How to plant cocoa beans in minecraft xbox 360 edition

The second item required for farming these little brown beans are jungle logs, so make sure you stock up on these as well before returning to your home base. Finally, and this is an optional item, but any farmer knows that having bonemeal handy will speed up the farming process for any crop. Now, on to your farm. Lay down your jungle blocks on the ground wherever you like.

They can be in a straight line, or even stacked vertically. Next, whip out your cocoa beans and place them on an open side of the jungle log. They will appear as little green sacks hanging off the sides. No need to have the logs adjacent to a water source or anything, so long as they are outside and above ground. At this point you're all set. The new pods will start to grow over time, going through three stages before you can harvest them.

They start out as the little greenish pods, evolve into a medium brown or tan color, and then mature as the cocoa pods you found out in the wild.

Of course, this is where you can opt to use your bonemeal to quicken the growing process if you like. Once they are fully grown, break them open just like you did in the first step and collect the two or three beans that fall out. You can ramp up your production from here, replanting and expanding, or just replacing what you harvested for a steady supply. Jesse Lennox loves writing, games, and complaining about not having time to write and play games.

He knows the names of more Japanese game devs than his own neighbors, and has a way better knowledge of the game industry at large than anything going on in "real" current events. They can also be used as a loom ingredient to dye banners. To begin cocoa bean farming, we need to place down our jungle wood blocks.

You can place down as many as you want. In our example, we are going to place down 16 blocks 8 long by 2 high. Next, select your cocoa beans in your Hotbar and plant them on the side of the jungle wood blocks. You can plant your beans by using the following controls on your game controller:. After you have planted your cocoa beans, you'll notice green cocoa pods on the side of the jungle wood blocks. Your cocoa bean pods will slowly sprout in time.

They will go through 3 stages of growth the first stage the pod is small and green, the second stage it is bigger and colored tan, the third stage the pod is bigger yet and orange-brown.