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	Temperature		Rainfall		EVT		Region(s)	Trunk Log Size
	Min	Max	Min	Max	Min	Max		Small	Large
Acacia	15	50	75	500	0	2	Africa	✔	✔
Ash	4	22	250	16000	0.5	4	All Regions	✔	✔
Aspen	-3	18	300	1600	0.25	2	Americas, Asia, Europe	✔	✔
Bamboo	13	35	600	8000	0.5	4	Asia	✔	✘
Baobab	21	40	150	3500	0	4	Africa	✘	✔
Birch	-2	18	200	500	0.25	1	Americas, Asia, Europe	✔	✔
Chestnut	3	29	250	16000	0.25	2	Americas, Asia, Europe	✔	✔
Douglas Fir	10	19	750	16000	0.5	4	Americas	✘	✔
Ebony	20	38	500	7000	0.5	4	Africa, Asia	✔	✔
Fever	14	50	50	250	0	1	Africa	✔	✔
Fruitwood	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	All Regions	✔	✘
Gingko	10	30	700	2500	1	4	Asia	✔	✔
Hickory	4	30	250	16000	0.25	2	Americas, Asia	✔	✔
Kapok	20	35	1500	16000	1	10	Americas	✔	✔
Limba	18	40	1500	10000	0.25	8	Africa	✔	✔
Mahogany	18	40	1500	10000	1.5	8	Africa, Americas	✔	✔
Maple	3	20	250	16000	0.25	4	Africa, Americas, Asia	✔	✔
Oak	5	25	500	1200	0.5	2	All Regions	✔	✔
Palm	21	35	750	16000	0	10	All Regions	✔	✘
Pine	-10	21	250	16000	0.25	3	All Regions	✔	✔
Sequoia	10	20	2000	16000	1	5	Americas, Asia	✘	✔
Spruce	-8	17	250	16000	0.25	1	All Regions	✔	✔
Sycamore	6	30	400	16000	0.25	1	Asia, Europe	✔	✔
Teak	17	40	500	8000	1	8	Asia	✔	✔
White Cedar	-5	24	250	16000	0.25	2	Americas	✔	✔
White Elm	4	30	400	16000	0.25	1	Asia, Europe	✔	✔
Willow	10	30	1300	16000	0.25	1	All Regions	✘	✔

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. 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. 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 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
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

Resin can be obtained by Right Clicking a natural log block with a knife. Doing so has a chance to not return any resin. Trees have an infinite amount of resin, and are not damaged by harvesting resin. Alternatively, knives can be stuck into trees by ⇧ Shift+ Right Clicking to harvest resin automatically, with one resin dropping every half in-game hour. If an unsealed Barrel or Large Ceramic Vessel is placed below the Knife, the Resin will be spawned into the container's inventory instead of being spawned on the ground.

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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  Gingko Tree

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  Hickory Tree

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  Kapok Tree

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  Limba Tree

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  Mahogany 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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  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.