Melon Seeds

Melon seeds are an item that can be used to grow melon plants.

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

Natural generation
Melon stems generate naturally in stem farm inside woodland mansions.

Melon stems can generate in savanna and desert village farms.

Trading
Wandering traders sell melon seeds for 1 emerald.

Farming
Melon seeds can be planted only on farmland. Over time, they grow into a stem and produce a melon on any adjacent dirt, grass block, farmland, podzol or coarse dirt. If a melon is already occupying an adjacent dirt/grass or farmland spot, the stem does not grow any more melons until the melon is removed. A single stem can grow an unlimited number of melons. Like other seeds, they need a certain amount of light to grow and produce melons. Melon seeds are affected by bone meal only with respect to stem growth; bone meal does not help produce the actual melons.

Breeding
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 brown 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.

$$, melon stems are technical blocks that cannot be obtained directly as items in the inventory. $$, they can be obtained via inventory editing or add-ons.

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