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on one hand i support because i hate replanting trees I like to just cut and go.
on the other hand it would make a cluttered mess.
find a way to fix the clutter and you have a keeper but other than that I love the idea
Fixing clutter is easy. Besides making it a small chance each tick for it to plant, you can make it check if there is an already planted sapling within 5 blocks or something. If there is, it won't plant.
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im sorry, but im going to necro the hell out of this thread here. The stupidity of the people here astound me. how the hell do you think forests are grown in nature? "saplings dont plant themselves" wth. thats the most ignorant statement ive ever heard. Saplings DO plan themselves, they DO germinate themselves, and they DO grow near to their parent trees. there is a very small amount of trees that do this in relation to the vast amounts of seeds that are actually generated though. yes, many seeds require an animal or the wind to carry themselves farther away from the parent tree before planting, but that animal/wind do not actually make the seed plant.
now, that rant over,
this would be a great idea, but each sapling dropped would have to have a relatively low chance of planting, and a random amount of time before it actually plants, to make it more realistic. There would have to be a minimum amount of time before it plants, and most plants probably wouldn't make it. in order to code this, it would be quite hard to do. considering in nature trees drop hundreds of seeds, and most trees only drop 1-2, the ratio would be very high, or maybe only 1 out of say 100 trees would auto-generate.
Well, in real life trees don't drop saplings do they? They drop seeds.
I don't like this because it automates a very simple thing to do.
Well, in real life trees don't drop saplings do they? They drop seeds.
I don't like this because it automates a very simple thing to do.
1. What you're saying about the seeds is what I meant when I mentioned seeds in my post. Leaves should still drop saplings, though, as having two seed items would be confusing and the sapling block indicates where trees have been planted (you wouldn't be able to see the seeds in the ground very easily, and planting seeds and a sapling popping up immediatley and breaking a sapling and getting seeds back would just be weird).
2. If planting the saplings that drop from cut down trees is so hard, then why do so many people on servers never bother to do so?
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Compare this to real life.Do you think that oak trees replant themselves when an acorn has fallen from the tree instantly.NO.They neeed to be planted someway.People these days.
Uhhhh... seriously? How did oaks survive before people could plant them? Most plants are designed to leave seeds that will take root by themselves at least some of the time. I think that saplings taking root by themselves is a really handy idea that reflects the way the real world works, assuming the mechanic wouldn't be that /all/ saplings take root.
Yeah sorry, I agree with most people here, this should definitely not be included, because it would make the game very unrealistic. If you are really lazy, you can just install a mod that will do this. There are mods like this already.
Uhhhh... seriously? How did oaks survive before people could plant them? Most plants are designed to leave seeds that will take root by themselves at least some of the time. I think that saplings taking root by themselves is a really handy idea that reflects the way the real world works, assuming the mechanic wouldn't be that /all/ saplings take root.
Actually, many species of plants (oaks included) depend upon animals to plant their seeds. For oaks, it's squirrels, who collect up acorns and bury them for later consumption. Inevitably, the squirrel forgets a few (or is itself eaten before it can dig them back up) and they sprout. There's a kind of tree native to Mauritius, the youngest specimens of which are over 300 years old, because their seeds could only sprout after going through the digestive tract of dodo bird, which went extinct about 300 years ago. And chili peppers are painfully hot to mammal taste buds but sweet and delicious to birds, because birds can fly and distribute their seed-laden droppings farther. So it's not at all "unrealistic" to require some kind of mob to intervene to plant a tree.
However, that said, it's also true that there are lots of tree species whose seeds sprout just fine whenever they land on suitable soil. They may have fluffy parachutes or those little helicopter-wings, so that the wind will carry them far and wide. Birch, maple, poplar, and many conifers do this. So self-planting seeds are also perfectly defensible from a realism perspective.
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Haha, I've heard of the squirrel thing. Do oaks really /depend/ on squirrels? I thought that was an alternate way they were planted. If I'm wrong, my mistake.
But that aside, the latter part of your post was what I was getting at.
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Curse PremiumWell, in real life trees don't drop saplings do they? They drop seeds.
I don't like this because it automates a very simple thing to do.
1. What you're saying about the seeds is what I meant when I mentioned seeds in my post. Leaves should still drop saplings, though, as having two seed items would be confusing and the sapling block indicates where trees have been planted (you wouldn't be able to see the seeds in the ground very easily, and planting seeds and a sapling popping up immediatley and breaking a sapling and getting seeds back would just be weird).
2. If planting the saplings that drop from cut down trees is so hard, then why do so many people on servers never bother to do so?
I usually have a neutral/undecided standpoint on things. And yes, I am part Swiss.
Uhhhh... seriously? How did oaks survive before people could plant them? Most plants are designed to leave seeds that will take root by themselves at least some of the time. I think that saplings taking root by themselves is a really handy idea that reflects the way the real world works, assuming the mechanic wouldn't be that /all/ saplings take root.
Actually, many species of plants (oaks included) depend upon animals to plant their seeds. For oaks, it's squirrels, who collect up acorns and bury them for later consumption. Inevitably, the squirrel forgets a few (or is itself eaten before it can dig them back up) and they sprout. There's a kind of tree native to Mauritius, the youngest specimens of which are over 300 years old, because their seeds could only sprout after going through the digestive tract of dodo bird, which went extinct about 300 years ago. And chili peppers are painfully hot to mammal taste buds but sweet and delicious to birds, because birds can fly and distribute their seed-laden droppings farther. So it's not at all "unrealistic" to require some kind of mob to intervene to plant a tree.
However, that said, it's also true that there are lots of tree species whose seeds sprout just fine whenever they land on suitable soil. They may have fluffy parachutes or those little helicopter-wings, so that the wind will carry them far and wide. Birch, maple, poplar, and many conifers do this. So self-planting seeds are also perfectly defensible from a realism perspective.
Haha, I've heard of the squirrel thing. Do oaks really /depend/ on squirrels? I thought that was an alternate way they were planted. If I'm wrong, my mistake.
But that aside, the latter part of your post was what I was getting at.
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