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Leaves

• Oak
• Spruce
• Birch
• Jungle
• Acacia
• Dark Oak
• Mangrove
• Cherry
• Pale Oak
• Azalea
• Flowering Azalea

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tools
Blast resistance	0.2
Hardness	0.2
Luminous	No
Transparent	Partial (diffuses sky light)
Waterloggable	Yes
Flammable	Yes (30)
Catches fire from lava	Yes
Map color (Java)	7 PLANT

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Leaves are transparent natural blocks that generate as part of trees. They decay when not attached to a tree trunk, but persist when placed by a player.

Obtaining

Breaking

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 (sec)
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
Options
Efficiency	0
Haste	0 JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

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	Azalea Leaves or other Leaves	5% (1⁄20)	6.25% (1⁄16)	8.33% (1⁄12)	10% (1⁄10)
1-2 Sticks	All 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 occur naturally on trees and azaleas throughout the Overworld. Oak leaves also generate in jungle bushes and the tree at meeting points in plains villages. Dark oak leaves can also generate in woodland mansions. Oak and mangrove leaves can also generate in the trial chambers.

Post-generation

Leaves generate as part of trees grown from saplings, azaleas, or mangrove propagules.

Usage

Leaves from trees spontaneously decay (disappear) when they receive a block tick if they are not connected to a block with the logs tag (log or wood block), either directly or via other leaf blocks, with a maximum distance of 6 blocks‌ or 4 blocks‌. The distance is taxicab distance, but can cross corners. Leaves placed by players never decay. Bamboo does not count as a log for this purpose.

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, a stick and an apple at the same time. Rates are increased by the Fortune enchantment. Leaves that are burned do not yield saplings or apples.

Oak, jungle, acacia, dark oak and mangrove 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/dark green‌. They diffuse sky light, causing the shadows they cast under trees.

Leaves can be waterlogged, despite being a full block. Water does not spread out‌ and waterlogged leaves follow the same rules as any other waterlogged block. When concrete powder is placed on any side of the waterlogged leaves it turns into concrete, without the danger of the water running out of the block.

Applying bone meal to mangrove leaves with a space beneath produces a hanging mangrove propagule with age=0.

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	[hide]Smelting recipe
Leaf Litter	Any Leaves block	0.1

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. A stack of leaves yields an average of 2.74 bone meal.

Bees

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

Bee nests

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

Color

• In the inventory, oak, jungle, acacia, and dark oak leaves are colored
   #48b518.
• In the inventory, mangrove leaves are colored
   #92c648.
• 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.
• Azalea, flowering azalea, cherry, and pale oak leaves are not colored.

Biome colors

These values are generated by the biome dyeing algorithm.

Biome	Color	Colormap Coordinate	Renders
			Oak Leaves	Jungle Leaves	Acacia Leaves	Dark Oak Leaves	Mangrove Leaves
Badlands	#9E814D	N/A
Eroded Badlands
Wooded Badlands
Cherry Grove	#B6DB61	N/A
Desert	#AEA42A	(0, 255)
Savanna
Savanna Plateau
Windswept Savanna
Nether Wastes
Soul Sand Valley
Crimson Forest
Warped Forest
Basalt Deltas
Stony Peaks	#82AC1E	(0, 178)
Jungle	#30BB0B	(12,36)
Bamboo Jungle
Sparse Jungle	#3EB80F	(12, 61)
Mushroom Fields	#2BBB0F	(25, 25)
Swamp	#6A7039	N/A
Mangrove Swamp	#8DB127	N/A
Plains	#77AB2F	(50, 173)
Sunflower Plains
Beach
Dripstone Caves
Deep Dark
Forest	#59AE30	(76, 112)
Flower Forest
Dark Forest
Pale Garden	#878D76	N/A
Birch Forest	#6BA941	(101, 163)
Old Growth Birch Forest
Ocean	#71A74D	(127, 191)
Deep Ocean
Warm Ocean
Lukewarm Ocean
Deep Lukewarm Ocean
Cold Ocean
Deep Cold Ocean
Deep Frozen Ocean
River
Lush Caves
The End
Small End Islands
End Barrens
End Midlands
End Highlands
The Void
Meadow	#63A948	(127, 152)
Old Growth Pine Taiga	#68A55F	(178, 193)
Taiga	#68A464	(191, 203)
Old Growth Spruce Taiga
Windswept Hills	#6DA36B	(203, 239)
Windswept Gravelly Hills
Windswept Forest
Stony Shore
Snowy Beach	#64A278	(242, 251)
Snowy Plains	#60A17B	(255, 255)
Ice Spikes
Snowy Taiga
Frozen Ocean
Frozen River
Grove
Snowy Slopes
Frozen Peaks
Jagged Peaks

