v26.7.3 Release

26.7.3 Release

Greetings, this is Qa, the developer of Better Melon. I am pleased to announce the release of Version 26.7.3. This update delivers a series of key new content and mechanic changes, as well as targeted remediation for known defects. Please be advised that this is a partially destructive update: modifications to block registration identifiers and underlying core mechanics will result in the loss of certain melon blocks upon upgrade. All users should review this notice thoroughly prior to installation.

New content is rolled out across functional and localization domains. Pumpkin-related functionality is extended to support cutting operations via the Huaqiang Melon Knife, alongside new pumpkin building blocks including slabs, stairs, and corresponding cut variants. A pizza food system is introduced, featuring craftable and placeable servings as well as a reverse-crafted variant with identical gameplay attributes and distinct visual appearance. Localization coverage is expanded to include Russian(Russia), Korean (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea), and Traditional Chinese (Taiwan province of China).

Systemic adjustments are implemented to refine core melon mechanics and enhance runtime efficiency. Right-click melon consumption logic is refactored to block-bound event triggering, replacing global event listening to deliver measurable performance gains. Drop rules, tool interaction parameters, and visual effect presentation for melon blocks are revised. Melon lamp variants are consolidated into unified block entries with state-switchable internal models, standardizing drop behavior and light output. Additional updates cover enchanted melon loot rates and effect triggers, balance adjustments for End melon status mechanics, removal of legacy content and expired limited-time achievements, and updates to technical tag sets.

Multiple known gameplay and compatibility defects are remediated in this release, covering abnormal food value calculation, unintended block placement during consumption, placement failures on melon lamps, non-luminous enchanted melon slabs, cross-version compatibility errors, incorrect block breaking speeds, and misconfigured resistance values for End melon blocks.

This release reinforces the overall stability, accessibility, and operational efficiency of the mod. You may submit feedback to litqa@hotmail.com.

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New Content

Pumpkin

Common

• The Huaqiang Melon Knife now gains the ability to cut pumpkins.
• Added Pumpkin Slab, Pumpkin Stairs and corresponding Cut-up Pumpkin Blocks.

Pumpkin Pizza

• Added raw pumpkin pizza, crafted from wheat and pumpkin blocks.
• Added pumpkin pizza base, obtained by smelting raw pumpkin pizza in a furnace.
• Added placeable pizza, which can be eaten four times, each bite consuming one quarter. It can be eaten even when hunger is full, restoring 4 hunger points and 8 saturation points per bite.
• Pizza is crafted using pumpkin pizza base, milk, eggs, any green‑skinned watermelon, and glistering watermelon.
• Added Azzip, whose crafting recipe is exactly the reverse of the pizza recipe.
• Azzip functions identically to pizza, differing only in appearance.

Localization

• Added Russian (Russia, ru-RU) localization support.
• Added Korean (Democratic People's Republic of Korea, ko-KP) localization support.
• Added Traditional Chinese (Taiwan province of China, zh-TW) localization support.

Changes

Normal

• Refactored the underlying logic for right-click eating watermelon. The event no longer listens via the player right-click bus, with significant performance improvements expected.
• Optimized the drop logic for Melon Blocks when destroyed.

Melon Blocks

• Melon items no longer display a remaining portion in the inventory.
• Using shears to carve a melon block now only drops one melon seed or ender melon seed.
• Carving an unripe melon block with shears no longer drops seeds.
• Carving a glistering melon block or enchanted melon block with shears no longer drops gold nuggets.
• Carving a melon block with shears now shows particle effects.
• Slicing a watermelon block piece by piece with the Huaqiang Melon Knife now uses breaking the block instead of left-clicking.
• The Huaqiang Melon Knife's efficiency when breaking watermelon has been increased to 12, matching golden tools.
• Using the Huaqiang Melon Knife to right-click or break a watermelon block now shows particle effects.
• Right-clicking to eat a watermelon block now shows particle effects.

Melon Lanterns

• Carved Melon With Redstone Lamp Can now only be obtained via crafting. When broken after being crafted, it will always drop itself.
• Carved melon lanterns containing torches, soul torches, lanterns, soul lanterns, shroomlights, sea lanterns, and three types of froglights are now combined into a single block, with internal models switched through block states.
• When broken, the combined block always drops a carved melon and the contained light source.
• Carved melon lanterns containing soul torches or soul lanterns now consistently emit a light level of 15.
• Carved melon lanterns with the four copper bulb variants now always drop themselves when broken, and can be crafted directly using a carved melon lantern, redstone dust, and the copper bulb ingredients in versions prior to 1.21.
• Optimized the state switching logic for carved melon lanterns with the four copper bulb variants.
• Redstone torches can no longer be placed into carved wmelon lanterns.

Enchanted Melon

• Doubled the chance for Enchanted Melon Slices to appear in Ruined Portal loot chests.
• Changed the registry name of Enchanted Melon Slice from qa_better_melon:qa_golden_melon to qa_better_melon:enchanted_melon_slice (Note Old Enchanted Melon Slices will disappear after upgrading. It is recommended to craft them into Enchanted Melons before updating the mod).
• Entities falling onto an Enchanted Melon now also trigger the melon shimmer effect.
• Enchanted Melons and Waxed Enchanted Melons now also trigger the shimmer effect when destroyed by explosions.
• The light level of all Enchanted Melon blocks is uniformly set to 6.

Ender Melon

• The Ender Potion effect applied by Ender Melons can now be cleared by drinking milk.
• The icon for the post-teleport cooldown state in Ender Resonance has been changed.
• The trigger condition for automatic random teleport in Ender Resonance has been changed from being in water or rain to taking any damage.
• After teleporting upon taking damage in Ender Resonance, the cooldown before it can trigger again is reduced to 40 game ticks.

Achievements

• Removed all annual limited achievements.
• Removed the achievement for collecting all Carved Melons.
• Kept 3 achievements related to total melons eaten, granted when the player has eaten a total of 100, 1000, and 5686 melons respectively.
• The command to check melon count has been changed from /meloncount to /better_melon show_melon_count.

Removal

• Removed the two melon variants added in version 26.0.0-alpha: Sculk Melon and Jala Melon.
• Removed all functional effects from the wearable melon rind; it now serves only as a decorative item.

Technical

• Removed some tags.
• Added tag qa_better_melon:melon_blocks, qa_better_melon:melon_lights, qa_better_melon:melon_lights_copperbulb, qa_better_melon:melon_parts, qa_better_melon:melon_stairs.

Fixes

• Hunger and saturation values granted when eating unripe melons and regular melons were incorrect.
• Blocks cannot be placed on melon lanterns while sneaking.
• Enchanted Melon Slabs do not emit light.
• Melon blocks fail to place in versions 1.19.4 and below due to the lack of the native #replaceable tag.
• Axes do not increase the mining speed of watermelon blocks.
• Some Ender Melon blocks incorrectly have their blast resistance set to 1 instead of 3.