Tree Saplings

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Sapling, Jungle Sapling, Pine Sapling, Acacia Sapling, Aspen Sapling
A node in Minetest Game
Node 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.

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 sapling drop “replaces” the leaf block drop—you do not get the leaf block if you get a sapling.

All saplings can be can be placed on any block.

Growth

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 Dry Grass
• Soil
• Wet Soil
• Desert Sand (!)
• Desert Sand Soil
• Wet Desert Sand Soil

Species

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

	Sapling type	Itemstring	Dropped from …	Grows into …
	Sapling	default:sapling	Leaves	Tree or apple tree
	Jungle Sapling	default:junglesapling	Jungle Leaves	Jungle tree
	Pine Sapling	default:pine_sapling	Pine Needles	Pine tree
	Acacia Sapling	default:acacia_sapling	Acacia Leaves	Acacia tree
	Aspen Sapling	default:aspen_sapling	Aspen Leaves	Aspen tree

Sapling

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

Pine Sapling

The pine 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.

Other saplings

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

Saplings in future versions (5.0.0-dev)

Species

	Sapling type	Itemstring	Dropped from …	Grows into …
	Emergent Jungle Tree Sapling	default:emergent_jungle_sapling	Nothing	Jungle tree

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.

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Input → Output
Emergent Jungle Tree Sapling	Jungle Saplings

See also

• Bush Saplings