Melon Seeds
Renewable |
Yes |
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Stackable |
Yes (64) |
Tool |
None |
Blast resistance |
0 |
Hardness |
0 |
Luminant |
No |
Transparent |
Yes |
Flammable |
No |
Catches fire from lava |
No |
Melon seeds are an item that can be used to grow melon plants.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Breaking[edit]
When broken, a melon stem drops 0–3 melon seeds. The chance for seeds to drop increases with the stem's age.
Namespaced ID | Source | Default | |||
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Nothing | Melon seeds | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | |||
blocks/melon_stem
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Melon stem age = 0
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81.3% | 17.42% | 1.24% | 0.03% |
Melon stem age = 1
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65.1% | 30.04% | 4.62% | 0.24% | |
Melon stem age = 2
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51.2% | 38.4% | 9.6% | 0.8% | |
Melon stem age = 3
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39.44% | 43.02% | 15.64% | 1.9% | |
Melon stem age = 4
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29.13% | 44.44% | 22.22% | 3.7% | |
Melon stem age = 5
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21.6% | 43.2% | 28.8% | 6.4% | |
Melon stem age = 6
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15.17% | 39.82% | 34.84% | 10.16% | |
Melon stem age = 7
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10.16% | 34.84% | 39.82% | 15.17% | |
blocks/attached_melon_stem
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Attached Melon stem | 10.16% | 34.84% | 39.82% | 15.17% |
Natural generation[edit]
Melon stems generate naturally in stem farm inside woodland mansions.
Melon stems can generate in savanna and desert village farms.
Chest loot[edit]
Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
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Java Edition | ||||
Melon Seeds | Dungeon | Chest | 2–4 | 18.5% |
Mineshaft | Chest | 2–4 | 31.6% | |
Woodland mansion | Chest | 2–4 | 18.5% | |
Java Edition 1.17[upcoming] | ||||
Melon Seeds | Mineshaft | Chest | 2–4 | 27.3% |
Bedrock Edition | ||||
Melon Seeds | Dungeon | Chest | 2–4 | 18.5% |
Mineshaft | Chest | 2–4 | 31.6% | |
Bonus chest | Chest | 1–2 | 33.3% | |
Woodland mansion | Chest | 2–4 | 18.5% | |
Bedrock Edition 1.17.0[upcoming] | ||||
Melon Seeds | Mineshaft | Chest | 2–4 | 27.3% |
Crafting[edit]
Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
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Melon Slice |
Trading[edit]
Wandering traders sell melon seeds for 1 emerald.
Usage[edit]
Farming[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
Like other seeds, melon seeds can be used to tame parrots.
Composting[edit]
Placing melon seeds into a composter has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
Melon Stem[edit]
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.
In Java Edition, melon stems are technical blocks that cannot be obtained directly as items in the inventory. In Bedrock Edition, they can be obtained via inventory editing or add-ons.
Sounds[edit]
Sound | Subtitle | Source | Description | Namespaced ID | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
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Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block.crop.break | subtitles.block.generic.break | 0.9 | ? | 16 | |
None[sound 1] | Blocks | Falling on the block with fall damage | block.wood.fall | None[sound 1] | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block.wood.hit | subtitles.block.generic.hit | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | item.crop.plant[sound 2] | subtitles.block.generic.place | 0.45 | ? | 16 | |
Footsteps | Blocks | Walking on the block | block.wood.step | subtitles.block.generic.footsteps | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
Bedrock Edition:[more information needed]
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
Name | Namespaced ID | Block tags (JE) | Form | Translation key |
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Melon Stem | melon_stem | bee_growables crops | Block | block.minecraft.melon_stem |
Attached Melon Stem | attached_melon_stem | None | Block | block.minecraft.attached_melon_stem |
Melon Seeds | melon_seeds | — | Item | item.minecraft.melon_seeds |
Name | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
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Melon Stem | melon_stem | 105 | Block | tile.melon_stem.name |
Melon Seeds | melon_seeds | 362 | Item | item.melon_seeds.name |
Metadata[edit]
In Bedrock Edition, melon stems use the following data values:
Value | Stage |
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0 | Freshly planted stem |
1 | First stage of growth |
2 | Second stage of growth |
3 | Third stage of growth |
4 | Fourth stage of growth |
5 | Fifth stage of growth |
6 | Sixth stage of growth |
7 | Seventh stage of growth In this stage a stem can generate a melon or pumpkin next to it on an empty dirt, grass or farmland block |
Block states[edit]
Java Edition:
Growing
Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
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age | 0
| 0 | A newly-planted stem. |
1 2 3 4 5 6 | Intermediate growth stages of the stem. | ||
7 | A fully-mature stem, capable of producing melons. |
Attached
Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
---|---|---|---|
facing | north | east north south west | The direction from the stem to the melon. |
Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
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growth | 0
| 0 | A newly-planted stem. |
1 2 3 4 5 6 | Intermediate growth stages of the stem. | ||
7 | A fully-mature stem, capable of producing melons. |
Advancements[edit]
Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Namespaced ID |
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![]() | A Seedy Place | Plant a seed and watch it grow | Husbandry | Plant one of these 5 crops:
| husbandry/plant_seed
|
History[edit]
Java Edition Beta | |||||
