I have the following enabled in my config:

Cant Craft Melonseeds: true

Players can still craft pumpkin seeds by using shears on pumpkin blocks.

The pumpkin seeds pop out as an entity that can be picked up when shears are right clicked on a placed pumpkin block (this is how you make a jack o lantern). Our server uses Aurelium/Aura Skills, which gets EXP from farming. Farming melons and pumpkins was deemed too easy, because players could create huge towers of them and break the blocks easily without having to replant them for exp. Therefore we decided to make seeds scarce.

But because pumpkin seeds can still be obtained, people are now making pumpkin farms instead of melon/pumpkin farms to grind. We want to nerf all melon and pumpkin seeds so that they can only be obtained from chests.

are pumpkin seeds crafted or merely obtained from the pumpkin blocks?

If the latter, then I guess this would technically be a new feature request to implement. (Though should be relatively easy to implement.)

They are obtained from placed pumpkin blocks. When you use shears on them to make a jack o lantern, their seeds pop out as an entity that can be picked up.

mk then that means it'd be a separate event handler.

However, not sure if this is intended behavior. (Maybe the intent was to require shears?) Checking docs...

hmm, I guess to help provide context, when did pumpkin seeds drop, and I guess what benefit do pumpkins bring... can they be used for food?

(Yes I haven't played much Minecraft, my knowledge is still mostly from beta lol.)

Cool, thanks for the info.

As per the readme, I only give feature request support to patrons. Since this seems like a relatively simple and easy feature, and it kind of exists between the bug/feature line, I may get around to implementing this feature soon.

Looked into this, spending a bit of time to setup an environment to test. There appears to be no specific event fired for shearing a block. EventDebug reveals an interact event with the pumpkin, and ItemSpawnEvent for the seeds that drop. Will take more work than expected to get this to work right, effort equivalent to adding a new feature, estimating at medium complexity. As such I'll work on this for patrons only, but anyone else is free to PR this or provide assistance or info.