MELON
1 trade involving this item across 1 trader.
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- 11 August 2026
- Java Edition
- 26.2, 1 of 1 row found
- Bedrock Edition
- 1.26.30.5, 1 of 1 matching
- Edition differences
- none, both editions match
Melon in villager trading
Melon is a raw-material trade: villagers pay emeralds for it, which makes it a candidate for an automated emerald farm rather than something you purchase back.
Melon is a farmable crop. Large automated farms make it trivial to mass-produce, which is exactly why villagers buying it form the backbone of most emerald farms. A crafting grid makes one from 9 × melon slice. Breaking a placed one back out needs Silk Touch.
Villagers that buy Melon(you give Melon, get emeralds)
Java 26.2
Bedrock 1.26.30.5
The 1 trade on this item was read out of the trade files Minecraft Java 26.2 ships in its own data, checked on against the item, both amounts and the use limit. Bedrock 1.26.30.5 is read as well, and where it disagrees the row says how. Which files, and what is not checked.
Your odds of finding Melon
Every villager listed below shows this trade: their tier draws its whole pool, so there is nothing to roll for. What is left to plan is throughput.
| Villager | Tier | Villagers with this offer | Rolls to see it | Most from one villager | After a cure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmer | Journeyman | 100% (2 in 2)same in Bedrock | none, it is always there | 24 emeralds a day2 restocks a day | 1 melonwas 4, 3 off |
The chance is the draw size over the pool size in the game's own trade set file for that tier. The Bedrock line under it is the same sum on Bedrock's own table, which splits a tier into groups and draws out of each one separately, so the two editions often disagree. The day figure is the trade's use limit times the 2 restocks a villager is allowed per in-game day (Villager.allowedToRestock), so it is a ceiling and not an average: it assumes you are there for every restock. The cure column is 125 reputation times the trade's own multiplier, floored, and never takes a cost below one. Counted from the game's own draw sizes. How that check works.
Who trades Melon, and at what price
To sell Melon for emeralds, bring it to a Farmer at the Journeyman tier (4 units per 1 emerald).
Is trading Melon worth it?
The best rate any villager offers is an emerald per 4 melons, from the Farmer, and nothing else on the list pays out faster. No villager sells melon back, so it is emeralds out and nothing in.
Melon against the other 71 ways to earn an emerald
One slot at the Farmer takes 4 melons a trade, 12 trades, 12 emeralds. 8 of the 72 villagers that pay emeralds, emptied out:
| A full slot of | To | Emeralds | Worth in Melon |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 acacia boats | master Fisherman | 12 | 48 melons |
| 48 iron ingots | apprentice Weaponsmith | 12 | 48 melons |
| 64 raw rabbit | novice Butcher | 16 | 64 melons |
| 108 glass bottles | expert Cleric | 12 | 48 melons |
| 224 string | journeyman Fletcher | 16 | 64 melons |
| 256 andesite | journeyman Mason | 16 | 64 melons |
| 320 string | novice Fisherman | 16 | 64 melons |
| 288 paper | novice Cartographer | 12 | 48 melons |
12 acacia boats against 288 paper for the same 12 emeralds, 24 times the carrying, and the shortest wait is the Butcher at 7.5 real minutes of shelf, gathering not counted. Melon itself pays 4 an emerald, so 13 of the 72 ask less and 50 ask more.
How Melon trading works
Every melon offer here locks after 12 uses, and a villager restocks up to twice per Minecraft day, so one is good for 24 of these trades a day and no more.
The earliest melon shows up is the Farmer's Journeyman tier, level 3 of five, which a villager reaches at 70 trade experience. A freshly employed one is 2 tiers short of offering melon at all.
How long Melon takes in real time
48 melons empty one slot at the Farmer, 2400 ticks (Villager.allowedToRestock) at 20 a second (TickRateManager) refill it 2 real minutes later, and the 24000-tick villager day (Timelines) holds 2 of those fills in 20 real minutes.
So one farmer moves 96 melons against 24 emeralds a Minecraft day, 4 melons every 50 real seconds, 1.2 emeralds a real minute. 64 melons take 2 fills across 1 Minecraft day, 2 minutes of it watching the farmer walk back to its composter.
Tips for trading Melon
- One villager, one restock: the Farmer pays an emerald per 4 melons and that slot runs 12 trades, so 48 melons is all one will take before it locks, for 12 emeralds in total.
- Where they go back: that Farmer also sells bread, 6 for 1 emerald, its cheapest offer.
- Also on the Farmer's list: cookie, cake, suspicious stew, golden carrot, glistering melon slice, wheat.
Bread
Pumpkin Pie
Apple