Snowy leaves

Trees in a snowy biome during snowfall in Bedrock Edition

In any biome with a base temperature of below 0.15, all leaves exposed to the sky gradually fade to white once snowfall begins, giving them a frosted appearance for the storm's duration. Cherry, azalea, and flowering azalea leaves are not affected, and the change is entirely invisible to the client if the fancy graphics option is disabled (though it still takes place, and leaves are the correct color phase for the time if the option is reenabled). After snowfall ends, leaves gradually fade back to their normal coloration.

Particles

As of Java Edition 1.21.5 and Bedrock Edition 1.21.70, all types of leaves can emit falling particles.

• 

  Particles falling from cherry leaves

• 

  Particles falling from pale oak leaves

Sounds

Other leaves

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e grass sound type
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
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.grass.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	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
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.grass.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.grass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e grass sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.grass	0.7	0.8–1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	use.grass	0.8	0.8–1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.grass	0.3	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.grass	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.grass	0.3	1.0
	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

Azalea leaves

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e azalea_leaves sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.azalea_leaves.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	0.85	0.8/0.736	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.azalea_leaves.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	0.85	0.8/0.736	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.azalea_leaves.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.2	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.azalea_leaves.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.azalea_leaves.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.1275	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e azalea_leaves sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.azalea_leaves	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.azalea_leaves	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.azalea_leaves	0.249	0.65
	Friendly Creatures	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.azalea_leaves	0.4	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	Walking on the block	step.azalea_leaves	0.3	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	Jumping from the block	step.azalea_leaves	0.12	1.0
	Friendly Creatures	Falling on the block without fall damage	step.azalea_leaves	0.22	1.0

Cherry leaves

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e cherry_leaves sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.cherry_leaves.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.cherry_leaves.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.cherry_leaves.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.2	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.cherry_leaves.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.cherry_leaves.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e cherry_leaves sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	break.cherry_leaves	1.0	1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.cherry_leaves	1.0	1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.cherry_leaves	0.8	1.0
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.cherry_leaves	0.4	1.0
	Blocks	Walking on the block	step.cherry_leaves	0.2	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	step.cherry_leaves	0.12	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	step.cherry_leaves	0.18	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	[hide]Translation key
Oak Leaves	oak_leaves	Block & Item	lava_pool_stone_cannot_replace leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	block.minecraft.oak_leaves
Spruce Leaves	spruce_leaves	Block & Item	lava_pool_stone_cannot_replace leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	block.minecraft.spruce_leaves
Birch Leaves	birch_leaves	Block & Item	lava_pool_stone_cannot_replace leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	block.minecraft.birch_leaves
Jungle Leaves	jungle_leaves	Block & Item	lava_pool_stone_cannot_replace leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	block.minecraft.jungle_leaves
Acacia Leaves	acacia_leaves	Block & Item	lava_pool_stone_cannot_replace leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	block.minecraft.acacia_leaves
Dark Oak Leaves	dark_oak_leaves	Block & Item	lava_pool_stone_cannot_replace leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	block.minecraft.dark_oak_leaves
Mangrove Leaves	mangrove_leaves	Block & Item	lava_pool_stone_cannot_replace leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	block.minecraft.mangrove_leaves
Cherry Leaves	cherry_leaves	Block & Item	lava_pool_stone_cannot_replace leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	block.minecraft.cherry_leaves
Pale Oak Leaves	pale_oak_leaves	Block & Item	lava_pool_stone_cannot_replace leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	block.minecraft.pale_oak_leaves
Azalea Leaves	azalea_leaves	Block & Item	lava_pool_stone_cannot_replace leaves mineable/hoe	leaves	block.minecraft.azalea_leaves
Flowering Azalea Leaves	flowering_azalea_leaves	Block & Item	flowers lava_pool_stone_cannot_replace leaves mineable/hoe	flowers leaves	block.minecraft.flowering_azalea_leaves

