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VOOZH | about |
| Other names | Watermelon (NZ) |
|---|---|
| Renewable | Yes |
| Stackable | Yes (64) |
| Tools | π SlotSprite Axe Required.png: Sprite image for Axe Required in Minecraft π SlotSprite Sword Required.png: Sprite image for Sword Required in Minecraft |
| Blast resistance | 1 |
| Hardness | 1 |
| Luminous | No |
| Transparent | No |
| Flammable | No |
| Catches fire from lava |
No |
| Map color | 19 COLOR_LIGHT_GREEN |
| Note block instrument | Default (Harp) |
| Sulfur cube archetype | Fast Flat |
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A melon[a] is a fruit block that grows from a fully-grown melon stem, which in turn is grown from melon seeds.
A melon drops 3β7 melon slices when broken by hand, using tools, or pushing with a piston. Silk Touch causes the block itself to drop. Fortune increases the maximum number of melon slices dropped, increasing the average yield to 6.4314 with Fortune III. The actual amount is capped at 9, so Fortune III simply increases the chance of getting 9 slices, which is sufficient to craft the melon again from the slices.
Melons are naturally generated in jungle biomes, as a pile (and in some farms) in savanna villages and inside tillage rooms of woodland mansions. Melons also generate in abandoned camps in bamboo jungles.β[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]
An enderman holding a melon drops the block upon death.
Melon seeds can be planted, placing a small stem that grows over time. Once the stem reaches maturity, it attempts to generate a melon block in one of the four immediately adjacent blocks; however, this attempt may fail if the chosen adjacent block is not empty or the block beneath is not an appropriate block (dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, grass block, farmland, podzol, mycelium, moss block, pale moss block, mud or muddy mangrove roots). Melons take 10 to 30 minutes to grow, which is equal to 0.5 to 1.5 times the length of a daylight cycle. Once a stem has produced a melon, that stem does not produce any further melons until the existing melon is harvested. Melon stems connect only to the melons they produce. For example, if stem A generates a melon adjacent to stem B, stem B does not connect and can still produce another melon. Similarly, if a melon is placed adjacent to stem B, stem B would still be able to produce another melon. The same principle applies for pumpkins. Melons require a light level of 9 or higher to grow.
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | Trades in stock | Villager experience | Price multiplier | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | |||||||
| π Image Farmer | π Image Journeyman | 100% | 100% | 4 Γ π Image | π Image Emerald | 12 | 20 | 0.05 |
Placing a melon into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1, but it is more efficient to compost melon slices. Composted melon blocks produce about 7 times less bone meal than the melon slices needed to craft them, and about 4 times less than the melon slices that could be obtained by breaking them.
π BlockSprite oak-planks.png: Sprite image for oak-planks in Minecraftwood sound type | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| βBlock broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block.wood.break | subtitles.block.generic.breakβ | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| βBlock placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block.wood.place | subtitles.block.generic.placeβ | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| βBlock breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block.wood.hit | subtitles.block.generic.hitβ | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
| βSomething falls on a block | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block.wood.fall | subtitles.block.generic.fallβ | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
| βFootsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block.wood.step | subtitles.block.generic.footstepsβ | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 | |
π BlockSprite oak-planks.png: Sprite image for oak-planks in Minecraftwood sound type | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch |
| βBlock broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | dig.wood | subtitles.block.generic.breakβ | 1.0 | 0.8β1.0 | |
| βBlock placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | place.wood | subtitles.block.generic.placeβ | 1.0 | 0.8 | |
| βAxe strips | Blocks | When an axe strips a log or wood block [sound 1] | use.wood | subtitles.block.generic.hitβ | 1.0 | 0.8 | |
| βBlock breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit.wood | subtitles.block.generic.hitβ | 0.23 | 0.5 | |
| βFootsteps | Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall.wood | subtitles.block.generic.footstepsβ | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
| βFootsteps | Players | Walking on the block | step.wood | subtitles.block.generic.footstepsβ | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
| βFootsteps | Blocks | Jumping from the block | jump.wood | subtitles.block.generic.footstepsβ | 0.12 | 1.0 | |
| βFootsteps | Blocks | Falling on the block without fall damage | land.wood | subtitles.block.generic.footstepsβ | 0.18 | 1.0 | |
| Name | Identifier | Form | Block tags | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| π BlockSprite melon.png: Sprite image for melon in Minecraft Melon | melon | Block & Item | enderman_holdablemineable/axesword_efficient |
