Leaves

Leaves

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tools
Blast resistance	0.2
Hardness	0.2
Luminant	No
Transparent	Partial (diffuses sky light)
Flammable	Yes (30)
Catches fire from lava	Yes

Leaves are natural blocks that generate as part of trees.

Obtaining

Breaking

See also: Fortune § Tabulated probabilities

Hoes are the default tools for breaking leaves, but leaves can be obtained only with shears or Silk Touch enchanted tools.

Block	Leaves
Hardness	0.2
Tool
Breaking time
Default	0.3
Wooden	0.15
Stone	0.1
Iron	0.05
Diamond	0.05
Netherite	0.05
Golden	0.05
Shears	0.05
Sword	0.2

Drop	Source	No Fortune	Fortune I	Fortune II	Fortune III
Jungle Saplings	Jungle Leaves	2.5% (1⁄40)	2.78% (1⁄36)	3.125% (1⁄32)	4.17% (1⁄24)
Azalea or other Saplings	Other Leaves	5% (1⁄20)	6.25% (1⁄16)	8.33% (1⁄12)	10% (1⁄10)
1-2 Sticks	Leaves	2% (1⁄50)	2.22% (1⁄45)	2.5% (1⁄40)	3.33% (1⁄30)
Apples	Oak and Dark Oak Leaves	0.5% (1⁄200)	0.556% (1⁄180)	0.625% (1⁄160)	0.833% (1⁄120)

Natural generation

Leaves on fast and on fancy graphics.

Leaves occur naturally on trees throughout the Overworld. Dark oak leaves also generate in woodland mansions.

Post-generation

See also: Tutorials/Tree farming

Leaves generate as part of trees grown from saplings or azalea.

Usage

Leaves from trees spontaneously decay (disappear) when they receive a block tick if they are not connected to any block with the logs tag (log or wood blocks), either directly or via other leaf block, with a maximum distance of 6 blocks‌^{[Java Edition only]} or 4 blocks‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}. Player-placed leaf blocks never decay.

Leaves that decay, or are destroyed without using Silk Touch or shears, yield saplings 5% (¹⁄₂₀) of the time, sticks 2% of the time, and otherwise drop nothing. Jungle leaves drop saplings 2.5% (¹⁄₄₀) of the time. Oak and dark oak leaves also have a separate but additional 0.5% (¹⁄₂₀₀) chance of dropping an apple, making it extremely rare but possible for a single leaf to drop a sapling along with an apple. Rates are increased by the Fortune enchantment. Leaves that are burned do not yield saplings or apples.

Leaves take on a different shade of green depending on the biome in which they are placed.

Leaves are always transparent to light, but cannot be seen through when the graphics mode is set to "Fast"; the transparent regions are instead black‌^{[JE only]}/dark green‌^{[BE only]}. They diffuse sky light, causing the shadows they cast under trees.

Redstone component

The state of a leaves block—including a player-placed block—changes after 1 game tick (half a redstone tick) when the distance to the nearest log or wood block changes, up to 6 blocks of leaves away. Observers facing away from the leaves detect this change and transmit a redstone signal in the same game tick, making leaves useful for redstone signal transmission. This has been called "Leafstone" by the Minecraft Community.

Piston interactivity

Leaves are destroyed when pushed by pistons. They do not stick to sticky pistons, slime blocks or honey blocks.

Composting

Leaves have a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.

Bees

Flowering azaleas leaves function like any other flowers in their interaction and uses with bees.

Bee nests

Oak and birch trees grown from saplings that are within 2 blocks of any flowering azalea leaves have a 5% chance to grow with bee nest and 1-3 bees in it.

List of colors

Foliage Colormap

Java Edition

Hard-coded colors

• In the inventory, oak, jungle, acacia, and dark oak leaves are colored
   #48B518.
• Spruce leaves are colored
   #619961, and are not affected by biome or inventory color.
• Birch leaves are colored
   #80a755, and are not affected by biome or inventory color.

Biome colors

These values are generated by the biome dyeing algorithm. See Biome colors for more information.

Biome	Category	Rainfall	Foliage Color	Temperature Affects	Render
Badlands	Mesa	No	#9e814d	No
Beach	Beach	Rain	#77ab2f
Birch Forest	Forest	Rain	#6ba941
Cold Ocean	Ocean	Rain	#71a74d
Dark Forest	Forest	Rain	#59ae30
Deep Cold Ocean	Ocean	Rain	#71a74d
Deep Frozen Ocean	Ocean	Rain	#71a74d
Deep Lukewarm Ocean	Ocean	Rain	#71a74d
Deep Ocean	Ocean	Rain	#71a74d
Desert	Desert	No	#aea42a
End Barrens	The End	No	#71a74d
End Highlands	The End	No	#71a74d
End Midlands	The End	No	#71a74d
Eroded Badlands	Mesa	No	#9e814d	No
Flower Forest	Forest	Rain	#59ae30
Forest	Forest	Rain	#59ae30
Frozen Ocean	Ocean	Snow	#60a17b
Frozen River	River	Snow	#60a17b
Ice Spikes	Icy	Snow	#60a17b
Jungle	Jungle	Rain	#30bb0b
Lukewarm Ocean	Ocean	Rain	#71a74d
Mushroom Fields	Mushroom	Rain	#2bbb0f
Nether	Nether	No	#aea42a
Ocean	Ocean	Rain	#71a74d
Old Growth Birch Forest	Forest	Rain	#6ba941
Old Growth Pine Taiga	Taiga	Rain	#68a55f
Old Growth Spruce Taiga	Taiga	Rain	#68a464
Plains	Plains	Rain	#77ab2f
River	River	Rain	#71a74d
Savanna	Savanna	No	#aea42a
Savanna Plateau	Savanna	No	#aea42a
Small End Islands	The End	No	#71a74d
Snowy Beach	Beach	Snow	#64a278
Snowy Taiga	Taiga	Snow	#60a17b
Snowy Plains	Icy	Snow	#60a17b
Sparse Jungle	Jungle	Rain	#3eb80f
Stony Shore	None	Rain	#6da36b
Sunflower Plains	Plains	Rain	#77ab2f
Swamp	Swamp	Rain	#6a7039	If temperature below -0.1, used #4C763C.	/
Taiga	Taiga	Rain	#68a464
The End	The End	No	#71a74d
The Void	None	No	#71a74d
Warm Ocean	Ocean	Rain	#71a74d
Windswept Forest	Extreme Hills	Rain	#6da36b
Windswept Gravelly Hills	Extreme Hills	Rain	#6da36b
Windswept Hills	Extreme Hills	Rain	#6da36b
Windswept Savanna	Savanna	No	#aea42a
Wooded Badlands	Mesa	No	#9e814d	No

Bedrock Edition

In Bedrock Edition, leaves appear as snow-covered during snowfall, however, these appearances are exclusive to snowy tundra, frozen river, snowy beach, and snowy taiga biomes and their variants. Leaves are snow-covered only during snowfalls when fancy graphics are enabled. mountain biomes and variants despite having snow at high altitude doesn't turn leaves into frost covered during snowfall, same also occur to frozen ocean and deep frozen ocean.

