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. What type of trees can spawn in an area depends on the climate and region.

Types

Tree	Temperature1		Rainfall2		EVT		Region(s)	Trunk Log Size
	Min	Max	Min	Max	Min	Max		Small	Large
Acacia (Utacacia)	Subtropical	Equatorial	Desert	Dry	0	2	Africa	✔	✔
Acacia (Koa)	Subtropical	Equatorial	Moist	Extreme Rainforest	1	10	Americas	✔	✔
Ash	Boreal	Tropical	Arid	Extreme Rainforest	0.5	4	All Regions	✔	✔
Aspen	Boreal	Subtropical	Arid	Wet	0.25	2	Americas, Asia, Europe	✔	✔
Bamboo	Temperate	Equatorial	Dry	Rainforest	0.5	4	Asia	✔	✘
Baobab	Tropical	Equatorial	Desert	Rainforest	0	4	Africa	✘	✔
Birch	Boreal	Subtropical	Arid	Dry	0.25	1	Americas, Asia, Europe	✔	✔
Chestnut	Boreal	Tropical	Arid	Extreme Rainforest	0.25	2	Americas, Asia, Europe	✔	✔
Douglas Fir	Temperate	Subtropical	Moist	Extreme Rainforest	0.5	4	Americas	✘	✔
Ebony	Tropical	Equatorial	Dry	Rainforest	0.5	4	Africa, Asia	✔	✔
Fever	Temperate	Equatorial	Desert	Arid	0	1	Africa	✔	✔
Ghaf	Temperate	Equatorial	Desert	Arid	1	4	Asia	✔	✘
Gingko	Temperate	Equatorial	Moist	Rainforest	1	4	Asia	✔	✔
Hickory	Boreal	Equatorial	Arid	Extreme Rainforest	0.25	2	Americas, Asia	✔	✔
Joshua	Subtropical	Equatorial	Desert	Arid	1	4	Americas	✔	✘
Kapok	Tropical	Equatorial	Wet	Extreme Rainforest	1	10	Americas	✔	✔
Laurel	Subtropical	Equatorial	Wet	Extreme Rainforest	1	4	Europe	✔	✔
Limba	Subtropical	Equatorial	Wet	Rainforest	0.25	8	Africa	✔	✔
Mahoe	Subtropical	Equatorial	Wet	Extreme Rainforest	1	4	Americas	✔	✘
Mahogany	Subtropical	Equatorial	Wet	Rainforest	1.5	8	Africa, Americas	✔	✔
Mangrove	Subtropical	Equatorial	Moist	Extreme Rainforest	0	8	All Regions	✔	✘
Maple	Boreal	Subtropical	Arid	Extreme Rainforest	0.25	4	Africa, Americas, Asia	✔	✔
Oak	Boreal	Tropical	Dry	Wet	0.5	2	All Regions	✔	✔
Palm	Subtropical	Equatorial	Moist	Extreme Rainforest	0	10	All Regions	✔	✘
Pine	Polar	Tropical	Arid	Extreme Rainforest	0.25	3	All Regions	✔	✔
Sequoia	Temperate	Subtropical	Rainforest	Extreme Rainforest	1	5	Americas, Asia	✘	✔
Spruce	Polar	Subtropical	Arid	Extreme Rainforest	0.25	1	All Regions	✔	✔
Sycamore	Boreal	Equatorial	Dry	Extreme Rainforest	0.25	1	Asia, Europe	✔	✔
Teak	Subtropical	Equatorial	Dry	Rainforest	1	8	Asia	✔	✔
White Cedar	Polar	Tropical	Arid	Extreme Rainforest	0.25	2	Americas	✔	✔
White Elm	Boreal	Equatorial	Dry	Extreme Rainforest	0.25	1	Asia, Europe	✔	✔
Willow	Temperate	Equatorial	Wet	Extreme Rainforest	0.25	1	All Regions	✘	✔
Yew	Boreal	Equatorial	Moist	Rainforest	1	4	Asia, Europe	✘	✔
Yew (African)	Boreal	Subtropical	Moist	Rainforest	1	4	Africa	✘	✔

1. The temperature ranges are approximately as follows: -8℃ and below - Polar, -8℃ to 5℃ - Boreal, 5C to, 15℃ - Temperate, 15℃ to 20℃ - Subtropical, 20℃ to 30℃ - Tropical, 30℃ and above - Equatorial.
2. The rainfall ranges are approximately as follows: 0 to 200 rain - Desert, 200 to 400 rain - Arid, 400 to 750 rain - Dry, 750 to 1000 rain - Moist, 1000 to 2000 rain - Wet, 2000 to 10000 rain - Rainforest, 10000 rain and above - Extreme Rainforest.

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. Branches break and will drop sticks and occasionally poles and saplings. Leaves disappear, dropping nothing. Using a stone axe yields fewer logs than using a metal axe. Most trees generate with trunks made of small Logs but will rarely generate with Large Log variants. A few Trees only generate with small Log trunks or Large Log trunks.

