This idea emerges from the fondue request. Chocolate will be the final product of coco beans and can be an alternative to them, and also be a kind of food to make fondue with. The wide collection of chocolate-related products give it the potential to become a “Growthcraft Coco” child mod.

The fundamental item here is the chocolate bar. There are three variants- dark, milk, and white(more variants can be discussed). Here are the steps to process vanilla coco beans into chocolate bars:

1. Roasting:
   Put coco beans in a furnace to make roasted coco nibs.
2. Milling:
   We need a new block called “miller”. Put coco nibs in it to make 1.coco powder(item), 2.coco butter(liquid).
3. Refining:
   A new block called “refinery” or “mixer” is required. It will look and work pretty much like cheese vats needing an external heat source. Now its time to make chocolate mixure(liquid):
   Dark: coco powder+coco
   butter+sugar
   Milk: coco powder+coco
   butter+sugar+milk
   White: coco butter+sugar+milk
4. Put the chocolate mixure(liquid) into the cheese press and press it into chocolate paste(item). The name of cheese press should be changed then.
5. Molding&cooling:
   Another new block “chocolate mold”. Put the chocolate paste (item) in it and wait for it to solidfy. After a while, right-click it to get solid chocolate chunk(item).
6. Put chocolate chunk on the ground. Right click the chocolate chunk to cut it and obtain chocolate bar(item) which can then be used in crafting.

The chocolate chunk works like cheese wheels, which looks like an item in inventory but can be placed in the world.

As i mentioned chocolate bars would be serving as an alternative to coco beans, meaning the id should be the same in some ways in order to be compatible with other mod’s recipes. For the use in fondues, see the fondue request.
The coco powder can be made into other products such as hot chocolate.

Unspecified features:

1. Appearance and ui of blocks and items
2. Crafting balance
3. Actual recipe
4. Other types of chocolate

As far as Growthcraft is concerned, the processes is simplified from real world chocolate creation -
Real world: Harvesting > Roasting > Winnowing > Milling > Pressing > Refining > Conching > Tempering > Molding > Cooling

Suggested Growthcraft processing: Harvesting > Roasting > Milling > Refining > Pressing > Molding > Cooling.

A process similar to cheese making and makes use of several of the same mechanics.

In addition to dark, milk, and white chocolate, there is a new real world chocolate called "Ruby Chocolate". This version of chocolate would come from a rare ruby cocoa bean found rarely in jungles, as loot in jungle temples and strongholds, and as a rare and expensive trade from farmer villagers.

The process to create this chocolate would be identical to the other types of chocolate, but the only difference would probably be in the refining process -
Ruby: Ruby cocoa powder + sugar + additives (acid and/ possibly some alcoholic liquid or other material)

"..."cocoa-derived material" from unfermented cocoa beans (or beans fermented for no more than three days) that become red or purple after treating them with an acid and then defatting with petroleum ether." ~ Wiki page on ruby chocolate

After the cooling process, which would resemble the aging process for cheese, the blocks of chocolate placed in the world, could be cut into individual slices (again similar to cheese) and those "chocolate bars" would then be used in various recipes or eaten straight. Ruby chocolate would give effects similar to a golden apple given it's rarity.

Uses:

• Ingredient for Growthcraft foods (only ice cream at this current time) and Minecraft foods (only cookies that I'm aware of)

• Would like to see Growthcraft chocolate override cocoa beans in all crafting recipes, modded or otherwise, but have a config option to turn that override off

• Used in making chocolate liqueur (keeping in mind that chocolate liquor is the name of the solid chocolate mass produced from the chocolate making process)

• These alcoholic drinks would grant potion effects as normal with liqueur made from ruby chocolate giving better and longer lasting positive effects

• Consuming as a food
• Used in fondue pot (pending idea) to dip foods in for added food and saturation

In addition to chocolate, yogurt covered foods could also be added to Growthcraft. There are a variety of recipes out there to make the yogurt coating found on fruit and nut snacks. Most of the commercial recipes use oils and other ingredients, but the most practical one for Growthcraft would be yogurt, butter, and sugar.

It would be similar to chocolate making, but would start at step three in the mixer, then put into the press, then molded and cooled. Same thing as chocolate, can be placed in the world and cut into slices. The bars of the candy yogurt then could be put into a fondue pot and melted, which then foods can be dipped into it for added food and saturation.

There are various stages involved in processing the cocoa bean. The harvested beans are first cleaned and then they go through a roasting process to develop flavor and color. The shells are then removed from the bean leaving the cocoa nib; they then may go through another process called alkalization to further develop color and flavor. The nibs are then milled to produce cocoa liquor: cocoa particles suspended in cocoa butter. The liquor is then pressed to extract the cocoa butter, and the amount of butter extracted is controlled to make cocoa press cake.

From here, the process can take two different directions. The cocoa butter can be used to make Chocolate, or the press cake can be used to make cocoa powder. Cocoa liquor is used to produce chocolate with the addition of cocoa butter and other ingredients such as sugar and milk, which are added and mixed to make different kinds of chocolate. The mixture goes through a refining process to improve the texture and then the product is conched, which is a process of kneading to develop flavor and texture.

The final mixture is tempered by a cooling and reheating process, this process prevents discoloration and fat bloom. The mixture is then poured into molds and cooled before final packaging.
https://www.hmicronpowder.com/industries/food/cocoa

1. Harvest
2. Clean
3. Roast
4. Shell Removal (Winnow)
5. Alkalize
6. Milling (with cocoa butter to get cocoa liquor)
7. Pressing (to get cocoa butter and press cake)

From here there's different paths to take. The cacao butter can be used to make white chocolate. The press cake can be used to make cocoa powder.

8. Refining (for texture)
9. Conching (heating and kneeding)
10. Molding (giving the chocolate bar shape)
11. Cooling.

List of items in the production chain

• [Vanilla] Cocoa beans (solid)
• [Vanilla] Milk (fluid)
• [Vanilla] Sugar (solid)
• Cocoa nib (solid)
  • [Optional] alkaline agent (fluid)
  • [Optional] alkalized nibs (solid)
• Cocoa liquor (fluid)
• Cocoa butter (fluid)
• Cocoa butter (solid)
• Cocoa press cake (solid)
• Cocoa powder (solid)
• Chocolate mixture (fluid) (made with cocoa powder, fluid cocoa butter, milk and sugar)
• Chocolate (fluid)
• Chocolate bar (solid)

List of machines in the production chain

• [Vanilla] Furnace
• Fluid Mill (different then a mill for grains because this mill has fluids too)
• Chocolate press (has a fluid and a solid output)
• Chocolate mold
• Mill (This could be used for grains too)
• Chocolate Melanger (for refining)
• Conche (for conching)

For those that are interested, Nuclearcraft has their own chocolate process, which the end result is milk chocolate. It can be take a step further in making smores and quadruple smores bars. The only mod I know of, currently, that has a full more realistic chocolate making process. Other mods like Coffee Workshop, have a very simplified process.