Cocoa Beans

Cocoa beans are a food ingredient obtained from cocoa pods that are used to plant them, and also to craft cookies and brown dye.

Cocoa pods are plants used to grow cocoa beans.

Obtaining

Breaking

Cocoa pods can be mined with any item, but axes are the quickest. In Bedrock Edition, fully grown cocoa pods drop 2–3 cocoa beans; the chances of this behavior are unknown. In Java Edition, fully grown cocoa pods always drop 3 cocoa beans. Using a tool enchanted with Fortune does not increase the amount of cocoa beans dropped.

The block itself is a technical block that cannot be obtained as an item, instead as cocoa beans,‌^{[Java Edition only]} but they can be obtained by inventory editing or add-ons in Bedrock Edition.

Chest loot

Fishing

Cocoa beans can be obtained as a junk item from fishing in a jungle.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Trading

Wandering traders sell 3 cocoa beans for an emerald.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Usage

Farming

Cocoa beans come from cocoa pods, which are found on the trunks of normal-sized naturally-generated jungle trees in jungle biomes. Placing a cocoa bean on the side of a jungle log plants a new cocoa pod. The log does not need to be attached to a tree. A cocoa pod can be placed on jungle logs, jungle wood, stripped jungle logs, and stripped jungle wood.

Cocoa has three stages of growth. During its first stage, the pod is small and green. In the second stage, the plant is bigger and colored tan. In its last stage, the pod is even bigger, and orange-brown. In Java Edition the cocoa block has a 20% chance to grow a stage when receiving a random tick, giving it an average time of 5 minutes and 41 seconds per stage. When destroyed in the first two stages, the pod yields only one cocoa bean. When destroyed in the third stage, it gives two or three cocoa beans. Bone meal can be used to force the cocoa pod forward by one growth stage. Cocoa pods burst and drop their beans when struck by flowing water, pushed by a piston, or if their log is removed by any means.

Crafting ingredient

In Bedrock Edition, cocoa beans are accepted as a direct substitute of brown dye in many recipes.

In Bedrock Edition, cocoa beans can be also used in banner patterns:

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Brown Banner pattern	Cocoa Beans + Banner
Brown Banner image	Cocoa Beans + Banner + Vines or Bricks or Creeper Head or Wither Skeleton Skull or Oxeye Daisy or Enchanted Golden Apple

Loom ingredient

Dye

In Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education, cocoa beans can be:

• Applied to sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared for 1–3 blocks of brown wool.
• Applied to tamed wolves to dye their collars.
• Applied to tamed cats to dye their collars.
• Used to dye or stain wool, leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta and shulker boxes.
• Combined with gunpowder to make a firework star.
• Combined with a firework star to create a fade-to-color effect.
• Used to add patterns to banners.
• Used to dye shulkers in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
• Used to dye water contained in cauldrons in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
• Combined with sand and gravel to craft concrete powder.
• Combined with compounds to craft balloons or glow sticks in Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education.
• Used to change the color of text on signs or hanging signs‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.20 & BE 1.20]}.

Composting

Placing cocoa beans into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Block states

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

History

For a more in-depth breakdown of changes to textures and models, including a set of renders for each state combination, see /Asset history

