Melon Slice

For the consumable in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Melon.

For the glistering variant, see Glistering Melon Slice.

Melon Slice

Other names	Watermelon Slice (NZ)
Rarity tier	Common
Consumption time	32 game ticks (1.6 seconds)
Hunger	2 ()
Saturation	1.2 ()
Saturation boost‌[JE only]	Heals: 0.8HP × 0.4 Duration: 0.4 seconds
Always consumable	No
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)

Melon slices^[a] are food items obtained by breaking melons.

Obtaining

Block loot

Melon slices can be obtained by breaking (harvesting) melons using any tool, a bare hand, or the movement of a piston. Axes, followed by swords, are the fastest tools for harvesting melons. When broken, a melon drops 3–7 melon slices with equal probability for an overall average of 5 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

To eat a melon slice, press and hold use while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating one restores 2 () hunger and 1.2 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.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Melon Slice	melon_slice	Item	item.minecraft.melon_slice

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Melon Slice	melon_slice	melon	272	Item	item.melon.name

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Husbandry	The world is full of friends and food	Consume anything that can be consumed, except for cake.
	A Balanced Diet	Eat everything that is edible, even if it's not good for you	Eat each of these 40 foods: Apple Baked Potato Beetroot Beetroot Soup Bread Carrot Chorus Fruit Cooked Chicken Cooked Cod Cooked Mutton Cooked Porkchop Cooked Rabbit Cooked Salmon Cookie Dried Kelp Enchanted Golden Apple Glow Berries Golden Apple Golden Carrot Honey Bottle Melon Slice Mushroom Stew Poisonous Potato Potato Pufferfish Pumpkin Pie Rabbit Stew Raw Beef Raw Chicken Raw Cod Raw Mutton Raw Porkchop Raw Rabbit Raw Salmon Rotten Flesh Spider Eye Steak Suspicious Stew Sweet Berries Tropical Fish Other foods and consumables can be eaten, but are ignored for this advancement.

Videos

History

Java Edition

Java Edition Beta
1.8			Pre-release				Added melons.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4				Melons are now used in the crafting recipe of glistering melons.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5				Melons once again drop the correct number of slices.
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 melons instead.
1.13			17w47a				"Melon" has been renamed to "Melon Slice".
1.14			18w43a				The texture of melon slices has been changed.
			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.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.5.0							Added melons.
							Melons restore 2HP each, rather than 2 ().
v0.12.1			build 1				Added melon slices to the Creative inventory.
							Melons now restore hunger instead of health.
							Melons can no longer be obtained from nether reactors.
Bedrock Edition
1.7.0			beta 1.7.0.2				Melons can now be eaten in Creative mode and on Peaceful difficulty.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of melons has been changed.
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.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.57				Trading has been changed, melon slices can no longer be sold to farmer villagers.
1.21.30			Preview 1.21.30.22				Changed name from "Melon" to "Melon Slice" to match Java Edition.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU5	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added melon slices.
TU7							Melon slices are now used in the crafting recipe of glistering melons.
TU14		1.04					Melon slices can now be bought from farmer villagers, at 5–8 melon slices for 1 emerald.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Villagers no longer sell melon slices. They now buy melons instead.
			1.90				The texture of melon slices has been changed.
			1.91				Melon slices can now be sold to farmer villagers.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added melons.

Data history

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Gallery

In other media

• 
  A melon slice as seen in Minecraft Earth
• 
  A melon as seen in Minecraft Dungeons

Issues

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

Notes

External links

• "Taking Inventory: Melon Slice" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, January 24, 2020.