Melon Slice

A melon slice^[a] is a food item that can be eaten by the player.

Obtaining[]

Block loot[]

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[]

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[]

Composting[]

Placing a melon slice into a composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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: Apple Baked Potato Beetroot Beetroot Soup Bread Carrot Chorus Fruit Cooked Chicken Cooked Cod Cooked Mutton Cooked Porkchop Cooked Rabbit Cooked Salmon Cookie Dried Kelp Enchanted Golden Apple Glow Berries Golden Apple Golden Carrot Honey Bottle Melon Slice Mushroom Stew Poisonous Potato Potato Pufferfish Pumpkin Pie Rabbit Stew Raw Beef Raw Chicken Raw Cod Raw Mutton Raw Porkchop Raw Rabbit Raw Salmon Rotten Flesh Spider Eye Steak Suspicious Stew Sweet Berries Tropical Fish Other foods and consumables can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.	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[]

• Pumpkin
• Glistering Melon Slice

Notes[]