Resources Saplings

Resources saplings grow into resource trees. Every combination of a resource type and a tree type is its own sapling.

Naming

Sapling ids follow the pattern:

resourcestrees:<resource_type>_<tree_type>_sapling

For example resourcestrees:iron_oak_sapling, resourcestrees:diamond_birch_sapling or resourcestrees:netherite_dark_oak_sapling.

Crafting

Surround the vanilla sapling of the tree type with the resource type's material in a + shape. The recipe is generated for every sapling.

Shaped ➜ Diamond Oak Sapling

Shaped ➜ Fire Cherry Sapling

Resource types whose material is an item tag accept any item in it. Wood trees take any log:

Shaped ➜ Wood Spruce Sapling

Changing a recipe

A datapack can replace the recipe of any single sapling. See Sapling Recipes.

Growing

Plant a resources sapling on grass or dirt like a vanilla sapling. It grows with the same tree shapes as its tree type, including big 2×2 trees for tree types that have them, and bone meal works as usual. The leaves it grows are resources leaves of the same resource type.

Getting more

Breaking or decaying the leaves of a resource tree can drop its sapling. The chance is set by the resource type:

Resource type	Sapling drop chance
Most types	12.5%
Diamond	10%
Netherite	7.5%

The Tree Simulator can drop the sapling too, with the same chance per harvest.