Cocoa - Minecraft Block Guide | Properties, Recipe & Uses (2025)

What is Cocoa in Minecraft?

Cocoa is a plant that grows in pods on the side of jungle wood trees. The pod starts small and green, then grows larger and turns yellow, and is finally ready to harvest when it is a large, reddish brown pod. Its main purpose is to be the source of cocoa beans, which are a key ingredient for crafting brown dye and for making cookies. Cocoa is a unique crop because it does not grow on the ground, but rather on the sides of logs. It is a fun and useful plant that adds a lot of life to the jungle biome and provides players with a tasty treat and a valuable color.

How to get Cocoa in Minecraft

The only way to get cocoa is to find it growing naturally in a jungle biome. Cocoa pods generate on the sides of the trunks of jungle trees. You can find jungles by looking for very tall trees with vines and a dense, leafy canopy. Once you are in a jungle, look at the sides of the trees for the green, yellow, or brown pods. To harvest it, you can break the pod with any tool or your hand. If you break a fully grown, large brown pod, it will drop three cocoa beans. If you break it when it is still small and green or yellow, it will only drop one cocoa bean. So, it is always best to wait for it to be fully grown. You can also find cocoa beans in the chests of shipwrecks.

How to use Cocoa in Minecraft

The main use for cocoa is to harvest it for cocoa beans. Once you have cocoa beans, you have a few great uses for them. The first is crafting. You can place a single cocoa bean in a crafting grid to get one piece of brown dye. This is the main source of brown color in the game. The second use is for making cookies. By combining two wheat and one cocoa bean in a crafting table, you can make eight cookies, which are a great food source. You can also use cocoa beans to farm more cocoa. You can place a cocoa bean on the side of any jungle log, and it will grow into a new cocoa pod. You can use bone meal on the pod to make it grow instantly.

How to craft Cocoa in Minecraft

No recipes for this block.

What can Cocoa make in Minecraft

No items can be crafted.

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