Tree Saplings

This page is about tree saplings. For the bush saplings, see Bush Saplings.

Tree saplings are a group of blocks which grow into trees. They are dropped by leaf-type blocks with a chance of 1 in 20 for each leaf block. The tree sapling drop “replaces” the leaf block drop—you do not get the leaf block if you get a tree sapling.

All tree saplings can be can be placed on any block.

Table of Contents Growth Species Apple Tree Sapling Pine Tree Sapling Emergent Jungle Tree Sapling Other tree saplings Crafting See also

Growth

Tree saplings will, provided they are under sunlight and are on placed on any dirt or another block that supports growth, will grow into trees after a while. They instantly go from sapling to full tree, there are no intermediate growth stages.

Specifically, all saplings only grow on the following blocks:

• Dirt
• Dirt with Grass
• Dirt with Grass and Footsteps
• Dirt with Rainforest Litter
• Dirt with Savanna Grass
• Dirt with Coniferous Litter
• Dirt with Snow
• Soil
• Wet Soil
• Desert Sand (!)
• Desert Sand Soil
• Wet Desert Sand Soil

Species

There are different tree saplings, each tree sapling grows into a different species of tree.

	Sapling type	Itemstring	Dropped from …	Grows into …
32px	Apple Tree Sapling	default:sapling	32px Apple Tree Leaves	32px Apple Tree
32px	Jungle Tree Sapling	default:junglesapling	32px Jungle Tree Leaves	32px Jungle tree
32px	Emergent Jungle Tree Sapling	default:emergent_jungle_sapling	Nothing	32px Jungle tree
32px	Pine Tree Sapling	default:pine_sapling	32px Pine Tree Needles	32px Pine tree
32px	Acacia Tree Sapling	default:acacia_sapling	32px Acacia Tree Leaves	32px Acacia tree
32px	Aspen Tree Sapling	default:aspen_sapling	32px Aspen Tree Leaves	32px Aspen tree

Apple Tree Sapling

Trees grown from these saplings have a 25% chance to bear apples.

Pine Tree Sapling

The pine tree sapling will grow into a pine tree. If Dirt with Snow, snow or a Snow Block was in a 3×3×3 area around the sapling, the pine tree will be covered with snow.

Emergent Jungle Tree Sapling

This sapling is like the regular jungle sapling, but it grows into a much larger jungle tree. It needs a space of 3×3 blocks on the ground in order to grow.

Other tree saplings

Trees grown from other saplings will be mostly the same every time.

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Input → Output
Emergent Jungle Tree Sapling	Jungle Tree Saplings

See also

• Bush Saplings

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