So coming back to Minecraft after a few months (since an update completely broke a world I'd done a lot of work in...) and I've built a rudimentary tree farm in preparation of major building.
Only I've got an anomaly I haven't seen before:
I have layered rows, one directly atop the others, with a 6-block vertical gap to limit growth to small trees.
If not obvious from the picture, the tree below is growing through the dirt block 7 blocks above it. I read in the wiki that branches and leaves sometimes grow through non-solids, but this is the trunk growing through as a solid. Is this normal? A bug? The wiki doesn't seem to point out this behavior at all.
P.S. Oh, and the funny part is that the torches that were on the side of the dirt block are now on the side of the wood. The dirt block is literally just replaced by wood.
Trees do this all the time. In the update we are playing right now, you can use Dark Oak Saplings to destroy bedrock:
So a bug, then? I can't imagine they intentionally wanted to destroy bedrock...
I really wish they'd freeze development of this game someplace and give people a cleaner choice to stick with old versions. Ever since pre-release 1.6 it feels like updates just keep moving farther and farther away from the game I liked and bought. I've lost count of the number of worlds that have broken, huge mob traps that have been made obsolete, and now even my tree farm is breaking...
I really wish they'd freeze development of this game someplace and give people a cleaner choice to stick with old versions. Ever since pre-release 1.6 it feels like updates just keep moving farther and farther away from the game I liked and bought.
(You know you're able to select any version you want from the current launcher, yes?)
This is very normal, it's used alot for apple farms.
So there's no way to force-limit the height of trees like in the old farms? Used to be you'd just give them 6 blocks worth of growth room and you could more easily farm.
Well... stick with an older version!
The Minecraft launcher is able to download a lot of different versions of Minecraft. If you want to play an older version, just create a new profile in teh launcher and select yourpreferred version.
Ah, sweet. Didn't realize that ability was added.
I'll probably go all the way back to Beta 1.6, before they screwed passive mob farming. The best part was building traps for them!
Just too bad I'll lose all the more recent blocks and building mechanics. Would be nice if they separated such things into addons so you could pick and choose. I always enjoyed combining form and function; huge mansions built around even larger mob traps. Just can't get the best of all worlds, I guess.
So there's no way to force-limit the height of trees like in the old farms? Used to be you'd just give them 6 blocks worth of growth room and you could more easily farm.
Sure there is. Just use a block that isn't dirt, or a tree that isn't oak. Oak trees are the only tree that can grow through things other than their own leaves, and the only things they can grow through are leaves of any kind, oak wood, and dirt.
I think that's right, anyway. Been a while since I checked. I do know that glass blocks, 8 blocks off the ground, will make perfect, uniform, 5-tall birch trees, every time.
I occasionally build a four block tall cobblestone pillar next to saplings to try and force a large oak tree to grow. This usually gets that to happen (with a lot of time and/or bonemeal). Every so often, you get a smaller tree (but not the normal type), and there's a small chance within that happening that I've seen the top block of that cobblestone pillar destroyed/replaced by leaves.
Sure there is. Just use a block that isn't dirt, or a tree that isn't oak. Oak trees are the only tree that can grow through things other than their own leaves, and the only things they can grow through are leaves of any kind, oak wood, and dirt.
I think that's right, anyway. Been a while since I checked. I do know that glass blocks, 8 blocks off the ground, will make perfect, uniform, 5-tall birch trees, every time.
You should add this to the wiki. From what the other guy said above it sounds like it could even grow through bedrock. But that aside, this would be good to have in the wiki for those who ran into this problem like me.
But it's a non-issue for me now. I've gone back to Beta 1.7.
Only I've got an anomaly I haven't seen before:
I have layered rows, one directly atop the others, with a 6-block vertical gap to limit growth to small trees.
If not obvious from the picture, the tree below is growing through the dirt block 7 blocks above it. I read in the wiki that branches and leaves sometimes grow through non-solids, but this is the trunk growing through as a solid. Is this normal? A bug? The wiki doesn't seem to point out this behavior at all.
P.S. Oh, and the funny part is that the torches that were on the side of the dirt block are now on the side of the wood. The dirt block is literally just replaced by wood.
Been playing Minecraft for too long.
So a bug, then? I can't imagine they intentionally wanted to destroy bedrock...
I really wish they'd freeze development of this game someplace and give people a cleaner choice to stick with old versions. Ever since pre-release 1.6 it feels like updates just keep moving farther and farther away from the game I liked and bought. I've lost count of the number of worlds that have broken, huge mob traps that have been made obsolete, and now even my tree farm is breaking...
(You know you're able to select any version you want from the current launcher, yes?)
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You think magic isn't real? Consider this: for every person, there is a sentence -- a series of words -- which has the power to destroy them.
So there's no way to force-limit the height of trees like in the old farms? Used to be you'd just give them 6 blocks worth of growth room and you could more easily farm.
Ah, sweet. Didn't realize that ability was added.
I'll probably go all the way back to Beta 1.6, before they screwed passive mob farming. The best part was building traps for them!
Just too bad I'll lose all the more recent blocks and building mechanics. Would be nice if they separated such things into addons so you could pick and choose. I always enjoyed combining form and function; huge mansions built around even larger mob traps. Just can't get the best of all worlds, I guess.
Sure there is. Just use a block that isn't dirt, or a tree that isn't oak. Oak trees are the only tree that can grow through things other than their own leaves, and the only things they can grow through are leaves of any kind, oak wood, and dirt.
I think that's right, anyway. Been a while since I checked. I do know that glass blocks, 8 blocks off the ground, will make perfect, uniform, 5-tall birch trees, every time.
Village Mechanics: A not-so-brief guide - Update 2017! Now with 1.8 breeding mechanics! Long-overdue trading info, coming soon!
You think magic isn't real? Consider this: for every person, there is a sentence -- a series of words -- which has the power to destroy them.
You should add this to the wiki. From what the other guy said above it sounds like it could even grow through bedrock. But that aside, this would be good to have in the wiki for those who ran into this problem like me.
But it's a non-issue for me now. I've gone back to Beta 1.7.
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