Minecraft:Leaves

Template:For Template:Infobox block Leaves are transparent Minecraft:blocks that generate as part of Minecraft:trees and are sources of their respective Minecraft:saplings. They dissipate over time when not attached to Minecraft:logs, but persist when placed by Minecraft:players. Falling-leaf Minecraft:particles occasionally drop from leaves.

Obtaining

Breaking

Template:See alsoHoes are the default tools for breaking leaves, but leaves can be obtained only with Minecraft:shears or tools Minecraft:enchanted with Minecraft:Silk Touch.

Drop	Source	No Fortune	Fortune I	Fortune II	Fortune III
Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockSprite Jungle Leaves	2.5% (Template:Frac)	2.78% (Template:Frac)	3.125% (Template:Frac)	4.17% (Template:Frac)
Template:BlockLink or other Template:BlockLink	Template:BlockSprite Azalea Leaves or other Template:BlockSprite Leaves	5% (Template:Frac)	6.25% (Template:Frac)	8.33% (Template:Frac	10% (Template:Frac)
1-2 Template:ItemLink	Template:BlockSprite All Leaves	2% (Template:Frac)	2.22% (Template:Frac)	2.5% (Template:Frac)	3.33% (Template:Frac)
Template:ItemLink	Template:BlockSprite Oak and Template:BlockSprite Dark Oak Leaves	0.5% (Template:Frac)	0.556% (Template:Frac)	0.625% (Template:Frac)	0.833% (Template:Frac)

Natural generation

Each type of leaves occurs naturally on their respective type of Minecraft:trees throughout the Minecraft:Overworld. In addition to this:

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Oak leaves generate as part of:

• Minecraft:Jungle bushes
• Plains Minecraft:villages
• Minecraft:Trial chambers
• Minecraft:Abandoned campsTemplate:Upcoming

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Dark oak leaves generate as part of Minecraft:woodland mansions.

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Birch leaves generate as part of Minecraft:abandoned camps in Minecraft:birch forests, Minecraft:flower forests and Minecraft:forests.Template:Upcoming

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Jungle leaves generate as part of Minecraft:abandoned camps in bamboo jungles.Template:Upcoming

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Mangrove leaves generate as part of Minecraft:trial chambers.

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Cherry leaves generate as part of Minecraft:abandoned camps in cherry groves.Template:Upcoming

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Pale oak leaves generate as part of Minecraft:abandoned camps in pale gardens.Template:Upcoming

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Poplar leaves generate as part of Minecraft:abandoned camps in dappled forests.Template:Upcoming

Post-generation

Template:See also Leaves generate as part of trees grown from Minecraft:saplings, Minecraft:azaleas, or Minecraft:mangrove propagules.

Usage

Leaves from trees spontaneously decay (disappear) when they receive a block tick if they are not connected to any Minecraft:log or Minecraft:wood blocks, stripped or otherwise, either directly or via other leaf blocks, with a maximum distance of 6 blocksTemplate:Only or 4 blocksTemplate:Only. Template:IN, this is determined using the Template:Cd Minecraft:block tag, whereas Template:In, the list of blocks is hardcoded. The distance is taxicab distance, but can cross corners. Leaves placed by players never decay. Bamboo does not count as a log for this purpose.

Leaves that decay, or are destroyed without using Minecraft:Silk Touch or Minecraft:shears, yield Minecraft:saplings 5% (Template:Frac) of the time, sticks 2% of the time, and otherwise nothing. Jungle leaves drop saplings 2.5% (Template:Frac) of the time. Oak and dark oak leaves also have a separate but additional 0.5% (Template:Frac) chance of dropping an Minecraft:apple, making it extremely rare but possible for a single leaf to drop a sapling, a stick and an apple at the same time. Rates are increased by the Minecraft:Fortune enchantment. Leaves that are burned do not yield saplings or apples.

