Glistering Melon Slice

Glistering Melon Slice

Other names	Glistering Watermelon Slice (NZ)
Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)

A glistering melon slice^[a] is an inedible item used as a brewing ingredient for potions of Healing.

Obtaining

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Glistering Melon Slice	Ruined Portal	Chest	4–12	7.3% { "item": "Glistering Melon Slice", "stacksize": "4–12", "chance": 0.0729006411312747, "structure": "Ruined Portal", "container": "Chest" }

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Gold Nugget + Melon Slice

Trading

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience	Price multiplier
		JE	BE
Farmer	Master	100%	50%	4 × Emerald	3 × Glistering Melon Slice	12	30	0.05

Usage

Despite being crafted with a melon slice, a glistering melon slice cannot be eaten, unlike a golden apple or golden carrot.

Brewing ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Brewing recipe
Mundane Potion	Glistering Melon Slice + Water Bottle
Potion of Healing	Glistering Melon Slice + Awkward Potion

Piglins

Piglins run toward any glistering melon slice item on the ground and inspect it for 6 seconds in Java Edition or 8 seconds in Bedrock Edition^[1] before putting it in their inventory.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Oooh, shiny!	Distract a Piglin using gold	Give a piglin a gold item​ while it is aggressive toward the player.	30	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Oh Shiny	Distract Piglins with gold	Use a gold ingot on an adult piglin, or throw one of these 28 gold-related items in the #piglin_loved item tag for it to pick up: Bell Block of Gold Block of Raw Gold Clock Deepslate Gold Ore Enchanted Golden Apple Gilded Blackstone Glistering Melon Slice Gold Ingot Gold Ore Golden Apple Golden Axe Golden Boots Golden Carrot Golden Chestplate Golden Dandelion Golden Helmet Golden Hoe Golden Horse Armor Golden Leggings Golden Nautilus Armor Golden Pickaxe Golden Shovel Golden Spear Golden Sword Light Weighted Pressure Plate Nether Gold Ore Raw Gold The player must not be wearing any golden armor when the piglin accepts or picks up the item.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Glistering Melon Slice	glistering_melon_slice	Item	item.minecraft.glistering_melon_slice

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Glistering Melon Slice	glistering_melon_slice	speckled_melon	434	Item	item.speckled_melon.name

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4				Added glistering melons.
							The crafting recipe of glistering melons is one melon slice and one gold nugget.
							Glistering melons have replaced ghast tears as the ingredient to produce potions of Healing due to the difficulty in getting tears.[2] They also now brew with water bottles to create mundane potions.
1.6.1			13w23a				The crafting recipe of glistering melons is changed from one gold nugget to eight.
1.9			15w49a				The rotation of glistering melon items has been changed to be consistent with melon slices.[3]
			15w49b				The rotation of glistering melons has been reverted and is no longer consistent with melon slices.
1.13			18w20b				"Glistering Melon" has been renamed to "Glistering Melon Slice".
1.14			18w43a				The texture of glistering melon slices has been changed.
			19w11a				Farmer villagers now sell 3 glistering melon slices for 4 emeralds.
1.16			20w09a				Glistering melon slices are now admired by piglins.[4]
			20w16a				Glistering melon slices now generate in ruined portal chests.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1			build 1				Added glistering melons.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of glistering melons has been changed.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.4				Glistering melons can now be bought from farmer villagers.
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.9				Trading has been changed. Master-level farmer villagers now have a 1⁄3 chance to sell glistering melon slices.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.57				Glistering melons are sold from farmer villagers under a 50% chance, once again.
							Glistering melons now generate in ruined portal chests.
1.16.100			beta 1.16.100.54				Ruined portals can now generate with 4–12 glistering melons instead of only one.
1.21.30			Preview 1.21.30.22				Changed name from "Glistering Melon" to "Glistering Melon Slice" to match Java Edition.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU7	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added glistering melons.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			The crafting recipe of glistering melons is changed from one gold nugget to eight.
			1.90				The texture of glistering melons has been changed.
			1.91				Glistering melons can now be bought from farmer villagers.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added glistering melons.

Data history

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Issues

Issues relating to "Glistering Melon Slice" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

In other media

• 
  A glistering melon slice as it appears in Minecraft Earth

Trivia

• A glistering melon slice is featured in the Cotán painting.

Notes

References