Melon Seeds

Melon seeds are items obtained from melon slices that can be used to grow melon stems.

Melon Seeds

• Age 0
• Age 7
• Attached

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Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

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Melon stems are plants grown on farmland that, over time, grow melons on dirt, mud and moss blocks adjacent to them.

Obtaining

Breaking

Block	Melon Stem Attached Melon Stem
Hardness	0
Breaking time (secs)
Default	0.05

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

When broken, a melon stem drops 0–3 melon seeds. The chance for melon seeds to drop increases with the stem's age.

Resource location	Source	Default
		Nothing	Melon seeds
			1	2	3
blocks/melon_stem	Melon stem age = 0	81.3%	17.42%	1.24%	0.03%
	Melon stem age = 1	65.1%	30.04%	4.62%	0.24%
	Melon stem age = 2	51.2%	38.4%	9.6%	0.8%
	Melon stem age = 3	39.44%	43.02%	15.64%	1.9%
	Melon stem age = 4	29.13%	44.44%	22.22%	3.7%
	Melon stem age = 5	21.6%	43.2%	28.8%	6.4%
	Melon stem age = 6	15.17%	39.82%	34.84%	10.16%
	Melon stem age = 7	10.16%	34.84%	39.82%	15.17%
blocks/attached_melon_stem	Attached Melon stem	10.16%	34.84%	39.82%	15.17%

Axes are considered the preferred tool, and swords would also increase the breaking speed, however these ultimately have no impact due to the instant default mining speed.

Natural generation

Melon stems generate naturally in stem farm rooms inside woodland mansions.

Melon stems generate in 20% of the farm plots in savanna villages, and 10% of the farm plots in desert villages.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	[hide]Chance
Java Edition
Melon Seeds	Monster Room	Chest	2–4	18.5% { "item": "Melon Seeds", "stacksize": "2–4", "chance": 0.1846297600000001, "structure": "Monster Room", "container": "Chest" }
	Mineshaft	Chest	2–4	27.3% { "item": "Melon Seeds", "stacksize": "2–4", "chance": 0.27314935357988357, "structure": "Mineshaft", "container": "Chest" }
	Woodland Mansion	Chest	2–4	18.5% { "item": "Melon Seeds", "stacksize": "2–4", "chance": 0.1846297600000001, "structure": "Woodland Mansion", "container": "Chest" }
Java Edition 1.21.5
Melon Seeds	Woodland Mansion	Chest	2–4	10.6% { "item": "Melon Seeds", "stacksize": "2–4", "chance": 0.10628160341411363, "structure": "Woodland Mansion", "container": "Chest" }
Bedrock Edition
Melon Seeds	Monster Room	Chest	2–4	18.5% { "item": "Melon Seeds", "stacksize": "2–4", "chance": 0.1846297600000001, "structure": "Monster Room", "container": "Chest" }
	Mineshaft	Chest	2–4	27.3% { "item": "Melon Seeds", "stacksize": "2–4", "chance": 0.27314935357988357, "structure": "Mineshaft", "container": "Chest" }
	Bonus Chest	Chest	1–2	33.3% { "item": "Melon Seeds", "stacksize": "1–2", "chance": 0.33333333333333337, "structure": "Bonus Chest", "container": "Chest" }
	Woodland Mansion	Chest	2–4	18.5% { "item": "Melon Seeds", "stacksize": "2–4", "chance": 0.1846297600000001, "structure": "Woodland Mansion", "container": "Chest" }
Bedrock Edition 1.21.70
Melon Seeds	Woodland Mansion	Chest	2–4	16.1% { "item": "Melon Seeds", "stacksize": "2–4", "chance": 0.160927552132745, "structure": "Woodland Mansion", "container": "Chest" }

Crafting

Ingredients	[hide]Crafting recipe
Melon Slice

Trading

Wandering traders sell melon seeds for 1 emerald.

Usage

Farming

Melon seeds can be planted only on farmland, as stems. Melons need a light level of 9 or above to grow (in Bedrock Edition it needs an internal light level of 9). Over time, a stem grows through 8 stages and, at its final growth stage, produces melons on any adjacent dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, grass block, farmland, podzol, mycelium, moss block, pale moss block, mud or muddy mangrove roots. If a melon is already occupying a spot adjacent to a stem it does not grow more melons until the melons is removed. A single stem can grow an unlimited number of melons. Melon seeds are affected by bone meal only with respect to stem growth; bone meal does not help produce the actual melons.

Breeding

Like other seeds, melon seeds can be used to breed chickens, lead chickens around, and make baby chickens grow up faster by 10% of the remaining time.

Taming

Like other seeds, melon seeds can be used to tame parrots.

Composting

Placing melon seeds into a composter has a 30% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Melon stem

A melon stem is the block that is planted on farmland when melon seeds are used on it. It starts underground, and rises up as the plant grows. The stem is colored green when young, and then yellow once fully grown.

The stem curves once a melon has grown from it. A fully-grown single stem connects to any melon in an adjacent square, thus there are 5 possible appearances to a stem. If there are multiple melons it can connect to, it favors the east, then west, north, and south. When the melon is removed, the stem returns to its straight shape.

