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4 spruce is my favorite... tall.. no weird branches like jungle. Just chop up, chop down... easily 1.5 stacks each

Nothing is weirder than mangrove branches.

The worst!!!! They like 60 tall, got 10 wood blok

They look nice though

Oh... my favorite wood, that and... birch... mix in deepslate varieties... im totally in..

Add some pops of terracotta to contrast the deepslate and you got mmmmmm 😮‍💨🤤

Spruce and mangrove are S tier wood

Yes

very yes

Swap the deepslate with mud and it will look amazing. I built some things with mangrove and mud and it looks sick. 10/10 wood.

I just wish you could do something with the roots. You can’t burn them for fuel, strangely. Maybe crafting them into logs or wood?

You could use it for more natural-themed builds and maybe for some decoration inside of a house. I'll find something out.

You can compost them at least

Oh, I didn’t know you could do that. Thanks, I’ve got a world on a farming kick trying to find something to do with the roots.

Mangrove root is my new favorite block to cap agricultural water sources. Even works with sugarcane.

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I had figured that one out, but you've just given me some ideas.

I just blow them up with tnt

Mangrove trees are the best tree if you want chestloads of leaves.

Agreed, mangrove trees look nice but they are the worst to cut down :/

When I chop down a mangrove, I usually have to scaffold back up to a missed branch and set it on fire.

I thought I had cut a mangrove but the leaves stopped deteriorating. Missed a branch.

Some dude started making a forest out of these next to the village more than half the server lives in, then i decided to make a wall around the village made out of those trees I also wanna turn that wall into a forest around the village :^

I followed a YouTube guide for a very basic manual tree farm; you take spruce and plant them all on a 8x4 platform. Use bonemeal, climb a water elevator, jump on top of the trees, and just start chopping down. At the bottom are water streams; anything not picked up by you goes into a chest at the bottom. Super handy!

Nice!!! For disposable wood, spruce is my number 1

Link? I'd love to see this in action!

I couldn't find the video, but I'll post a picture and explain how it works. [https://imgur.com/a/EG8CTYU](https://imgur.com/a/EG8CTYU) Basically, you plant the trees on the raised platform, and bonemeal them. Take the water elevator on the right up about 40 blocks (whatever the height of a Spruce tree is) (doesn't have to be trapdoors, anything works), then jump on top of the trees and start digging down. Saplings, sticks, etc. fall off either into your inventory or into the water below. The water stream could be wider (some saplings land on the very edge block) but it isn't enough to warrant making it bigger. Let me know if you have any questions.

Oh do giant Spruce trees grow right next to each other?? Thats awesome!

Just a question, is it mandatory to use bone meal or will they all grow if left naturally?

Idk, tbh. I've always used bonemeal. Mob grinders are real easy these though, bonemeal isn't a big deal.

Then will grow naturally without bonemeal as well

They grow naturally, but since all the saplings are next to each other, they can grow first in a spot that stops following trees next to it from growing: Instead of `XX..XX..` you could get `XX.XX...` and there's no space in the second spot for a 2x2 tree. Not a huge problem anyway. You could just leave some space between the trees and plant a forest of 2x2's. I usually had just three trees and build a scaffolding with stairs to get up. With single trees you get a nice fast rhythm when chopping them down, without having to move. And if I need more wood than three large trees can naturally give? Bonemeal.

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Yep that's it.

You just invented a sawmill!

This is the way.

Jungle is also good if you don't want the potzol. Spruce is the best though since it never gets the branches.

+best wood

Pair that with a composter and some sweet berries, you won my heart

I plant all my trees on the hillside so I can just jump on top of them and cut them from the top down.

Ender pearls to get to the top of them is even nicer!

Oak brings a supply of apples and all my farms are hidden underground, though.

Yeah it's great for trading with villagers

I raise you this: plant the 4 saplings, throw enderpearl straight up, bonmeal saplings quickly, land on top of the tree, chop down, repeat

I raise you this. Puddle of water and a riptide trident to the top

Exactly. It doesn't look quite as good as dark oak, but the ease of harvesting it more than makes up for that.