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	[hide]Translation key
Oak Leaves	oak_leaves	leaves / 0	18	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.leaves.oak.name
Spruce Leaves	spruce_leaves	leaves / 1	1055	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -800)	tile.leaves.spruce.name
Birch Leaves	birch_leaves	leaves / 2	1056	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -801)	tile.leaves.birch.name
Jungle Leaves	jungle_leaves	leaves / 3	1057	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -802)	tile.leaves.jungle.name
Acacia Leaves	acacia_leaves	leaves2 / 0	161	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.leaves2.acacia.name tile.leaves.acacia.name
Dark Oak Leaves	dark_oak_leaves	leaves2 / 1	1058	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -803)	tile.leaves2.big_oak.name tile.leaves.big_oak.name
Mangrove Leaves	mangrove_leaves	None	727	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -472)	tile.mangrove_leaves.name
Cherry Leaves	cherry_leaves	None	803	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -548)	tile.cherry_leaves.name
Pale Oak Leaves	pale_oak_leaves	None	1262	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -1007)	tile.pale_oak_leaves.name
Azalea Leaves	azalea_leaves	None	579	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -324)	tile.azalea_leaves.name
Flowering Azalea Leaves	azalea_leaves_flowered	None	580	Block & Giveable Item	Identical (Numeric: -325)	tile.azalea_leaves_flowered.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	[hide]Description
distance	7	1 2 3 4 5 6 7	How far away this block is from the nearest log or wood, in taxicab distance.
persistent	false	false true	If the block persists regardless of having no wood nearby. true for player-placed leaves.
waterlogged	false	false true	Whether or not there's water in the same place as this leaves.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	[hide]Description
persistent_bit	Not Supported	false	false true	Unsupported	If the block persists regardless of having no wood nearby.
update_bit	Not Supported	false	false true	Unsupported	If the block checks for nearby wood and decays.

