Cocoa Bean Farm

Beginner Java + Bedrock

Produces: Cocoa beans for cookies, brown dye and the occasional suspicious stew base

How it works

• Cocoa pods grow only on the sides of jungle logs and jungle wood (stripped works too) - the log does not need to be part of a tree.
• Three stages: small green, tan, then big orange - 20% growth chance per random tick, about 5 minutes 40 seconds per stage on average.
• Harvest: a fully grown pod drops 3 cocoa beans; Fortune does not increase the amount.
• Pods plant on the side of jungle logs, jungle wood and their stripped versions; the log does not need to be part of a tree.
• Pods only generate on naturally generated jungle logs in jungle and sparse jungle biomes; never on trees grown from saplings.
• In Java, beans come only from natural pods; in Bedrock they also appear in bonus chests and from fishing in jungle biomes.

Materials

• Cocoa beans from a jungle biome (check natural jungle trees)
• Jungle logs - a wall or tower of them
• A hoe or axe for fast breaking (any tool works)
• Optional: pistons, a lever and hoppers for the harvest row
• Bone meal to speed the first cycles

Build steps

1. Explore a jungle and harvest natural cocoa pods for your first beans.
2. Build a jungle log wall at home, one block thick, any height.
3. Plant a bean on every free log face - each face is a separate pod.
4. Wait for the orange stage, then break the pod with an axe (the quickest tool): 3 beans per mature pod.
5. Replant on every free face and repeat: the wall multiplies itself.

Rates

A 10x10 log wall holds 100+ pods; each mature cycle triples your beans, and a piston-harvested wall yields stacks of cocoa per minute of clicking.

Tips

• Cocoa beans dye sheep wool brown.
• A jungle log pillar in your base works: the log does not need a tree.
• Average 5 min 41 s per stage, so plant every face at once.
• Source: minecraft.wiki Cocoa Beans.

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