How to Craft Glistering Melon Slice in Minecraft

Glistering Melon Slices are a potion ingredient, not food. They are used to brew Potions of Healing.

Overview

Glistering Melon Slices are a potion ingredient, not food. They are used to brew Potions of Healing. Glistering Melon Slice uses a shaped recipe, meaning the ingredients must sit in the exact pattern shown in the grid above; placing them in the wrong cells will not produce the item. A Crafting Table gives you the full 3x3 grid, which you need for any recipe larger than 2x2. You can craft one from four planks, and most bases keep one near the furnaces.

The recipe was added in Minecraft 1.0 and still works the same way in version 1.21. Each craft yields a single Glistering Melon Slice.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with gold nugget (craft from gold ingots) and melon slice (break melon blocks). If any of those are not already in your stores, gather them first, because the craft itself takes only a moment once everything is in the grid. With the ingredients on hand and a Crafting Table placed, Glistering Melon Slice is one of the quicker things to add to your inventory.

Crafting Recipe

Crafting Table

Glistering Melon Slice

Materials Needed

Item	Amount	Where to Find
Gold Nugget	8	Craft from gold ingots
Melon Slice	1	Break melon blocks

To make Glistering Melon Slice you will gather 8x Gold Nugget (craft from gold ingots) and Melon Slice (break melon blocks). Lining these up before you open the Crafting Table saves a trip back to storage, especially if you plan to craft several at once.

Step-by-Step Instructions

Open your Crafting Table to access the 3x3 crafting grid.
Arrange the ingredients in the crafting grid following the pattern shown above.
Place Gold Nugget in: row 1, column 1; row 1, column 2; row 1, column 3; row 2, column 1; row 2, column 3; row 3, column 1; row 3, column 2; row 3, column 3.
Place Melon Slice in: row 2, column 2.
Collect your Glistering Melon Slice from the output slot.

Tips & Notes

If the output slot stays empty, double-check the pattern against the grid above; a shaped recipe fails silently when even one ingredient is in the wrong cell.

Uses for Glistering Melon Slice

Brewing Potions of Healing
Not edible despite appearance

How Glistering Melon Slice Fits Your World

Food restores hunger and the saturation that quietly regenerates your health, and different foods restore very different amounts. Bread and cooked meats are reliable staples, golden carrots and steak offer the best saturation for long expeditions, and golden apples provide absorption hearts and regeneration for emergencies. Keeping a stack of a high-saturation food on your hotbar is one of the simplest ways to survive longer. For Glistering Melon Slice specifically, that means it is most valuable for brewing Potions of Healing and not edible despite appearance.

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Glistering Melon Slice on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Glistering Melon Slice?

You need 8 Gold Nugget, 1 Melon Slice, made at a Crafting Table. Gather all of the materials first, then arrange them in the exact grid pattern shown above to produce the Glistering Melon Slice.

How many Glistering Melon Slice does the recipe produce?

The recipe produces a single Glistering Melon Slice per craft.

What is Glistering Melon Slice used for?

Glistering Melon Slice is used for several things: Brewing Potions of Healing; Not edible despite appearance.

What version of Minecraft added Glistering Melon Slice?

Glistering Melon Slice was added in Minecraft 1.0 and works the same way in the current 1.21 release. Recipes for it are identical across Java and Bedrock Edition unless noted otherwise.

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