Minecraft Melon Farm Design. This tutorial will show you how to set up automatic pumpkin and melon farms using very simple redstone! Can also be used as a Pumpkin Farm!
Just make yourself a clay minion farm. If a melon is already occupying an adjacent dirt/grass or farmland spot, the stem does not grow any more melons until the melon is removed. Can also be used as a Pumpkin Farm!
After testing for a while i created a great design for melon and pumpkin farming.
Melon plants take a while to grow to maturity, but once they do, they will randomly produce Melons in any adjacent space on top of a solid block.
Silk Touch causes the block itself to drop. Efficiency in terms of time is way more important than saving a block here and there. There are hoppers under farmlands and they are connected to a storage container(s).