Sticks & Saplings

In order to get sticks and saplings from leaves, they must be destroyed before cutting the tree down. However, saplings can drop from the end of branches if the tree is cut, but overall the yield will be lower. 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%. Some trees have very few or no leaf blocks (such as pine) and in this case saplings can only be obtained by breaking the branches with an axe or chopping down the tree. Saplings can also spawn naturally on the ground and be picked up. Breaking leaf blocks is one of two ways to obtain sticks from trees, the other being crafting a log with any knife to make a pole, which can be crafted into 2 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, Baobab and Fever are very large and fast growing, making them an excellent choice to farm for making charcoal, Sticks burn cool enough to not melt Zinc or Lead for working into sheets for trap doors, and Oak or Peat burn the longest if you need to keep a fire going for cooking or smoking.

Tree	Growth Speed	Burn Length	Burn Temperature
Acacia	9.8 to 10.8 Days	1 Hour	Dark Red**
Ash	7 to 8 Days	1.25 Hours	Dark Red***
Aspen	8.4 to 9.4 Days	1 Hour	Dark Red*
Bamboo	7 to 8 Days	1 Hour	Very Hot***
Baobab	7 to 8 Days	1 Hour	Very Hot****
Birch	7 to 8 Days	1.75 Hours	Dark Red**
Chestnut	7 to 8 Days	1.5 Hours	Dark Red**
Douglas Fir	7 to 8 Days	1.5 Hours	Dark Red****
Ebony	7 to 8 Days	1 Hour	Bright Red*
Fever	7 to 8 Days	1 Hour	Faint Red***
Fruitwood	Several Years	1 Hour	Dark Red**
Gingko	11.2 to 12.2 Days	1 Hour	Dark Red
Hickory	9.8 to 10.8 Days	2 Hours	Bright Red
Kapok	11.2 to 12.2 Days	1 Hour	Dark Red**
Limba	9.8 to 10.8 Days	1 Hour	Dark Red
Mahogany	7 to 8 Days	1 Hour	Bright Red
Mangrove	???	???	???
Maple	7 to 8 Days	2 Hours	Bright Red
Oak	9.8 to 10.8 Days	2.25 Hours	Dark Red****
Palm	8.4 to 9.4 Days	1 Hour	Faint Red
Pine	7 to 8 Days	1.25 Hours	Dark Red*
Sequoia	11.2 to 12.2 Days	1.75 Hours	Dark Red*
Spruce	7 to 8 Days	1.5 Hours	Dark Red
Sycamore	8.4 to 9.4 Days	1.75 Hours	Dark Red**
Teak	7 to 8 Days	1 Hour	Dark Red***
White Cedar	7 to 8 Days	1.5 Hours	Dark Red*
White Elm	9.8 to 10.8 Days	1.75 Hours	Dark Red**
Willow	11.2 to 12.2 Days	1 Hour	Dark Red
Peat	N/A	2.5 Hours	Dark Red***
Stick	N/A	0.2 Hours	Very Hot
Bundle of Sticks	N/A	0.7 HoursVerify	Very Hot***Verify

Resin

Clicking Right Click a natural log block with a knife has a chance to return Resin. ⇧ Shift + Right Clicking on a tree with a knife will place the knife in the tree, spawning Resin on the ground over time. Placing a Large Ceramic Vessel on the ground under the knife will collect the Resin that is dropped automatically.

Leaf Litter

Leaf litter spawning under a tree.

Leaf Litter will spawn under trees, and is regenerated every autumn under trees when they shed their leaves. When broken, Leaf Litter may drop sticks, mushrooms, or feathers. Leaf Litter can be quickly cleared using an Axe or Saw.

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.
81.0		Added Limba, Baobab, Gingko, Fever, Ebony, Mahogany, and Teak trees.
		Acacia, Fever, Mahogany, and Limba trees can now be used to produce tannin.
		Updated tree generation for all trees.
		In the autumn, trees will begin to lose their leaves, forming new patches of fallen leaves.
		In the spring, trees will regrow their leaves
		Updated tree generation to make it a little more fair.
		Added tree rareness, so that not all trees are equally likely to spawn.
		Made crops, trees, and fruit trees spawn according to the region data
81.7		Min temps for Aspen, Birch, and Pine slightly raised. Min temp for Spruce slightly lowered.

Gallery

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  Acacia Tree

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  Ash Tree

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  Aspen Tree

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  Bamboo Tree

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  Baobab Tree

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  Short Baobab Tree

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  Birch Tree

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  Chestnut Tree

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  Douglas Fir Tree

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  Ebony Tree

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  Fever Tree

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  Ghaf Tree

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  Gingko Tree

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  Hickory Tree

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  Joshua Tree

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  Kapok Tree

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  Laurel Tree

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  Limba Tree

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  Mahoe Tree

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  Mahogany Tree

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  Mangrove Tree

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  Maple Tree

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  Oak Tree

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  Palm Tree

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  Palm Tree on a beach

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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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  Teak Tree

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  White Cedar Tree

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  White Elm Tree

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  Willow Tree

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  Yew Tree

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  A Large Tree, in this case a White Elm.

Trivia

• In the code, there are two forms of Acacia: "utacacia" (Umbrella Thorn Acacia), and "koa" (Koa Acacia), representing two forms of the Acacia tree.