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1.8 | Pre-release | ![]() | |||
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Melon seeds can found in the new mineshaft chests. | |||||
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Pre-release 2 ;) | Melon stems can now be grown faster using bone meal. | ||||
Java Edition | |||||
1.3.1 | 1.3 | The texture of melon stems has been moved one pixel to the left in terrain.png. | |||
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1.4.2 | 12w36a | Chickens now use wheat seeds, melon seeds, and pumpkin seeds, instead of wheat to breed. | |||
1.5 | 13w02a | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
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13w03a | Melon stems are no longer squished or stretched to account for age.[1] | ||||
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From this version up until 14w08a, overgrown melon stems start to draw from the texture below them on the texture atlas, in much the same way they previously did with terrain.png. However, as texture atlases are unstable and textures tend to change positions as new blocks and textures are added, overgrown stems change the texture they draw from every time new textures are added, which includes when textures added by mods. | |||||
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1.6.1 | 13w24a | Melon and pumpkin stems have now been assigned separate textures. | |||
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1.7.2 | 13w37a | Added the /setblock command, allowing for invalid stem ages to be placed in the world without using external editors. This also allows them to be obtained in earlier versions via backdating. | |||
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1.8 | 14w10a | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
Invalid melon stems with data values 12-15 now crash the game. | |||||
14w25a | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
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Invalid overgrown melon stems have effectively been removed from the game, as attempting to place an out of range stem via /setblock creates a stem of age 0 and loading a world with such stems existing causes a game crash. | |||||
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14w28a | All melon stems appearing attached regardless of age or any actual attachment has been fixed. However, melon stems still appear attached to adjacent fruits regardless of age due to a similar bug.[4] | ||||
14w34d | Melon seeds can no longer be used for breeding chickens. | ||||
1.9 | 15w31a | Chickens can now use melon seeds to breed again. | |||
15w44a | Melon seeds have been added to dungeon chests. | ||||
The average yield of melon seeds from mineshaft chests has been decreased. | |||||
15w45a | Melon stems must now be fully grown again to attach. | ||||
1.11 | 16w39a | Melon seeds can now be found in the new woodland mansions. | |||
Melon crops now generate inside woodland mansions. | |||||
1.13 | 17w47a | The different block states for the melon_stem ID have been split up into their own IDs.
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Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 105, and the item's 362. | |||||
? | Attached melon stems no longer drop seeds. | ||||
1.14 | 18w43a | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
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? | Melon stems now generate in villages. | ||||
19w03a | Placing melon seeds into the new composter has a 10% chance of raising the compost level by 1. | ||||
19w05a | Melon seeds now have a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1. | ||||
1.15 | 19w34a | Bees can now pollinate melon stems. | |||
19w39a | Attached melon stems now drop seeds again.[5] | ||||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
v0.5.0 | Added melon seeds. | ||||
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v0.6.0 | ![]() | ||||
v0.9.0 | ? | Melon seeds can now be found in mineshaft chests. | |||
v0.12.1 | build 1 | Melon seeds are no longer available from the Nether reactor. | |||
v0.14.0 | build 1 | Melon seeds can now be found in minecarts with chests in mineshafts. | |||
Pocket Edition | |||||
1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Melon seeds now generate inside dungeon chests. | |||
1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Melon crops now generate inside woodland mansions. | |||
Melon seeds can now be found in woodland mansion chests. | |||||
Bedrock Edition | |||||
1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Melon seeds can now be found inside bonus chests. | |||
Melon seeds are now used to tame parrots. | |||||
1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ![]() | |||
Melon stems now generate in savanna and desert village farms. | |||||
Added wandering traders, who sell melon seeds. | |||||
1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Melon seeds can now be used to fill up composters. | |||
1.14.0 | beta 1.14.0.1 | Bees can now pollinate melon stems. | |||
Legacy Console Edition | |||||
TU5 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | ![]() | |
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1.90 | ![]() | ||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
0.1.0 | ![]() | ||||
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Melon stem "item"[edit]
Java Edition Beta | |||||
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1.8 | Pre-release | ![]() | |||
Java Edition | |||||
1.3.1 | 12w16a | Melon stem items can now be obtained in singleplayer worlds via the /give command using the respective numeric ID. | |||
1.3 | ![]() | ||||
? | The item is now called tile.pumpkinStem.name, despite it not being a pumpkin stem. | ||||
1.7.2 | 13w37a | The direct item form of melon stems has been removed from the game. It can no longer exist as an item in any way, only as a placed block. | |||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
? | Melon stems probably exist as an item. |
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Melon Seeds" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery[edit]
All the seeds that exist in the game.