Sir Pumpkinhead

Sir Pumpkinhead
Mod	Born in Chaos
Species	7

The Sir Pumpkinhead is a boss-class hostile mob added by Born in Chaos. It is a mounted knight with a pumpkin head that takes a second, dismounted form when its health falls below 30. It is one of the pumpkin-themed bosses of the mod, alongside Lord Pumpkinhead. Sir Pumpkinhead spawns naturally only during the autumn pumpkin season or while the mod's Halloween event is active, so it is mostly met in the dark around Halloween.

Sir Pumpkinhead is fire immune. Explosions, falling, drowning, lightning and fire damage do not hurt it. Each hit it takes triggers a short self-defence reaction, described under Behavior.

Spawning

Sir Pumpkinhead is a natural spawn in the Overworld. Its spawn entry applies to every biome, and the spawn table below lists the biomes and weights the game reports for it.

The mod replaces the vanilla spawn placement check for Sir Pumpkinhead with its own rule. A spawn is allowed only when all of these hold:

• The mod's seasonal-events and Sir Pumpkinhead spawn game rules are both enabled.
• The date is 25 to 31 October, or 1 to 7 November, or the mod's Halloween event game rule is enabled.
• The spawn position is in the Overworld, in a biome tagged as Overworld, or in a biome from the Terralith mod.
• The light level is 4 or lower where the sky is visible, or 0 or lower where it is not.
• The biome is not Deep Dark or Mushroom Fields.

Outside these conditions Sir Pumpkinhead does not spawn naturally. The dismounted form is not a natural spawn; it appears only through the transition described below.

Behavior

Mounted form

The mounted form has 160 health, 6 attack damage, 9 armour and a knockback of 1.2. It fights in melee only. It targets the nearest player within 20 blocks and attacks anything that hurts it. Its melee reach is about 1.4 blocks. Between fights it wanders, looks at nearby players and idles. It gives no experience when killed.

Each time Sir Pumpkinhead takes damage from any source other than fire, falling, drowning, lightning or explosions, a hurt handler runs. If Sir Pumpkinhead is not burning and does not already have Magic Depletion, the handler applies these effects and actions to it:

• Resistance II for 7.5 seconds (150 ticks).
• Magic Depletion for 10 seconds (200 ticks). While this effect is active the reaction does not run again, so it cannot repeat within that window.
• Summons a pumpkin-headed companion called Mr. Pumpkin on each side of itself, 2 blocks away along the x-axis, provided the spot is not solid.
• Teleports 8 blocks away to the first open spot among the four horizontal directions, one block above its current height.

The handler also dismounts Sir Pumpkinhead from any vehicle it is riding, on every hit, including hits received while burning or under Magic Depletion.

Damage that Sir Pumpkinhead deals also applies Soul Stratification for 8 seconds (160 ticks, level I) to the target, when the mod's Soul Stratification game rule is enabled. A target that already has the effect does not receive it again.

Dismounted form

When the mounted Sir Pumpkinhead's health drops below 30, it is removed on that tick and replaced at the same spot by two new mobs:

• a Felsteed, a hostile mob that is separate from Sir Pumpkinhead, and
• a dismounted Sir Pumpkinhead with 120 health, 3 attack damage and 4 armour.

A lightning bolt strikes the spot, and rain starts if the weather is clear. The dismounted form does not despawn and is always persistent. It uses a ranged attack that fires Pumpkin Staff projectiles every 50 ticks from up to 10 blocks away. It targets players, iron golems and several pack mobs, including Pumpkin Spirits, controlled Mr. Pumpkin entities and controlled baby skeletons. Its hurt reaction is the same damage filter as the mounted form, but it does not summon Mr. Pumpkin or teleport, so the Resistance and Magic Depletion reaction does not apply to it.

Drops

Sir Pumpkinhead defines no loot table in the mod, so it drops no items on death. The table below shows what the game reports for it.

Sir Pumpkinhead

No item drops.

Variants

The two forms share the Sir Pumpkinhead name but are separate entities. The table below lists both with their generated stats.

• Mounted Sir Pumpkinhead: 160 health, 6 attack damage, 9 armour, movement speed 0.36. Melee only.
• Dismounted Sir Pumpkinhead: 120 health, 3 attack damage, 4 armour, movement speed 0.25. Ranged.

Tips

• Each hit on the mounted form triggers the Resistance II and Magic Depletion reaction, and the 8-block teleport. Expect to chase it, and time damage around the 10-second Magic Depletion window.
• Fire, explosions and lightning do nothing to Sir Pumpkinhead, so they are not counters to it.
• The dismounted form is the bigger threat, because its Pumpkin Staff attack can reach across a room. Break line of sight before you close the distance.
• The Felsteed that appears at the transition is a hostile mob, not a mount for you. Deal with it before you fight the dismounted form.
• When the mod's Halloween event game rule is on, Sir Pumpkinhead can spawn outside the 25 October to 7 November window.