WATERMELONS! HOW TO GROW, WHAT THEY ARE!

watermelon slice

Watermelons, are crops in minecraft that can be grown. A watermelon slice will heal one hunger point, or 1 drumstick on your hunger bar.

melon seed

FINDING WATERMELONS: You can only find water melons in ABANDONED MINESHAFT CHESTS. They will come in the form of a watermelon seed.

abandoned mineshaft

GROWING WATERMELONS: Watermelons can be grown the same as pumpkins, where if you plant the seeds on fertile land you will get a tiny watermelon sprout. If you do not know how to make fertile land with a hoe, click HERE.  Fertile land needs to have water at least 4 blocks away, or it will dry out. Here is a proper watermelon farm setup.

the darker dirt has been right clicked by a hoe. The water is still water.

A melon plant will start to produce melon blocks when the stem looks like this.

mature melon stem

The process of growing a melon stem can be sped up using BONE MEAL.

Once the stem is fully grown, it will eventually grow a melon block to the side like this:

a melon will grow to a side to the stem, not diagonal or upwards, or down.

If you mine a melon block, you will get 3-7 melon slices. If you put a melon slice into your crafting table, you will get 1 melon seed.

how to craft a melon seed

You can also craft a melon block by putting melon slices in all the crafting squares.

crafting a melon block.

GLISTERING MELONS: You can make glistering melons (used for potions) by doing this:

glistering melon

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