Melon

"Few cubes get our mouths watering and stomachs rumbling quite like the melon block. It's a tasty treat that drops slices which keep your food bar looking healthy and a block that can be used to build a deliciously nutritious looking house. But hang on a second... a block that's also a melon? Has the world gone mad?"

- Tom Stone

Melons are blocks that grow from fully grown melon seeds.

Obtaining
Melons can be harvested 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.

In Bedrock Edition, breaking a melon block with shears does not drop 9 melons, rather they yield the same as any other tool.

Natural generation
Melons are naturally generated in jungle biomes and inside "Stem farm" rooms of woodland mansions.

Melons can be found in savanna villages.

Farming
Melon seeds can be planted, placing a small stem that grows over time. Once the stem reaches maturity, it attempts to generate a melon block in one of the four immediately adjacent blocks; however, this attempt may fail if the chosen adjacent block is not empty or the block beneath is not dirt, grass, or farmland. Once a stem has produced to a melon, that stem does not produce any further melons until the existing melon is harvested. Melon stems connect only to the melons they produce. For example, if stem A generates a melon adjacent to stem B, stem B does not connect and can still produce another melon. Similarly, if a melon is placed adjacent to stem B, stem B would still be able to produce another melon. The same principle applies for pumpkins.

Endermen
Endermen can pick up melon blocks and drop them upon death without breaking them into melon slices.

Trading
Farmers buy 7–12 melons for an emerald.

Journeyman-level Farmers buy 4 melons for an emerald.

Composting
Placing a melon into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Trivia

 * Any stem adjacent to a melon block appears connected to it, even if the melon was not grown from that stem. Due to this, if a melon block generates between two stems, it connects to both of them. Pumpkins also do this, although they do not connect to plants of different species.