How To Make Saplings Grow In Minecraft

This article is virtually the saplings obtainable by breaking leaves of their corresponding tree types. For the sapling used to grow azalea tree, encounter Azalea. For the sapling used to abound bamboo, see Bamboo shoot.

A sapling is a non-solid block that can be grown into a tree.

Obtaining [ ]

Breaking [ ]

Saplings can be broken instantly using whatsoever tool, including the player's fist, and ever drop themselves.

Mangrove propagules can also exist broken instantly using whatever tool, including the player's fist, but only blocks with block states hanging=false always drop themselves. When hanging=true, depending on the age, the take a chance of drib is different. On age=0-3, they drop null. But on age=4, they have a chance to drib themselves.

Natural generation [ ]

Spruce

Potted spruce saplings generate in taiga and snowy taiga‌^{[ Exist only ]} village bricklayer houses.

Birch

Potted birch saplings generate in a room in woodland mansions.

Night oak

58 nighttime oak saplings generate naturally in a "sapling farm room" in woodland mansions. 28 dark oak saplings are also plant within a chest in that room.

Acacia

two acacia saplings generate in front of each savanna village library.

Mangrove propagule

Hanging mangrove propagules generate under leaf blocks of mangrove trees that spawn in mangrove swamps.

Chest boodle [ ]

Particular	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Oak Sapling	Hamlet	Plains house chest	one–2	48.two%
Oak Sapling	Hamlet	Weaponsmith's breast	3–7	25.six%
Spruce Sapling	Hamlet	Taiga firm chest	ane–5	forty.6%
Acacia Sapling	Village	Savanna house chest	1–2	71.seven%
Bedrock Edition
Oak Sapling	Bonus chest	Chest	4	14.iii%
	Village	Cartographer'due south chest	1–ii	26.3%
		Plains house chest	one–two	48.2%
		Weaponsmith's chest	iii–seven	25.6%
Spruce Sapling	Bonus chest	Chest	4	14.3%
Spruce Sapling	Village	Taiga house chest	1–five	43.7%
Acacia Sapling	Bonus chest	Chest	four	14.3%
Acacia Sapling	Hamlet	Savanna firm chest	1–2	71.7%
Nighttime Oak Sapling	Bonus chest	Breast	4	14.3%

Leaves [ ]

When leaves decay, or are broken by whatever tool except shears, they take a 5% chance of dropping a sapling, except for jungle leaves, which have a ii.5% chance of dropping a sapling. The Fortune enchantment increases the rate to 6.25% (2.78% for jungle leaves) at level I, 8.33% (three.125% for jungle leaves) at level Ii, and ten% (four.17% for jungle leaves) at level III.

Mail service-generation [ ]

Applying bone meal to a block of mangrove leaves with a infinite underneath produces a hanging mangrove propagule with age=0. At default random tick speed (3), a hanging mangrove propagule adds ane unit of measurement of age every ? game ticks (? seconds).^{[ more data needed ]} Applying bone meal likewise increments the age. A mangrove propagule cannot be placed manually below mangrove leaves.

Trading [ ]

Each type of sapling is sold by the wandering trader for 5 emeralds.

Usage [ ]

Growing trees [ ]

Saplings come up in 7 varieties, one for each of the seven trees: oak, birch, spruce, jungle, acacia, dark oak, and mangrove (propagule).

Tree saplings have two growth stages (with no visible difference between them) before growing into trees. When a tree is to exist grown, a height is chosen and and so the ground and infinite are checked; if the ground is bad or there is not space for the chosen superlative, the tree does not grow. Bone meal can be used to speed upwards the growth of the sapling, even to grow the tree without sufficient calorie-free.

Tree saplings can grow into trees when placed on all variants of dirt (except clay paths) or moss blocks. Additionally, mangrove propagules tin can be placed on mud. The sapling requires a light level of at least 9, and require a certain volume of space above the sapling, based on its type:

