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Melon Slice in Minecraft: Hunger and Saturation
A melon slice restores 2 hunger and 1.2 saturation. Breaking a melon block drops 3 to 7 slices, and Fortune adds more, up to 9. Nine slices craft back into a melon block.
How much does melon slice restore?
| Hunger | 2 |
| Saturation | 1.2 |
Each hunger point is half a drumstick, so 2 hunger is 1 drumsticks.
How do you get it?
Break melon blocks from your farm or jungles; axes break them fastest. Fortune adds 1 slice per level, up to 9.
Tips
Slices are weak food but a melon farm runs itself, and glistering melon slices are used in Healing potions.
More about melon slice
Melon slices raise a composter with a 50% chance. A melon stem grows its melon onto a free block beside it, so leave room around each stem in a farm.
How hunger works
Hunger points refill the hunger bar (20 points, 10 drumsticks), and saturation is a hidden buffer that drains first. With 18 or more hunger, or any saturation, health regenerates naturally; at 6 or less you cannot sprint, and at 0 you take starvation damage. Most foods take 1.6 seconds to eat, and you cannot eat at full hunger except a few special foods. Foods with high saturation keep you healing longer, which matters most in fights. Raw food cooks the same in a furnace, a smoker or a campfire: smokers are twice as fast, and campfires need no fuel at all. See food and hunger and melons.
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Frequently asked questions
How many slices does a melon drop?
3 to 7, up to 9 with Fortune.
How much hunger does melon slice restore?
2 hunger and 1.2 saturation.
Sources
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