Oak

Oak

• Oak
• Fancy Oak
• Swamp Oak

Tree

Tree

Tree

Sapling

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Biomes	Bamboo Jungle (fancy oak) Dark Forest Flower Forest Forest Frozen River Jungle (fancy oak) Meadow Plains River (fancy oak) Savanna Savanna Plateau Sparse Jungle (fancy oak) Sunflower Plains Swamp (swamp oak) Windswept Forest Windswept Savanna Wooded Badlands
Grows on	Dirt Grass Block Coarse Dirt Podzol Mycelium
Fruit	Apple
Generates in existing chunks	Yes
Consists of	Oak Log Oak Leaves Vines (swamp oak, dying trees‌) Bee Nest

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An oak is the most common tree in the game, found in a variety of biomes and available in several variants. It has the smallest initial space requirement for growth, and along with dark oaks, its leaves have a chance to drop an apple. As with birches and cherries, an oak grown near flowers can generate with a bee nest attached.

There are three variants of the oak tree: small regular oaks, tall and branching fancy oaks, and swamp oaks.

Appearance

Oaks come in several variants with different properties:

• Small regular oaks are the most common. The leaves are arranged the same as the birch leaf arrangement.
• Fancy oaks are less common and have a distinct look and different growth requirements. They often have branches, outgrowths of logs on the sides of the trunk, or even freestanding logs surrounded by leaves. The sapling requires 4–14 blocks of open space directly above to grow (air or leaves only) but can otherwise be completely enclosed on all sides.
  • A fancy oak form exists with a single leaf block layer above the minimal 4-block trunk, rarely allowing a tree to grow in a vertical space with a height of only 5, but otherwise, the maximum trunk height is 2 less than the vertical space, making the practical minimum height 6. Branches and outgrowths, however, require 8 blocks of open space directly above the sapling.
  • An oak can be forced into a fancy configuration if a "brace" of non-solid blocks (e.g. glass or slabs) is placed around where the trunk would be, one block off the ground.
  • A rare variant is colloquially known as a "balloon" oak. This is a fancy oak generated with the smallest size possible. It consists of a tall trunk and leaves that form a spherical shape, similar to a balloon. These oaks can grow around an obstructing block. They usually contain 4 blocks of logs, but some may contain more.
• In swamp biomes, naturally occurring swamp oaks tend to grow in the water. Unlike trees in other biomes, which typically have a slightly conical or pointed canopy, all swamp oaks have round, flat-topped canopies. Also unlike oaks, these have a broad range of foliage. They tend to be covered in vines that trail down to the ground.
• Two unique oak with unique leaf arrangements generate in some structures and cannot be grown from saplings:
  • An oak with a unique arrangement of leaves is generated at meeting point 3 in plains villages.
  • A solitary oak can be found at display 1 inside trial chambers.

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  Meeting point 3 in a plains village.

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  Entrance 1 in a trial chamber, which contain display 1.

Generation

The oak variants generate naturally in the following biomes:

Biome	Oak	Fancy Oak	Swamp Oak
Bamboo Jungle	No	Yes	No
Dark Forest	Yes	Yes	No
Flower Forest	Yes	Yes	No
Forest	Yes	Yes	No
Frozen River	Yes	Yes	No
Jungle	No	Yes	No
Meadow	Yes	Yes	No
Plains	Yes	Yes	No
River	Yes	Yes	No
Savanna	Yes	No	No
Savanna Plateau	Yes	No	No
Sparse Jungle	No	Yes	No
Sunflower Plains	Yes	Yes	No
Swamp	No	No	Yes
Windswept Forest	Yes	Yes	No
Windswept Savanna	Yes	No	No
Wooded Badlands	Yes	No	No

Blocks and items

These items can be obtained from all variants of oak:

• Oak Log (harvested with any tool including hands)
• Oak Leaves (harvested with shears)
• Stick (chance of dropping when breaking leaves)
• Oak Planks (created from a log in the inventory crafting grid)
• Stripped Oak Log (created by using an axe on a log)
• Oak Sapling (chance of dropping when breaking leaves)
• Apple (chance of dropping when breaking leaves)
• Bee Nest (if spawned on an oak near flowers)
• Vines (harvested with shears from a swamp oak, or from a dying tree‌)

Planting

Oak saplings can be planted and grown on all of these blocks:

• Dirt
• Grass Block
• Coarse Dirt
• Podzol
• Mycelium
• Rooted Dirt
• Moss Block
• Pale Moss Block
• Farmland
• Mud
• Muddy Mangrove Roots

An oak requires a 1×1 column of unobstructed space at least 4 blocks above its sapling to grow (5 blocks including the sapling itself). Oaks can still grow when the base and trunk are enclosed on all sides. Their growth is not hindered by logs, leaves, dirt, or saplings.

An oak grown from a sapling within 2 blocks of a flower has a 5% chance of having a bee nest containing 2-3 bees.

Other oak variants

Oak trees can generate as one of the two following variants of the normal tree. Both of these generate naturally, and can be grown out of normal saplings.

Fallen oaks

These trees consist of a single upright log or stump. Logs lying on their side are often found 1–2 blocks from the stump. They occasionally have mushrooms on top.

A fallen oak has a log length of 4–7 blocks and the stump is 75% covered with vines.

Dying oaks

The different dying tree types.