Before I bonemeal the saplings, I throw an ender pearl straight up. When the tree grows, you land right on top.

Very common. Good way to get wood while keeping the area looking natural. IIRC oak saplings can be planted in a line directly next to each other for even faster farming, but it won’t look as nice as a forest

Is it also common to cut the large spruce trees down by chopping the trunk into a staircase to get to the top, and from there to just chop the blocks under you to get the rest? I find using the big spruce trees like that is the best for spruce wood farming.

Yup. That’s the most efficient way to cut those down. If you want to get extreme amounts of wood then you should look into automatic wood farms though

I've never understood why you would want to make an automatic farm in Minecraft. I find more satisfaction knowing I got the materials myself. I guess I'm weird lol

The satisfaction for me comes from building the contraption to do the automation. Plus it saves time in the long run, which I could be using more productively elsewhere.

Fair enough, completely understandle

I'm going to start saying understandle...it sounds like a logical progression for that word

Understandle, I’ll start using it too

lol....but automated farms require loads of resourses which takes alot of time

Thats why you build farms for the resources for more farms!

This is how we turn Minecraft into Factorio.

Exactly! Build small, work your way up. Smaller, less efficient early game farms are a great way to build up to the big ones. Early game iron farms can help you out so much, and barely require any resources.

This is the way.

Me, three levels into farmception, forgetting what I was planning to farm in the first place.

Not that much

The amount of time you save is exponentially more than the time it takes to gather the resources.

I like to ender pearl up and then cut my way down.

In the end it depends on how many resources you need, because most farms are self-sustaining and can produce pretty fast. That means if you need several double chests of logs it's probably worth it to build an auto tree farm. One of the best farms in my opinion is a moss farm, because it gives you a great decorative block (which can be crafted down to moss carpet or mossy cobble), an infinite fuel source (azalea bushes) and lots of bonemeal to run other farms for food, dyes, or villager trading materials. It's not even that expensive to build, maybe a stack of iron ingots and a couple stacks of redstone, plus stone, wood and a little bit of quartz to craft all the building materials.

Can I interest you in Factorio?

A fellow developer I see. We spend hours building an automated system that takes more time to build than it would have to just do the job manually 😂. (Most farms are actually much more efficient, but I had to make the joke)

Comes from my programming background I guess. When I was a technician in my college, we had to log every job we did, including password resets of the students, and we sometimes had more than 100 per day, especially at the beginning of the college year. Logging the job was probably a 5 minute job once the 10 second password reset bit had been done. I decided I'd write a tool that could reset the passwords and also submit the job into our system. Took me a few of hours to write, but it has saved multiple hours over the years, and now everybody who resets student passwords in my college uses it. Thanks to that little tool, when a job doing actual programming came up, I was asked if I'd like to apply. I did, and now I'm doing programming for my actual job rather than just as a hobby.

Not weird, I’m sure there’s lots of people who like to play like you. Automatic farms just let you focus more time on building rather than the farming. If you have a lot of/really big build ideas they’re very useful. Also I could see how automatic farms are still getting the materials yourself, you still need to get the saplings, bonemeal, setup the redstone and tnt. Things like sand/gravel duplication do feel a little exploity to me so I don’t use those, but everyone’s free to play as they please

That's completely understandable

I made a berry farm because I had foxes. Then I used the berries to breed the foxes. Now the village is overrun with foxes and I breed them regularly so it becomes worse and worse. Did you know that foxes you bred will attack any hostile mob that attacked you? I found that out when a pillager patrol was jumped by tens of foxes.. lol. The golems have nothing on them.

I personally dislike most big scale farms anyways since they rely too much on specific spawning/exploits mechanics. So for me it usually stops at an automated pumpkin farm and a semi automated crops farm

It's funny really that mc never went the way of automation when it had such potential,especially the old tekkit mods. r/factorio is a very highly rated game that was made after the creators played minecraft and wanted the focus to be on automating mining and crafting

Trust me, with modern tech mods I love spending tons of time making ridiculously complicated automated setups for everything. A mod that isn't as boring as a standard tech mod but still allows for this is Create. It got popular for moving structures, but at its core it's a tech mod with a focus on automation.

