Oak

Oak

Tree

Tree

Tree

Tree

Tree

Sapling

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Biomes	Bamboo Jungle Dark Forest Flower Forest Forest Jungle Meadow Plains Savanna Savanna Plateau Sparse Jungle Sunflower Plains Swamp Windswept Forest Windswept Savanna Wooded Badlands Windswept Gravelly Hills‌[JE only] Windswept Hills‌[JE only] Unused biomes:‌[BE only] Bamboo Jungle Hills Dark Forest Hills Gravelly Mountains+ Jungle Hills Modified Jungle Modified Jungle Edge Shattered Savanna Plateau Swamp Hills Wooded Hills
Generates in existing chunks	Yes
Consists of	Oak Log Oak Leaves Vines Bee Nest Brown Mushroom Red Mushroom Leaf Litter

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: regular oaks, tall and branching fancy oaks, and swamp oaks which cannot be grown. They can also generate fallen or grow with vines.‌^{[BE only]}

Appearance

Oaks come in several variants with different properties:

• Regular (small) oaks are the most common, with a shape similar to birches.
• Fancy oaks are less common and have a randomized 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. They have round, flat-topped canopies, and are covered in vines that trail down to the ground. Compared to regular oaks, their canopies are 2 blocks wider. They are also generally slightly taller than regular oaks, with their trunks ranging from 5 to 8 blocks tall.
• Abandoned camps generate with oak trees, unlike the oaks from structures, the oak trees generate in random shapes and sizes.
• 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 has a ¹⁄₃ (33.33%) chance to appear as "display 1" inside trial chambers entrances.

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  Meeting point 3 in a plains village
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  Entrance 1 in a trial chamber, which contains display 1

Fancy oaks and regular oaks have a chance to generate with a bee nest and 2-3 bees, which only occurs in regular forests, flower forests, plains, and meadows, where they are guaranteed.

Fallen oaks

Fallen oaks replace regular or fancy oak trees in any biome where they can generate except flower forests, bamboo jungles, and meadows.

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

Oaks with vines

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.

Some regular oaks may be covered with vines on all exposed logs. Oaks grown from saplings also have a chance to be covered with vines.

Generation

The oak variants generate naturally in the following biomes. The list is ordered in density.

Biome	Oak	Fancy Oak	With bee nest	Fallen Oak	Swamp Oak
Forest	Yes	Yes	0.2%‌[JE only] 0.035%‌[BE only]	Yes	No
Wooded Hills‌[BE only]	Yes	Yes	0.035%	Yes	No
Flower Forest	Yes	Yes	2%‌[JE only] 3%‌[BE only]	No	No
Wooded Badlands	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Windswept Forest	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Gravelly Mountains+‌[BE only]	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Dark Forest	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Dark Forest Hills‌[BE only]	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Jungle	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Jungle Hills‌[BE only]	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Modified Jungle‌[BE only]	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Bamboo Jungle	No	Yes	No	No	No
Bamboo Jungle Hills‌[BE only]	No	Yes	No	No	No
Sparse Jungle	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Modified Jungle Edge‌[BE only]	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Swamp	No	No	No	No	Yes
Swamp Hills‌[BE only]	No	No	No	No	Yes
Savanna	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Savanna Plateau	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Windswept Savanna	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Shattered Savanna Plateau‌[BE only]	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Plains	Yes	Yes	5%	Yes	No
Windswept Hills	JE only	JE only	No	JE only	No
Windswept Gravelly Hills	JE only	JE only	No	JE only	No
Sunflower Plains	Yes	Yes	5%	Yes	No
Meadow	Yes	Yes	100%	No	No

In forests, dark forests, and wooded badlands (and variants), all naturally generated oaks spawn leaf litter on the ground below.

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, while the fancy oak variant requires 4-14 blocks above a sapling. 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. They can also grow into oaks with vines.‌^{[BE only]}

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	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

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier
[No displayed name]	fallen_oak_tree_feature
[No displayed name]	fancy_oak_tree_feature
[No displayed name]	fancy_oak_tree_with_leaf_litter_and_optional_beehive
[No displayed name]	oak_tree_feature
[No displayed name]	oak_tree_with_vines_feature
[No displayed name]	swamp_tree_feature

Config

History

Java Edition

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.
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.
20100330-1611							Trees no longer regenerate.
20100413-1951							Added fancy oaks, using parts of Paul Spooner's Forester editor script.[1][2]
20100420							Fancy oaks can be grown with saplings.
20100607							Reverted oaks to how they were before Infdev 20100413-1951.
20100617-1205							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.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.6							Fancy oaks were re-added. They have a 1⁄10 chance to grow in place of a small oak tree, including from saplings.
Java Edition Beta
1.2							Oak trees no longer generate in taigas.
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.
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.[3]
							Oaks now generate in several new biomes, such as roofed forest and savanna.
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.[4]
1.10			16w20a				Lone oaks can now rarely generate in plains and sunflower plains biomes.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
Demo							Added oaks. Their leaves are tinted with  #339933.
v0.2.1							Replaced oak logs with spruce logs.
v0.4.0							Replaced spruce logs with oak logs.
v0.9.0			build 1				Added fancy oaks, swamp oaks, and version-exclusive fallen trees and trees with vines.
							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.
Bedrock Edition
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.23				Swamp oaks generate slightly more frequently, and no longer generate in direct contact with the ground.

Legacy Console Edition

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 (Balloon Oak Tree)
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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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  Fancy oaks in sunflower plains
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  An oak with bee nest in a meadow
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  The smallest possible oak
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  An oak with a bee nest in a flower forest
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  An oak in a savanna plateau on the slope of a mountain
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  A fallen oak in wooded badlands
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  An oak in extreme wooded badlands at the world generation limit
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  Fancy oaks in a bamboo jungle
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  Wild balloon oak tree
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  Oaks and fancy oaks in a dark forest
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  Swamp oaks in the water
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  A lone oak on an island
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  Oaks in the snow in a rather high windswept forest
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  Some oaks in a windswept savanna
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  A swamp oak that generated high on the border of a windswept savanna
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  A fallen oak in a forest next to a "double" oak
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  Some oaks deeper down in a ravine
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  Oak trees with vines next to a cherry grove
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  A fancy oak generated in a cave
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  A tree generated next to a lava lake, which caught on fire
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  Fancy oaks with leaves removed
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  Some oaks in the unused gravelly mountains+ biome

Historical screenshots

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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 a Starting 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
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  A fallen oak in a village

Development screenshots

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  First image of trees
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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

In other media

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