It’s the melon! Don’t get melon-choly if you didn’t guess that in advance. My erstwhile editor Tom Stone wrote about melons a couple of years ago for our Block of the Week column, describing them as “a tasty treat”. But Tom! You can’t eat melon blocks! You can only eat them after breaking them down into slices. So today, we’re talking about the melon slice instead. Yum.

Want a melon slice? Go smash a melon. Ideally with an axe, but literally anything else will do including your hands. Once pulped, the melon block will drop 3-7 slices – or a few more if you have a tool enchanted with Fortune.

Once obtained, you can put the melon back together with nine slices in a crafting grid. Or just put in one slice to extract the seeds and grow another melon. Oh, and you can eat melon slices too. But you knew that already, right?

If you’re feeling particularly fancy, surround a melon slice with gold nuggets to create a glistering melon slice that can’t be eaten but does dissolve nicely into potions.