About Pumpkillager's Quest
From Modrinth🎃 SpookyJam 2022: Help out the Pumpkillager! With custom encounters, rewards and a boss fight you'll get immersed in the story. Spawn him by breaking a pumpkin in this spooky scary Halloween style mod!
Pumpkillager's Quest is a SpookyJam 2022 submission. It adds a questline with multiple encounters, custom behaviours, (cosmetic) rewards and a challenging boss fight. This description will contain spoilers, but only after the <SPOILERS AHEAD> header.
The Pumpkillager
The mod does not add new assets. Instead, content is added via existing vanilla resource capabilities. Custom player head textures add new blocks, a custom renderer morphs entity sizes and event callbacks are used for added gameplay features. This also means that if you desire, the mod can be removed after the quest. You'll still be able to keep and use all rewards given.
There is a 1/10 chance to encounter the Pumpkillager when harvesting a pumpkin block. The pumpkin block has to be surrounded with empty spaces in the directions NESW, and above it. This is to prevent him from spawning where he shouldn't (e.g. custom pumpkin buildings). The mod adds a chance for a pumpkin to generate whenever a pig spawns, this will sprinkle some extra pumpkins around the world. This increases the chance of coming across the Pumpkillager naturally.
Taking the questbook from the Pumpkillager will allow you to start the quest. Use multi-block rituals and conversations to advance. The boss fight will require you to be prepared, grab your best armour and a shield! Possibly some potions. Don't worry, you'll know when the fight will happen.
Most importantly, find yourself immersed and have fun! :)
<img src="https://cdn.serilum.com/description/badges/environment/both.svg" alt="Environment: Client & Server" width="293" height="49">
All available config options:
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spumpkillagerSpawnChance default 0.1, min 0.001, max 1.0
The chance a Pumpkillager will spawn when a player breaks a pumpkin block.
enablePumpkillagerSpawnDuringCreative default false
Whether the Pumpkillager should spawn when pumpkins are broken while the player is in creative mode.
finalBossMaxHealth default 300.0, min 1.0 max 10000.0
The amount of health the final boss should have.
experienceAmountRewardFinalBoss default 250, min 0 max 10000
How much experience the final boss should drop on death.
chanceForPumpkinBlockToSpawnOnPigSpawn default 0.05, min 0 max 1.0
This is a feature to add more pumpkins to the world, to make people come across the Pumpkillager in a more natural way. Whenever a pig spawns, it has a chance to spawn on top of a pumpkin block. This will make them be sprinkled around the world. To turn it off, set the config chance value to 0.
/pumpkillager reset <player> - Resets the Pumpkillager progress for the target player.
/pumpkillager book <book> - Generates the quest book item manually.
The (first?) questbook:
The Pumpkillager:
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Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 28 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogGameplay & overhauls
New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Pumpkillager's Quest as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- FabricForgeNeoForgeQuilt
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.3 and 27 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorSerilum, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree
