Sapling

Saplings are an important resource that allows trees to be grown to replace those cut down by miners in search of logs, planks or sticks.

In Survival mode, saplings are dropped randomly when leaves wither or are destroyed by the player. The withering behaviour of leaves is explained in detail in the leaves article. Most tree canopies will drop at least one sapling block, though they may drop more, and large tree canopies should drop several if completely denuded.

Saplings can be planted on any dirt or grass block, and will grow into a new tree if they have enough light, and at least 4 empty blocks above the sapling "block" itself.

In Creative mode, saplings function as a decoration block, and can be placed freely. Saplings will grow into a full tree if the server has "grow-trees" set to "true" in the "server.properties" file.