Melon Seeds

Melon seeds are items obtained from melon slices that can be used to grow melon stems.

Melon stems are plants grown on farmland that, over time, grow melons on dirt, mud and moss blocks adjacent to them.

Obtaining[]

Breaking[]

When broken, a melon stem drops 0–3 melon seeds. The chance for melon seeds to drop increases with the stem's age.

Resource location	Source	Default
		Nothing	Melon seeds
			1	2	3
blocks/melon_stem	Melon stem age = 0	81.3%	17.42%	1.24%	0.03%
	Melon stem age = 1	65.1%	30.04%	4.62%	0.24%
	Melon stem age = 2	51.2%	38.4%	9.6%	0.8%
	Melon stem age = 3	39.44%	43.02%	15.64%	1.9%
	Melon stem age = 4	29.13%	44.44%	22.22%	3.7%
	Melon stem age = 5	21.6%	43.2%	28.8%	6.4%
	Melon stem age = 6	15.17%	39.82%	34.84%	10.16%
	Melon stem age = 7	10.16%	34.84%	39.82%	15.17%
blocks/attached_melon_stem	Attached Melon stem	10.16%	34.84%	39.82%	15.17%

Natural generation[]

Melon stems generate naturally in stem farm inside woodland mansions.

Melon stems generate in 20% of the farm plots in savanna villages, and 10% of the farm plots in desert villages.

Chest loot[]

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Melon Seeds	Dungeon	Chest	2–4	18.5%
	Mineshaft	Chest	2–4	27.3%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	2–4	18.5%
Bedrock Edition
Melon Seeds	Dungeon	Chest	2–4	18.5%
	Mineshaft	Chest	2–4	27.3%
	Bonus chest	Chest	1–2	33.3%
	Woodland mansion	Chest	2–4	18.5%

Crafting[]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Melon Slice

Trading[]

Wandering traders sell melon seeds for 1 emerald.

Usage[]

Farming[]

Melon seeds can be planted only on farmland, as stems. Over time, a stem grows through several stages^{[needs testing]} and, at its final growth stage, will produce melons on any adjacent dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, grass block, farmland, podzol, mycelium, moss block, mud or muddy mangrove roots. If a melon is already occupying a spot adjacent to a stem it does not grow more melons until the melons is removed. A single stem can grow an unlimited number of melons. Melon stems need a minimum light level of 10 in the block above the stem to grow and give melons. Melon seeds are affected by bone meal only with respect to stem growth; bone meal does not help produce the actual melons.

Breeding[]

Like other seeds, melon seeds can be used to breed chickens, lead chickens around, and make baby chickens grow up faster by 10% of the remaining time.

Taming[]

Like other seeds, melon seeds can be used to tame parrots.

Composting[]

Placing melon seeds into a composter has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Melon Stem[]

A melon stem is the block that is planted on farmland when melon seeds are used on it. It starts underground, and rises up as the plant grows. The stem is colored green when young, and then yellow once fully grown.

The stem curves once a melon has grown from it. A fully-grown single stem connects to any melon in an adjacent square, thus there are 5 possible appearances to a stem. If there are multiple melons it can connect to, it favors the east, then west, north, and south. When the melon is removed, the stem returns to its straight shape.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wood.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	item.crop.plant[sound 1]	subtitles.block.generic.place	0.45	0.8/0.96	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wood.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	None[sound 2]	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wood.fall	None[sound 2]	0.5	0.75	16
	Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.wood	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.wood	1.0	0.8
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.wood	0.23	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.wood	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.wood	0.3	1.0
	Players	Jumping from the block	jump.wood	0.12	1.0
	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.wood	0.18	1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Melon Stem	melon_stem	Block	bee_growables crops	block.minecraft.melon_stem
Attached Melon Stem	attached_melon_stem	Block	None	block.minecraft.attached_melon_stem
Melon Seeds	melon_seeds	Item	—	item.minecraft.melon_seeds

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Melon Stem	melon_stem	105	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	—
Melon Seeds	melon_seeds	293	Item	—	item.melon_seeds.name

Block states[]

Java Edition:
Growing

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
age	0	0	A newly planted stem.
		1 2 3 4 5 6	Intermediate growth stages of the stem.
		7	A fully mature stem, capable of producing melons.

