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The trick to saplings is to stay around for the five minutes required for all the leaves of a tree you cut down to disappear. I will clear out an area of trees and leave all the leaves and then run around every 5 minutes and collect all the saplings after the leaves disappear and get dozens of saplings in minutes. 1 level 2. If you would like jungle saplings. Don't cut down trees bro. You see, in the jungle there are TONS of short bushes and trees that are about blocks high.

Just go to towen hitting the treeclearing.barted Reading Time: 2 mins. Dark Oak trees take 4 saplings to grow, but only have enough leaves to give based on how lucky you are.

This makes them unsustainable for farming or even spreading for decoration. Every other tree gives many more saplings than it takes to grow, but with dark. Very little to none sapling drops.) When chopping down Jungle Trees, then waiting for the leaves to despawn and drop saplings, most will either drop zero saplings, or just 1. Other trees drop a good amount of saplings, but I've been trying to farm Jungle trees for hours total now in a realms world I share with my friend, and I was only able to plant about 6 trees total after about 30 minutes of it.

Aug 06, oak, birch, pine tree leaves have 1/20 chance of dropping saplings. but jungle tree leaves have 1/40 chance of dropping saplings. Rollback Post to Revision RollBack I like custom maps, creative research and technical survival. When leaves decay, or are broken by any tool except shears, they have a 5% chance of dropping a sapling, except for jungle leaves, which have a % chance of dropping a sapling.

The Fortune enchantment increases the rate to % minecraft trees not dropping saplings for jungle leaves) at level I, % (% for jungle leaves) at level II, and 10% (% for jungle leaves) at level treeclearing.barble: Yes. Apr 08, Want saplings? Chop down a tree. Each leaf block has a 5% chance of dropping a sapling when destroyed (for jungle trees it’s half that). Can’t find a tree for some reason? Saplings also can be found in village chests and woodland mansions, Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.

Aug 11, 2 Answers2. Nothing affects the chance for sapling drops. Saplings have a chance to drop when a leaf block either decays naturally from destroying the tree, or when you manually break the leaf block yourself. Either method produces the same results with the same chance of a sapling drop. It doesn't matter at all.