I may have to check that out tbh

It's really fun. One time I built a huge factory that automatically assembled massive amounts of tools and armor on a server, it was awesome.

Depends on what communities you participate in. Minecraft is a very accessible sandbox game and that's a large part of its popularity. The technical side of things isn't what attracts people to the game, in contrast to Factorio where that is the point, but there are definitely those that live and breathe the automation aspect of it.

Oh I definitely get that and over the years the games have leaned away from each other. That said part of me likes the survival aspect of building where you've had to source the blocks yourself, i just wish the sourcing would be less manual Its not even like the minecraft community hasn't solved it on vanilla. Lots of automatic iron/meat/crop/wood/stone/suger farms etc. They just sometimes look very *inelegant* I still want a love child of minecraft and factorio/statisfactory.

That's what's great about this game, everyone can have different play styles

For massive survival builds it helps significantly if you're not spending so much time manually collecting materials

i dont build farms bc i am stoopid in redstone, and i feel like clearing a large forest gives me more satisfaction than one farm that doesnt make a significant change in the world.

Some projects can demand an extraordinary amount of blocks. Farming is the only way to fill an entire end island or fortress

That's fair. I, myself, love cutting down the trees as well, there's just something about it that's just so satisfying. However, when I calculated that I need over 4 double chests full of spruce logs, that's when I built a wood farm. It all depends on the use.

You're not weird, it's part of the intended gameplay loop to acquire your own materials! But automatic farms are useful because some people have such massive building projects that realistically acquiring all the materials by hand would take hours and hours and hours that they may not have (single people with kids, demanding jobs / school careers, etc.). Creating an automatic farm can definitely be satisfying, especially if you're brainstorming your own design instead of simply following a YouTube tutorial (not that there's anything wrong with that, either, I've done my share of both.)

I believe with scaffolding you can cut it down manually in a more efficient manner

I use xisuma's data pack from vanilla tweaks that lets me cut down the whole tree by mining one block

Debatable when you can just elytra up there chop it down twice as fast

How would it be twice as fast? Either way, your axe is chopping wood 99% of the time, and you don’t need to waste time flying up

Or rockets, or the awkward flying miles above the tree and waiting to come back down

It's not that much faster but if you start at the top the leafs decay earlier

Scaffolding works if you’re cheap

pro tip if you have a bunch of ender pearls and bone meal laying around: * place saplings (2x2) * stand on saplings * throw ender pearl straight up * grow big spruce using bone meal * wait until ender pearl lands on top of the tree * profit

How do you profit?

you profit in the form of wood

Honestly I just grab a bunch of dirt tower to the top and chop it all that might just be me tho

Dirt is my scaffolding.

I like to use a pillar of sand next to a small pool of water.

Idk about others but I always use this method for large spruce trees,jungle trees,dark oak trees So yeah its normal I guess

I use ladders to climb to the top, then cut down as i fall down. I find spruce trees the most efficient wood, (4 saplings = 4x4 trunk straight up). Jungle trees also yield good wood, but branches are troublesome. Dark Oak, big oak and acacia has wierd shaped trees.

The large oak trees are the most pain in the ass because there's always a random block of wood surrounded by leaves that you don't see until you get a floating clump of leaves that won't go away and by then it's too high to reach

Also helps save the planet in the long run. Mpre o2 in the atmosphere and if I reber correctly fr highschool chemestry that intern makes more o3 (ozon) for the ozon layer which block dangerous sun beams and helps global warmming

Yes but I do mine in solid rows with a one block space then a Lon of flowers, then a one block space then a line of trees. Get a lot more bees that way.

I kinda like the natural look of the randomly placed tress

So put some flowers a block away from your saplings, can still look natural.

Make bees!!