Attached

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing	north	east north south west	The direction from the stem to the melon.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
growth	0x1 0x2 0x4	0	0	0	A newly planted stem.
			1 2 3 4 5 6	1 2 3 4 5 6	Intermediate growth stages of the stem.
			7	7	A fully mature stem, capable of producing melons.
facing_direction	Not Supported	0	0 1	Unsupported	Unused
			2	Unsupported	Stem pointing north.
			3	Unsupported	Stem pointing south.
			4	Unsupported	Stem pointing west.
			5	Unsupported	Stem pointing east.

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	A Seedy Place	Plant a seed and watch it grow	Husbandry	Plant one of these 7 crops: Beetroot Melon Nether Wart Pumpkin Wheat Torchflower Pitcher Other crops and plants can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement.	husbandry/plant_seed

History[]

Java Edition Beta
1.8		Pre-release			Added melon seeds.
					Added the melon stem, with seven stages of growth.
					Melon seeds can found in the new mineshaft chests.
					Melon stems have four slightly visually distinct appearances for each facing direction - the bent part of the stem rotates, but the other two planes do not.
					Melon stem data values 8–15 now show a glitched formation, with a floating stem with an attached stem cross eventually emerging below.
					Melon stem blocks with data values higher than 7 can now attach to adjacent fruits, which results in buggy stem textures with vines in the mix due to vines being below attached stems in terrain.png.
		Pre-release 2 ;)			Melon stems can now be grown faster using bone meal.
Java Edition
1.3.1		1.3			The texture of melon stems has been moved one pixel to the left in terrain.png.
					Stems now appear slightly different.
					Overgrown stems now appear slightly different.
					Attached melon stems now appear slightly different.
					Overgrown attached melon stems now appear slightly different.
1.4.2		12w36a			Chickens now use wheat seeds, melon seeds, and pumpkin seeds, instead of wheat to breed.
1.5		13w02a			Melon stems now use a squished version of their texture for immature stems, depending on age.
					This also affects melon stems of ages 8–15, which are likewise stretched to accommodate its predicted size.
					Melon stems of extreme ages, which are attached to adjacent fruits, now show a stretched and tinted stem appearance.
		13w03a			Melon stems are no longer squished or stretched to account for age.[1]
					Melon stems with age values 8 through 15 now show a tinted trapdoor texture.
					From this version up until 14w08a, overgrown melon stems start to draw from the texture below them on the texture atlas, in much the same way they previously did with terrain.png. However, as texture atlases are unstable and textures tend to change positions as new blocks and textures are added, overgrown stems change the texture they draw from every time new textures are added, which includes when textures added by mods.
		13w09a			Melon stems with age values 8–15 now show a tinted birch wood texture.
1.6.1		13w24a			Melon and pumpkin stems have now been assigned separate textures.
					Melon stems with age values 8–15 now show a tinted note block texture.
1.7.2		13w37a			Added the /setblock command, allowing for invalid stem ages to be placed in the world without using external editors. This also allows them to be obtained in earlier versions via backdating.
		13w41a			Melon stems with age values 8–15 now show a tinted netherrack texture.
1.8		14w10a			Melon stems with data values 8–11 now display a tinted attached stem, with 8 facing west, 9 facing east, 10 facing north and 11 facing south.
					Invalid melon stems with data values 12-15 now crash the game.
		14w25a			Melon stems now render as a single diagonal plane, or, in the case of attached stems, a diagonal and orthogonal plane.
					The attached melon stem model now fully rotates to the direction the stem points. Prior to this update, the base of the melon stem would stay the same while the long attaching section would differ, resulting in four possible attached stem appearances.
					Invalid overgrown melon stems have effectively been removed from the game, as attempting to place an out of range stem via /setblock creates a stem of age 0 and loading a world with such stems existing causes a game crash.
		14w26a			Melon stems now correctly render as crosses again.[2]
		14w27a			Due to a bug, all melon stems appear attached regardless of age or any actual attachment.[3]
		14w28a			All melon stems appearing attached regardless of age or any actual attachment has been fixed. However, melon stems still appear attached to adjacent fruits regardless of age due to a similar bug.[4]
		14w34d			Melon seeds can no longer be used for breeding chickens.
1.9		15w31a			Chickens can now use melon seeds to breed again.
		15w44a			Melon seeds have been added to dungeon chests.
					The average yield of melon seeds from mineshaft chests has been decreased.
		15w45a			Melon stems must now be fully grown again to attach.
1.11		16w39a			Melon seeds can now be found inside chests in the new woodland mansions.
					Melon crops now generate inside woodland mansions.
1.12		17w18b			Placing a melon seeds in farmland now gives the player the "A Seedy Place" advancement.[verify]
1.13		17w47a			The different block states for the melon_stem ID have been split up into their own IDs.
					Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 105, and the item's 362.
		17w48a			Attached melon stems no longer drop seeds.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of attached melon stems has been changed.
		18w49a			Melon stems now generate in the updated savanna villages.
		18w50a			Melon stems now generate in the updated desert villages.
		19w03a			Placing melon seeds into the new composter has a 10% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
		19w05a			Melon seeds now have a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
					Added wandering traders, which sell melon seeds.
1.15		19w34a			Bees can now pollinate melon stems.
		19w39a			Attached melon stems now drop seeds again.[5]
1.18		Pre-release 5			The texture of melon seeds has been changed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.5.0					Added melon seeds.
					[verify] Added melon stems.
v0.6.0					Melon seeds no longer use the pumpkin seeds texture.
v0.9.0		?			Melon seeds can now be found in mineshaft chests.
v0.12.1		build 1			Melon seeds are no longer available from the Nether reactor.
v0.14.0		build 1			Melon seeds can now be found in minecarts with chests in mineshafts.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Melon seeds now generate inside dungeon chests.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Melon crops now generate inside woodland mansions.
					Melon seeds can now be found in woodland mansion chests.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Melon seeds can now be found inside bonus chests.
					Melon seeds are now used to tame parrots.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			[more information needed] The texture of attached melon stems has been changed.
					Melon stems now generate in savanna and desert village farms.
					Added wandering traders, who sell melon seeds.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Melon seeds can now be used to fill up composters.
1.14.0		beta 1.14.0.1			Bees can now pollinate melon stems.
Legacy Console Edition
TU5	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added melon seeds.
					[verify] Added melon stems.
		1.90			[more information needed] The texture of attached melon stems has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					[verify] Added melon stems.