Sounds

Other leaves

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.grass.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.grass.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.grass.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.grass.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.grass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
?	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.grass	0.7	0.8
?	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.grass	0.4	1.0
?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.grass	0.3	0.5
?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.grass	0.11	1.0
?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.grass	0.21	1.0
?	Blocks	Walking on the block	step.grass	0.3	1.0
?	Blocks	When the block is placed	use.grass	0.8	0.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Resource location	Block tags (JE)	Item tags (JE)	Form	Translation key
Oak Leaves	oak_leaves	lava_pool_stone_replaceables leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	Block & Item	block.minecraft.oak_leaves
Spruce Leaves	spruce_leaves	lava_pool_stone_replaceables leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	Block & Item	block.minecraft.spruce_leaves
Birch Leaves	birch_leaves	lava_pool_stone_replaceables leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	Block & Item	block.minecraft.birch_leaves
Jungle Leaves	jungle_leaves	lava_pool_stone_replaceables leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	Block & Item	block.minecraft.jungle_leaves
Acacia Leaves	acacia_leaves	lava_pool_stone_replaceables leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	Block & Item	block.minecraft.acacia_leaves
Dark Oak Leaves	dark_oak_leaves	lava_pool_stone_replaceables leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	Block & Item	block.minecraft.dark_oak_leaves
Azalea Leaves	azalea_leaves	lava_pool_stone_replaceables leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	Block & Item	block.minecraft.azalea_leaves
Flowering Azalea Leaves	flowering_azalea_leaves	flowers lava_pool_stone_replaceables leaves mineable/axe mineable/hoe	flowers leaves	Block & Item	block.minecraft.flowering_azalea_leaves

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Resource location	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Leaves (oak, spruce, birch and jungle)	leaves	18	Block & Item	tile.leaves.oak.name tile.leaves.spruce.name tile.leaves.birch.name tile.leaves.jungle.name
Leaves (acacia and dark oak)	leaves2	261	Block & Item	tile.leaves.acacia.name tile.leaves.big_oak.name[verify]
Azalea Leaves	azalea_leaves	579	Block & Item	tile.azalea_leaves.name
Flowered Azalea Leaves	azalea_leaves_flowered	580	Block & Item	tile.azalea_leaves_flowered.name

Metadata

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, leaves use the following data values. "Persistent" means the leaves never decay. "Check for decay" means that if the leaves are not persistent, they should check whether to decay the next time they get a block update. If there is no log block within 4 blocks, the leaves decay. The check for decay bit is normally set on when a log block, leaves block, or leaves2 block is broken within 4 blocks of this block. The values 12–15 can be used, but they cause identical behavior to values 8–11.

Leaves

	DV	Description
	0	Oak Leaves
	1	Spruce Leaves
	2	Birch Leaves
	3	Jungle Leaves
	4	Oak Leaves, check for decay
	5	Spruce Leaves, check for decay
	6	Birch Leaves, check for decay
	7	Jungle Leaves, check for decay
	8	Oak Leaves, persistent
	9	Spruce Leaves, persistent
	10	Birch Leaves, persistent
	11	Jungle Leaves, persistent
	12	Oak Leaves, persistent + check for decay
	13	Spruce Leaves, persistent + check for decay
	14	Birch Leaves, persistent + check for decay
	15	Jungle Leaves, persistent + check for decay

Leaves 2

	DV	Description
	0	Acacia Leaves
	1	Dark Oak Leaves
	4	Acacia Leaves, check for decay
	5	Dark Oak Leaves, check for decay
	8	Acacia Leaves, persistent
	9	Dark Oak Leaves, persistent
	12	Acacia Leaves, persistent + check for decay
	13	Dark Oak Leaves, persistent + check for decay

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
distance	7	1 2 3 4 5 6 7	How far away this block is from the appropriate wood type.
persistent	false	false true	If the block persists regardless of having no wood nearby.

Bedrock Edition:
Leaves

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
old_leaf_type	oak	oak	Oak Leaves
		spruce	Spruce Leaves
		birch	Birch Leaves
		jungle	Jungle Leaves
persistent_bit	false	false true	If the block persists regardless of having no wood nearby.
update_bit	false	false true	If the block checks for nearby wood.

Leaves2

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
new_leaf_type	acacia	acacia	Acacia Leaves
		dark_oak	Dark Oak Leaves
persistent_bit	false	false true	If the block persists regardless of having no wood nearby.
update_bit	false	false true	If the block checks for nearby wood.

