Do you want to enjoy some cookies (exotic ones) in Minecraft? Then you should definitely learn more about cocoa beans. This exotic drops out of the cocoa fruits that grow on trees in the jungle. They can sometimes be found in treasure chests. Besides confectionery, with the help of cocoa beans, you can dye wool and clay. Let's go a little deeper into this topic.
- Cookies are crafted from two ingredients: cocoa beans and wheat. Two sheaves of grains and one block of cocoa beans add up to eight cookies. This is a fairly profitable use of tropical fruits as wheat is more difficult to grow. Plus, cocoa beans make it easier to satisfy hunger. Let's give an example. With six blocks of cereals, you can make two breads, which will restore five units of hunger. By adding three cocoa beans, you can eat twenty-four cookies, which add the same twenty-four units. The benefits are clear.
- Cocoa beans are great for making wool brown.
- Burnt clay that comes in contact with the cocoa beans also turns brown.
Cocoa beans in Minecraft: getting
To have something to shake out the cocoa beans, you need to take care of growing plants. Of course, if you need a small number of them or the need for them is irregular, you can simply drive them into the jungle and pick them up. But if you can't survive a day without cookies or love brown, agronomic skills will not hurt you.
Growing cocoa requires Minecraft cocoa beans to be planted on a tropical tree. Fruit growth is three-stage. At first, they are small pods, then they become larger, their color changes. At the final stage, they take on an orange tint. If you destroy the "fruit" in the first and second stages, one cocoa bean will be dropped. A destroyed mature plant gives off three cocoa beans.
If you need to put the cultivation on the stream, you can build farms.
In Minecraft, cocoa beans are one of the main color dyes and food ingredient. They grow on special pods that are found in jungle biomes. The player may well wonder how to plant cocoa beans in Minecraft. To do this, it is enough to have one in your inventory and, taking it in your hands, click on a free block of wood from the jungle. As a result, it forms a new pod, from which even more beans can be obtained in the future. In this case, the block does not have to be part of a full-fledged tree.
Growth
Cocoa beans in Minecraft have three stages of growth. During the first, the pod is small and green. In the second stage, the plant grows larger and darkens slightly. At the end, the pod grows a little more and gets an orange-brown color. When destroyed in the first two stages, the pod will produce only one bean. When fully ripe, it will produce two or three fruits. Bone meal can be used to make the plant skip the first stage of growth. The pods can shed the beans if they collide with running water, piston pressure, or if they break the block they grow on.
Usage
Like all other colorants, cocoa beans can be:
- apply on sheep to dye their wool, which can then be sheared to obtain one to three matching blocks;
- apply on tamed wolves to change the color of their collars;
- use on leather armor, beds, glass, terracotta and shulker boxes;
- mix with gunpowder to create fireworks;
- use to shape banners;
- change the color of the water contained in the boilers;
- combine with sand and gravel to make concrete powder;
- use in craft balloons or candles.
How to grow cocoa beans in Minecraft
The best option for a manual farm will look standard, as indicated in the photo in the article.
The pattern can be repeated vertically or spread horizontally, thus creating larger areas. Vertical farms take up less space and are more productive, however, they are more difficult to replant and picking fruits too high can be a problem.
Keep in mind that the truss should not exceed 6 blocks from where you are standing. Otherwise, you simply will not be able to harvest the fruits. In addition, balancing ease of planting and maximum yield includes a 4 block deep trench. The character can also collect those beans that are under him.
Cocoa beans will fall if they are hit by a player, if the block on which they grow is pushed by a piston, if water takes up the space where the fruits grow, or if the wood block on which they are located is destroyed. All automatic collection methods are dependent on these features. In theory, dynamite can also be used, but this will be very expensive.
Mechanical method
There are currently no turnkey projects for a fully automated farm as you have to manually place the cocoa beans in the pod growing blocks. However, semi-automatic farms that harvest fruits without the participation of the player are popular and quite cheap.
They are divided into two types: piston and water.
Water farms are designed so that the flow of water, released after pressing a button, will wash away all the fruits in a specially designated place, after which the player can collect them in an instant.
Reciprocating farms use a single line of wood blocks with cocoa plants planted on all sides. The pistons either push the pods or the block itself, causing the beans to fall down. Other designs can raise and lower the barrel quickly, but they use more complex redstone designs and are not more useful, cheap, or efficient than simple designs.
How to make beans in Minecraft?
Many players are wondering why cocoa beans are needed in Minecraft and how they can be made. So, cocoa beans in Minecraft serve as an ingredient for cooking and a dye for wool. They can be used to bake cookies and change the color of the white wool to brown.
If you decide to get cocoa beans, but do not know how to do it, our article will help you.
How to make cocoa beans
It is impossible to make your own cocoa beans, but they can be found in the jungle in the trees. They are also sometimes found in treasure chests.
There is another option for how to get cocoa beans - is to grow them on any tropical tree. It is very easy to do this - hold the beans in your hand and click on a free block of wood.
The growth of the cocoa beans will take place in three stages. In the first and second stages, the fruits will not be large and bright. If you destroy the fruit during this period, then you will receive one bean. But if you wait until the cocoa beans grow up and become saturated in color, you can get as many as three fruits.
Bone meal can be used to speed up maturation. And if you pour water on the cocoa beans, they will collapse.
Cocoa fruits can be found in the jungle, where they grow on the trunks of huge trees, or grown independently from cocoa beans. To do this, you need to hold a bob in your hand and click on a block of tropical wood. It should be noted that cocoa can even grow on a free-standing block of corresponding wood, which may not be part of a “living” tree. Players actively use this when decorating their homes. The fact is that the grown cocoa fruits resemble very graceful and beautiful lanterns or sconces.
The cocoa fruit has three growth stages. In the first two, it remains not too large in size and dull in color; in the third stage, the cocoa fruit grows to about half of the usual block and acquires an orange-brown, saturated color. If the fruit is destroyed in the first two stages of growth, only one bean will drop out of it. Fully ripe fruit, when broken, produces three beans. Cocoa fruits require only one condition to grow, and that is a block of tropical wood. Light level, height and other factors do not affect the ripening process in any way.
Using cocoa beans
Cocoa beans can be used to dye wool and burnt clay. To dye wool, it is enough to place a block of white wool and cocoa beans in adjacent cells on the workbench or in the crafting (item creation) window in the inventory. However, it is much more profitable to dye a white sheep and then shear it with scissors, this option saves cocoa beans and time. To color a sheep, approach it, take cocoa beans in your hand, and right-click. Please note that you will not be able to repaint the sheep in the future, since only white animals lend themselves to coloring.
To paint burnt, open a workbench, place cocoa beans in the center slot and surround them with blocks of burnt clay. This will give you 8 blocks of brown fired clay.
Cocoa beans can be used to make cookies. Cookies are a good food option if you don't have too much wheat. For example, 6 units of wheat can only make 2 breads, but adding 3 units of cocoa beans from the same amount of wheat can make 24 cookies. A total of 2 breads will give you only 5 units of satiety, and biscuits - 24.
It should be borne in mind, however, that a character eating a cookie will get hungry faster than a character eating bread, since the game has an additional "satiety" parameter, which is much higher for bread. To make cookies, place cocoa beans in the center crafting space on the workbench, and fill the outermost cells of the same horizontal line with wheat.