block.minecraft.melon |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| π BlockSprite melon.png: Sprite image for melon in Minecraft Melon | melon_block | 103 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile.melon_block.name |
| July 13, 2011 | Melons were first revealed in an IGN interview with Notch. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2011 | On the community ideas section of Mojang Studios' GetSatisfaction.com page, it was signaled that watermelons were to be implemented. | ||||||
| Java Edition Beta | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | Pre-release | π Image Added melons. | |||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
| 1.1 | 11w49a | Melons can now grow onto dirt and grass instead of just farmland. | |||||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | Melons now generate in jungle biomes. | |||||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Melons can now be sold to farmer villagers, at 7β12 melons for 1 emerald. | |||||
| 14w31a | Melons now break faster when mined with an axe. | ||||||
| 1.11 | 16w39a | Melons now generate in woodland mansions. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | π Image The texture of melons has been changed. | |||||
| 18w49a | Melon now generate in the updated savanna villages. | ||||||
| 19w03a | Placing a melon into the new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1. | ||||||
| 19w05a | Melons now have a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1. | ||||||
| 19w11a | Melons can now be sold to farmer villagers, at 4 melons for 1 emerald, instead of 7β12. | ||||||
| 1.18 | pre5 | Melons generated in jungle biomes are about 10 times more common than in previous snapshots. | |||||
| pre6 | Melons are now less common in sparse jungle biome. | ||||||
| 26.2 | snap1 | Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb melons, providing the golf ball/fast flat effect to the mob. | |||||
| Upcoming Java Edition | |||||||
| 26.3 | snap1 | Melons now generate as part of abandoned camps in bamboo jungles. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.5.0 | π Image Added melons. | ||||||
| v0.9.0 | build 1 | Melons now generate naturally in jungle biomes. | |||||
| build 10 | Melons now generate a lot less in jungle biomes. | ||||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Melon can now be obtained using a tool with the Silk Touch enchantment. | |||||
| v0.15.0 | build 1 | π Image Melons now use the side texture on the underside.[1][is this the correct version?] | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.4 | alpha 1.0.4.0 | Melons can now be sold to farmer villagers, at 7β12 melons for 1 emerald. | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Melons now generate in woodland mansions. | |||||
| alpha 1.1.0.3 | Breaking a melon block with shears now always yield 9 melons. | ||||||
| 1.1.1 | Melons no longer consistently drop 9 melon slices when broken with shears. | ||||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Melons now generate in new savanna villages. | |||||
| π Image π Image The textures of melons have been changed. | |||||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Melons can now be used to fill up composters. | |||||
| beta 1.11.0.4 | Trading has been changed, melons can no longer be used to trade with farmer villagers. They buy melon slices instead. | ||||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | Trading has been changed, melon can be sold to farmer villager again. | |||||
| 1.19.30 | Preview 1.19.30.20 | π Image Melons no longer use the side texture on the underside, and instead use the top texture again. | |||||
| 1.21.60 | Preview 1.21.60.23 | Melon patches now generate more frequently in jungles and sparse jungles. | |||||
| 26.20 Experiment | Preview 26.20.23 | Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb melons, providing the golf ball/fast flat effect to the mob. | |||||
| 26.30 | Preview 26.30.20 | Implemented all features from the "Drop 2 of 2026" experiment in vanilla gameplay. | |||||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 26.40 Experiment | Preview 26.40.27 | Melons now generate as part of abandoned camps in bamboo jungles. | |||||
| 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 | π Image Added melons. |
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | 1.22 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Melons now generate naturally in jungle biomes. | |
| Melons can now be sold to farmer villagers, at 7β12 melons for 1 emerald. | |||||||
| TU54 | CU44 | 1.52 | 1.52 | 1.52 | Patch 24 | 1.0.4 | Melons now generate in woodland mansions. |
| 1.90 | π Image The texture of melons has been changed. | ||||||
| 1.91 | Trading has been changed, melons can no longer be used to trade with farmer villagers. They buy melon slices instead. | ||||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1.0 | π Image Added melons. | ||||||
| Melons can be crafted back into 9 melon slices. | |||||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | 14w06a | Melons now use the newly-implemented model json file models/block/cube.json; previously the geometry was defined in the game code itself. | |||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 103. | |||||
| 18w20b | The ID of melons has been changed from melon_block to melon. | ||||||
Issues relating to "Melon" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.