History

For the different historical leaf decay algorithms, see History of leaf decay.

Java Edition Classic
0.0.14a					Added leaves.
0.0.15a (Multiplayer Test 1)					The texture of leaves has been changed.
August 25, 2009					Demonstrated that leaves now drop saplings.
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST					Leaves now drop saplings.[needs testing]
Java Edition Indev
0.31		20091223-2			Leaves now produce shadows.
20100218					Leaves now decay.
Java Edition Infdev
20100227-1					Leaves no longer decay.
20100325					Leaves now decay again.
20100413					Leaves no longer decay due to the addition of big trees.
20100615					Leaves now decay again.
20100617-1					Leaves now use opaque texture when "Graphics: Fast" is set in options.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.6					Leaves no longer decay.
					Leaves now have a 1⁄20 chance of dropping a sapling instead of 1⁄10.
v1.0.6_01					Leaves now decay again when not connected to the ground or to a tree trunk.
v1.1.0					Torches can no longer be placed on tree leaves, but only in fast mode.
v1.2.0		preview			With the addition of biomes, the color of leaves have been changed.
					Leaves no longer decay.
v1.2.1					Leaf particle colors now reflect the biome, instead of the gray scale texture.
v1.2.3					Leaf decay has been re-introduced.
v1.2.3_01					Leaf decay is now disabled, due to an infinite loop in the code.
Java Edition Beta
1.0					Leaf decay has been re-introduced with the new behavior.
1.1					Leaf decay has been rewritten, once again.
1.2					Added birch and spruce leaves. They colored  #80a755 and  #619961, and is not affected by biome color.
					Birch and spruce leaves that decay, or are destroyed, drop oak saplings.
1.5					Birch and spruce leaves now drop their respective saplings.
1.6		Test Build 3			Many disparities between the properties of leaves in Fast and Fancy graphics have been fixed.[more information needed]
1.7					Added shears, which collect leaves. Before, leaves could be obtained only via inventory editing.
					Leaves no longer appear gray (blank and uncolored, default texture before the application of biome coloration) in the inventory.
1.8		Pre-release			Leaf blocks placed by the player or an enderman no longer decay like normal leaves do.
Java Edition
1.1		11w48a			Oak leaves now have a 1⁄200 chance of dropping an apple.
1.2.1		12w03a			Added jungle leaves.
1.3.1		12w18a			Jungle leaves now have a small chance of dropping cocoa beans.
		12w19a			Jungle leaves no longer drop cocoa beans.
		12w22a			Water now slowly drips through leaves when it is raining.
?					Leaves now always drop the correct data values when collected via Silk Touch.
1.7.2		13w43a			Added acacia and dark oak leaves. They use separate but identical textures to oak leaves.
1.8		14w25a			The model of jungle leaves now use texture of oak leaves.
					The rendering of leaves when "Graphics: Fast" is set in options has been changed.
					Leaves now no longer have distinct texture files for fast and fancy graphics.
		14w25b			The model of jungle leaves now uses the texture of jungle leaves again.
					The rendering of leaves when "Graphics: Fast" is set in options has been changed, once again.
1.11		16w39a			Leaves now generate in woodland mansions.
1.13		18w22a			Naturally-generated leaves now survive at a distance of up to 6 blocks from logs, instead of 4.
1.14		18w43a			Leaves now have a small chance to drop sticks when decaying.
					The textures of all leaves have been changed.
		19w03a			Placing leaves into the new composter has a 10% chance of raising the compost level by 1.
		19w05a			Leaves now have a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a composter by 1.
1.16		20w15a			Hoes can now break leaves quickly.
October 3, 2020					Azalea and flowering azalea leaves are shown as part of lush caves at Minecraft Live 2020.
1.17		21w05a			Added azalea and flowering azalea leaves.
		21w10a			Both types of azalea leaves now generate as part of azalea trees above a lush cave biome.
		21w13a			Bees now see Flowering Azalea Leaves as flower.
Upcoming Java Edition
October 16, 2021					Mangrove Leaves were shown on Minecraft Live 2021.
Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release					Added oak, birch and spruce leaves tinted with  #339933.
v0.1.0					Added models of leaves for block and item form when "Fancy Graphics" are disabled and uses opaque textures of leaves.
					Added item model tinted with  #59a53f and inventory icon for oak leaves.
					Oak Leaves in item form with damage value 1 and 2 use models of spruce and birch leaves, however still place oak leaves.
v0.2.0					The texture of inventory icon for oak leaves has been changed.
