Cocoa Beans

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	3
Hardness	?
Luminant	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

	“	Cocoa! You'll know this humble jungle bean as the source of delicious cookies and lots of brown things – brown concrete, brown glass, brown fireworks and even brown shulker boxes. But you might not know its long and grand history, which involves ancient civilizations, human sacrifice, conquering Spaniards, and delicious confections.	„
		— Alex Wiltshire^[1]

Cocoa beans are a food ingredient obtained from cocoa that can be used to craft cookies and brown dye.

Obtaining[edit]

Loot[edit]

From block loot[edit]

Cocoa pods can be mined with any tool, but axes are the quickest.

Namespaced ID	Source	Drops
Namespaced ID	Source	Default
`blocks/cocoa`	Cocoa `age=0-1`	1 (100%)
`blocks/cocoa`	Cocoa `age=2`	3 (100%)

In Bedrock Edition, fully grown cocoa pods drop 2-3 cocoa beans; fortune and looting have effect on this despite looting only being intended to work on mobs.

From chest loot[edit]

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

From fishing[edit]

Cocoa beans can be caught when fishing in a jungle as a junk item.

From trading[edit]

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

Usage[edit]

Breaking[edit]

Cocoa pods can be mined with any tool, but axes are the quickest.

Block	Cocoa
Hardness	0.2
Tool
Breaking time^{[note 1]}
Default	0.35
Wooden	0.2
Stone	0.1
Iron	0.05
Diamond	0.05
Netherite	0.05
Golden	0.05
Sword	0.2

↑ Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

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.

Block loot[edit]

Namespaced ID	Source	Drops
Namespaced ID	Source	Default
`blocks/cocoa`	Cocoa `age=0-1`	1 (100%)
`blocks/cocoa`	Cocoa `age=2`	3 (100%)

In Bedrock Edition, fully grown cocoa pods drop 2-3 cocoa beans; the chances and fortune behavior of this are unknown.

Farming[edit]

Main article: Tutorials/Cocoa bean 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).

Cocoa has three stages of growth. During its first, 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. 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 "pop" and drop their beans when struck by flowing water,‌^{[Java Edition only]} pushed by a piston, or if their log is removed by any means. So in this way, you can make a cocoa bean farm.

Crafting ingredient[edit]

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

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Brown Balloon	Latex + Cocoa Beans + Helium + Lead		‌^{[Bedrock and Education editions only]}
Brown Bed	Any Bed + Cocoa Beans		‌^{[Bedrock and Education editions only]}
Brown Carpet	White Carpet + Cocoa Beans		‌^{[Bedrock and Education editions only]}
Brown Concrete Powder	Cocoa Beans + Sand + Gravel	8	‌^{[Bedrock and Education editions only]}
Brown Dye	Cocoa Beans
Brown Firework Star	Brown Firework Star + Cocoa Beans		‌^{[Bedrock and Education editions 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 and Education editions 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 and Education editions only]} Light gray dye creates a glitched glow stick called `item.glow_stick.silver.name`.^[2]
Brown Shulker Box	Any Shulker Box + Cocoa Beans		‌^{[Bedrock and Education editions only]}
Brown Stained Glass	Glass + Cocoa Beans	8	‌^{[Bedrock and Education editions only]}
Brown Stained Glass Pane	Glass Pane + Cocoa Beans	8	‌^{[Bedrock and Education editions only]}
Brown Terracotta	Terracotta + Cocoa Beans	8	‌^{[Bedrock and Education editions only]}
Brown Wool	Any Wool + Cocoa Beans		‌^{[Bedrock and Education editions only]}
Cookie	Wheat + Cocoa Beans	8

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[edit]

Name	Ingredients	Loom recipe	Description
Brown Banner pattern	White Banner + Cocoa Beans		Field masoned banner and bordure indented banner don't require banner patterns.‌^{[Java Edition only]} Cocoa Beans can be used as a dye.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} Note: The loom is using the Java Edition interface.
Brown Banner image	White Banner + Cocoa Beans + Banner Pattern		Exceptions: Globe banner pattern;‌^{[Java Edition only]} Field masoned and bordure indented banner patterns.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} Cocoa Beans can be used as a dye.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} Note: The loom is using the Java Edition interface.