Oak needs at least 5 spaces higher up (three×three cavalcade) to abound commonly. If a block is present in the growth space (but not directly above the sapling), the tree nevertheless grows, but is forced to grow a big variant.
Birch needs at least 6 spaces above (3×three column).
Spruce needs at least 6 spaces above (5×v column) when placing a single sapling.
- Giant spruce needs at to the lowest degree 14 spaces above (6x6 cavalcade) when planted as 4 saplings in a two×two square. Also requires the 4x4 area centered on the saplings at the aforementioned level to exist empty.^[1]
Jungle needs at least 5 spaces above (iii×3 column) when placing a single sapling.
- Giant jungle needs at to the lowest degree 11 spaces above (6×6 cavalcade) when planted equally iv saplings in a ii×2 square. Also requires the 4x4 expanse centered on the saplings at the same level to exist empty.^[1]
Acacia needs at least half-dozen spaces above (v×5 column).
Dark oak needs at least 7 spaces above (vi×6 column) and must be planted as 4 saplings in a two×2 foursquare.
Mangrove needs at least 6 spaces above the propagule. It also requires at to the lowest degree one block (other than mud) n, due east, south, and westward of the block it is growing on, inside 1 block vertically. The height of the tree depends on how far the roots tin spread horizontally. The roots tin can spread up to 5 blocks away from the propagule.

In add-on:

Saplings can abound only if a role player is inside a certain radius, even in loaded chunks. For oak saplings, this check applies to private blocks; for dark oak, acacia and birch, it applies to each chunk.
A bandbox or jungle sapling cannot grow if information technology is part of a 2×ii square of saplings that doesn't come across the requirements for a behemothic tree.
- Except for giant jungle and giant spruce (as noted above), sapling growth is not affected by nearby blocks on the same level as the sapling(s).
A hanging mangrove propagule cannot grow into a tree.

Dirt blocks in the infinite above the sapling are an exception. Clay blocks exercise not end the sapling from growing. For most tree types, including behemothic versions, the dirt remains in place and the residue of the tree generates normally effectually information technology (it is possible to grow a tree that contains simply ane log block at the original sapling location, with a column of dirt above where the rest of the trunk should be and leaves spreading out from information technology). For the large variant of oak trees, the dirt blocks are replaced with log blocks wherever they would normally occur. In Java Edition, all types of log cake and woods block and their stripped versions are besides treated similar dirt blocks (they don't terminate growth). In Bedrock Edition, log and wood blocks are treated like other block types and finish the sapling from growing if they are above information technology.

When a sapling on a grass cake grows into a tree, the grass cake becomes a dirt cake.

Bee nests [ ]

Oak and birch trees grown from saplings that are within 2 blocks of any bloom, flowering azalea‌^{[ JE only ]} or flowering azalea leaves‌^{[ JE simply ]} have a five% chance to grow with a bee nest and one-three bees in it.

Bees [ ]

Bees engage in a pollinating behavior with mangrove propagules, increasing the honey level in beehives and bee nests by i.

Convenance [ ]

Mangrove propagules can exist used to breed bees and reduce the remaining growth duration of baby bees by 10%. Bees as well follow a player holding a mangrove propagule.

Decoration [ ]

Whatever kind of tree sapling can be placed in a blossom pot.

Fuel [ ]

Tree saplings can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 0.5 items per sapling.

Composting [ ]

Placing a sapling into a composter has a 30% take chances of raising the compost level past 1. A stack of saplings yields an average of two.74 bonemeal.

Sounds [ ]

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Book	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Cake cleaved	Blocks	One time the block has broken	`block.grass.break`	`subtitles.cake.generic.break`	1.0	0.viii	16
None ^{[sound 1]}	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.grass.fall`	None ^{[sound 1]}	0.5	0.75	16
Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`block.grass.hitting`	`subtitles.block.generic.hitting`	0.25	0.5	xvi
Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.grass.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	1.0	0.8	sixteen
Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	`block.grass.stride`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.fifteen	1.0	xvi

↑ ^a ^b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
?	Blocks	Once the cake has broken	`dig.grass`	0.7	0.8
?	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	`fall.grass`	0.iv	1.0
?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of beingness broken	`hit.grass`	0.3	0.5
?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	`leap.grass`	0.11	1.0
?	Blocks	Falling on the block without autumn damage	`land.grass`	0.21	ane.0
?	Blocks	Walking on the block	`step.grass`	0.iii	i.0
?	Blocks	When the block is placed	`use.grass`	0.8	0.eight

Data values [ ]

ID [ ]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Detail tags	Translation primal
Oak Sapling	`oak_sapling`	Cake & Item	`saplings`	`saplings`	`block.minecraft.oak_sapling`
Spruce Sapling	`spruce_sapling`	Block & Particular	`saplings`	`saplings`	`block.minecraft.spruce_sapling`
Birch Sapling	`birch_sapling`	Block & Item	`saplings`	`saplings`	`block.minecraft.birch_sapling`
Jungle Sapling	`jungle_sapling`	Block & Item	`saplings`	`saplings`	`cake.minecraft.jungle_sapling`
Acacia Sapling	`acacia_sapling`	Block & Item	`saplings`	`saplings`	`block.minecraft.acacia_sapling`
Nighttime Oak Sapling	`dark_oak_sapling`	Cake & Item	`saplings`	`saplings`	`block.minecraft.dark_oak_sapling`
Mangrove Propagule	`mangrove_propagule`	Block & Item	`saplings`	`saplings`	`block.minecraft.mangrove_propagule`