v0.2.1					The item model use separate but identical magenta textures when "Fancy Graphics" are enabled/disabled and no longer tinted.
					The texture of inventory icon for oak leaves has been changed.
					Oak Leaves in item form with damage value 1 and 2 no longer use models of spruce and birch leaves.
v0.2.1 alpha2					The textures of oak and birch leaves have been changed.
					The textures were taken from Java Edition Alpha v1.1.2_01 and earlier.
					The textures of oak leaves in item form have been changed to pre-tinted leaves.
v0.3.0					The texture of inventory icon for oak leaves has been changed.
					Oak leaves now drop their item form when broken with shears.
					Survival players no longer start out with an infinite amount of oak leaves in the inventory.
					Breaking spruce or birch leaves with shears would drop strange leaves items that had a durability bar, and would stack to 1, sometimes appearing as infinity. Spruce leaves used the crafting table side texture on all sides on some devices.
v0.3.2					The tints of oak, birch and spruce leaves have been changed to  #48b518,  #80a755 and  #619961.
					Added item form for birch and spruce leaves. They uses oak leaves in item form model.
					The texture of inventory icon for oak leaves has been changed.
					Spruce and birch leaves no longer dropped glitched items when broken by shears.
					The item form for spruce leaves would sometimes use the crafting table texture on all sides when dropped as an item or held in the player's hand.
					Leaves now have a small chance to drop their respective sapling type when broken.
v0.4.0					Spruce leaves in item form now have separate pre-tinted textures.
					The texture of inventory icon for oak leaves has been changed.
					The item form for spruce leaves would no longer sometimes use the crafting table texture on all sides when dropped as an item or held in the player's hand.
					Oak leaves now have a small chance to drop an apple when broken.
v0.5.0					The texture of inventory icon for birch leaves has been changed.
v0.6.0					The texture of inventory icon for birch leaves has been changed, once again.
v0.8.0		build 2			Added jungle leaves to the creative inventory. If fancy graphics is enabled, the jungle leaves texture incorrectly uses a tinted still water texture for the top row of pixels. This texture is affected by the "Animated water" setting.
					The textures of oak and birch leaves have been changed.
					Leaves now use rendered item models for inventory icon.
		build 5			The texture of jungle leaves with fancy graphics has been corrected.
v0.9.0		build 1			Added acacia and dark oak leaves. They use separate but identical textures to oak leaves.
					The models of leaves have been changed. Jungle leaves are now permanently opaque.
					Jungle leaves can now be obtained in survival mode as part of jungle trees.
					Leaves now release spiders, creating a higher amount of spiders in tree-rich biomes at night (version exclusive).
v0.12.1		build 1			Leaves in snowy biomes now gradually become frost-covered during snowfall.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Leaves now generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.22			Jungle leaves are now transparent on higher-end devices when Fancy leaves are turned on.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Leaves now have a small chance to drop sticks when decaying.
					The textures of all leaves have been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Leaves can now be used to fill up composters.
Caves & Cliffs (experimental)		beta 1.16.220.52			Added azalea and flowering azalea leaves.
		beta 1.16.230.50			Bees now interact with flowering azalea leaves as they do with regular flowers.
		beta 1.17.0.50			Azalea Leaves and Flowering Azalea Leaves now have a chance to drop azalea or flowering azalea when broken.
1.17.0		beta 1.17.0.52			Azalea Leaves now have correct color on maps.
					Azalea Leaves and Flowering Azalea Leaves are no longer only available in experimental gameplay.
1.17.10		beta 1.17.10.20			Spruce and birch leaves are affected by biome tinting if the Caves & Cliffs experimental gameplay toggle is enabled.
1.17.30		beta 1.17.20.20			Spruce and birch leaves are no longer affected by biome tinting.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added leaves.
TU5					Leaf blocks placed by the player no longer decay like normal leaves do.
TU12					Added jungle leaves.
TU14		1.04			Water drip particles appear underneath leaves if it's raining.
		1.90			Leaves now have a small chance to drop sticks when decaying.
					The textures of all leaves have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added leaves.

