Leaves

Leaves
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0.2
Hardness	0.2
Luminous	?
Transparent	Partial (diffuses sky light)
Flammable	Yes
Catches fire from lava	?

	“	Leaves were one of Minecraft's earliest additions, arriving alongside logs, ores and sand way back in 2009 ... They've changed a lot over time, first being tweaked to drop saplings, then to decay when deprived of their trunk, then to drop apples, then even to have water drip through them when it's raining!	„
		— Duncan Geere

Leaves are blocks which grow as part of trees.

Obtaining

Leaves can only be obtained with shears or Silk Touch enchanted tools.

Block	Leaves
Hardness	0.2
Breaking time (secs)
Default	0.3
Shears	0.05
Sword	0.2

Natural generation

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

Usage

Leaves from trees spontaneously decay (disappear) when they receive a block tick if they are not connected to any log, either directly or via other leaf block, with a maximum distance of 6 blocks. Player-placed leaf blocks will never decay.

Leaves which decay or are destroyed without using shears yield saplings or sticks 5% (1/20) 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 both an apple and a sapling simultaneously. 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. 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 instantly when the distance to the nearest Log or Wood block changes, up to 6 blocks of leaves away. Observers facing away from the leaves will detect this change and transmit a redstone signal in the same game tick, making leaves useful for instant redstone signal transmission.

Composting

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

List of colors

Java Edition

Hard-coded colors

• In the inventory, Leaves have a color: #48B518.
• Spruce Leaves have a color: #619961. Not affects from biomes and the inventory color‌

Gallery

• JungleLeavesTex.png

  The default texture for snowy jungle leaves have a yellowish tint in some areas.

• 

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

• Creeper Revision 2.png

  The original texture for the creeper seems to be the leaves texture over a white player texture with a face and slightly distorted.