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How to Craft Glistering Melon Slice in Minecraft

Glistering Melon Slice in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Brewing Potions of Healing.

Stand at a Crafting Table with 8 Gold Nuggets and 1 Melon Slice and you can make a Glistering Melon Slice. The top row is three Gold Nuggets, the middle row two Gold Nuggets down either side and a Melon Slice in the middle column, and the bottom row three Gold Nuggets. Each attempt hands back 1 Glistering Melon Slice.

Glistering Melon Slice Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Glistering Melon Slice is minecraft:glistering_melon_slice. In commands the namespace may be left off, so glistering_melon_slice works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p glistering_melon_slice
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p glistering_melon_slice 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve glistering_melon_slice 1

Cheats have to be on for Glistering Melon Slice to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

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: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

How far back this one goes cannot be read out of the files: Minecraft 1.13 renamed hundreds of items and every recipe file with them, and the glistering melon slice was one of them, so the trail stops there.

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).

What A Stack Yields

8 crafts drain a stack: 64 gold nuggets become 8 glistering melon slices. Bring 8 melon slices along for the ride. Down to the last gold nuggets, nothing spare.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Gold NuggetGold NuggetGold Nugget8xCraft from gold ingots
Melon SliceMelon SliceMelon Slice1xBreak melon blocks

Collect 8x Gold Nugget (craft from gold ingots) and Melon Slice (break melon blocks) first; the Crafting Table does the rest.

The Full Chain

Gold Ingot, then Gold Nugget, then the Glistering Melon Slice. All in: 1 Melon Slice and 1 Gold Ore.

  1. 1
    Gold IngotGold IngotGold IngotFurnace
  2. 2
    Gold IngotGold IngotGold NuggetGold Nugget9Gold Nugget
  3. 3
    Glistering Melon SliceGlistering Melon SliceGlistering Melon Slicethis page

Gather this first

Melon SliceMelon SliceMelon SliceGold Ore

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Gold NuggetGold Nugget8x Gold Nugget

  2. 2

    Melon SliceMelon SliceMelon Slice

  3. 3

    Glistering Melon Slice

Minecraft crafting recipe for Glistering Melon Slice: 8 x Gold Nugget, 1 x Melon Slice in a crafting table, making 1 Glistering Melon Slice.

Tips & Notes

  • One craft costs 8x Gold Nugget and 1x Melon Slice. Start with the Gold Nugget: craft from gold ingots.

Uses for Glistering Melon Slice

  • Brewing Potions of Healing
  • 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 a Glistering Melon Slice in Minecraft?
To craft a Glistering Melon Slice you need 8 Gold Nuggets and 1 Melon Slice at a Crafting Table. Arrange them in the exact grid pattern shown above, and one craft produces one Glistering Melon Slice.
What do you need to make a Glistering Melon Slice from scratch?
Gather 1 Melon Slice and 1 Gold Ore and you have everything a Glistering Melon Slice needs. The in-between items are all crafted, 3 crafts from start to finish.
Can you craft a Glistering Melon Slice without a crafting table?
The inventory grid is too small for a Glistering Melon Slice, so you need a table. It is laid out as eight Gold Nuggets and a single Melon Slice in the centre cell, and that takes 3 rows, more than the 2x2 grid in your inventory can hold.
Where do you find the materials for a Glistering Melon Slice?
A Glistering Melon Slice draws its parts from several different places. Gold Nugget: craft from gold ingots. Melon Slice: break melon blocks.
How many Glistering Melon Slices do you get from one craft?
The Glistering Melon Slice recipe makes one Glistering Melon Slice per craft.
What is the item ID for Glistering Melon Slice in Minecraft?
The Glistering Melon Slice item ID is minecraft:glistering_melon_slice, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write glistering_melon_slice on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
Can you farm everything you need for a Glistering Melon Slice?
Glistering Melon Slice needs nothing you have to go find: gold nugget from gold ingots and melon slice from a stem that keeps fruiting. Set those up once and you can keep making glistering melon slice.
What is the give command for Glistering Melon Slice?
Use /give @p glistering_melon_slice to put a Glistering Melon Slice in your own inventory, or /give @p glistering_melon_slice 64 for a full stack of 64. Cheats have to be on.
Is the Glistering Melon Slice recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
No difference to worry about: a Glistering Melon Slice takes 8 Gold Nuggets and 1 Melon Slice at a Crafting Table on Java and on Bedrock alike, one at a time.
How many crafting steps does a Glistering Melon Slice take?
A Glistering Melon Slice takes 3 crafts once you count the parts: Gold Ingot and Gold Nugget, and then the Glistering Melon Slice. The chain section above walks through them in order.
What version of Minecraft added the Glistering Melon Slice?
The glistering melon slice has carried this name since Minecraft 1.13, the release that renamed hundreds of items at once, and the files cannot say how much older than that it is: anything earlier is the same thing filed under a different name. What you see in the grid above is how it works in the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
8 Gold Nuggets and 1 Melon Slice in, 1 Glistering Melon Slice out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
The trail stops at Minecraft Java 1.13, where hundreds of items were renamed at once. Older releases call this something else entirely. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
That the ingredients come back
What drops, what villagers trade and what farms regrow in Minecraft Java, followed through the recipes to see what those ingredients can be turned into.
Stack size
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Glistering Melon Slice per craft against the stack size.

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