Sounds

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e hard_crop sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wood.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	item.crop.plant​​	subtitles.block.generic.place​	0.45	0.8/0.96	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wood.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wood.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e wood sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.wood	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.wood	1.0	0.8
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.wood	0.23	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.wood	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.wood	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.wood	0.12	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.wood	0.18	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	[hide]Translation key
Melon Stem	melon_stem	Block	bee_growables crops maintains_farmland	block.minecraft.melon_stem
Attached Melon Stem	attached_melon_stem	Block	maintains_farmland	block.minecraft.attached_melon_stem
Melon Seeds	melon_seeds	Item	—	item.minecraft.melon_seeds

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	[hide]Translation key
Melon Stem	melon_stem	105	Block & Ungiveable Item	Identical	tile.melon_stem.name
Melon Seeds	melon_seeds	293	Item	—	item.melon_seeds.name

Block states

Java Edition:
Growing

Name	Default value	Allowed values	[hide]Description
age	0	0	A newly planted stem.
		1 2 3 4 5 6	Intermediate growth stages of the stem.
		7	A fully mature stem, capable of producing melons.

Attached

Name	Default value	Allowed values	[hide]Description
facing	north	east north south west	The direction from the stem to the melon.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	[hide]Description
growth	0x1 0x2 0x4	0	0	0	A newly planted stem.
			1 2 3 4 5 6	1 2 3 4 5 6	Intermediate growth stages of the stem.
			7	7	A fully mature stem, capable of producing melons.
facing_direction	Not Supported	0	0 1	Unsupported	Unused
			2	Unsupported	Stem pointing north.
			3	Unsupported	Stem pointing south.
			4	Unsupported	Stem pointing west.
			5	Unsupported	Stem pointing east.

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	A Seedy Place	Plant a seed and watch it grow	Plant one of these 7 crops: Other crops and plants can be planted, but are ignored for this advancement.