Dye[edit]

In Bedrock and Education editions, 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.
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 and Education editions.
Used to dye water contained in cauldrons in Bedrock and Education editions.
Combined with sand and gravel to craft concrete powder.
Combined with compounds to craft balloons or glow sticks in Bedrock and Education editions.

Composting[edit]

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

Sounds[edit]

Java Edition:

Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Block broken	Blocks	Breaking the block	`block.wood.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	1.0	0.8	16
None^{[sound 1]}	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.wood.fall`	None^{[sound 1]}	0.5	0.75	16
Block breaking	Blocks	Mining the block	`block.wood.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.25	0.5	16
Block placed	Blocks	Placing the block	`block.wood.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	1.0	0.8	16
Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	`block.wood.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

↑ MC-177082

Bedrock Edition: ^{[needs in-game testing]}

Sound	Description	Namespaced ID	Volume	Pitch
?	Breaking the block	`dig.wood`	?	0.8
?	Falling on the block with fall damage	`fall.wood`	?	?
?	Mining the block	`hit.wood`	?	0.5
?	Jumping from the block	`jump.wood`	?	?
?	Falling on the block without fall damage	`land.wood`	?	?
?	Walking on the block	`step.wood`	?	?
?	Placing the block	`use.wood`	?	0.8

Data values[edit]

ID[edit]

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Item form?	Translation key
Cocoa	`cocoa`	No	`block.minecraft.cocoa`
Cocoa Beans	`cocoa_beans`	Yes	`item.minecraft.cocoa_beans`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Cocoa	`cocoa`	`127`	`tile.cocoa.name`
Cocoa Beans	`dye`	`351`	`?`

In Bedrock Edition, cocoa beans have the ID name dye, with a data value of 3.

	DV	Description
	0	Ink Sac
	1	Red Dye
	2	Green Dye
	3	Cocoa Beans
	4	Lapis Lazuli
	5	Purple Dye
	6	Cyan Dye
	7	Light Gray Dye
	8	Gray Dye
	9	Pink Dye
	10	Lime Dye
	11	Yellow Dye
	12	Light Blue Dye
	13	Magenta Dye
	14	Orange Dye
	15	Bone Meal
	16	Black Dye
	17	Brown Dye
	18	Blue Dye
	19	White Dye

Block data[edit]

Block states[edit]

Video[edit]

Note: This video is outdated, and contains a mis-statement. The video states that beans can be found in "bonus chests"; they were actually found in dungeon chests. Cocoa beans were also removed from dungeon chests in version Java Edition 1.6.1.

History[edit]