• 

  Old Legacy Console Edition's jungle leaves. This texture was also shown in the old Bedrock Edition's inventory sprite.

• 

  Old Legacy Console Edition's jungle leaves (Fast graphics).

• 

  Old leaves texture.

Data history

Java Edition Beta
1.2					A fourth type of leaves with data value 3, 7, 11 and 15 also exists. It uses a texture of oak and birch leaves and colored  #619961.
					Leaves pre-dating this update include multiple types of leaves, as the data indicating leaf type was previously used for decay calculations.
Java Edition
1.2.1		12w03a			Oak trees pre-dating Beta 1.2 can include some jungle leaves as the data indicating leaf type had previously been used for decay calculations.
					Leaves with data value 3, 7, 11, 15 replaced with jungle leaves.
1.8		14w10a			minecraft:leaves2 blocks with numerical metadata variants 2-3, 6-7, 10-11 and 14-15, which are inaccessible through normal gameplay, now have no model rather than appearing identical to either acacia or dark oak leaves.[verify]
		14w25a			Leaves are now defined via block states rather than by numerical metadata. Prior to this version, the numerical metadata variants of minecraft:leaves were as follows: DV Description 0 Oak Leaves 1 Spruce Leaves 2 Birch Leaves 3 Jungle Leaves 4 Oak Leaves (check decay) 5 Spruce Leaves (check decay) 6 Birch Leaves (check decay) 7 Jungle Leaves (check decay) 8 Oak Leaves (persistent) 9 Spruce Leaves (persistent) 10 Birch Leaves (persistent) 11 Jungle Leaves (persistent) 12 Oak Leaves (persistent, check decay) 13 Spruce Leaves (persistent, check decay) 14 Birch Leaves (persistent, check decay) 15 Jungle Leaves (persistent, check decay) The data values for minecraft:leaves2 were as follows: DV Description 0 Acacia Leaves 1 Dark Oak Leaves 2-3 Inaccessible "boring" leaves blocks 4 Acacia Leaves (check decay) 5 Dark Oak Leaves (check decay) 6-7 Inaccessible "boring" leaves blocks 8 Acacia Leaves (persistent) 9 Dark Oak Leaves (persistent) 10-11 Inaccessible "boring" leaves blocks 12 Acacia Leaves (persistent, check decay) 13 Dark Oak Leaves (persistent, check decay) 14-15 Inaccessible "boring" leaves blocks
		14w26a			minecraft:leaves2 blocks with metadata values 2-3, 6-7, 10-11 and 14-15 have now been completely removed from the game.
1.13		17w47a			The different variant block states for both the leaves and leaves2 IDs have been split up into their own IDs.
					Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 18 and 161.

Issues

Issues relating to "Leaves" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Occasionally, leaves grow through other blocks, acting as though they are still connected to the tree. They may also completely replace blocks they try to grow into.
• Leaves do not prevent chests from being opened.
• Some trees seem to occasionally drop apples or saplings without being destroyed due to creation of leaf blocks not supported by logs.
• The frost texture in Bedrock Edition is not an instant transition. Instead, the leaves slowly shift from their original color to the frosty one.

Gallery

• 

  A red mushroom is seen growing on the top of leaves.