Leaf Rake is a cozy Minecraft Fabric mod that turns fallen leaves into something you can actually interact with.
Leaves naturally appear beneath trees, can be gathered with rakes, pushed into physical piles, stored in a Leaf Bag, shaped with a broom, and eventually combined into massive Leaf Mounds that you can jump into.
The goal is to make fallen leaves feel like a natural part of the Minecraft world while keeping the experience simple, relaxing, physical, and close to vanilla.
Leaf litter naturally appears beneath eligible trees and slowly returns over time after being collected.
Natural patches can appear at different densities, helping forests feel scattered and organic instead of being covered by a uniform carpet.
Leaf Rake also adds subtle vanilla-style falling leaf ambience around supported trees.
The Living Ecology system keeps this behavior bounded to loaded areas, allowing leaves to feel alive without relying on permanent entities or per-leaf ticking.
Use rakes to gather fallen leaves and pull them together.
Current rake tiers:
Better rake materials provide a larger working range while keeping the same simple interaction.
Collected leaves form real physical piles instead of disappearing into an abstract counter.
Piles grow through several sizes:
Normal piles can hold up to 64 Leaf Units.
Leaf Units represent the actual amount of leaves in the world and are preserved when leaves are moved, stored, mixed, or transferred.
Large falls can also scatter leaves out of normal piles, creating a more physical and playful interaction with the environment.
Leaf piles can preserve mixed leaf colors through Leaf Rake's Color Identity system.
Bring enough large piles together and they can form much larger Leaf Mounds.
Mounds have multiple growth stages and can hold a large amount of leaf mass.
Jump into them to cushion your fall, sink slightly into the leaves, and move through them with a soft slowdown.
At night, eligible Mounds can also attract subtle fireflies, respecting your client particle settings.
Mounds are designed to feel like something you build naturally through gameplay rather than a block you simply place.
The Broom is used to push, shape, and feed existing leaf piles.
It complements the Rake instead of replacing it:
Rake → pull and gather
Broom → push and shape
The Leaf Bag lets you collect processed leaves and carry them with you.
It can absorb leaves from normal piles and Mounds, then deposit them back into the world later.
The Bag preserves the actual amount and color composition of the leaves inside.
Water can gradually move Leaf Rake leaves.
Flowing and still water behave at different rates, adding another small environmental interaction without turning leaves into permanent ticking entities.
Collected leaves have a few extra uses beyond building piles.
Leaf Bag contents can be fed into vanilla Composters, and leaves can also provide a bounded Campfire Leaf Boost.
These interactions use the same underlying Leaf Unit system, so leaf mass remains meaningful throughout gameplay.
Leaf Rake includes its own advancement progression for discovering and experimenting with its mechanics.
Some challenges are hidden and reward unusual ways of interacting with piles and Mounds.
Leaf Rake includes a custom in-game configuration screen, with optional Mod Menu integration.
Settings cover areas such as natural leaf ecology, Leaf Bag behavior, pile and Mound interactions, water movement, particles, ambience, sounds, and advanced diagnostic options.
Gameplay-authoritative settings are kept separate from client visual preferences.
The configuration screen is available in English and Turkish.
If Jade is installed, Leaf Rake can display useful information such as Leaf Pile mass, capacity, Mound stage, and total Mound leaf mass.
Jade is completely optional and is not required to use Leaf Rake.
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Leaf Rake is currently in public beta.
The core gameplay systems are functional and have gone through extensive automated and manual testing, but balance, natural leaf density, compatibility, and overall game feel may continue to change based on player feedback.
Feedback, bug reports, screenshots, videos, and compatibility reports are especially valuable during this stage.
Minecraft: 26.2
Loader: Fabric
Fabric API: Required
Mod Menu: Optional
Jade: Optional
Official community and feedback links are available through the project page and the official Leaf Rake Discord.
