Watermelon
| Watermelon | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Fruits and Vegetables |
| Type | Fruits |
| Hunger | -60 |
| Thirst | -140 |
| Calories | 1355 |
| Fresh | 6 days |
| Rotten | 8 days |
| Cook Time | - |
| Weight | 3 |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.Watermelon
|
A Watermelon is a large whole fruit packed with water and sugar. It must be sliced or smashed before it can be eaten. One melon holds a huge amount of food and drink, enough to feed and water a character for a long time.
Watermelons spoil within about a week, and they are heavy to carry at 3.0 weight. They come from grocery stands, ice cream shop fridges and produce storage, and a farm can grow them in spring. The Farmer is the best occupation for fruits and vegetables. It starts with the most Agriculture skill.
Eating
A whole watermelon lowers hunger by 60 and thirst by 140 across all its pieces. It holds 1355 calories, almost all from 341 grams of carbohydrates. That makes it a rich store of both water and energy in a single item.
The melon has to be broken up first. Slicing it gives 10 Watermelon Slices, while smashing it gives 5 Watermelon Chunks. Both forms carry the melon's food and water between them.
The table shows the game figures for one serving. Negative hunger and thirst fill the character up, and negative unhappiness and boredom cheer them up.
| Item | Hunger | Thirst | Calories | Carbs | Protein | Fat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Watermelon | -60 | -140 | 1355 | 341.11 | 27.56 | 6.78 |
Cooking
The Slice Watermelon recipe cuts a melon into 10 slices. It needs a sharp knife, a saw, a crude saw or a meat cleaver, which is kept. The Smash Watermelon recipe breaks it into 5 chunks with a hammer or a sledgehammer, also kept.
Slices and chunks both go into Salad, Fruit Salad, Pancakes and Muffins. The Collect Seeds recipe takes one watermelon and gives Watermelon Seeds for planting.
Used in Crafting
These recipes take the Watermelon as an ingredient or a part.
| Recipe | Output | Image | Station | Skill | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collect Seeds | Watermelon Seeds | 
|
- | None | /additem Base.WatermelonSeed
|
| Slice Watermelon | Watermelon Slice | 
|
- | Cooking: 0 | /additem Base.WatermelonSliced
|
| Smash Watermelon | Watermelon Chunks | 
|
- | None | /additem Base.WatermelonSmashed
|
Farming
Watermelons grow from Watermelon Seeds. A plant takes about 18 days to grow and gives 2 to 4 melons at harvest. The sowing season runs from March to May, and April is the best month. Watermelons planted from October through February do poorly.
How the crop grows, from the game's farming data.
| Seed | Image | Grow Time | Harvest | Sowing Months | Best Months | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Watermelon Seeds |
|
18 days | 2-4 | March, April, May | April | /additem Base.WatermelonSeed
|
Storage
A whole watermelon stays fresh for 6 days and is fully rotten by day 8. A fridge slows both counts down. Its slices and chunks spoil even faster, so a melon is best broken up only when it is about to be eaten.
Locations
Watermelons are an uncommon find. Grocery stands at Gigamart and grocery stores hold them about one time in eight. Ice cream shop fridges hold them just as often. Produce storage turns them up now and then. A house fridge holds one only rarely.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Gigamart | Grocery stand | 12.1% |
| Grocery store | Grocery stand | 12.1% |
| Icecream | Fridge | 12.1% |
| Icecream kitchen | Fridge | 12.1% |
| Produce storage | Other | 7% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Any building | Fridge | 0.8% |
| Living room | Fridge | 0.8% |
| Hoarder kitchen | Fridge | 0.6% |
Notes
- A single watermelon eases thirst a great deal, which helps a base short of clean water.
- Slicing gives ten small pieces, while smashing gives five larger ones.
- Collecting seeds from one melon can start a whole patch.
- Break a melon up only when ready to eat, because the pieces rot faster than the whole fruit.
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