Template:Food
A melon slice[a] is a food item that can be eaten by the player.
Obtaining
Drops
Melon slices can be obtained by breaking (harvesting) melons using any tool or by hand. Axes, followed by [sword]]s, 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, with an average of 4.64 slices per melon.
Breaking a melon with a tool enchanted with Fortune increases the potential number of drops by 1 slice per level, up to a maximum of 9 slices.
Usage
Food
Eating a melon slice restores 2 (
) points of hunger and 1.2 points of hunger saturation.
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Glistering Melon Slice | Gold Nugget + Melon Slice |
|
| Melon | Melon Slice | |
| Melon Seeds | Melon Slice |
Composting
Placing a melon slice into a composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
Trading
Journeyman-level Farmer villagers buy 4 melon slices for an emerald as part of their trades.[Bedrock Edition only][until BE 1.16.0]
Sounds
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eating | Players | While a player is eating something | entity | subtitles | varies [sound 1] | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Eating | Friendly Creatures | When a player finishes eating something | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.6-1.4 | 16 | |
| Burp | Players | When a player finishes eating something | entity | subtitles | 0.5 | 0.9-1.0 | 16 |
- ↑ Can be 0.5, 1.0, or 1.5
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | While a player is eating something | random | 0.5-1.1 | 0.8-1.2 | |
| Players | When a player finishes eating something | random | 0.5 | 0.9-1.0 |
Data values
ID
| Item | Namespaced ID |
|---|---|
| Melon Slice | melon_slice
|
| Item | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID |
|---|---|---|
| Melon | melon
|
360 |
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Husbandry | The world is full of friends and food | — | Consume anything that can be consumed. | husbandry/root
|
![]() | A Balanced Diet | Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you | A Seedy Place | Eat each of these 40 foods:
| husbandry/balanced_diet
|
History
| beta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | Pre-release | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4 | Melons are now used in the crafting recipe of glistering melons. | |||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | Melons can now be bought from farmer villagers, at 5–8 melon slices for 1 emerald. | |||
| 1.7.2 | 13w37a | Block ID 105, melon stem, has been removed from the /give command. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Villagers no longer sell melons. They now buy melon blocks instead. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 360. | |||
| 18w20b | "Melon" has been renamed to "Melon Slice". | ||||
The ID of melons has been changed from melon to melon_slice. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||
| 19w03a | Placing a melon slice into the new composter has a 20% chance of raising the compost level by 1. | ||||
| 19w05a | Melon slices now have a 50% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.5.0 | |||||
| Melons restore 2 | |||||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | Melons now restores hunger instead of health. | |||
| Melons can no longer be obtained from nether reactors. | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.3 | Breaking a melon block with shears now always yields 9 melons.[citation needed] | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Melons can now be used to fill up composters. | |||
| beta 1.11.0.4 | Melons can now be sold to farmer villagers. | ||||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | Trading changed, melon slice can no longer be sold to farmer villager. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU5 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | ||
| 1.90 | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Melon Slice" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
See also
Notes
- ↑ Known as Melon Slice in Java Edition and Melon in Bedrock Edition.