Dying oaks retain their standard growth pattern. However, all exposed logs in the main trunk are covered with vines. They can generate as regular or small oaks.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	[hide]Identifier
[No displayed name]	fancy_oak_bees_0002
[No displayed name]	fancy_oak_bees_002
[No displayed name]	fancy_oak_bees_005
[No displayed name]	fancy_oak_bees
[No displayed name]	fancy_oak
[No displayed name]	oak_bees_0002
[No displayed name]	oak_bees_002
[No displayed name]	oak_bees_005
[No displayed name]	oak
[No displayed name]	swamp_oak

History

[hide]Java Edition Classic
0.0.14a							Added trees.
0.0.14a_08							The shape of trees has been changed.
0.0.15a (Multiplayer Test 1)							The shape of trees has been changed.
[hide]Java Edition Indev
0.31			20091223-1457				Lighting changes. Leaves now diffuse skylight, causing the shadows they cast under trees.
			20100109-1939				Lighting changes.
[hide]Java Edition Infdev
20100227-1414							Trees temporarily removed to test basic infinite world functionality.
20100320							Re-added trees to world generation.
20100327							Trees regenerate after the world is reloaded.
20100330							Trees no longer regenerate.
20100413							Added fancy oaks, using parts of Paul Spooner's Forester editor script.
20100420							Fancy oaks can be grown with saplings.
20100607							Reverted back to old tree code.
20100616-1808							Leaves now use opaque texture when "Graphics: Fast" is set in options.
							Trees no longer generate the top layers of logs, instead generating with solid layers of leaves.
20100618							Trees now have logs inside of leaves, once again.
[hide]Java Edition Alpha
v1.2.0			preview				With the addition of biomes, the color of leaves has been changed.
[hide]Java Edition Beta
1.2							Oak trees no longer generate in taigas.
1.3							Added smooth lighting.
1.5							Birch and spruce trees can now be grown using saplings. Old saplings either stayed as oak saplings or became either birch or spruce saplings.
1.8			Pre-release				The swampland biome was added, with a new swamp oak, which is of more uniform size and has vines growing on them. There is no way to grow these trees; oak saplings grow normal oak trees. A bush-shaped variety of oak was removed.
							Lighting changes.
[hide]Java Edition
1.3.2			pre				Fancy oaks now generate with sideways logs.
1.7.2			13w36a				Fancy oaks no longer naturally generate in forest biomes. Jeb explained it was due to issues in the large tree generator code that caused severe performance issues.
							Oaks now generate in several new biomes, such as roofed forest and savanna.
1.8			14w25a				The model of oak leaves when "Graphics: Fast" is set in options has been changed.
			14w25b				The model of oak leaves when "Graphics: Fast" is set in options has been changed, once again.
1.8.2			pre4				Big oak and dark oak branches no longer replace solid blocks.
1.9			15w44a				Fancy oaks now generate in forest biomes again, thanks to an FPS fix provided by Spooner.
1.10			16w20a				Lone oaks can now rarely generate in plains and sunflower plains biomes.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of oak leaves and logs have been changed.
			18w47a				The textures of oak logs have been changed.
			18w47b				The texture of oak log top has been changed, once again.
1.17			21w11a				Changed lighting.
1.18			21w39a				The default brightness has been changed from "Moody" to 50.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release							Added oaks. Their leaves are tinted with  #339933.
v0.1.0							Leaves now use opaque texture when "Graphics: Fast" is set in options.
v0.2.1							Replaced oak logs with spruce logs.
v0.2.1 alpha2							The texture of oak leaves has been changed.
v0.3.2							The tint of oak leaves has been changed to  #48b518.
v0.3.3							Lighting changes.
v0.4.0							Replaced spruce logs with oak logs.
v0.7.0							Added smooth lighting.
v0.8.0			build 1				The textures and models of oak leaves have been changed.
v0.9.0			build 1				Added fancy oaks, swamp oaks, and version-exclusive fallen and dying trees.
							The models of oak leaves now have randomly rotated top textures. The texture of oak leaves is now tinted with biome colors.
							Cold-en oak trees (spruce trees shaped like oak trees) no longer generate.
v0.12.1			build 1				Leaves in snowy biomes now gradually become frost-covered during snowfall.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of oak leaves and logs have been changed.
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.23				Swamp oaks generate slightly more frequently, and no longer generate in direct contact with the ground.
[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 oak trees.

Issues

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

Trivia

• In real life, an oak is any member of the Quercus genus of trees.

Gallery

Renders

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  Oak with Bee Nest

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  Small Fancy Oak

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  Fancy Oak

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  Swamp Oak

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  Oak at meeting point 3 of villages

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  Oak at display 1 of trial chambers

Screenshots

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  Oak trees.

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  Fancy oaks with leaves removed.

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  A balloon oak tree.

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  An oak.

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  A Fancy oak.

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  Wild balloon oak tree.

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  A fallen oak in a village.

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  Two balloon oak and small jungle trees on the border of a jungle.

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  An oak tree loaded after birch and spruce were added.

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  A birch and a balloon oak tree sharing a canopy.

Odd generation

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  A giant oak tree generated in the wrong biome.

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  An oak tree that was generated over a lava pit. The dirt under it was replaced by stone.

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  An unsupported tree.

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  A tree generated next to a lava lake, which caught on fire.

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  A fallen oak with some logs in midair.

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  A fallen oak where most of the logs are lower than the base.

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  An oak with two different leaf colors.

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  A fallen oak where most of the logs are floating directly above a river.

Developer screenshots

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  First image of trees. 0.0.14a development.

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  "Cross-cut" of the tree.

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  Notch posted this image of the new fancy trees with code provided to him by Paul Spooner.

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  Trees damaged by "beavers" according to Jeb.

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  Image from Dinnerbone of a fallen tree in Java Edition.

Old versions

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  Trees in 0.0.14a_08.

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  A tree in 0.0.23a_01.

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  An oak tree that generated on top of an Indev House in Indev 0.31 20100201-2227.

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  Fancy trees as they appeared in Alpha v1.0.6.

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  Fancy trees with leaves removed in Alpha v1.1.2_01.

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  Oaks and birches in Beta 1.4.

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  An oak in Pocket Edition Lite.