Obtaining
Saplings can be broken using any tool, and will always drop themselves.
Trivia
- If the player stands on the same block as a placed Sapling as it grows into a tree, wood blocks will grow on top of them, causing suffocation
- It is possible to plant a sapling anywhere, provided dirt or grass is available, however, it cannot grow unless it meets certain requirements.
- It is possible to count₠Mushrooms₠as saplings as in Mushroom Island Biomes because Mushroom can grow into huge mushrooms.
- The Dead Bush is a retextured version of the oak sapling.
- Jungle trees can be grown in a 2x2 formation as well as their 1x1 formation. Dark Oak also grows in a 2x2 area, but does not have a 1x1 variant.
Info
A sapling is an item See items as they are in the inventory. For the entity that items and blocks turn into when dropped, see Item (entity). For the items that mobs leave behind on death, see that can be grown into a tree.
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Trivia
- If the player stands on the same block as a placed sapling, the tree will still grow over the player, which will cause suffocation as it pushes the player out of the block.
- Saplings can grow without the required amount of light if bone meal is used.
Leaves
When leaves Leaves Transparency Partial (diffuses sky light) Luminance No Blast resistance 1 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Yes Drops Sapling (0–1) @@@#@@@Apple(apple.com)###@### (0–1) (from oak and dark oak leaves) Data values Oak/Spruce/Birch/Jungle dec: 18 hex: 12 are broken by any tool except shears Shears Type Tools Durability 238 Renewable Yes Stackable No First appearances See History Data value dec: 359 hex: 167 bin: 101100111 Name shears Shears are a tool used primarily to shear sheep and mine a few types of , they will have a 5% chance of dropping a sapling. Jungle leaves instead have a 2.5% chance of dropping a sapling.
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Natural generation
Oak saplings can be found in 26.0% of village Village Biome Plains, desert, savanna, taiga Consists of See Structure Can generate post-generation No First appearances See History See villages. For how to build the natural village style, see Village Blueprints. “ blacksmith chests in stacks of 3⃢₀ₓ7.
Dark oak saplings generate naturally in a certain room in woodland mansions Woodland mansion Biome Roofed Forest Consists of See Structure. Can generate post-generation N/A First appearances See history This article may need cleanup to comply with the style guide. Please help improve this if you can. . They are also found inside a chest in that room.
Growing trees
Saplings come in six varieties, one for each kind of tree: oak, birch, spruce, jungle, acacia, and dark oak.
Saplings can grow into trees when placed on dirt Dirt Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 03 hex: 3 bin: 11 Name dirt See Dirt. For the similar block, see , podzol Podzol Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes, (64) Flammable No Availability Mega Taiga Drops Dirt (1) Data values PCPersonal Computer edition dec: 32 hex: 32 bin: 112 Pocket edition dec: 243 hex: F3 bin: 11110011 Name or a grass block Grass Block Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 3 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Dirt (1) Data value dec: 02 hex: 2 bin: 10 Name grass See the dirt block with . Oak, birch, and (normal) spruce can also grow on farmland Farmland Transparency PC: Partial (Blocks light) PE: Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 3 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Dirt (1) Data value dec: 60 hex: 3C bin: 111100 Name farmland “ Want to live , and 2⃗2 trees only check for dirt or grass under the northwestern-most sapling. The sapling requires a light Light (or lighting) in Minecraft affects visibility, mob spawning, and plant growth. Contents 1 Brightness 1.1 Spread 2 Sources of light 2.1 Blocks 2.2 Other 3 Light-filtering blocks 4 Effects of light 4.1 Mobs 4.2 level of at least 9, and require a certain amount of space around the sapling, based on its type:
- Oak needs at least 5 spaces above
- Birch needs at least 6 spaces above
- Spruce needs at least 7 spaces above when placing a single sapling
- Giant spruce needs at least 14 spaces above when planted as 4 saplings in a 2⃗2 square
- Jungle needs at least 5 spaces above when placing a single sapling
- Giant jungle needs at least 11 spaces above and 1 space adjacent when planted as 4 saplings in a 2⃗2 square
- Acacia needs at least 6 spaces above
- Dark Oak needs at least 7 spaces above and must be planted as 4 saplings in a 2⃗2 square
Bone meal Bone Meal Type Wool dyes Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Data value dec: 35115 hex: 15F15 bin: 10101111115 Name dye 15 Bone meal is a material that can be used as a dye as well as can be used to speed up the growth of the sapling, and to grow the tree without sufficient light.
