I would like to suggest raising sell price of pumpkins to match or exceed that of average harvest (without fortune) of melon this would encourage auto farmers such as myself to use pumpkins instead of melon reducing items and thereby lag. Currently melon sells for about 2.5x that of pumpkin this would still mean manual farms would use melon because of the higher profits with fortune but the auto farms that are known to lag would have fewer items and less lag. Thanks for reading
This actually isn't a bad idea, considering each melon produces 5 to 8 items to a pumpkin's single entity.
Bump . Melons drop on average 5 melons, so pumpkins should be 5x the price. Although you can get more melons with fortune, most lag comes from auto farms.