How To Get Cocoa Beans In Minecraft Without A Jungle

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Cookies aren't very filling in Minecraft, so don't expect them to replace steaks or pork chops on your dungeon crawls. That said, half the fun is watching the crumbs burst out as your character eats the cookie! The most difficult part of this recipe is finding a jungle so you can gather cocoa. Once you've done that, cookies are cheap and easy to craft.

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Find a jungle biome. Cocoa beans only grow in jungles, which are most likely to appear next to other medium-temperature biomes like plains, forest, and swamps. Jungles are easy to identify from their extra-tall trees, but it can take a long time to find one in some worlds.
- Sailing along the coast is a good way to look for new biomes. Set the render distance as far as you can so you can see jungle trees from a distance.
- If you're having no luck, download a mapping tool such as Amidst (for Computer Edition only).
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Break cocoa pods. Search for cocoa pods on the sides of jungle trees. These have three stages of growth. The small, green cocoa pods only give you one bean. If you wait for them to grow into large, orange-brown pods, you can get two or three beans.^[1]
- One cocoa bean makes eight cookies.
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Farm more cocoa pods. Before you craft the cookies, save a couple cocoa beans and chop down a few logs of jungle tree wood. Once you're back at your base, use the pod on the side of a jungle wood block and wait for it to grow larger. This will give you an infinite source of cocoa beans.

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Make farmland to grow wheat. Use a hoe on a patch of dirt or grass to turn it into farmland.
- If you already have wheat, make cookies by placing these ingredients in a horizontal row: wheat, cocoa bean, wheat.
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Supply water and light. Place water within four blocks of the farmland, on the same horizontal level or one block higher. The farmland will turn a darker color to show that it's been watered. You'll also need to keep the farmland bright so the crops can grow, using sunlight or torches.^[2]
- Leave the water there while the wheat grows. Wheat will still grow if the farmland dries out, but it will take longer.
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Plant seeds. Use seeds on the farmland to plant the wheat crop. Tall grass has a chance to drop seeds each time you break it.
- The fastest way to gather your first seeds is to pour water on a field of tall grass, breaking it all at once.
- Each seed will give you one wheat. You need two wheat for every cocoa bean to make cookies.
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Harvest the wheat once it's fully grown. After two or three Minecraft days, the seeds will turn into tall, yellow wheat stalks. Break these to put wheat in your inventory.^[3] Breaking them before they're finished growing will only give you seeds.
- Wheat has seven stages of growth in the Computer edition, and four stages in Pocket edition.
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Craft the cookies. Each recipe takes two wheat items and one cocoa bean, and makes eight cookies. If you are playing an edition with the full crafting mode, place the ingredients in one horizontal line in this order: wheat, cocoa bean, wheat.
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Eat your cookies. Watch the crumbs fly! Each cookie restores 2 hunger and 0.5 saturation, or 1 hunger on Pocket Edition.^[4] ^[5]

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What if I don't live in the jungle?

All you have to do is find a jungle. You can use a number of websites to find one in your world.
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How do I make cookies in Minecraft if I have no seeds?

You will have to find a village so you can farm some wheat seeds. You can find a village by enabling cheats and using the locate command.
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Can you grow cocoa beans?

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Yes, you can. Put beans on jungle wood and wait for them to grow. They're fully grown when they're brown.
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What if I don't want to wait for the wheat and cocoa beans to grow?

If you don't want to wait, you can either use bonemeal to make the wheat grow instantly, or cheat in some wheat and cocoa beans.

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If you can't find any cocoa beans, you can trade with farmer villagers to get cookies directly. Trading is not yet available on Pocket Edition as of version 0.16.0.
Crops will only grow if a player is within the "chunk update radius." This is the farthest horizontal distance you can see, based on the render distance setting. Crops will still grow if you are above or below them.
Use bone meal on cocoa pods or wheat crops to make them grow faster.
Some older versions of Minecraft include alternate methods of getting cocoa beans:
- In Computer Edition Beta 1.4 or later, or Official Release 1.0 through 1.5, you can find cocoa beans in dungeon chests.^[6]
- In Pocket Edition 0.9.0 through 0.15.10, you can craft cocoa beans using ink sacs, dandelion yellow, and rose red.^[7]

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A bug prevents cocoa pods from growing larger on some devices in Pocket Edition 0.9.0 through 0.11.0.^[8] You can still use bone meal to make them bigger, or break them while they are small and green for one bean.

Things You'll Need

At least 2 wheat
At least 1 cocoa bean

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1. Find a jungle biome.
2. Break cocoa pods for beans.
3. Farm more cocoa pods for beans.
4. Hoe grassland to create farmland.
5. Plant weed seeds.
6. Harvest wheat when grown.
7. Open the craft table.
8. Add wheat to the 1st and 3rd squares on the center row.
9. Add cocoa beans to the 2nd square on the center row.
10. Drag cookies to the inventory.

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