Glistering Melon Slice

Glistering Melon Slice

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)

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A glistering melon slice is an inedible item used for brewing potions of Healing. It is also one of the many potion ingredients that can be used to make mundane potions.

Obtaining

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	[hide]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	[hide]Crafting recipe
Gold Nugget + Melon Slice

Trading

Villager	Probability		Villager wants	Player receives
	JE	BE
Master Farmer	100%	50%	4 × Emerald	3 × Glistering Melon Slice

Usage

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

Piglins

Piglins are attracted to glistering melon slices. They run toward any glistering melon slice on the ground, and inspect it for 6 to 8 seconds before putting it in their inventory.

Achievements

[hide]
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	While aggravated, give a piglin one of these 25 gold-related items in the #piglin_loved item tag:[hide] The player must not be wearing any gold armor. Other gold-related items do not distract the piglin and do not trigger this advancement.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

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

Bedrock Edition:

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

History

[hide]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. 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.
			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.
			20w16a				Glistering melon slices now generate in ruined portal chests.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1			build 1				Added glistering melons.
[hide]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.
[hide]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.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added glistering melons.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 382.
			18w20b				The ID of glistering melon slices has been changed from speckled_melon to glistering_melon_slice.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.16.100			beta 1.16.100.56				The ID of glistering melon slices has been changed from speckled_melon to glistering_melon_slice.

Issues

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

Trivia

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

See also

• Melon Slice
• Melon