minecraft, I’ve always assumed they worked like a portable cake—that is, you can eat multiple slices from one pie before it disappears from your inventory. I’ve never actually crafted one to test this out, and I’m not sure if I came up with the idea myself or heard it somewhere. But now I’ve realized that’s not how they work. I’m curious if anyone else thought pumpkin pies functioned like this, or if I’m just the only one who imagined it.
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I actually think of pumpkin pies more as a great composting item. Both cake and pumpkin pie have a 100% composting chance, so they’re super useful if you want to get precise compost levels for redstone comparator signals. So in that way, they’re more handy as composters than as fancy portable treats!
I never thought pumpkin pies worked like a multi-slice cake because pretty much every other food item you eat from your inventory disappears after one use. But I get why you thought that—most people imagine pies being eaten slice by slice, so the idea that the in-game pie would be single-use can feel a little off.
Yeah, I was confused about that at first too! Pumpkin pies look like a full pie you’d slice up, so it kinda makes sense to think you could eat from one multiple times like cake. But in Minecraft, once you eat a pumpkin pie, it’s completely gone from your inventory after one use. Unlike cakes you place and slice, pumpkin pies are single-use food items.
Honestly, I never bothered making pumpkin pies in Minecraft because I don’t like them IRL. I usually just go for lava and chickens to manage food once I get those resources, so pumpkin pies never really caught my attention food-wise.
Exactly! I guess the visual threw me off, thinking they’d hold multiple bites like cake does.