Minecraft is one of the most popular and timeless sandbox games that you can play. One of the things you can do in your Minecraft world is build farms of your favorite foods or recipe ingredients. Cocoa beans are used in a variety of recipes, such as creating dyes and making cookies. If you’re looking to learn how to grow cocoa beans in Minecraft, there are a few easy steps that you must follow to be successful.
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Locate Your First Cocoa Bean
The first step in figuring out how to grow cocoa beans in Minecraft is figuring out where to find your first beans to grow more. Therefore, you have to find a jungle because it is the only location they grow naturally. You can find a jungle biome by looking for areas that have dense plants, very tall trees, and a lot of vines. The jungle biome is very unique in its appearance because these trees are some of the largest in the game and able to be seen from far away. After you find a jungle biome, you can begin to start exploring the area to locate the cocoa bean pods on the trees in the area. They will look like this:
Harvest Cocoa Pods
The cocoa bean pods are the items that will contain the cocoa beans that you require. To harvest the cocoa bean from the pod, you will need to punch the pod on the tree with your hands or any other tool. These pods will drop 1-3 cocoa beans.
Acquire Jungle Logs
While you’re still in the jungle, harvest some jungle wood logs or grab some jungle saplings to grow your own jungle tree. This is very important because cocoa beans only grow on jungle log blocks! It can be noted that the jungle logs don’t need to be part of a natural tree or have the bark on them. So, all forms of jungle logs will work.
Plant Cocoa Beans
Now that you have obtained your cocoa beans from the jungle and have some jungle logs, you are well on your way to mastering how to grow cocoa beans in Minecraft. To start growing your cocoa beans, you will need to plant the ones that you’ve found. Do this by placing one cocoa bean on the side of a jungle wood block. A green pod will appear and begin to grow. Make sure your pod has plenty of light. Now will have to wait until the pod is finished growing or use bone meal on it to speed the process along.
Harvest Cocoa Beans
Cocoa beans have three different growth stages: The just-planted stage, a middle growing stage, and a fully grown ready-to-harvest stage. Cocoa beans will be ready to harvest when they turn brown. Simply punch them to collect the cocoa beans, which can then be used to make dyes, and cookies or to plant more pods. If you want a steady supply of this ingredient, be sure to plant more when you are finished harvesting.
Congratulations, you now know how to grow cocoa beans in Minecraft! You can now grow this delicious and valuable crop in your Minecraft world. By following these simple steps, you will have a thriving cocoa bean farm in no time at all! You can now craft as much brown dye as you need or make cookies your grandma would be proud of. Cookies restore 2 hunger and are crafted in stacks of 8, this means that cookies are a pretty sustainable source of food. Cookies are also the most efficient way to fill a compost bin to create lots of bone meal.