History

[hide]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.
[hide]Java Edition Indev
0.31			20091223-1457				Leaves now produce shadows.
20100218-0011							Leaves now decay.
[hide]Java Edition Infdev
20100227-1414							Leaves no longer decay.
20100325-1545							Leaves now decay again.
20100413-1949							Leaves no longer decay due to the addition of big trees.
20100615							Leaves now decay again.
20100616-1808							Leaves now use an opaque texture and act like opaque solid blocks when the graphics setting is set to "Fast".
							Blocks like torches, doors and ladders can now be placed on leaves with fast graphics.
[hide]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.
v1.2.0			preview				With the addition of biomes, the color of leaves have been changed.
							Leaves no longer decay.
v1.2.1							Leaf breaking particle colors now reflect the biome, instead of the grayscale 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.
[hide]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 spruce and birch leaves, which are colored  #619961 and  #80a755 respectively, and do not vary across biomes.
							Spruce and birch leaves that decay, or are destroyed, drop oak saplings.
1.5							Spruce and birch leaves now drop their respective saplings.
1.6			Test Build 3				Leaves are no longer considered solid with Fast graphics, meaning that certain blocks can no longer be placed on leaves and mobs cannot spawn on top of them.
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				Leaves placed by the player or an enderman no longer decay like normal leaves do.
[hide]Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4				The Silk Touch enchantment can now be used to collect leaves.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6				Silk Touch now preserves the data value of broken leaves rather than always dropping oak. This now includes non-species metadata, allowing for the collection of invalid data value leaves as an item.
			?				Spruce and birch leaves are now available directly in the creative inventory.
1.1			11w48a				Oak leaves now have a 1⁄200 chance of dropping an apple.
1.2.1			12w03a				Added jungle leaves.
							Oak leaves now generate in jungle bushes.
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 during rain.
1.4.6			12w49a				Leaves now always drop the correct data values when collected via Silk Touch, making invalid data value leaves unobtainable in survival from this point onwards.
1.7.2			13w43a				Added acacia and dark oak leaves, which use separate but identical textures to oak leaves.
1.8			14w25a				Jungle leaves now use the texture of oak leaves. This is an issue with the model, as it points to the exact same texture file as oak leaves do, making the jungle leaves texture file unused in this version.
							Leaves now render differently with the "Fast" graphics setting.
							Leaves no longer have distinct texture files for fast and fancy graphics.
			14w25b				Jungle leaves now use their own texture again.
							Leaves now render differently in the "Fast" graphics setting - all transparent regions are set to black instead.
1.11			16w39a				Dark oak 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 changed. This also results in birch, acacia and dark oak leaves having visually distinct textures from oak leaves.
			18w48a				Oak leaves now generate at some meeting points in plains villages.
			19w03a				Placing leaves into the brand-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 a pollen source.
							Endermen now pick up flowering azalea leaves.
			21w16a				Azalea can now be grown into azalea trees, making both types of azalea leaves obtainable in survival.
			Pre-release 1				Endermen no longer pick up flowering azalea leaves.
October 16, 2021							Mangrove leaves were shown at Minecraft Live 2021.
1.19			22w11a				Added mangrove leaves.
			22w12a				Leaves are now waterloggable.
							Mangrove leaves are now compostable.
							Hoes can now mine mangrove leaves faster.
			22w13a				Mangrove leaves now can drop sticks when broken.
			22w14a				Due to the addition of the mangrove tree and mangrove swamp, mangrove leaves were made obtainable and renewable.
			22w15a				The texture of mangrove leaves has changed.
							Mangrove leaves now drop when broken with Silk Touch.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w07a				Added cherry leaves.
			1.19.4 Pre-release 1				Bees now see cherry leaves as flowers.
			1.19.4 Pre-release 4				Updated the texture of cherry leaves.
1.20			23w12a				Cherry leaves are now available without using the "Update 1.20" experimental data pack.
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21			23w45a				Oak leaves can now generate in the entrances of trial chambers.
1.21			24w18a				Mangrove leaves can now generate in the entrances of trial chambers.
September 28, 2024							Pale oak leaves were shown at Minecraft Live 2024.
1.21.2 Experiment Winter Drop			24w40a				Added pale oak leaves.
							Unlike on Minecraft Live, pale oak leaves are not biome colored.
1.21.4			24w44a				Pale oak leaves now emit a falling leaf particle effect.
1.21.5			25w02a				Leaves can now be smelted into leaf litter.
							All leaves now emit falling leaf particles, not just cherry and pale oak.
							Pale oak leaves now have an updated map color.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release							Added oak, spruce, and birch leaves, all of which are tinted with  #339933.
v0.1.0							Added opaque item models for the block and item form of leaves when the graphics setting is not set to "Fancy".
							Added an item model for oak leaves tinted with  #59a53f and an inventory icon.
							Oak Leaves in item form with damage value 1 and 2 use models of spruce and birch leaves, however still place oak leaves.
							Added inventory icon for 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.
							Oak leaves in item form with damage value 1 and 2 no longer use models of spruce and birch leaves.
							The texture of inventory icon for oak leaves has been changed.
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							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.
							The texture of inventory icon for oak leaves has been changed.
v0.3.2							The tints of oak, spruce, and birch leaves, have been changed to  #48b518,  #619961, and  #80a755.
							Added item form for birch and spruce leaves. They uses oak leaves in item form model.
							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.
							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.
v0.4.0							Spruce leaves in item form now have separate pre-tinted textures.
							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.
							The texture of inventory icon for oak leaves has been changed.
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 1				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. Jungle leaves don't have a snowy texture.
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Dark oak leaves now generate in woodland mansions.
[hide]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. Jungle leaves now have a snowy texture.
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.
1.16.220 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			beta 1.16.220.52				Added azalea and flowering azalea leaves behind the "Caves and Cliffs" experimental toggle.
1.17.0 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			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 now available without enabling 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.
1.19.0			Preview 1.19.0.21				Added mangrove leaves.
1.19.10			Preview 1.19.10.22				Renamed Flowered Azalea Leaves to Flowering Azalea Leaves to match Java Edition.
1.19.20			Preview 1.19.20.20				Azalea leaves and flowering azalea leaves can now be destroyed by ravagers.
1.19.80 Experiment Next Major Update			Preview 1.19.80.20				Added cherry leaves.
			Preview 1.19.80.21				Updated the texture of cherry leaves.
1.20.0			Preview 1.20.0.21				Cherry leaves are now available without using the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
1.21.50			Preview 1.21.50.20				Added pale oak leaves.
1.21.60 Experiment Drop 1 2025			Preview 1.21.60.25				All leaves now emit falling leaf particles, not just cherry and pale oak.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	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.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Added acacia and dark oak leaves.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Leaves now generate in woodland mansions.
			1.90				Leaves now have a small chance to drop sticks when decaying.
							The textures of all leaves have been changed.
			1.91				Leaves can now be used to fill up composters.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added leaves.

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  Old leaves texture.

