Cocoa Beans

Cocoa Beans

• Age 0
• Age 1
• Age 2

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	3
Hardness	0.2
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

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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 plant blocks 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 found in bonus chests, from fishing inside the jungle, bamboo jungle and sparse jungle biomes and from trading with a wandering trader.

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

Natural generation

Cocoa beans come from cocoa pods, which are found on the trunks of naturally-generated small (1-block-wide) jungle trees in jungle, bamboo jungle and sparse jungle biomes. Cocoa pods do not generate on jungle trees grown from saplings.

Breaking

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 (sec)
Default	0.3
Wooden	0.15
Stone	0.1
Iron	0.05
Diamond	0.05
Netherite	0.05
Golden	0.05
Sword	0.2
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Generated loot

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

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	[hide]Chance
Bedrock Edition
Cocoa Beans	Bonus Chest	Chest	1–2	40% { "item": "Cocoa Beans", "stacksize": "1–2", "chance": 0.4, "structure": "Bonus Chest", "container": "Chest" }

Fishing

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

Usage

Farming

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

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.

Crafting ingredient

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

Java Edition

Name	Ingredients	[hide]Crafting recipe
Brown Dye	Cocoa Beans
Cookie	Wheat + Cocoa Beans	8

Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	[hide]Description
Brown Balloon	Latex + Cocoa Beans + Helium + Lead
Brown Bed	Any Bed + Cocoa Beans
Brown Carpet	White Carpet + Cocoa Beans
Brown Concrete Powder	Cocoa Beans + Sand + Gravel	8
Brown Firework Star	White Firework Star or Blue Firework Star or Brown Firework Star or Black Firework Star + Cocoa Beans		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		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
Brown Shulker Box	Any Shulker Box + Cocoa Beans
Brown Stained Glass Pane	Glass Pane + Cocoa Beans	8
Brown Stained Glass	Glass + Cocoa Beans	8
Brown Terracotta	Terracotta + Cocoa Beans	8
Brown Wool	Any Wool + Cocoa Beans

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	[hide]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

Name	Ingredients	Loom recipe	[hide]Description
Brown Banner pattern	White Banner + Cocoa Beans		Cocoa Beans can be used as a dye.‌ Note: The loom is using the Java Edition interface.
Brown Banner image	White Banner + Cocoa Beans + Banner Pattern		Cocoa Beans can be used as a dye.‌ Note: The loom is using the Java Edition interface.

Sounds

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e wood sound type
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
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wood.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	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:

[hide] v t e wood sound type
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
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.wood	0.12	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.wood	0.18	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

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

Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	[hide]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	[hide]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

There is an associated page listing all historical changes related to the appearance and/or sounds associated with this block and associated item in further detail than below; see /Asset history.

[hide]Java Edition Beta
1.2							Added Coco Beans.
							Currently obtainable only through an inventory editor.
1.2_02							Corrected name from "Coco Beans" to "Cocoa Beans".
1.4							Cocoa beans are now available ingame as a reward found in dungeon chests. (53% chance)
							Cocoa beans can now be used to craft cookies.
[hide]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 are also not shaded.
							The texture of cocoa beans has been changed.
							Cocoa has replaced jungle leaves as the main method of finding cocoa beans.
			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			13w04a				Bone meal now grows cocoa by only one stage.
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 remains visually unaffected.
			14w10a				The large section of cocoa is now shaded.
			14w25a				The connecting region of cocoa is now shaded.
			14w30a				Cocoa beans can now be used to dye banners.
1.11			16w39a				Cocoa beans can now be used to dye shulker boxes.
1.12			17w06a				Cocoa beans are now used to craft brown concrete powder.
			17w15a				Cocoa beans can now be used to dye beds.
1.13			17w47a				Cocoa beans can now be placed when not aiming at a block that it can be placed on, if there is an adjacent block that they can be placed on.
							Cocoa beans can now replace replaceable blocks when placed by the player.
1.14			18w43a				Renamed "Cocoa Beans" to "Cocoa".
							Cocoa can now be used to craft brown dye.
							Cocoa can no longer be used as a dye.
							All of the dye-related functions and crafting recipes of cocoa (except cookies) have been transferred to brown dye.
							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.
							Cocoa beans can no longer be placed inside entities.
			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".
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.
[hide]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				Added cocoa.
							Cocoa provides an additional way of obtaining cocoa beans.
							Cocoa beans are now used to craft cookies.
v0.11.0			build 1				Cocoa beans can no longer be crafted from orange dye and an ink sac.
			build 14				Cocoa now grows over time.
v0.14.0			build 1				Cocoa no longer has a stem connecting it to the log.
v0.14.2							Cocoa stems now render again.
v0.16.0			build 1				Cocoa beans can no longer be crafted from rose red, dandelion yellow, and ink sacs.
[hide]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.
[hide]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 1.8.0.8				Cocoa beans can now be obtained as junk item when fishing in jungles.
			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.
1.18.10			beta 1.18.10.22				Textures for cocoa age 0 and 1 were changed. This visually changes only particles.
1.20.30			Preview 1.20.20.21				Wandering traders now sell brown dye instead of cocoa beans.
1.20.80			Preview 1.20.80.20				Fully grown cocoa pods now consistently drop 3 cocoa beans.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added cocoa beans.
TU9							The texture of cocoa beans has been changed.
TU12							Added cocoa.
TU14		1.04					Cocoa beans can now be used to dye leather armor and wolf collars.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Cocoa beans can now be used to craft brown stained clay.
							Cocoa beans can now be crafted with gunpowder to create a firework star.
TU25	CU14	1.17	1.17	1.17			Cocoa beans can now be used to craft brown stained glass.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Added banners, which can be dyed with cocoa beans.
TU53	CU43	1.49	1.50	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Cocoa beans can now be used to dye shulker boxes.
							Can now be used to craft brown concrete powder.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Added the ability to dye beds.
TU60	CU51	1.64	1.64	1.64	Patch 30	1.0.11	Cocoa beans can now be used to dye leather horse armor.
							Cocoa beans can now be used to dye water in a cauldron to dye leather armor.
			1.83				Cocoa beans can now be obtained as junk item when fishing in jungles.
							Cocoa beans can now be used to craft brown dye.
			1.90				The texture of cocoa beans has been changed once again.
							The textures of cocoa have been changed.
			1.91				Cocoa beans are now sold by wandering traders.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added cocoa beans.
							Added cocoa.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.3.1			12w19a				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.
1.5			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.
			13w10a				Cocoa with data 12–15 now use the age 2 texture, resulting in a broken appearance, preventing previously mentioned crashes.
1.8			14w07a				Cocoa of age 3 no longer has a model.
			14w10a				The missing model (which age 3 cocoa uses) has changed.
			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.
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.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0			build 1				Cocoa with data values 12–15 are inaccessible normally, and use the age 2 texture.
v0.15.0			build 1				Cocoa with data values 12–15 now use the age 0 texture.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.16.100			beta 1.16.100.56				The ID of cocoa beans has been changed from dye/3 to cocoa_beans.

Issues

Issues relating to "Cocoa Beans" or "Cocoa Pod" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed 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.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 

  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.

• 

  Example of natural cocoa pods spawn bug.

• 

  Old Cocoa beans texture in Java Edition 1.2.5

External links

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