Java Edition Beta
1.2				Added cocoa beans.
1.2				Cocoa beans are currently obtainable only through an inventory editor.
1.4				Cocoa beans have been formally brought into the game as a reward found in dungeon chests.^[3] (53% chance) Also, brown sheep now naturally spawn, making obtaining brown wool easier.
Java Edition
May 8, 2012				Jeb revealed cocoa pods 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 pods.
				Cocoa pods have been introduced, replacing jungle leaves as the main method of finding cocoa beans.
				The texture of cocoa beans has been changed.
				The item form of the cocoa pod, normally inaccessible without commands, uses the raw texture of the fully ripe pod.
				Cocoa pods with values 12-15 are now inaccessible normally, and have a texture similar to a dragon egg. This is due to the dragon egg texture being to the left of the ripe cocoa pod texture in terrain.png, as cocoa pod textures are arranged with the oldest on the left and the youngest on the right, resulting in the unusually ripe cocoa pod reading the dragon egg texture.
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 now crash the game if a chunk containing one is loaded.
		13w03a		Cocoa pods with data values 12-15 now crash the game only if in the field of view.
		13w04a		Bone meal now grow cocoa pods by only one stage.
		13w10a		Cocoa pods with data 12-15 now display a valid, but broken, texture derived from other parts of the texture.
1.6.1		13w18a		Cocoa beans have been removed from dungeon chests.
1.6.1		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		Cocoa pods with data 12-15 now display as small missing texture cubes.
		14w10a		Cocoa pods with the above data now appear as full missing texture blocks.
		14w17a		The inventory texture for cocoa pods have been changed from to.
		14w25a		Cocoa pods with data 12-15 have been effectively removed from the game, as they now convert to a proper value with `/setblock`. Loading worlds with existing out of range cocoa crash the game.
		14w25a		The item form of block ID 127 (cocoa pod) has been removed from the game. It can no longer exist in inventories, only as a block in the world.
		14w30a		Cocoa beans can now be used to dye banners.
?				Cocoa pods now have a placement sound.
1.13		17w47a		The different data values for the `dye` ID have been split up into their own IDs.
1.13		17w47a		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.
				"Cocoa Beans" have been renamed to "Cocoa".
				The texture of cocoa beans has been changed.
				The textures of cocoa pods have been changed.
		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" has been renamed back to "Cocoa Beans".
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.8.0		build 2		Added cocoa beans.
		build 2		Cocoa beans can crafted from an orange dye and an ink sac, although there is currently no way of obtaining the latter at the moment.
		build 3		Cocoa beans are now available in creative.
0.9.0		build 1		Added cocoa pods.
				Cocoa pods provide an additional way of obtaining cocoa beans.
				Cocoa beans are now used to craft cookies.
0.11.0		build 14		Cocoa pods now grow over time.^[4]
?				Three cocoa beans can now be crafted from 1 rose red, 1 dandelion yellow and 1 ink sac.^[when?]
0.16.0		build 1		Cocoa beans can no longer be crafted from orange dye and an ink sac.
0.16.0		build 1		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.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0		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.
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2		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 pods have been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1		Cocoa beans can now be used to fill up composters.
?				32px The inventory texture of cocoa pods has been changed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	Added cocoa beans.^[when?]
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	Added cocoa pods.
		1.90		The texture of cocoa beans has been changed.
		1.90		The textures of cocoa pods have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0				Added cocoa beans.
0.1.0				Added cocoa pods.

Issues[edit]

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

Trivia[edit]

Cocoa pods have a different hitbox for each size, however the top is always 0.25 blocks below the top of the wood 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.
The pixels on top of the fully grown pod are 8/7 the size of those on the side.

Gallery[edit]

In a snapshot version, cocoa bean pods were experimental and were visible in the tree's leaves when a jungle biome intersected with another biome.
A picture of a cocoa beans cultivated on a jungle log. Displays all 3 stages of the cocoa pods.
The first screenshot of cocoa pods tweeted by Jeb, which revealed the plants.
Screenshot tweeted by Jeb, showing the pod.
Naturally generated cocoa pods.
A cocoa pod farm.
A somewhat efficient cocoa pod farm, minimizing space and wood use.
A cocoa farm automatically farmed by pistons pushing the blocks they are growing on.
Three growing phases of the cocoa pod.
A log and pod layout for optimizing an example area of 14×14 (including walls).

References[edit]

Items

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Blocks

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[breakingtimenote-2] Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

[fallmissing-4] MC-177082

[minecraft.net-brief-history-cocoa-1] A Brief History of Cocoa

[3] MCPE-43210

[5] ttps://twitter.com/notch/status/53161729990987776

[6] MCPE-7887

[1]

[note 1]

[2]

[sound 1]

[3]

[4]

Bits	Values
0x1 0x2	A two-bit field storing a value from 0 to 4 specifying the direction the pod is attached to: 0: Attached to the north 1: Attached to the east 2: Attached to the south 3: Attached to the west
0x4 0x8	A two-bit field storing a value from 0 to 3 specifying the stage of growth of the plant: 0: First stage 1: Second stage 2: Final stage

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.

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
age	`0`	`0` `1` `2`	The stage of the pod's growth, 2 is fully grown.
direction	`0`	`0` `1` `2` `3`	The direction from the cocoa bean to the log. The direction the player faces when placing the cocoa.