Boulder Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Class	Particular ID^{[i 1]}	Translation primal
Sapling	`sapling`	`6`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i ii]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.sapling.oak.proper noun` `tile.sapling.spruce.name` `tile.sapling.birch.name` `tile.sapling.jungle.name` `tile.sapling.acacia.name` `tile.sapling.big_oak.proper name`

↑ ID of block's directly particular grade, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ Available with /requite command.
↑ The block's direct item form has the same id with the cake.

Block states [ ]

Coffee Edition:

Name	Default value	Immune values	Description
stage	`0`	`0` `1`	Specifies the sapling's growth stage.

Java Edition Mangrove propagule:

Proper name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
historic period	`0`	`0` `1` `2` `three`
hanging	`fake`	`false` `true`	If the mangrove propagule is hanging from a mangrove leaves.
stage	`0`	`0` `1`	Specifies the sapling'south growth phase.
waterlogged	`imitation`	`false` `true`	Whether or not there's water in the same place equally this mangrove propagule.

Boulder Edition:

Name	Metadata $.25	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
age_bit	`0x8`	`faux`	`false` `true`	`0` `i`	Specifies the sapling'southward growth stage.
sapling_type	`0x1` `0x2` `0x4`	`oak`	`acacia`	`4`	Acacia Sapling
			`birch`	`2`	Birch Sapling
			`dark_oak`	`5`	Dark Oak Sapling
			`jungle`	`3`	Jungle Sapling
			`oak`	`0`	Oak Sapling
			`spruce`	`1`	Spruce Sapling

History [ ]

