Talk:Leaves

On the corner.
I'm terrible at editing but I also find a leaf block will stay and support just like this if its touching the corner of a dirt block. --Hagane17 04:12, 6 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Incorrect. -FunnyMan3595 07:01, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Random Decay
After i read the page on leaves describing the rules of why some leaves are temporary and some arent, so i decided to build a tree temple, i followed the rules exactly but some leaves just died for no reason even though they were attached to supported leaves. I propose a theory of random decay, some leaves just decay at random sometimes. please, if anyone can disprove me, please do so, else i will post this in the Leaves page. --WallShadow 01:20, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I also think they decay randomly (but very slowly) even when they're attached to something. That's how live trees sometimes drop saplings.PurpleKiwi 02:06, 8 October 2010 (UTC)


 * One of the things I noticed while making the images, but didn't end up putting in the explanation, was that adding support/connections to a Temporary leaf block doesn't seem to change its status. At a guess, as soon as it becomes Temporary, a decay timer is set, and it'll go poof at the end, no matter what else happens.  Odds are good you're seeing this effect, but I'd love to see evidence that something's missing from the explanation!  -FunnyMan3595 03:38, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

The Halloween update
Leaves change colors according to the biome they're in, and they now turn into gray dust when punched, rather than green.. --Vipermagi 13:22, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The grass and leaves texture in terrain.png are now grey and are instead tinted by the game to the correct colour, the destruction particles take the texture from terrain.png and are therefore grey. This is also why the side texture of the grass block is the wrong green, as it is still coloured by terrain.png. – ultradude25 ( T 10:30, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Growing through blocks
Has anyone ever seen this before? I planted a tree roughly in the middle of a 4x5 tower on the other side of this wall. It grew to 14 blocks high (with branches that ran into the walls and stopped), and some of the leaves grew on the other side of a wall. They have remained for several Minecraft days now, and I don't expect they're going to wither at all. Unsurprisingly, two leaf blocks (the bottom right one and the one to its left) did disappear after I removed floor blocks that were directly under them. -WurdBendur 19:24, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Well seeing as leaf withering is broken in Minecraft since the Halloween update, I doubt they will! – ultradude25 ( T 20:22, 7 November 2010 (CST)
 * I should clarify that this is without the update. Other temporary leaves wither as expected. -WurdBendur 22:16, 7 November 2010 (CST)
 * In that case, they'll stay because they are touching a block. They only wither if they aren't touching any blocks. – ultradude25 ( T 22:18, 7 November 2010 (CST)
 * This has happened to me on multiple occasions, however after the leaf withering update, I've not had it happen since. I'm unsure if that is because the leaves are withering, or not. But I can say that it has happened. -St. Fenix (User•Talk) 16:57, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * confirmed, This has happened to me again, and the leaves did not wither. They stayed for quite a few days. This may be considered worthy as entrance as a bug or in the article. -St. Fenix (User•Talk) 16:50, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Percentage of sapling drops?
Can someone please add the percentage of leaf blocks yeild a sapling? -F1racer101 10:58, 16 November 2010 (UTC)


 * The figure I've always heard tossed around is each block has a 1 in 8 (12.5%) chance of dropping a sapling. However, I've seen no one provide any real evidence of this so I'm hesitant to add this figure to the page.  --XipXoom 18:03, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Different Withering
It says on Notch's blog that leaves wither different to before. What is the difference because it looks the same to me? GlitchKing 19:59, 20 December 2010 (CST)
 * It's likely the code simply uses a different method to make the leaves decay. ConMan8 20:01, 20 December 2010 (CST)

Different Color Leaves:
I myself after the Beta Update have noticed that on most of my previously spawned trees that their leaves have become collections of many different colors from the many different biomes available in game. Has anyone else experienced this? I can upload a few pictures. -St. Fenix (User•Talk) 16:56, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

your actually seeing the pine needles, normal, and birch leaves. it happens on my worlds too. using a new world will fix it. Flish 02:56, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Trivia Mistake: Suffocation
The trivia says that you cannot suffocate in leaves, however this is not 100% true. Time and time again, if I am riding a boat and I go under leaves 1 block above the water, my character suffocates! I am using beta 1.2_02      LB 22:31, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * My bad, I should've been more specific - if a sapling right beside the player grows and causes leaves to form at the player's head, they won't suffocate. Alphap 22:42, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

I've been using bonemeal to grow trees quickly with fancy graphics. It definitely does cause suffocation under those circumstances. Mariel141 05:16, 15 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Are you using the bonemeal while standing over the sapling? The wood does cause suffocation damage. Fai 00:00, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

New texture ?
"There is also a new texture found after 1.2, It looks like leaf but appears to have flowers."

I've never seen this one. Does it really exist? – Scaler (t) 14:57, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes. But it's the commonly known redwood tree leaf texture. Everyone's seen it. >.> - TyrannoFan • TF's Talk • Contributions - 23:50, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Walking on top of trees
It looks like when I am walking on the leafs it destroys them, producing saplings in the process, is that true?


 * No, what probably is happening is you have destroyed all the wood in the tree (or most of it), and the leaves are degenerating as you walk over it. Fai 00:04, 22 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Or you're playing on a modded server. – ultradude25 ( T at 00:21, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Growing back
Will leaves ever grow back? Is there a way to spawn more leaves without growing a new tree?


 * No, leaves do not grow back. When a tree is "grown", it does it all at once, with a percentage change of having branches or not. I could be wrong though, correct me if I'm wrong. Don't forget to sign your posts. :) Fai 00:02, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Many leaves color
Just uploaded an image on a tree that has more than one leaves color. Can someone fix it so it is not in the "Decay" paragraph? I'm a newbie at uploading images, sorry. Calinou 10:04, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

1.7 Update
Via someone's "tutorial" on how to use shears, I noticed that the leaves were colored green in the inventory. Do leaves now update live per biome, meaning, if that person went from a bright green biome (can find out via grass) to a dark green (biome), with the leaves being cut down from the bright green, would the leaves in the inventory turn dark green or stay bright green? Cool12309(T 14:20, 30 June 2011 (UTC)


 * The color of the leaves in the inventory is the same green in every biome. Also, in the Nether, where the leaves are yellow, these ones in the inventory are green. Now Ultradude25 should make an animated gif with the 3 types on leaves and we should update the inventory image.--Ua 10:35, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

4th leaf type
Leaves with a damage value of 3 show up as oak leaves, but with the pine tree leaf colour. These leaves have shown up in my map on trees that were generated before the Halloween Update. Theyve shown up again in areas generated later in an area I thought was inbetween biomes. Trying to plant trees here, however, did not give me multicolour trees again. Is there anyway to farm this leaf type?Toadbert

The multicolor trees are a result of the old leaf decay code using the leaf block subtype ("metadata"/"damage" value) to store information about the distance from the trunk. Such leaves and the sapling types dropped from them will not occur again, and will be treated as oak if replanted. —KPReid 18:13, 2 July 2011 (UTC)