Board Thread:Bug Reports/@comment-27179360-20160205165737

Since hobbits are so short, they suffocate when a pumpkin or melon grows where they are standing. This makes it difficult to farm pumpkins/melons with hobbit farmhands, since they will slowly die off. This does not affect dwarves, since they are tall enough.

I can see two solutions to this:

1. Make it so that pumpkins can't grow in a block that is occupied by an entity. (I'm not sure if this is possible with a Forge mod)

2. Make it so that hobbits will jump or teleport to  the block above them if they are suffocating in a pumpkin/melon block and there is an empty space above that block. 