Melon

Melons are blocks that grow from fully grown melon seeds.

Obtaining
Melons can be mined with any tool, but axes (and swords) are the quickest. Can only be obtained using a tool with silk touch, or it will drop 3-7 melon slices.

Farming
For other types of farming see Farming (disambiguation)

To start a Melon farm, one must first find Melon Seeds, which can be found in abandoned mine shaft chests. You can also obtain melons (which can be crafted into melon seeds) from trading with villagers, and/or finding them naturally spawning in jungles. Planting a melon seed places a small stem that will grow over time. Once the stem reaches maturity and is not already connected to a melon, the stem will attempt to spawn 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 connected to a melon, that stem will not produce any further melons until the existing melon is harvested. See the tutorial.

History
Melons were first revealed in an IGN interview with Notch.

Trivia

 * Any stem adjacent to a melon block will appear to be connected to it, even if the melon was not grown from that stem.
 * Due to this, if a Melon block spawns between two stems, it will connect to both of them. Pumpkins also do this.
 * On the Getsatisfaction.com complete ideas for the Ideas section, it was stated that Watermelons were to be implemented.
 * Despite the fact that the block and the items are called "Melon", "Melon Slice" and "Glistering Melon", they have the appearance of Watermelons and Watermelon Slices, like they were originally supposed to be named.
 * When a melon block is pushed by a piston, it will break into melon slices.
 * The block form is square, yet the slices are round.