Birch

Birch

Tree

Sapling

Biomes	Birch Forest Old Growth Birch Forest Dark Forest Forest Flower Forest Meadow Birch Forest Hills‌[BE only] Tall Birch Hills‌[BE only] Dark Forest Hills‌[BE only] Wooded Hills‌[BE only]
Generates in existing chunks	Yes
Consists of	Birch Log Birch Leaves Bee Nest Brown Mushroom Red Mushroom Leaf Litter

A birch is a tree with a single log and canopy and a light bark. It is most commonly found in birch forest biomes and regular forests, and can generate fallen or with a bee nest. Super birches are tall birch trees found only in old growth birch forest and meadow biomes and cannot be grown with saplings.

Appearance

Birches come in two different variants:

• Shorter birches can be grown by the player using birch saplings and are found in forest, birch forest, and dark forest biomes.
• A taller, rare tree that can only be found in old growth birch forests and rarely in meadows.

Birches that are grown from saplings grow to be 5 to 7 blocks tall, while birches in the old growth birch forest biome can generate with trunks up to 13 blocks in height.

Birches have a chance to generate with a bee nest and 2-3 bees, which is more common in flower forests, guaranteed in meadows, and impossible in dark forests.

Fallen birches

Fallen birches replace regular or super birch trees in any biome where they can generate.

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

A fallen birch has a log length of 5–8 blocks. A fallen super birch has a log length of 5–15 blocks. The stump is never covered in vines.

Generation

The birch variants spawn naturally in the indicated biomes, ordered by density.

Biome	Birch	Super Birch	With bee nest	Fallen Birch
Birch Forest	Yes	No	0.2%‌[JE only] 0.035%‌[BE only]	Yes
Birch Forest Hills‌[BE only]	Yes	No	0.035%	Yes
Old Growth Birch Forest	Yes	Yes	0.2%‌[JE only] 0.035%‌[BE only]	Yes
Tall Birch Hills‌[BE only]	Yes	Yes	0.035%	Yes
Dark Forest	Yes	No	No	Yes
Dark Forest Hills‌[BE only]	Yes	No	No	Yes
Forest	Yes	No	0.2%‌[JE only] 0.035%‌[BE only]	Yes
Wooded Hills‌[BE only]	Yes	No	0.035%	Yes
Flower Forest	Yes	No	2%‌[JE only] 3%‌[BE only]	Yes
Meadow	No	Yes	100%	No

Any type of birch tree naturally generated in forests and dark forests (and variants) places leaf litter on the ground.

Planting

Birch saplings can be planted on:

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

Only normal birches can be grown from saplings. Tall birches only generate naturally in the world.

Birches require a 3×3 column of unobstructed space at least 6 blocks above the sapling to grow (7 blocks including the sapling itself). Additionally, birches require 5×5 layers without obstruction for the top 3 layers of its final height. No horizontal clearance is needed at the base of the tree (a sapling planted in a hole 1 block deep can still grow).

A birch grown from a sapling and within 2 blocks of a flower has a 5% chance of having a bee nest containing 2–3 bees.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier
[No displayed name]	birch_bees_0002
[No displayed name]	birch_bees_002
[No displayed name]	birch_bees_005
[No displayed name]	birch
[No displayed name]	super_birch_bees_0002
[No displayed name]	super_birch_bees

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier
[No displayed name]	birch_tree_feature
[No displayed name]	fallen_birch_tree_feature
[No displayed name]	fallen_super_birch_tree_feature
[No displayed name]	super_birch_tree_feature

Config

History

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

Issues

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

Gallery

Screenshots

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  Birches in a dark forest
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  Birches in the snow near a windswept forest
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  A fallen birch
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  A super birch with bee nest in a meadow
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  Super birches in an old growth birch forest
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  A birch with a bee nest
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  Some birches in a flower forest
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  The longest possible fallen super birch
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  A group of birches in a forest
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  A lone birch tree in a cavern.