Java Edition pre-Classic
rd-161348					Added saplings.
Coffee Edition Classic
0.0.13a					Changed texture and model of saplings.
August 25, 2009					Notch showed saplings growing into copse.
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST					Added tree growth.
Java Edition Indev
0.31		20091223-one			Saplings now have a stretched model with wider texture planes.
0.31		20100110			The texture of saplings has been inverse.
Java Edition Infdev
20100420					Saplings tin can now grow into big copse instead of the original pattern.
20100607					Saplings grow into regular trees again.
Java Edition Beta
ane.five					Added birch and bandbox saplings. Earlier, copse dropped only oak saplings, regardless of the tree.
					Saplings can now exist used equally fuel in furnaces.
					Oak saplings from prior to this update could catechumen to birch or spruce saplings.^{[ more than information needed ]} This was presumably due to the data now used for specifying sapling type previously existence used for historic period calculations.^{[ verify ]}
1.8		Pre-release			Inverse lighting.
Coffee Edition
1.1		12w01a			Oak saplings can now be found in the new village blacksmith chests.
1.ii.1		12w04a			Added jungle saplings.
1.ii.1		12w04a			The texture of oak saplings has been changed.
1.three.1		12w17a			Saplings now have names based on their blazon of tree.
1.4.two		12w34a			The ability to identify saplings in flower pots has been added.
1.7.2		13w43a			Added acacia and roofed oak saplings.
		one.vii			"Roofed Oak Sapling" has been renamed to "Dark Oak Sapling".
		?			Blocks can now be replaced with log by growing nighttime oak saplings. If pre-existing parts of a dark oak tree be, the tree may randomly grow downwardly, replacing whatever cake in the way with wood.
ane.8		14w07a			Sapling texture planes are no longer stretched past a factor of sqrt2.
		14w10a			Saplings of metadata 8-13 (closer to growth) at present have no model.
		14w10b			Saplings 8-13 at present have models once again.
		14w10c			Sapling texture planes are now stretched a bit more than they were previously - were the texture full, information technology would achieve the corners of the block.
		14w17a			Sapling texture planes are now the same size every bit they were before 14w07a.
		14w25a			Saplings are now affected by the same shading total blocks are.
		14w26a			Saplings are no longer subject to shading.
1.viii.2		pre4			Blocks tin no longer be replaced using nighttime oak tree growth.
1.11		16w39a			Dark oak and birch saplings now generate in woodland mansions.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of all saplings accept been changed.
		18w48a			Oak saplings can at present be establish in chests in plains hamlet houses.
		18w49a			Acacia saplings can now be plant in chests in savanna village houses.
		18w49a			Acacia saplings at present generate in front of savanna hamlet libraries.
		18w50a			Spruce saplings tin can at present be plant in chests in taiga hamlet houses.
		18w50a			Potted spruce saplings at present generate in taiga village stonemason houses.
		19w03a			Placing a sapling into the new composter block has a 10% chance of raising the compost level by i.
		19w05a			Saplings now accept a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
		19w05a			Added wandering traders, which sell all types of saplings.
1.15		19w34a			Bee nests were added, which have a hazard to generate on trees grown from saplings.^{[ more information needed ]}
1.15		19w35a			Bee nests can no longer generate on trees grown from saplings.
1.15.2		Pre-Release 1			Oak and birch saplings grown within 2 blocks of a bloom on the same y-level now have a five% chance to have a bee nest.
1.17		21w11a			Changed lighting.
1.17		21w16a			Saplings tin now be planted and grown on mycelium and moss blocks.^[2]
1.18		21w39a			The default brightness has been changed from "Moody" to 50.
October sixteen, 2021					Mangrove propagules are shown at Minecraft Alive 2021.
one.19		22w11a			Added mangrove propagules.
one.19		22w15a			Wandering traders now sell mangrove propagules.
Pocket Edition Blastoff
v0.3.2					Added oak, birch and bandbox saplings.
v0.3.3					Saplings are now available in the creative inventory.
v0.viii.0		build 2			The texture of oak saplings has been changed.
v0.9.0		build one			Added jungle, acacia and dark oak saplings.
v0.9.0		build 5			Spruce saplings can now exist used to grow mega spruce copse.
Pocket Edition
1.i.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Dark oak and birch saplings now generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.ii			Saplings can at present be constitute in bonus chests.
1.ten.0		beta ane.x.0.3			Saplings can now exist bought from wandering traders.
					Potted spruce saplings can now exist found in taiga and snowy taiga village stonemason houses.
					Acacia saplings now generate in some savanna village houses.
					The textures of all saplings have been inverse.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.one			Oak saplings tin can at present be found in village cartographer and plains village house chests.
					Acacia saplings tin can now be establish in savanna village business firm chests.
					Spruce saplings tin now be found in taiga and snowy taiga hamlet house chests.
					Saplings can now be used to fill composters.
i.xvi.0		beta 1.15.0.51			Oak and birch saplings grown inside two blocks of a blossom on the aforementioned y-level now have a v% hazard to take a bee nest.
1.xix.0		beta 1.19.0.20			Added mangrove propagule.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch ane	1.0.i	Added oak, birch and spruce saplings.
TU12	CU1	1.0	Patch ane		Added jungle saplings.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Added acacia and dark oak saplings.
		1.90			The textures of all saplings have been changed.

Data history [ ]

Java Edition

1.8 14w10a Saplings with numerical metadata variants vi, 7, fourteen and 15, which are inaccessible through normal gameplay, now have no model rather than appearing identical to night oak saplings.

14w25a

Saplings are now defined via block states rather than past numerical metadata. Prior to this version, the numerical metadata variants of sapling were every bit follows:

	DV	Description
	0	Oak Sapling
	1	Spruce Sapling
	2	Birch Sapling
	three	Jungle Sapling
	iv	Acacia Sapling
	5	Dark Oak Sapling
	6-fifteen	Inaccessible "dull" variants of saplings

^{[ more information needed ]}

14w26a Saplings with metadata values 6, 7, 14 and fifteen have been completely removed from the game.

1.13 17w47a The unlike type block states for the sapling ID have been split up upward into their own IDs.

Prior to The Flattening, this block'southward numeral ID was 6.

Problems [ ]

Issues relating to "Sapling" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues at that place.

Trivia [ ]

If the player stands on the same cake every bit a placed tree sapling, the tree nevertheless grows over the player, causing suffocation as it pushes the histrion out of the block.

Gallery [ ]

All tree saplings with their respective wood. Mangrove propagules and mangrove wood are non seen in this photo.

References [ ]

↑ ^a ^b "[MC-8187] Two by two arrangements of jungle or bandbox saplings cannot abound into trees when surrounded by snow - Jira" – Mojira, Jan 24, 2013.
↑ "[MC-213927] Using os meal on a sapling that is on a moss block consumes bone repast, but doesn't grow into a tree - Jira" – Mojira, February four, 2021.