Saplings have two growth stages (with no visible difference between them) before growing into trees. When a tree is to be grown, a height is chosen and then the ground and space are checked; if the ground is bad or there is not space for the chosen height, the tree will not grow.
Oak saplings will grow through dirt, replacing it with wood trunks.
Single and Giant trees will not grow when they have an adjacent block next to them above ground, including half blocks. Single trees will allow objects to be placed at their diagonals without impeding growth, Giant will not.
Decoration
Any kind of sapling can be placed in a flower pot Flower Pot Type Solid Block Requirements None Physics No Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Hardness 0 Tool Any tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No First appearances See History Drops Itself Block .
Fuel
Saplings can be used as a fuel in furnaces Furnace Type Solid Block Requirements None Physics No Transparency Partial (when active) Luminance Yes, 13 (when active) Blast resistance 17.5 Hardness 3.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No First appearances See History Drops , smelting 0.5 items per sapling.
Data values
A sapling has the ID name minecraft:sapling
and is further defined by its block data. A sapling also has a block state which is expected to replace the functionality of block data in a future version.
Block data
Bits | Values |
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0x1 0x2 0x4 | A three-bit field storing a value of 0 to 5 specifying the type of sapling:
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0x8 | Set if sapling is ready to grow into a tree. |
Block state
- See also: Block states
Name See the definition of the block states. For the files that determine block models, see Models#Block states. Block states are extra pieces of data that further define a block. Contents 1 List | Value | Description |
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stage | 0 or 1 | Specifies the sapling`s growth stage. |
type | oak | Oak Sapling |
spruce | Spruce Sapling | |
birch | Birch Sapling | |
jungle | Jungle Sapling | |
acacia | Acacia Sapling | |
dark_oak | Dark Oak Sapling |
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The saplings come in 6 types: Oak, Birch, Spruce (also known as pine or evergreen), Jungle (redwood), acacia, and Dark Oak
- Oak is chestnut and has green leaves. The leaf color of these trees is biome-dependent.
- Birch is white with black spots and has emerald leaves.
- Spruce is dark brown with dark green leaves. There are 1x1 and 4x4 variants of the tree. The 4x4 variants spawn in Mega Taiga biomes.
- Jungle trees have a cocoa color to it and it has bright green leaves. The leaf color of these trees is biome-dependent. When 4 jungle saplings are placed in a square and you use bone meal on it is makes a thick jungle tree found in jungle biomes.
- Acacia trees have a different formation than the rest of the trees and are only found in Savannah biomes. They are an orange color.
- Dark Oak trees have the same texture as regular Oak wood but have a darker shade to them. They are found only found in Roofed Forest biomes and will only grow in 4x4. Because of this, 4 saplings are needed to grow one tree. They are dark brown in color.
Dead bushes may look like saplings, but it is withered and will not grow, even when adjacent to water. Dead bushes are solely used for decoration.
Growth
Saplings can be planted on any Dirt or Grass block, and will grow into a new tree if they are exposed to a light level of at least 9 in the block above the sapling, and have at least a certain number of empty blocks, depending on sapling type, above the sapling itself. Normal saplings need a 1x6x1 area, birch saplings need a 5x7x5 area, and pine saplings need a 7x10x7 area. Jungle saplings need either a 5x7x5 area for normal sized trees, and at least a 10x30x10 area for the huge variant. Acacia needs a 3x3x7 minimum area to grow. Dark Oak needs a 5x5x7 minimum area to grow, but needs to be at least 2 blocks away from any wall. A glitch with growing Dark Oak trees allows them to break blocks under the actual tree. Using this glitch, it can remove any block under the Dark Oak, including bedrock.
Behavior
Saplings are dropped with a random chance when leaves wither, or are destroyed by the player in survival mode. The withering behavior of leaves is explained in detail in the Leaves article. Oak saplings can be found in Village blacksmith Chests, and in some Woodland Mansions (both as an item and as a block). There are various saplings for each tree type as of Beta 1.5. Most tree canopies will drop at least one sapling block, though they may drop more, and large tree canopies should drop several if completely denuded.
Uses
Aside from being able to grow into new trees, saplings can be used as a fuel source in Furnaces. They are only able to smelt half an item, which means 2 saplings are needed to smelt a full item. Saplings can also be placed in Flower Pots as a decoration.