• 

  The final version of the melon stem with age 15, as seen in-game.

• 

  Melon stems of ages 1–15 on a modded version of 1.7.2, hence the melon stems using the melon top texture.

• 

  All 16 stem sizes in 13w02a, with accompanying data values.

Melon stem "item"[]

The following content is transcluded from Technical blocks/Melon Stem.

Java Edition Beta
1.8		Pre-release			Melon stems have an extra, unobtainable item form corresponding to its block ID. It can be obtained via inventory editors with numeric item ID 105.
Java Edition
1.2.5		pre			Melon stems can now be obtained via Pick Block in creative.
1.3.1		12w16a			Melon stem items can now be obtained in singleplayer worlds via the /give command using the respective numeric ID.
1.7.2		13w37a			The direct item form of melon stems has been removed from the game. It can no longer exist as an item in any way, only as a placed block.
Pocket Edition Alpha
?					Melon stems probably exist as an item.

Appearances[]

Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease			The melon stem item uses this texture in inventories, when held in first or third person view or as a dropped item.
1.3.1		1.3			The melon stem item now uses this texture in inventories, when held in first or third person view or as a dropped item.
					This is due to the stem texture changing in this version, being moved a pixel to the left.
1.4.2		12w34a			The melon stem item now uses the aforementioned texture when in an item frame.
Bedrock Edition
?					Melon stems appear tinted in the inventory, although not anywhere else.[6]

Names[]

Java Edition

• 13w25c - 13w36b: tile.pumpkinStem.name

Bedrock Edition

• ? - ?: tile.melon_stem.name^[6]

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Melon Seeds" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery[]

• 

  All stages of growth.

• 

  All the seeds that exist in the game.

See also[]

• Melon
• Pumpkin Seeds

References[]