Plan your pumpkin god clone

Pumpkins are eaten as they are or baked into the Pumpkin Pie (and the Rich Pumpkin Pie) on the Cooking Workbench. They are also trough food for cows and sheep.

Pumpkin growth stages and times

Base times from the game files (minutes at default server settings). A pumpkin seed is a Seed for 1 min and already counts as a neighbour, a Seedling for 10 min, then a Sapling for 10 min: from about 11 to 21 minutes after planting its cuttings copy its genes exactly, before any crossing. At 21 min the pumpkin enters Crossbreed for 1 min; its new genes are worked out once, as it enters, from the plants touching it in the same planter. Pumpkin's Mature stage lasts 30 min, tied for the shortest of any crop: the time to read the genes and take cuttings. Fruiting takes 30 min, so a pumpkin plant is ripe about 1 h 22 min after planting, stays Ripe for up to 24 h, and then turns Dying: the harvest and cuttings are gone, and 1 h 40 min later the plant dies. Poor light, water, temperature or soil stretch all of that for pumpkin; each G gene speeds its growth by 25%.

What pumpkin goes into

Pumpkin is an ingredient in 2 recipes on Godclone's Recipes page. Cooking Workbench: Pumpkin Pie and Rich Pumpkin Pie. See the pumpkin recipes with their ingredients and craft times.

Cows and sheep eat pumpkins from a trough: 80 calories an item, in stacks of 20. The trough calculator says how many to leave before you log off.

When Hardiness matters for pumpkin

H Hardiness copes with cold, heat and poor soil, so it earns its place in a snow or desert base, where GGGYYH pumpkin beats a plant that dies before it fruits. Anywhere else it is the weakest green for pumpkin too: the calculator scores H at 0.5 against 1 for G and Y, and you can raise it in Options when you farm in the cold. A pumpkin plant's water intake is 5 in the game files; each W Water gene adds 10% to it, which is why W counts as a bad gene.

How to breed a pumpkin god clone

1. Plant pumpkin seeds in one planter and wait about 11 minutes for the Sapling stage, then take a cutting from each and read the genes in its name.
2. Add the clones above (the calculator on this page is already set to pumpkin) and press Calculate. It tries every way of putting your pumpkin clones around a centre plant and shows the layouts that give GGGYYY or GGYYYY, the planting order when a tie needs it, and the chance of each.
3. Plant the layout in a planter with nothing but pumpkin in it. The centre crosses once, about 21 minutes after it went in (12 if it has 3 G); from Mature (30 min long for pumpkin) read its genes and clone it.
4. Clone the pumpkin while it is Mature or Ripe. A pumpkin plant gives 2 cuttings a cut with no Yield genes, 3 with GGGYYY and 4 with GGYYYY (one more per two Y, game code), so the god clone multiplies itself.

Which of the two to aim for with pumpkin depends on what you want from it: more Y means bigger harvests and more cuttings, more G means a faster bed. When to plant and the triangle planter cover the timing for pumpkin and the small planters.