Tree Saplings

Apple Tree Sapling, Jungle Tree Sapling, Emergent Jungle Tree Sapling, Pine Tree Sapling, Acacia Tree Sapling, Aspen Tree Sapling
A block in Minetest Game
Block Type	Plant
Drops	Itself
Physics	No
Luminance	No
Flammable	Yes
Generated	No
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (99)
Itemstring	see table

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.

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 …
	Apple Tree Sapling	default:sapling	Apple Tree Leaves	Apple Tree
	Jungle Tree Sapling	default:junglesapling	Jungle Tree Leaves	Jungle tree
	Emergent Jungle Tree Sapling	default:emergent_jungle_sapling	Nothing	Jungle tree
	Pine Tree Sapling	default:pine_sapling	Pine Tree Needles	Pine tree
	Acacia Tree Sapling	default:acacia_sapling	Acacia Tree Leaves	Acacia tree
	Aspen Tree Sapling	default:aspen_sapling	Aspen Tree Leaves	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