COOKIE

Every other food on the Farmer's plank grows on tilled soil he could plant a few steps from his own composter: wheat, carrots, potatoes, pumpkins, melon. Cookie is the exception. The recipe needs 2 wheat and 1 cocoa beans, and cocoa only grows on the side of a jungle tree, a biome a farmer's own field has nothing to do with. He sells the finished cookie anyway, which quietly turns his trade window into the easiest way to own cocoa beans without ever walking into a jungle.

That gap between where the ingredient grows and where the trade sits is the whole reason this offer is worth a look. A Farmer at journeyman hands over 3 cookies for 18 emeralds, batch after batch, with no jungle trip involved at all.

One seller. A Farmer reaches journeyman, the third of five rungs, and from then on sells 3 cookies for 18 emeralds, a rate fixed in the trade file rather than rolled per villager.

Cookie sells for as little as 3 emeralds for 18 at a time, from the Farmer at the Journeyman tier, and 5 of the other 7 cost less. The price is fixed rather than rolled, so a second Farmer will quote you exactly the same.

The Farmer at its journeyman tier asks 3 emeralds for 18 cookies. 8 of the 72 villagers that pay emeralds, emptied out:

3 jungle boats against 90 flint for the same 3 emeralds, 30 times the carrying, and the shortest wait is the Farmer at 1.9 real minutes of shelf, gathering not counted.

Cookie waits two tiers behind the Farmer's opening trades. He needs 70 trading experience, earned selling whatever came before it on the way up, before journeyman unlocks and the cookie row appears at all.

Once open, 12 sales close the slot and a restock brings it right back rather than swapping in something new, so a farmer you have already leveled stays a cookie source for as long as you keep visiting him.

12 sales close the row, and it needs 2 real minutes idle before it opens again, a wait that fits twice inside the 20-minute villager day.

Camp there for both refills and one farmer turns into 72 cookies for 432 emeralds a Minecraft day, on top of however long it already took him to climb to journeyman.

Clear the shelf in one visit. A full slot moves 36 cookies for 216 emeralds before it locks, and there is no reason to spread that across several shorter trips.

Where the emeralds come from: the same Farmer pays an emerald per 4 melons.

Also on the Farmer's list: cake, suspicious stew, golden carrot, glistering melon slice, wheat, and potato.

Two wheat and one cocoa bean make eight cookies, which is the best ratio of crop to food in the game by count, though each one restores very little. For a long trip they are bulk rather than nutrition.

The cocoa bean is the catch: it grows on jungle logs, so a cookie farm needs a jungle trip first. Do not feed them to a parrot, which is the one food in the game that kills a tamed mob outright.

A cookie kills a parrot instantly. It is one of the few pieces of food in the game with a genuinely fatal interaction, and it exists as a warning about feeding pets human snacks.

For a player they are the cheapest food by count: eight from two wheat and one cocoa bean, and they stack to a full stack, so a pocket of cookies feeds a long trip.

Villagers accept them as food and will pick them up, so a handful thrown into a village is a way to get breeding started without growing a wheat field first.