Pumpkin patch

How to unlock The Carver

On the Fields map, loot a pumpkin from the patch, keep a knife in the backpack cell beside it, and beat that map's boss. The Carver joined the roster in update 0.17 on 27 Oct 2025.

Updated 2026-11-02

Fields, then a knife, then the boss

The Carver is not a menu code and not a timed event. The official 0.17 post and the German unlock guide both send you to the meadow biome called Fields. Look for the pumpkin patch. Players describe the radar question mark and the map exclamation as the tell. Loot the pumpkin into the backpack. Place a knife in a neighboring cell so the two shapes touch. Clear the boss of that same map. The official requirement is to keep the pumpkin in your backpack until that map's boss is defeated. The German guide says to equip the looted pumpkin; a storage step is not a replacement for carrying it at the boss.

Update 0.17 is titled Let's carve a pumpkin and is dated 27 Oct 2025. That post is why the character exists. It also added the blood-bag event and the costume shop. The 1.0 notes, a year later, reclassify Fresh Pumpkin and The Carver's Grin as Food. They also fix a sticker bug: pumpkin-turret and bush-trap lifetime stickers were showing seconds instead of a percent. So a 0.17 unlock can still change meaning in 1.0 if you are stacking food tags.

The grin is a turret, not a gun

The Carver starts with a knife and with The Carver's Grin, a pumpkin turret. The wiki calls the turrets triggerable: another item has to trigger them before they fire. That is a different clock from Death's scythe, which is a weapon you swing, and from the Astronaut's armor, which just sits on you. A trigger-stacking backpack is the whole point. Early maps feel thin because the knife is the only starting weapon and the turret is quiet until something else pokes it.

I would not copy a Death melee pile onto this character. Health kits do not make the turrets shoot. What the item wants is more trigger sources aimed at the grin, the same way a WiFi repeater wants buffs aimed at the relay instead of at the weapon. The workbench is optional here. Chicken needs three legendaries. The Carver needs a pumpkin, a knife, and one boss.