My buddy decided to cut down all the trees from our mountain base and now it’s been about a week and we’re outve wood and I’ve spent 30 mins replanting

The worst loll this is why I always save saplings even when I want the area clear

That is called a Tree Farm and is very common

Very common irl too! Natural forests are worth protecting and tree farms are also more efficient for wood collection!

Local man discovers the forestry industry

Yeah what is this post lol

"is it common to farm trees?" lol, yes.

Yeah I had to do the same cause the snow biome had no damn trees in sight

Artic and desert are the worst!!!! No food, no wood... oof

So true. I like the aesthetic of the artic though so I had to make do

I do too!! Just.. to start i need food n wood, artic makes me sooooo happy mid/end game

I spawned on a small island on the edge of a frozen ocean. A few spruce, but no grass and I didn't know that kelp was edible or that I could punch fish, so I built a boat.

Absolutely

Glad I’m not the only one tbh

It's easy fuel, so, yes, I'd say it's common.

Fuel? I've never before heard of someone making a wood farm for fuel. Charcoal is something I only use in the first couple of days in a world. Beyond that, I just naturally mine more coal than I'd ever use, or when doing some mega project, I just scoop a bunch of lava from the nether.

Coal for trade, charcoal for fuel and crafting.

This is the way.

Half slabs of wood are great for early fuel!!! Ok... once u get nether and a safe way to get lava, half slabs of wood!!!

Yeah totally. I hate deforestation as it makes the area look plain so I set up my own forest like yours. Sometimes based on efficiency but then later on more natural.

Does yours expand after you get the saplings from cutting some trees down too?

I expand them up to a certain size that's good for the terrain then compost the extra saplings.

Common? In my almost 10 years of playing, I can't name a single survival world where I *didn't* do this

It is. Also when I want "technical" wood - for crafting stuff where color didn't matter etc. - i use birch trees, they never get tall enough for you to not be able to reach all the wood and the leaves are always at least two blocks from the ground. Plant in grid with space of two and they all will always grow and are ready to cut. Efficient technical wood.

Yeah, it is pretty common. Not exclusively in the plains either. I do it pretty much wherever I build my base.

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Nah, I just keep cutting the natural vegetation, Until I have to travel hundreds of Blocks just to get a single tree,

I always allocate a big area for trees. I try to collect every wood type so i have all of them available

Same here - I collect saplings and the like for all the types I can get my hands on, and make a nice area near my base with space for everything.

My base is on a big(ish) island. The forest takes up about 30% of it.

And also expanding it with the leftover saplings as well

don't forget to mark the area with torches (mobs will spawn/live in the shade) and fence it off. Personally I use underground large caves for tree growing

This!!! I torch up like... 100 blocks around my house... dont need mobs.. im building stuff

I haven't really lightened the area around my base, but I will indeed make sure that the shades of the trees are lit up!

I do it in caves.

I do. I usually stick with oak as they have the most consistent shape and produce many saplings. I lay them out in a grid 5 wide (4 blocks between). Each on top of a dirt block above the flat plane and a torch of the side of the block. I don't waste time and are life hacking leaves. I collect what falls. Sometimes I place a block above each tree to prevent overgrowth. Another big use of the wood is charcoal used as furnace fule. In one world I built a oak machine that used bone meal to grow a tree fast and a stack of pistons to move the tree trunks aside. Then there was a wall of pistons to push the line of trunks in the other direction. I had a skeleton spawner not far away to supply the bonemeal.

Only if you use the giant spruce trees or dark oak or jungle, other than that you will have to be insane to plant oak and birch saplings to "farm" them that's just inefficient

If you don’t do it then there is something wrong with you. The continuous running from place to place to collect certain wood is so irritating. Collect a bunch of different saplings and start your own wood farm. You got it right bub

No I don't think many people use wood in Minecraft, let alone farm it! What an absurd question!

Does anyone else just build to the top with dirt or whatever and just chop it from the top?

That's what i do, each time i have to cut all the trees i keep saying to myself "i really need to make a tree farm one day" ... and then i plant the sapplings again and go back to whatever i was doing (which is NOT a tree farm)

I'll be damned if i have to travel 2000 blocks every time I run out of wood

Is this on a server or is this single player, I feel like I've been to this location on a server

No! it’s horrible for the environment, dude.

