Melon

"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."

- Tom Stone

Melons are fruit blocks that grow from fully grown melon seeds.

Natural generation
Melons are naturally generated in jungle biomes, in savanna villages and inside tillage rooms of woodland mansions.

Post-generation
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 block, farmland, podzol or coarse dirt. Melons take 10 to 30 minutes to grow, which is equal to 0.5 or 1.5 of a Day-night cycle. 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. Melons require a light level of 9 or higher to grow.

From block loot
Melons can be harvested using any tool or by hand. Axes, followed by swords, are the fastest tools for harvesting melons. Using a tool enchanted with silk touch drops a complete unbroken melon, instead of slices.

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

Breaking
A melon drops 3–7 melon slices when broken by hand, using tools, or by the movement of a piston.

Trading
Villagers who are journeymen (level 3) 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.

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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.


 * A melon may drop fewer melon slices than is required to craft a melon block.