Data history

[hide]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.
[hide]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, but some of which can be obtained through glitches, now have no model rather than appearing identical to either acacia or dark oak wood.
			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 [hide]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 [hide]Description 0 Acacia Leaves 1 Dark Oak Leaves 2-3 Undefined species 4 Acacia Leaves (check decay) 5 Dark Oak Leaves (check decay) 6-7 Undefined species 8 Acacia Leaves (persistent) 9 Dark Oak Leaves (persistent) 10-11 Undefined species 12 Acacia Leaves (persistent, check decay) 13 Dark Oak Leaves (persistent, check decay) 14-15 Undefined species
			14w26a				Placed instances minecraft:leaves2 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 now been split up into their own IDs.
							Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 18 and 161.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.20.70			Preview 1.20.70.20				The different leaf type block states for the leaves and leaves2 IDs have now been split up into their own IDs.

Issues

Issues relating to "Leaves" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Java Edition

• MC-276235 – Minecart clusters float or go backwards after leaving and reentering rails
• MC-155959 – FPS drop when surpassing chunk boundaries while looking at leaves (with a low render distance)
• MC-268190 – Sculk sensors are not activated upon entering / leaving a vault's activation range
• MC-179383 – Leaves not culled with graphics set to Fast
• MC-148095 – Extreme FPS drop when moving in the biomes with lots of leaves
• MC-164594 – Bees can pass through blocks when growing up and leave farms
• MC-218623 – Trees with random spread foliage can generate leaves far enough from the tree trunk that they decay
• MC-223997 – Azalea trees may sometimes generate without leaves on top of the very last logs of the tree
• MC-237102 – Trees can generate with dirt or dirt path instead of leaves
• MC-248277 – Bees can't get pollen from under flower leaves blocks
• And 60 other open issues.

Bedrock Edition

• MCPE-190456 – Mangrove leaves are brighter than Java Edition
• MCPE-190239 – Cherry leaves are brighter than Java Edition
• MCPE-11908 – Some Trees' Leaves/Logs get cut off at chunk borders prior to world generation
• MCPE-44116 – Jungle leaves don't color "fruits" green in item form
• MCPE-110049 – Leaves turn red or pink after update.
• MCPE-145317 – Elytra activates when leaving fly mode in creative
• MCPE-188484 – Player leaves sneaking mode when pausing the game
• MCPE-44218 – Wither Skeletons are afraid to leave the shadows
• MCPE-47846 – Mobs Spawning in Tree Leaves
• MCPE-63528 – Rain no longer drips through leaves
• And 43 other open issues.

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.

Gallery

Renders

Java Edition [show]

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  Oak Leaves

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  Spruce Leaves

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  Birch Leaves

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  Jungle Leaves

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  Acacia Leaves

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  Dark Oak Leaves

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  Mangrove Leaves

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  Cherry Leaves

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  Azalea Leaves

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  Flowering Azalea Leaves

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  Pale Oak Leaves

Bedrock Edition [show]

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  Oak Leaves

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  Spruce Leaves

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  Birch Leaves

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  Jungle Leaves

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  Acacia Leaves

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  Dark Oak Leaves

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  Mangrove Leaves

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  Cherry Leaves

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  Azalea Leaves

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  Flowering Azalea Leaves

Graphics mode is set to "Fast" in Java Edition [show]

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  Oak Leaves

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  Spruce Leaves

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  Birch Leaves

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  Jungle Leaves

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  Acacia Leaves

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  Dark Oak Leaves

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  Mangrove Leaves

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  Cherry Leaves

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  Azalea Leaves

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  Flowering Azalea Leaves

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  Pale Oak Leaves

Graphics mode is set to "Fast" in Bedrock Edition [show]

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  Oak Leaves

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  Spruce Leaves

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  Birch Leaves

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  Jungle Leaves

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  Acacia Leaves

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  Dark Oak Leaves

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  Mangrove Leaves

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  Cherry Leaves

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  Azalea Leaves

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  Flowering Azalea Leaves

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  Pale Oak Leaves

Snowy leaves [show]

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  Oak Leaves

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  Spruce Leaves

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  Birch Leaves

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  Jungle Leaves

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  Acacia Leaves

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  Dark Oak Leaves

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  Mangrove Leaves

Screenshots

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  A timelapse of leaves becoming frosted at the start of snowfall in Bedrock Edition.

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

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  A player in Bedrock Edition grew a cherry tree and went inside of it.

External links

• Block of the Week: Leaves – Minecraft.net on August 18, 2017
• Block of the Month: Cherry Leaves — Minecraft.net on March 8, 2024