...just wait for 4 empty bars. 1melon x 64= 64 hunger bar. 1meat x 64= 256 hunger bar.
Not to mention that, with the hunger bar, eating is no longer instantaneous; there's a couple seconds of animation that go with it. If I suddenly realize that my hunger bar is empty, I'd rather only have to eat 3 steaks or porkchops than try to choke down 10 melon slices in a row... especially if I'm on the run at the time, ya dig? So what if it 'wastes' 2 ticks of potential hunger bar... it get's my hunger bar filled in 1/3 the time.
Melons have their uses, like when it's all nice and safe and you have time to worry about not 'wasting' ticks on the hunger bar (just like cookies). But if you're in a hurry, they just don't cut it.
I've been preaching the same thing for a while now. I love melons! In the PC version, I have an automatic melon farm that can easily be replicated in the Xbox 360 Edition. Becuase of this, I have several stacks of melons. I always carry a stack with me wherever I go and it's almost as if hunger is not even a factor anymore. Each harvest from my farm yields 2-3 stacks of melons. I will never run out of food ever again!
I've been preaching the same thing for a while now. I love melons! In the PC version, I have an automatic melon farm that can easily be replicated in the Xbox 360 Edition. Becuase of this, I have several stacks of melons. I always carry a stack with me wherever I go and it's almost as if hunger is not even a factor anymore. Each harvest from my farm yields 2-3 stacks of melons. I will never run out of food ever again!
It's about time someone made a thread like this!
Oh, melons are fine for bulk supplies... don't get me wrong, they're great! But when I go into deep, dark places, I've always got some MRE's (Moo-cow, Ready to Eat) on my hotbar.
Oh, melons are fine for bulk supplies... don't get me wrong, they're great! But when I go into deep, dark places, I've always got some MRE's (Moo-cow, Ready to Eat) on my hotbar.
You make a good point. Melons are a good part to any balanced diet.
I reall want to bury my face in some melons after this thread. cant wait.
Quick question, is it possible to get melons on our existing 1.7 worlds without using Creative? That is, might there be melon-seeds in chests or something? Would like to keep my current world creative free if I can but to get those melons...
I reall want to bury my face in some melons after this thread. cant wait.
Quick question, is it possible to get melons on our existing 1.7 worlds without using Creative? That is, might there be melon-seeds in chests or something? Would like to keep my current world creative free if I can but to get those melons...
Since melon seeds only spawn in mineshaft chests it will be impossible to obtain without creative. Sorry, bud.
Giant mushrooms made by using bonemeal always give me between 15-17 normal mushrooms per harvest and they may give even more if you're lucky. Bones are always laying around in the morning from archers, making bonemeal endless. I just carry one bowl with me and bring a stack of 64 red and brown mushrooms, heals 4 hunger per use, you can make stew without a crafting table, and you can get a stack of each mushroom in about a minute by chopping down a few giant mushrooms. Takes the same amount of time to gather the stacks of melons as it does to get the large amount of mushrooms from giant mushrooms for stew. Just craft more stew as soon as you eat it so you only need to have a single bowl with you. ;b
:3 I like bread god dammit. One village and I am set for life.....But now I want some watermelon in real life
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I used to be a huge fan of them, until I realized how Hunger actually worked.
If you didn't need to eat every 2 minutes, they would be the best. But they're not. Sure, you get a lot of them, but a single piece of steak will keep your hunger full 10.5 times as longer.
As soon as breeding is put in, Melons will just be a good a backup food. Now, when brewing is added, they'll be amazing for creating healing potions -Serious fun killing mode deactivated-
These are the best food ever. Screw everything else!
And this is how we make it automatic, cause who doesn't like automatic things. I know I do, all my farms (wheat and sugarcane so far) are automatic....and I got those ideas from Antvenom like this one too.
I plan on making one like this....just a little more simple with no auto timer, and easier access to the harvest button with the redstone.
I have to disagree here shrooms are far superior to melons. They grow on all solid blocks that are a few blocks from light sources. If all lighting comes from the roof (and no sunlight) and the floor is not glass or halfslabs, it is a shroom farm. This is just about everywhere you go. You just have to drop an occasional shroom off so it can fill the room and when you come back they are everywhere. To make this even better water uproots them so a piston a water block and a trench will quickly harvest your shroom farm with no digging or more work than flipping a switch twice. Shrooms are common in the nether and in caves. Finding that first set of melon seeds will be more of a pain than finding one of each shroom.
I did that, INFINITE MUSHROOM STEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!
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Not to mention that, with the hunger bar, eating is no longer instantaneous; there's a couple seconds of animation that go with it. If I suddenly realize that my hunger bar is empty, I'd rather only have to eat 3 steaks or porkchops than try to choke down 10 melon slices in a row... especially if I'm on the run at the time, ya dig? So what if it 'wastes' 2 ticks of potential hunger bar... it get's my hunger bar filled in 1/3 the time.
Melons have their uses, like when it's all nice and safe and you have time to worry about not 'wasting' ticks on the hunger bar (just like cookies). But if you're in a hurry, they just don't cut it.
It's about time someone made a thread like this!
Oh, melons are fine for bulk supplies... don't get me wrong, they're great! But when I go into deep, dark places, I've always got some MRE's (Moo-cow, Ready to Eat) on my hotbar.
You make a good point. Melons are a good part to any balanced diet.
This^^^ Plus good to see you back rt. haven't seen any posts from you in awhile but your twitter thread is still going strong(best thread on here imo)
Ahaha, I figured everyone would like to see a thread that didn't ask the same question every other thread did.
The melon thread deserves its own place in time and history.
Quick question, is it possible to get melons on our existing 1.7 worlds without using Creative? That is, might there be melon-seeds in chests or something? Would like to keep my current world creative free if I can but to get those melons...
Since melon seeds only spawn in mineshaft chests it will be impossible to obtain without creative. Sorry, bud.
I used to be a huge fan of them, until I realized how Hunger actually worked.
If you didn't need to eat every 2 minutes, they would be the best. But they're not. Sure, you get a lot of them, but a single piece of steak will keep your hunger full 10.5 times as longer.
As soon as breeding is put in, Melons will just be a good a backup food. Now, when brewing is added, they'll be amazing for creating healing potions
-Serious fun killing mode deactivated-
These are the best food ever. Screw everything else!
I like how once you harvest them, you don't have to replant them.
And this is how we make it automatic, cause who doesn't like automatic things. I know I do, all my farms (wheat and sugarcane so far) are automatic....and I got those ideas from Antvenom like this one too.
I plan on making one like this....just a little more simple with no auto timer, and easier access to the harvest button with the redstone.
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I think...
I did that, INFINITE MUSHROOM STEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!
I can not for the life of me figure out how to post a vidya directly so I will just link it.
This is a stack-able melon/pumpkin farm for the PC, but it carried over extremely well to the 360. Gives me about 40 melon slices every 5 minutes.
Mine is 4 levels, 16 melon plants with 4 seeds a level. Ive got one of these for my wheat and cactus farms.