For the consumable in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Melon.
A melon slice[a] is an edible item obtained from breaking melons. Melon slices can be crafted back into melon blocks.
Obtaining
Block loot
See also: Pumpkin and melon farming
Melon slices can be obtained by breaking (harvesting) melons using any tool or by hand. Axes, followed by swords, are the fastest tools for harvesting melons. A melon drops 3–7 melon slices, when broken; by hand, using a tool, or after being broken by the movement of a piston, with an average of 4.64 slices per melon.
Breaking a melon with a tool enchanted with Fortune increases the potential number of drops by 1 slice per level, up to a maximum of 9 slices.
Usage
Food
See also: Hunger management
To eat a melon slice, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating one restores 2 (
) hunger and 1.2 hunger
saturation.
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Glistering Melon Slice | Gold Nugget + Melon Slice |
|
| Melon | Melon Slice | |
| Melon Seeds | Melon Slice |
Composting
Placing a melon slice into a composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
Sounds
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eating | Players | While a player is eating something | entity | subtitles | varies [sound 1] | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Eating | Friendly Creatures | When a player finishes eating something | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.6-1.4 | 16 | |
| Burp | Players | When a player finishes eating something | entity | subtitles | 0.5 | 0.9-1.0 | 16 |
- ↑ Can be 0.5, 1.0, or 1.5
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | While a player is eating something | random | 0.5-1.1 | 0.8-1.2 | |
| Players | When a player finishes eating something | random | 0.5 | 0.9-1.0 |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melon Slice | melon_slice | Item | item.minecraft.melon_slice |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melon | melon_slice | melon | 272 | Item | item.melon.name |
Advancements
|
|
Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
 | Husbandry | The world is full of friends and food | — | Consume anything that can be consumed. | husbandry/root
|
|
|
 | A Balanced Diet | Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you | A Seedy Place | Eat each of these 40 foods:
| husbandry/balanced_diet
|
History
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | Pre-release |  Added melons. | |||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4 | Melons are now used in the crafting recipe of glistering melons. | |||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5 | Melons once again drop the correct number of slices. | ||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | Melons can now be bought from farmer villagers, at 5–8 melon slices for 1 emerald. | |||
| 1.7.2 | 13w37a | Block ID 105, melon stem, has been removed from the /give command. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Villagers no longer sell melons. They now buy melons instead. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 360. | |||
| 18w20b | "Melon" has been renamed to "Melon Slice." | ||||
The ID of melon slices has been changed from melon to melon_slice. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | The texture of melon slices has been changed. | |||
| 19w03a | Placing a melon slice into the new composter has a 20% chance of raising the compost level by 1. | ||||
| 19w05a | Melon slices now have a 50% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.5.0 | Added melons.
| ||||
Melons restore 2 each, rather than 2 (). | |||||
| v0.12.1 | ? | Added Melon slice to the Creative inventory. | |||
| build 1 | Melons now restores hunger instead of health. | ||||
| Melons can no longer be obtained from nether reactors. | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.3 | Breaking a melon with shears now always yields 9 melons. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | The texture of melons has been changed. | |||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Melons can now be used to fill up composters. | |||
| beta 1.11.0.4 | Melons can now be sold to farmer villagers. | ||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | Trading has been changed, melon slices can no longer be sold to farmer villagers. | |||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.56 | The ID of melon slices has been changed from melon to melon_slice. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU5 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added melons. | |
| 1.90 | The texture of melons has been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added melons. | ||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Melon Slice" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
See also
Notes
- ↑ Known as Melon Slice in Java Edition and Melon in Bedrock Edition.