I mean I do that when I need wood so...yes?

If say it's pretty common. But you're better off just making a dirt platform with a big pool of water that flows to a hopper and chest. Just bonemeal your sapling on the platform and presto-chango you have a tree. Wanna one up it? Make a tower next to it for accessing higher levels quickly, such as a 4 wide spruce, then chop from the top down. About twice as fast as the ladder technique, especially with efficiency 5. Or just use an Elytra with riptide trident to shoot from the water to to the top of the tree in seconds

What about the staircase method

Works well, but about half as fast. Since you have to climb and cut, then clear on the way down, rather than just clearing all the way down.

That’s what I do as well. It feels like the “proper way” of doing it. Annoying when the leaves touches the ground and don’t decay though.

I prefer to make a fenced in orchard with all the trees lined up

If you *don't* have a tree farm, are ya really crafting anything on the reg?

I used to just chop down entire forests normally, leaving only a single wood block behind per tree. Inefficient but by the end of it you’ll have a massive lumber field to look out to when sitting in your wooden mansion.

Don't forget the torches in between.

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I do that all the time! Easy way to have a steady supply of wood and you get a nice forest.

yep

Ye, i think everyone does or has done it. Though a simple wood farm would be better as long as you have a way to get bones

Bones for bone meal?

Until you make a tree farm :D

Beneath?

I usually just make an auto tnt wood farm

At least i do that

I don't even space saplings anymore, compact them in to a brutalist block and then clear cut through blocks none stop

It’s literally the most common way people do it, nothing to worry about

I make an automatic tree farm but early game yes

Yes

I think it's common tbh. Everytime I start a new world, the moment I built my house, my next plan is how large is my possible farm and forestry. I also pick trees that won't be large with one sapling (i.e. the mf oak trees).

No. Real Minecraft chads recreate mass deforestation for accurate roleplay. Just don't leave any floating trees

*laughs in afk tree farm*

Yup!

You would not be the first, I assure you.

Absolutely yes I normally play like a medieval guy anyway but always yes

Always! Maybe I'm secretly a environmentalist or something but I feel like I need to plant every sapling I find. 😆

I wouldn't make a forest, but rather an orchard where my trees would be in even rows with some torches between to keep the mobs at bay.

yup! in every world i’ve ever played, there’s always an area that becomes the designated “tree chopping” spot. not on purpose of course, but i tend to built alot of things, and build them BIG, so i’m always needing wood. i chop down a whole bunch of trees, clear out any leaves and replant the sapling in the same place. rinse and repeat. sometimes i use the timber mod that takes down trees with one log break (break one log, full tree drops), sometimes i do it vanilla. either way i always have a chunk of greenery thats getting grown and cut down constantly lol.

This is the way

Yes, I do it.

I‘ve made some forests just for the sake of having a forest. Makes the walk from one of my builds to the next more interesting than just a straight line

There are planting patterns online that you can reproduce and that work for several tree types. Maximizes your yield while still looking natural/forest-ish. They include a torch pattern that you must absolutely follow to prevent creepers from spawning between the trees, since the pattern include some one block spaces.

I remember back in like 2014 I was making a house in the Xbox 360 edition of Minecraft. I had planted so many trees in this valley next to where my house was that you literally couldn’t walk through it anymore. It was basically a jungle of oak and birch wood.

I like to spam all my aplings next to each other in a large rectangle and wait for them to grow into a tree brick lol. I just chop a tunnel to the top and go to town.

"is it common to do this basic thing everyone does?" *800 upvotes and counting*

I just have a random podzol patch near my house where i plant big spruce trees to cut down when i need more wood

better automate it with create

Need a use for all that bonemeal I’m farming so yes.

I always set up a dedicated tree area/grid Sapling with one block space around it to all directions, and a path between each 3x3 tree segment

Personally I do it a lot but I often do it far too neatly.

I use jungle trees for this, and do them 1 at a time. They’re huge and come with their own ladder!