Minecraft:Birch

Template:Infobox structure A birch is a Minecraft:tree with a single log and canopy and a light bark. It is most commonly found in Minecraft:birch forest biomes and regular forests, and can generate fallen or with a bee nest. Super birches are tall birch trees found only in Minecraft:old growth birch forest and Minecraft: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 Minecraft:forest, Minecraft:birch forest, and Minecraft:dark forest biomes.
• A taller, rare tree that can only be found in Minecraft: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 Minecraft:bee nest and 2-3 Minecraft: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 Minecraft:vines.

Generation

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Birches in the birch forest

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

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

Planting

Birch Minecraft:saplings can be planted on:

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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

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History

Gallery

Screenshots

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