Pumpkin Bruiser

Pumpkin Bruiser
Mod	Born in Chaos
Type	Hostile
Health	90 ♥×45
Attack damage	9
Armor	6
Speed	0.26
Follow range	26
Knockback resist.	0.6
Size	0.9 × 2.5 blocks
XP dropped	26
Fire immune	Yes
Spawns in	283 biomes
Category	Monster
ID	born_in_chaos_v1:pumpkin_bruiser

The Pumpkin Bruiser is a hostile mob added by Born in Chaos. It is a large, fire-immune melee monster with 90 health (45 ♥) and 9 attack damage. When it dies, it has a chance to summon a second creature, the Pumpkin Dunce.

It spawns in many overworld biomes, but only during the seasonal window described below, so players are most likely to meet it around late October and early November. Its armor value of 6 and high health mean that a player fighting it with weak weapons or no armor will take considerable damage.

Spawning

Pumpkin Bruisers are gated by the seasonal event game rules (see Seasonal Events). A Pumpkin Bruiser can only spawn when all of the following are true:

• The seasonalEvents game rule is enabled (it is on by default). Spawning also requires that either the current date is in the seasonal window, from October 25 to October 31 or from November 1 to November 7, or that the halloweenEvent game rule is enabled (it is off by default).
• The spawn location is in the overworld. The biome must be an overworld biome or a Terralith biome, and it must not be a Deep Dark or Mushroom Fields biome.
• The light level at the spawn position is low. Where the spawn position can see the sky, the raw light level must be 4 or less. Where it cannot, the raw light level must be 0.

When these conditions are met, the mob can spawn in the 283 biomes listed in the table below, with a spawn weight of 5 and a group size of 1 per spawn. Its spawn egg, the Pumpkin Bruiser Spawn Egg, is stackable to 64 and can be used to summon it in any situation that allows the mob to exist.

Behavior

The Pumpkin Bruiser is a standard melee hostile. It has no ranged attack, no special ability, and no phases.

• Targeting: It targets players and villagers. It also retaliates against any entity that damages it.
• Melee attack: Its only attack is a melee strike that deals 9 damage. It can strike when it is within 1.5 blocks of its target and has line of sight to it. Its attack knockback is 3.6.
• Movement: It moves at a speed of 0.26 and can walk up blocks up to 1.6 blocks high. When it has no target, it wanders randomly at 60% of its movement speed.
• Detection: Its follow range is 26 blocks.
• Resistances: It takes no damage from fire, drowning, or lightning bolts. It is immune to fire and has a knockback resistance of 0.6, so it is pushed back much less than most mobs.
• Size: It is 0.9 blocks wide and 2.5 blocks tall.

It is a Monster-category mob with 26 experience points, which it drops when it dies.

Drops

The Pumpkin Bruiser's loot table gives Rotten Flesh, Smoldering Infernal Ember, a Rotten Infernal Pumpkin, and a set of candy items, such as Holiday Candy, Mint Candy, and Chocolate Heart. Quantities are listed in the table below.

Item	Amount	Conditions
Rotten Flesh	x3.0-5.0
Rotten Infernal Pumpkin	x1.0-1.0
Smoldering Infernal Ember	x3.0-6.0
Holiday Candy	x1.0-3.0
Mint Candy	x1.0-3.0
Mint Ice Cream	x1.0-3.0
Caramel Pepper	x1.0-3.0
Gummy Vampire Teeth	x1.0-3.0
Chocolate Heart	x1.0-3.0
Coffee Candy	x1.0-3.0

Death effect

When the Pumpkin Bruiser dies, it stays in the world for 30 ticks (1.5 seconds) before it is removed. At that point, it has a 36% chance to summon a Pumpkin Dunce one block above its position. When the chance succeeds, the Pumpkin Dunce is spawned facing the same direction as the Pumpkin Bruiser, and a pumpkin hit sound and a pumpkin explosion particle effect play. When the chance fails, nothing else happens.

Tips

• Its high armor value of 6 reduces the damage it takes from each hit, so use a weapon with good damage per hit rather than a fast weapon with low damage per hit.
• Its 1.5-block melee reach is short, so ranged weapons and bows are effective against it, since it only closes distance by walking.
• Because it is fire immune, do not rely on fire damage. Drowning and lightning do not work on it either.
• Because it has a 36% chance to summon a Pumpkin Dunce on death, be ready for a second enemy after killing it.
• Its low light spawn requirement means it appears in dark places. Lighting the area around a base reduces the chance of it spawning nearby.