Oak, jungle, acacia, dark oak, and mangrove leaves take on a different shade of green depending on the Minecraft:biome in which they are placed.

Leaves are always Minecraft:transparent to Minecraft:light but cannot be seen through when the Minecraft:graphics is set to "Fast" or fancy leaves are turned off; the transparent regions are instead dark green. Leaves that are entirely surrounded by full blocks also render opaque in Bedrock Edition. They diffuse sky light, causing the shadows they cast under trees.

Leaf blocks can be waterlogged although they are full blocks. Water does not spread outTemplate:Only, and waterlogged leaves follow the same rules as any other waterlogged block. When Minecraft:concrete powder is placed on any side of the waterlogged leaves it turns into Minecraft:concrete, and the leaf block remains waterlogged.

Although leaves behave as solid blocks by preventing entities from moving through them, they also behave as non-solid, in that leaves do not prevent chests from opening.

Applying Minecraft:bone meal to mangrove leaves with a space beneath produces a hanging Minecraft:mangrove propagule with age=0.

Redstone component

Template:Exclusive The state of a leaves block—including a player-placed block—changes after 1 game tick (half a redstone tick) when the distance to the nearest Minecraft:log or Minecraft:wood block changes, up to 6 blocks of leaves away. Minecraft:Observers facing away from the leaves detect this change and transmit a redstone signal in the same game tick, making leaves useful for redstone signal transmission. This has been called "Leafstone" by the Minecraft community.

Piston interactivity

Leaves are destroyed when pushed by Minecraft:pistons. They do not stick to Minecraft:sticky pistons, Minecraft:slime blocks, or Minecraft:honey blocks.

Composting

Most types of leaves have a 30% chance of increasing the compost level in a Minecraft:composter by 1. A stack of leaves yields an average of 3.05 Minecraft:bone meal. The exception are flowering azalea leaves, which have a 50% chance of increasing the compost level (a stack of those yields 4.92 pieces of bone meal on average).

Bees

Flowering azaleas leaves and cherry leaves function like any other Minecraft:flowers in their interaction and uses with Minecraft:bees.

Bee nests

Minecraft:Oak, Minecraft:birch, and Minecraft:cherry trees grown from Minecraft:saplings that are within 2 blocks of flowering azalea leaves or cherry leaves have a 5% chance to grow with Minecraft:bee nest and 2-3 bees in it.

Color

• In the inventory, Template:BlockSprite oak, Template:BlockSprite jungle, Template:BlockSprite acacia, and Template:BlockSprite dark oak leaves are colored Template:Color in Java Edition, or use pre-colored textures in Bedrock Edition.
• In the inventory, Template:BlockSprite mangrove leaves are colored Template:Color in Java Edition, or use pre-colored textures in Bedrock Edition..
• Template:BlockSprite Spruce leaves are colored Template:Color, and are not affected by biome or inventory color.<ref name="MC-3930">Template:Cite bug</ref>
• Template:BlockSprite Birch leaves are colored Template:Color, and are not affected by biome or inventory color.<ref name="MC-3930"/>
• Template:BlockSprite Azalea, Template:BlockSprite flowering azalea, Template:BlockSprite cherry, Template:BlockSprite pale oak, and Template:BlockSprite poplar leaves are not colored.

Biome colors

These values are generated by the biome dyeing algorithm. Template:IN, biome colors also appear on Minecraft:maps.

Snowy leaves

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Trees in a snowy biome during snowfall in Bedrock Edition

In any biome with a base temperature of below 0.15, all biome-tinted leaves gradually fade to white once Minecraft:snowfall begins, giving them a frosted appearance for the storm's duration. During transition, the white color is blended with the regular color in eight steps. After snowfall ends, leaves gradually fade back to their normal coloration.