Java Edition Beta
1.2					Added cocoa beans.
					Cocoa beans are currently obtainable only through an inventory editor.
1.2_02					Prior to this, Cocoa Beans were misspelled as 'Coco Beans'.
1.4					Cocoa beans have been formally brought into the game as a reward found in dungeon chests.[2] (53% chance) Also, brown sheep now naturally spawn, making brown wool obtainable without hacking the game.
					Cocoa beans can now be used to craft cookies.
Java Edition
May 8, 2012					Jeb revealed cocoa with a screenshot.
1.3.1		12w18a			For only this snapshot, cocoa beans have been given a small (0.5%) chance of dropping from destroyed jungle tree leaves in a similar fashion to apples from oak leaves, which makes cocoa beans renewable for the first time.
		12w19a			Added cocoa. The top textures of cocoa always keep a completely constant rotation, regardless of what direction they face. They also not shaded.
					The texture of cocoa beans has been changed.
					Cocoa has replaced jungle leaves as the main method of finding cocoa beans.
					Cocoa with values 12–15 is inaccessible normally, and use the texture of the dragon egg. This is due to the dragon egg texture being to the left of the ripe cocoa texture in terrain.png, as cocoa textures are arranged with the oldest on the left and the youngest on the right, resulting in the unusually ripe cocoa reading the dragon egg texture.
		1.3			The texture of cocoa beans has been changed.
1.4.2		12w34a			Cocoa beans have been given the ability to dye leather armor and wolf collars.
1.4.6		12w49a			Cocoa beans can now be crafted with gunpowder to create a firework star.
1.5		13w02a			Due to textures being stored in individual files, cocoa beans with data 12–15 no longer have a texture to use, and now crash the game if a chunk containing one is loaded.
		13w03a			Cocoa with data values 12–15 now only crash the game if one is directly in the field of view.
		13w04a			Bone meal now grows cocoa by only one stage.
		13w10a			Cocoa with data 12–15 now use the age 2 texture, resulting in a broken appearance, preventing previously mentioned crashes.
1.6.1		13w18a			Cocoa beans have been removed from dungeon chests.
		13w19a			Brown stained clay can now be crafted using cocoa beans.
1.7.2		13w41a			Brown stained glass can now be crafted using cocoa beans.
1.8		14w07a			The top textures of cocoa now rotate with the blocks themselves (cocoa facing north remaining visually unaffected), and cocoa of age 3 has no model.
		14w10a			The large section of cocoa is shaded, and the missing model (which age 3 cocoa uses) has changed.
		14w25a			The connecting region of cocoa is now shaded.
		14w26a			Cocoa with data 12–15 has been effectively removed from the game, as such blocks now convert to a proper value with /setblock. Loading worlds with existing out of range cocoa crash the game.
		14w30a			Cocoa beans can now be used to dye banners.
1.13		17w47a			The different data values for the dye ID have been split up into their own IDs.
					Prior to The Flattening, this block's and item's numeral ID were respectively 127 and 351.
1.14		18w43a			Cocoa beans can now be used to craft brown dye.
					Cocoa beans can no longer be used as a dye.
					All of the dye-related functions and crafting recipes of cocoa beans (except cookies) have been transferred to brown dye.
					"Cocoa Beans" item has been renamed to "Cocoa".
					The texture of cocoa has been changed.
					The textures of cocoa have been changed.
					Textures for cocoa age 0 and 1 has palette left, visible only on particles.
					Cocoa now has a placement sound.
		19w03a			Placing cocoa into the new composter has a 50% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
		19w05a			Cocoa now has a 65% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
		19w11b			"Cocoa" item has been renamed back to "Cocoa Beans".[verify]
1.18		Pre-release 5			Textures for cocoa age 0 and 1 were changed. This visually changes only particles.
1.19		22w11a			The texture and model of cocoa age 2 have been changed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.3.0					Added cocoa beans. They are currently unobtainable and serve no purpose.
v0.8.0		build 2			The texture of cocoa beans has been changed.
					Cocoa beans can be crafted from an orange dye and an ink sac, or from dandelion yellow, rose red, and an ink sac, despite there being no way of obtaining ink sacs at the time.
		build 3			Cocoa beans are now available in creative.
v0.9.0		build 1			[more information needed] Added cocoa.
					Cocoa provides an additional way of obtaining cocoa beans.
					Cocoa beans are now used to craft cookies.
v0.11.0		build 14			Cocoa now grows over time.[3]
?					File:Cocoa Age 0 (S) BE2.png File:Cocoa Age 1 (S) BE2.png Cocoa no longer has a stem connecting it to the log.
v0.15.0		Realms build 4			Cocoa stems now render again.[4]
v0.16.0		build 1			Cocoa beans can no longer be crafted from orange dye and an ink sac.
					Cocoa beans can no longer be crafted from rose red, dandelion yellow and ink sacs.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Cocoa beans can now be used to dye shulkers.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Cocoa beans can now be used to dye shulker boxes and beds.
					Cocoa beans can now be used to craft concrete powder.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Cocoa beans can now be used to dye banners, firework stars, and glass.
					Cocoa beans can now be found in bonus chests.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.20.1			Cocoa beans can now be used to craft brown balloons and glow sticks.
1.8.0		beta 1.8.0.10			Cocoa beans can now be used to craft brown dye.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Cocoa beans are now sold by wandering traders.
					The texture of cocoa beans has been changed.
					The textures of cocoa have been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Cocoa beans can now be used to fill up composters.
1.16.100		beta 1.16.100.56			The ID of cocoa beans has been changed from dye/3 to cocoa_beans.
1.18.10		beta 1.18.10.22			Textures for cocoa age 0 and 1 were changed. This visually changes only particles.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added cocoa beans.
TU12					[verify] Added cocoa.
?					The texture of cocoa beans has been changed.
		1.90			The texture of cocoa beans has been changed once again.
					[verify] The textures of cocoa have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added cocoa beans.
					[verify] Added cocoa.

Cocoa "item"

The following content is transcluded from Technical blocks/Cocoa.

Appearances

Java Edition
1.3.1		12w19a			The cocoa item uses this texture in inventories, when held in first or third person view or as a dropped item.
1.4.2		12w34a			The cocoa item now uses the aforementioned texture when in an item frame.
1.8		14w17a			The cocoa item now uses this texture in inventories, when held in first or third person view, as a dropped item or when in an item frame.
					This is likely due to model handling changes in this version.
Bedrock Edition
?					The cocoa item uses this texture.

Names

Java Edition

• 12w19a - 14w21b: Cocoa^[8]
• (As block name, item does not exist) 14w25a and onwards: Cocoa

Bedrock Edition

• ? - ?: Cocoa

Issues

Issues relating to "Cocoa Beans" or "Cocoa Pod" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Cocoa pods have a different hitbox for each size; however, the top is always 0.25 blocks below the top of the log it is on.
• If a cocoa pod grows while the player is standing next to it, the player is forced into the appropriate form of suffocation prevention depending on available space.
• In Bedrock Edition, the pixels on top of the fully grown pod are 8/7 the size of those on the side.^[9][10]

Gallery

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  The first screenshot of cocoa pods tweeted by Jeb, which revealed the plants.

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  Screenshot tweeted by Jeb, showing the pod.

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  Naturally generated cocoa pods.

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  A cocoa pod farm.

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  A somewhat efficient cocoa pod farm, minimizing space and wood use.

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  A cocoa farm.

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  Three growing phases of the cocoa pod.

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  A log and pod layout for optimizing an example area of 14×14 (including walls).

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  Cocoa beans with values greater than 12 appeared this way

References

External Links

• Taking Inventory: Cocoa Beans – Minecraft.net on December 5, 2019