Cocoa Beans

Cocoa beans are items obtained from cocoa pods and are used to plant them, as well as to craft brown dye and cookies.

Cocoa pods are bonemealable plants placed on jungle log sides that grow cocoa beans, and can be found naturally in jungles.

Obtaining[]

In Java Edition, cocoa beans are only obtained through the natural generation of cocoa pods, while in Bedrock Edition, they can also be gotten in bonus chests, from fishing inside the jungle, bamboo jungle and sparse jungle biomes and during a trading with a wandering trader.

Cocoa beans come from cocoa pods, which are found on the trunks of normal-sized naturally-generated jungle trees in jungle, bamboo jungles and sparse jungle temperate biomes.

Cocoa pods can be mined with any item, but axes are the quickest. Fully grown cocoa pods drop 3 cocoa beans. Using a tool enchanted with Fortune does not increase the amount of cocoa beans dropped.

Block	Cocoa
Hardness	0.2
Tool
Breaking time[A]
Default	0.3
Wooden	0.15
Stone	0.1
Iron	0.05
Diamond	0.05
Netherite	0.05
Golden	0.05
Sword	0.2

The block itself can be obtained by inventory editing or add-ons in Bedrock Edition.

From one to two cocoa beans can be found in 40% of bonus chests in Bedrock Edition.

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Bedrock Edition
Cocoa Beans	Bonus chest	Chest	1–2	40%

Cocoa beans can be obtained from fishing in a jungle in Bedrock Edition.

Wandering traders may sell 3 cocoa beans for an emerald during a trading in Bedrock Edition.

Usage[]

Farming[]

Placing cocoa beans 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 larger and orange. 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 3 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 or wood are removed by any means.

Composting[]

Placing cocoa beans into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1. In Bedrock Edition, cocoa beans are accepted as a direct substitute of brown dye in many recipes.

Crafting ingredient[]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Brown Balloon	Latex + Cocoa Beans + Helium + Lead		‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]
Brown Bed	Any Bed + Cocoa Beans		‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]
Brown Carpet	White Carpet + Cocoa Beans		‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]
Brown Concrete Powder	Cocoa Beans + Sand + Gravel	8	‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]
Brown Dye	Cocoa Beans
Brown Firework Star	Brown Firework Star + Cocoa Beans		‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] Adds a "fade to color" effect to the firework star, overwriting any existing fades. Up to eight dyes can be added.
Brown Firework Star	Gunpowder + Cocoa Beans + Head or Gold Nugget or Feather or Fire Charge + Glowstone Dust + Diamond		‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] Up to eight dyes can be added. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients.
Brown Glow Stick	Polyethylene + Hydrogen Peroxide + Cocoa Beans + Luminol		‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]
Brown Shulker Box	Any Shulker Box + Cocoa Beans		‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]
Brown Stained Glass	Glass + Cocoa Beans	8	‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]
Brown Stained Glass Pane	Glass Pane + Cocoa Beans	8	‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]
Brown Terracotta	Terracotta + Cocoa Beans	8	‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]
Brown Wool	Any Wool + Cocoa Beans		‌[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only]
Cookie	Wheat + Cocoa Beans	8

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.

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

Sounds[]

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wood.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.wood.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wood.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	None[sound 1]	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wood.fall	None[sound 1]	0.5	0.75	16
	Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.wood	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.wood	1.0	0.8
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.wood	0.23	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.wood	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.wood	0.3	1.0
	Players	Jumping from the block	jump.wood	0.12	1.0
	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.wood	0.18	1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Cocoa	cocoa	Block	block.minecraft.cocoa
Cocoa Beans	cocoa_beans	Item	item.minecraft.cocoa_beans

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Cocoa	cocoa	None	127	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.cocoa.name
Cocoa Beans	cocoa_beans	dye / 3	412	Item	—	item.dye.brown.name

Block states[]

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
age	0	0 1 2	The stage of the pod's growth, 2 is fully grown.
facing	north	east north south west	The direction from the cocoa bean to the log. The direction the player faces when placing the cocoa.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
age	0x4 0x8	0	0 1 2	0 1 2	The stage of the pod's growth, 2 is fully grown.
			3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	Unsupported	Unused
direction	0x1 0x2	0	0 1 2 3	0 1 2 3	The direction from the cocoa bean to the log. 0: Attached to the south 1: Attached to the east 2: Attached to the north 3: Attached to the west

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 1			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]
?					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.
TU9					The texture of cocoa beans has been changed.
TU12					[verify] Added cocoa.
		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.

Java Edition
1.3.1		12w19a			Cocoa has an extra, unobtainable item form corresponding to its block ID, which uses the fully grown texture. It can be obtained via the /give command or inventory editors with numeric item ID 127.
					The item is obtainable in this snapshot via pick block in Creative mode.[5]
					The cocoa item can be placed anywhere, and result in suspended cocoa.[6]
					Unlike cocoa beans at the time, cocoa has a placement sound (that of wood).
		12w21a			Pick Block used on cocoa now returns cocoa beans.
1.8		14w25a			The direct item form of cocoa has been removed from the game. It can no longer exist as an item in any way, only as a placed block.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0					Cocoa exists as an item.
?					Attempting to place a cocoa item in an invalid space does not consume the cocoa, even in survival; however, cocoa beans are dropped at that location.[7] It renders for a frame if placed on a non-jungle log, and is consumed if replacing an existing replaceable block such as grass.

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
?					DV 0 DV 1 DV 2 The cocoa item uses the Age 0 texture, however, using data values will change the item texture (i.e, Data Value 1 will render the item as Age 1, and Data Value 2 will render it as Age 2, as shown.)

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[]

• 

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

• 

  A screenshot tweeted by Jens Bergensten, showing the pod.

• 

  Naturally generated cocoa pods.

• 

  A cocoa pod farm.

• 

  A cocoa farm.

• 

  Three growing phases of the cocoa pod.

• 

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

• 

  Cocoa beans with values greater than 12 appeared this way

Literature[]

References[]

External Links[]

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