Trees

This article is about loggable trees. For fruit trees, see Fruit Tree.

Obtaining

Trees generate naturally in the world as well as grow naturally from saplings. A sapling must be planted for a certain amount of in-game days depending on the type, and have at least a light level of 9 before there is a chance for it to sprout into a tree. Trees are generated in biome-like areas, with each area having two primary trees, and a single secondary tree. Note: It is possible for both primaries and the secondary to all be the same type of tree, resulting in a forest of just that species. What type of trees can spawn in an area depends on the climate.

Types

Tree	Temperature		Rainfall		EVT
	Min	Max	Min	Max	Min	Max
Acacia	28	50	500	16000	2	2
Ash	4	24	250	16000	0.5	2
Aspen	-5	18	300	1600	0.25	1
Birch	-10	12	200	500	0	1
Chestnut	3	24	250	16000	0	1
Douglas Fir	1	14	750	16000	0	1
Hickory	4	28	250	16000	0	1
Kapok	30	50	2000	16000	0	1
Maple	3	20	250	16000	0	1
Oak	5	25	500	1200	0.25	2
Pine	-15	24	250	16000	0.5	2
Sequoia	10	16	4000	16000	0	0.5
Spruce	-5	24	250	16000	0	1
Sycamore	6	30	400	16000	0	1
White Cedar	-5	24	250	16000	0	2
White Elm	4	30	400	16000	0	1
Willow	10	30	4000	16000	0	0.5

Usage

Logs

Trees require the use of an axe to cut down. Chop the bottom-most log to fell the entire tree. If the axe does not have enough durability to fell the entire tree, as many logs as possible starting from the top of the tree will be chopped and the axe will break. Leaves disappear without dropping anything. Using a stone axe yields fewer logs than using a metal axe.

Sticks & Saplings

In order to get sticks and saplings from leaves, they must be destroyed before cutting the tree down. Using a scythe makes stick gathering more efficient by destroying a 3x3x3 area of leaf blocks at once, centered at the broken block. Using the Scythe decreases the drop rate of sticks and saplings from 6% to 4%. Breaking leaf blocks is one of two ways to obtain sticks from trees, the other being hitting placed or natural logs with any hammer to make it drop 1-3 sticks.

Properties

Different trees have different properties, summarized by the following table. Some trees may be more desirable for specific purposes than others. For example, Douglas Fir trees are relatively large and fast growing, making them an excellent choice to farm for making charcoal.

Tree	Growth Speed	Burn Length	Burn Temperature
Acacia	N/A¹	Shortest	Dark Red**
Ash	7 to 8 Days	Shorter	Dark Red***
Aspen	8 to 9 Days	Shortest	Dark Red*
Birch	7 to 8 Days	Long	Dark Red**
Chestnut	7 to 8 Days	Short	Dark Red**
Douglas Fir	7 to 8 Days	Short	Dark Red****
Hickory	10 to 11 Days	Longer	Bright Red
Kapok	N/A¹	Shortest	Dark Red**
Maple	7 to 8 Days	Longer	Bright Red
Oak	10 to 11 Days	Longest	Dark Red****
Pine	7 to 8 Days	Shorter	Dark Red*
Sequoia	11 to 12 Days	Long	Dark Red*
Spruce	7 to 8 Days	Short	Dark Red
Sycamore	8 to 9 Days	Long	Dark Red**
White Cedar	7 to 8 Days	Short	Dark Red*
White Elm	10 to 11 Days	Long	Dark Red**
Willow	11 to 12 Days	Shortest	Dark Red

¹There is currently no way to obtain Acacia or Kapok saplings other than cheating them in.

History

Beta
v1g		No longer possible to karate chop trees with your bare hands!
v2 Build 30		Hill biomes generate with trees.
v2 Build 37		Explosions should (most of the time) fell a tree as if you used an axe.
v2 Build 40		Douglas Fir have their own unique tree shape.
Build 58		Chopping down trees uses up 1 durability per log contained in the tree.
Build 65		Trees take a minimum of 7 in game days to grow from a sapling.
		Jungles have been moved closer to the equator with the temperature ranges of other trees increased by almost double.
		Saplings track when they were planted and they grow at varying speeds based upon the tree.
Build 70		Attempting to chop down a tree with an axe that doesn’t have enough health left for each and every block in the tree will cause only part of the tree to be chopped down.
		Saws may not be used for felling trees.
		Using a stone axe to chop trees results in a 10% chance for a block to not yield a log.
78.0		Leaves will only appear dead when the temperature is < 10 or rainfall is < 100 and the tree isn't evergreen.
		Added Acacia Trees.
78.6		Tightened spawn parameters for Douglas Fir and Sequoia trees, making them a bit less common.
78.10		Tweaked the spawn parameters of a few tree types to be less generic.

Gallery

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  Acacia Tree

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  Ash Tree

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  Aspen Tree

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  Birch Tree

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  Chestnut Tree

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  Douglas Fir Tree

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  Hickory Tree

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  Kapok Tree

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  Maple Tree

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  Oak Tree

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  Pine Tree

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  Sequoia Tree

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  Spruce Tree

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  Sycamore Tree

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  White Cedar Tree

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  White Elm Tree

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  Willow Tree