Tree farm

About this farm

A tree farm is a build that produces wood, the most important resource in Minecraft. The manual version is simply a tree plantation with the right spacing (2 blocks between saplings). The automatic version uses TNT or pistons to cut the trees down once an observer detects that they've grown. The most advanced version destroys the trees with a TNT duper and collects the wood with hoppers. A birch tree farm is the easiest to automate: birches have a fixed size (5-7 blocks tall) and don't grow large crowns. Oak trees can grow into giant versions, which makes automation harder.

Key features

• Wood, the most important resource in the game
• Birches have a fixed size, so they're easy to automate
• The TNT version destroys whole trees instantly
• Also gives saplings, apples (oak) and sticks
• Scalable: add more modules

Required materials

Tips and tricks

1. Birches (5-7 blocks, no branches) are the best type to automate.
2. 2 blocks of space between saplings = optimal growth.
3. Bone meal speeds up sapling growth: hook up a dispenser.
4. Leaves decay on their own once the logs are gone, dropping saplings and apples.
5. Oak trees can grow into giant variants: prevent that with a ceiling 8 blocks up.

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