Why would I ever want to make cookies? [closed]

When I can make bread for practically the same amount of wheat?

Minecraft 1.4 is out now, which includes Cookies. 2 wheat and the extremely rare cocoa beans makes a stack of 8 cookies, healing .5 hearts each.

On the other hand, 3 wheat produces one bread that heals 2.5 hearts. Given that a stack of cookies heals less than a stack of bread, why would I ever want to bake cookies in the first place, especially given the extremely limited quality of cocoa beans (I've found a grand total of one dungeon so far).

Heck, if cows are around, I can even turn the 3 wheat for bread into a cake, which has an even greater total health recovery over cookies.

So what's the point of cookies at all?

Solution 1:

Well, .5 * 8 = 4, so that's more than the 2.5 hearts from wheat. Of course, if you used the same amount of wheat, 6, then that'd be 12 for the cookies, and 5 for the bread. Also, sometimes it can be advantageous to not use all of your life giving at once, which bread does.

Solution 2:

Because the main objective of Minecraft is to have fun.

And sometimes fun is to do things just because you want to do them, and because you can do them. You don't need to be extremely efficient to have fun.

You can imagine a game that allows you to make an item that heals you; or you can imagine a game that allows you to make cakes, bread and cookies. And, hey, it doesn't even matter if it heals me or not, I can make cookies in a game! How awesome is that?