Melon & pumpkin stems will connect to their respective blocks if they naturally grow it as expected. However, they will not connect to manually placed ones.
How to reproduce:
Plant a melon or pumpkin stem on a wet piece of farmland.
Let it grow or grow it with bonemeal.
Wait for its plant block to grow next to it. The stem will connect.
Collect the block and place it back down manually. The stem will not connect.
Expected result:
The stem connects to its respective plant block.
Actual result:
The stem will not connect to any other blocks than naturally grown ones.
The most prominent use of connecting stems to manually placed melons or pumpkins would be building a garden, having the stem not connect is visually displeasing.
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Related to MCPE-79577
This is actually useful for pumpkin farms as pumpkin stems can still produce a pumpkin if they're not connected to a pumpkin (same for melons)
This issue is probably caused by the way MCPE-36783 was fixed.
Also applies to naturally generated pumpkin gardens in taiga villages.
I think this is a parity change because they only connect to naturally grown pumpkins/melons in Java Edition too.
Thank you @yusufulus, I checked and this issue is indeed marked Working As Intended for Java Edition: MC-122489.
Thank you for your report!
However, this issue has been closed as Working as Intended.
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Not present in 1.14.60 or 1.16.0.61.