This does not affect leaves in biomes with a higher base temperature, even at altitudes that allow snowfall. Cherry, azalea, flowering azalea, pale oak, and poplar leaves are not affected as their colors are based on the texture instead of colormaps.<ref>Template:Bug</ref><ref>Template:Bug</ref> The change is entirely invisible to the client if the graphics mode is set to Simple, though it still takes place, and leaves are the correct color phase for the time if the option is re-enabled.

Particles

All types of leaves (except spruceTemplate:Upcoming) have their own falling leaves particle which are produced underneath the leaf block, where they slowly fall to the ground.

Leaf particles from biome-tinted leaves have the same color as the leaves they're falling from, which can change with the biome or during snowfall.Template:Only Cherry, pale oak, and all poplar leaves have pre-colored textures, azalea leaves use a hard-coded color.Template:Info needed

• Particles falling from cherry leaves
  Particles falling from cherry leaves
• Particles falling from pale oak leaves
  Particles falling from pale oak leaves

Ambient sounds

Template:In development Poplar leaves occasionally emit ambient sounds when they are surrounded by a non-stripped Minecraft:log of any kind and 3 poplar leaves of the same color in all 4 horizontal directions.

• Requirements for the central red poplar leaves to emit ambient sounds
  Requirements for the central red poplar leaves to emit ambient sounds

Sounds

Poplar leaves

Generic

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Template:BlockSprite poplar_leaves Minecraft:sound type

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Unique

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Data values

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Block states

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History

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

• Old leaves texture.
  Old leaves texture.

Trivia

• Occasionally, leaves grow through other blocks, acting as though they are still connected to the tree. They may also completely replace blocks they try to grow into.
• Some trees seem to occasionally drop apples or saplings without being destroyed due to creation of leaf blocks not supported by logs.

Gallery

Renders

• Oak Leaves
  Oak Leaves
• Spruce Leaves
  Spruce Leaves
• Birch Leaves
  Birch Leaves
• Jungle Leaves
  Jungle Leaves
• Acacia Leaves
  Acacia Leaves
• Dark Oak Leaves
  Dark Oak Leaves
• Mangrove Leaves
  Mangrove Leaves
• Cherry Leaves
  Cherry Leaves
• Azalea Leaves
  Azalea Leaves
• Flowering Azalea Leaves
  Flowering Azalea Leaves
• Pale Oak Leaves
  Pale Oak Leaves

• Oak Leaves
  Oak Leaves
• Spruce Leaves
  Spruce Leaves
• Birch Leaves
  Birch Leaves
• Jungle Leaves
  Jungle Leaves
• Acacia Leaves
  Acacia Leaves
• Dark Oak Leaves
  Dark Oak Leaves
• Mangrove Leaves
  Mangrove Leaves
• Cherry Leaves
  Cherry Leaves
• Azalea Leaves
  Azalea Leaves
• Flowering Azalea Leaves
  Flowering Azalea Leaves
• Pale Oak Leaves
  Pale Oak Leaves

Snowy leaves

• Oak Leaves
  Oak Leaves
• Spruce Leaves
  Spruce Leaves
• Birch Leaves
  Birch Leaves
• Jungle Leaves
  Jungle Leaves
• Acacia Leaves
  Acacia Leaves
• Dark Oak Leaves
  Dark Oak Leaves
• Mangrove Leaves
  Mangrove Leaves

Screenshots

• A timelapse of leaves becoming frosted at the start of snowfall Template:In
  A timelapse of leaves becoming frosted at the start of snowfall Template:In
• A Minecraft:red mushroom growing on the top of leaves
  A Minecraft:red mushroom growing on the top of leaves
• A player in Bedrock Edition grew a Minecraft:cherry tree and went inside of it.
  A player in Bedrock Edition grew a Minecraft:cherry tree and went inside of it.

In other media

• Leaves in Template:Amcm.
  Leaves in Template:Amcm.

External links

• Block of the Week: Leaves – Minecraft.net on August 18, 2017
• Block of the Month: Cherry Leaves — Minecraft.net on March 8, 2024