History

[hide]Java Edition Beta
1.8			Pre-release				Added melon seeds.
							Added the melon stem, with seven stages of growth.
							Melon seeds can found in the new mineshaft chests.
							Melon stems have four slightly visually distinct appearances for each facing direction - the bent part of the stem rotates, but the other two planes do not.
			Pre-release 2 ;)				Melon stems can now be grown faster using bone meal.
[hide]Java Edition
1.3.1			1.3				The texture of melon stems has been moved one pixel to the left in terrain.png.
							Stems now appear slightly different.
1.4.2			12w36a				Chickens now use wheat seeds, melon seeds, and pumpkin seeds, instead of wheat to breed.
1.5			13w02a				Melon stems now use a squished version of their texture for immature stems, depending on age.
			13w03a				Melon stems are no longer squished or stretched to account for age.
1.6.1			13w24a				Melon and pumpkin stems have been assigned separate textures.
1.8			14w25a				Melon stems now render as a single diagonal plane, or, in the case of attached stems, a diagonal and orthogonal plane.
							The attached melon stem model now fully rotates to the direction the stem points. Prior to this update, the base of the melon stem would stay the same while the long attaching section would differ, resulting in four possible attached stem appearances.
			14w26a				Melon stems now correctly render as crosses again.
			14w27a				Due to a bug, all melon stems appear attached regardless of age or any actual attachment.
			14w28a				All melon stems appearing attached regardless of age or any actual attachment has been fixed. However, melon stems still appear attached to adjacent fruits regardless of age due to a similar bug.
			14w34d				Melon seeds can no longer be used for breeding chickens.
1.9			15w31a				Chickens can now use melon seeds to breed again.
			15w44a				Melon seeds have been added to dungeon chests.
							The average yield of melon seeds from mineshaft chests has been decreased.
			15w45a				Melon stems must now be fully grown again to attach.
1.11			16w39a				Melon seeds can now be found inside chests in the new woodland mansions.
							Melon crops now generate inside woodland mansions.
1.12			17w18b				Placing a melon seeds in farmland now gives the player the "A Seedy Place" advancement.
			pre3				Melon seeds are now used to tame parrots.
1.13			17w48a				Attached melon stems no longer drop seeds.
			18w06a				Melons can now grow at night.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of attached melon stems has been changed.
			18w49a				Melon stems now generate in the updated savanna villages.
			18w50a				Melon stems now generate in the updated desert villages.
			19w03a				Placing melon seeds into the new composter has a 10% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
			19w05a				Melon seeds now have a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
							Added wandering traders, which sell melon seeds.
			19w11a				Melon growth is now determined by the light level of the stem's block. Previously it was determined by the light level of the block above.
							Melon seeds can now be planted by aiming at the side and underside of blocks rather than just on top of the farmland.
							Melon seeds can now replace replaceable blocks such as fire when planted.
1.15			19w34a				Bees can now pollinate melon stems.
			19w39a				Attached melon stems now drop seeds again.
1.18			Pre-release 5				The texture of melon seeds has been changed.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.5.0							Added melon seeds.
							Added melon stems.
v0.6.0							Melon seeds no longer use the pumpkin seeds texture.
v0.8.0			build 4				Chickens can be fed melon seeds to enter love mode and breed.
v0.9.0			build 1				Melon seeds can now be found in mineshaft chests.
v0.12.1			build 1				Melon seeds are no longer available from the Nether reactor.
v0.14.0			build 1				Melon seeds can now be found in minecarts with chests in mineshafts.
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Melon seeds now generate inside dungeon chests.
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Melon crops now generate inside woodland mansions.
							Melon seeds can now be found in woodland mansion chests.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.2.0			beta 1.2.0.2				Melon seeds can now be found inside bonus chests.
							Melon seeds are now used to tame parrots.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				​ The texture of attached melon stems has been changed.
							Melon stems now generate in savanna and desert village farms.
							Added wandering traders, who sell melon seeds.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Melon seeds can now be used to fill up composters.
1.14.0			beta 1.14.0.1				Bees can now pollinate melon stems.
[hide]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 seeds.
							Added melon stems.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Melon seeds can now be found inside chests in the new woodland mansions.
							Melon crops now generate inside woodland mansions.
							Melon seeds are now used to tame parrots.
			1.90				​ The texture of attached melon stems has been changed.
			1.91				Added wandering traders, which sell melon seeds.
							Melon seeds can now be used to fill up composters.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added melon stems.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition Beta
1.8			Pre-release				Melon stem data values 8–15 now show a glitched formation, with a floating stem with an attached stem cross eventually emerging below.
							Melon stem blocks with data values higher than 7 can attach to adjacent fruits, which results in buggy stem textures with vines in the mix due to vines being below attached stems in terrain.png.
[hide]Java Edition
1.3.1			1.3				Due to the stem texture change, overgrown attached pumpkin stems now appear slightly different.
							Attached melon stems also now appear slightly different.
							Overgrown attached melon stems now appear slightly different.
1.5			13w02a				Like how valid stems are squished, invalid stems are now stretched.
							Melon stems of extreme ages, which are attached to adjacent fruits, now show a stretched and tinted stem appearance.
			13w03a				Melon stems with age values 8 through 15 now show a tinted trapdoor texture.
							From this version up until 14w08a, overgrown pumpkin stems start to draw from the texture below them on blocks-atlas, in much the same way they previously did with terrain.png. However, as texture atlases are unstable and textures tend to change positions as new blocks and textures are added, overgrown stems change the texture they draw from almost every time new textures are added or existing textures are resized.
			13w09a				Melon stems with age values 8–15 now show a tinted birch wood texture.
1.6.1			13w24a				Melon stems with age values 8–15 now show a tinted note block texture.
1.7.2			13w37a				Added the /setblock command, allowing for invalid stem ages to be placed in the world without using external editors. This also allows them to be obtained in earlier versions via backdating.
			13w41a				Melon stems with age values 8–15 now show a tinted netherrack texture.
1.8			14w10a				Melon stems with data values 8–11 now display a tinted attached stem, with 8 facing west, 9 facing east, 10 facing north and 11 facing south.
							Invalid melon stems with data values 12-15 now crash the game.
			14w25a				Invalid overgrown melon stems have effectively been removed from the game, as attempting to place an out of range stem via /setblock creates a stem of age 0 and loading a world with such stems existing causes a game crash.
1.13			17w47a				The different block states for the melon_stem ID have been split up into their own IDs.
							Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 105, and the item's 362.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.10.0			?				Melon stems with invalid data values would display the vine texture.
v0.16.0			?				Melon stems with data values 8 - 15 would display a glitched texture.

• 

  The final version of the melon stem with age 15, as seen in-game.

• 

  Melon stems of ages 1–15 in 1.7.2. Either a resource pack is active or mods are installed, as the melon top texture is not usually what appears below the stem in vanilla.

• 

  All 16 stem sizes in 13w02a, with accompanying data values.

Issues

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

Java Edition

• MC-236474 – Melon and pumpkin stems appear much darker than they should
• MC-123040 – Melon seeds and pumpkin seeds do not pop off when in the dark
• MC-135142 – Hitboxes on melon and pumpkin stems are too small
• MC-172656 – Unable to use bone meal to make pumpkin/melon stems grow a melon
• MC-201152 – Melon and pumpkin stems appear green on maps regardless of growth stage
• MC-217630 – Pumpkin and melon stems use wood sounds for breaking, unlike other crops
• MC-217631 – Breaking not fully grown pumpkin/melon stems does not drop seeds 100% of the time
• MC-232251 – Attached melon/pumpkin stem models are asymmetric

Bedrock Edition

• No open issues found.

Gallery

Renders

Melon stem

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  Age 0

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  Age 1

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  Age 2

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  Age 3

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  Age 4

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  Age 5

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  Age 6

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  Age 7

Attached melon stem

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  Facing north

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  Facing east

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  Facing south

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  Facing west

Screenshots

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  All stages of growth.

• 

  All the seeds that exist in the game.

See also

• Melon
• Pumpkin Seeds