Cocoa Beans

Cocoa beans are a food ingredient obtained from cocoa pods that are used to plant them, and also to craft cookies and brown dye.

Cocoa pods are plants used to grow cocoa beans.

Natural generation
Cocoa beans come from cocoa pods, which are found on the trunks of normal-sized naturally-generated jungle trees in jungle biomes.

Breaking
Cocoa pods can be mined with any item, but axes are the quickest. $$, fully grown cocoa pods drop 2–3 cocoa beans; the chances of this behavior are unknown. $$, fully grown cocoa pods always drop 3 cocoa beans. Using a tool enchanted with Fortune does not increase the amount of cocoa beans dropped.

The block itself is a technical block that cannot be obtained as an item, instead as cocoa beans, but they can be obtained by inventory editing or add-ons $$.

Fishing
Cocoa beans can be obtained as a junk item from fishing in a jungle.

Trading
Wandering traders sell 3 cocoa beans for an emerald.

Farming
Placing a cocoa bean on the side of a jungle log plants a new cocoa pod. The log does not need to be attached to a tree. A cocoa pod can be placed on jungle logs, jungle wood, stripped jungle logs, and stripped jungle wood.

Cocoa has three stages of growth. During its first stage, the pod is small and green. In the second stage, the plant is bigger and colored tan. In its last stage, the pod is even bigger, and orange-brown. In Java Edition the cocoa block has a 20% chance to grow a stage when receiving a random tick, giving it an average time of 5 minutes and 41 seconds per stage. When destroyed in the first two stages, the pod yields only one cocoa bean. When destroyed in the third stage, it gives two or three cocoa beans. Bone meal can be used to force the cocoa pod forward by one growth stage. Cocoa pods burst and drop their beans when struck by flowing water, pushed by a piston, or if their log is removed by any means.

Crafting ingredient
$$, cocoa beans are accepted as a direct substitute of brown dye in many recipes.

$$, cocoa beans can be also used in banner patterns:

Composting
Placing cocoa beans into a composter has a 65% chance of raising the compost level by 1.

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Trivia

 * Cocoa pods have a different hitbox for each size; however, the top is always 0.25 blocks below the top of the log it is on.
 * If a cocoa pod grows while the player is standing next to it, the player is forced into the appropriate form of suffocation prevention depending on available space.
 * $$, the pixels on top of the fully grown pod are 8/7 the size of those on the side.