Minecraft:Birch Leaves

Template:Infobox block Birch leaves are evergreen Minecraft:leaves that form the canopy of Minecraft:birch trees.

Obtaining

Breaking

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

Without shears, birch leaves can drop 1 Minecraft:birch sapling, and 1—2 Minecraft:sticks. Minecraft:Fortune increases the chances.

Drop	No Fortune	Fortune I	Fortune II	Fortune III
Template:BlockLink	5% (Template:Frac)	6.25% (Template:Frac)	8.33% (Template:Frac	10% (Template:Frac)
1-2 Template:ItemLink	2% (Template:Frac)	2.22% (Template:Frac)	2.5% (Template:Frac)	3.33% (Template:Frac)

Natural generation

Birch leaves occur naturally on Minecraft:birch trees throughout the Minecraft:Overworld. They can also generate as part of Minecraft:abandoned camps in Minecraft:birch forests, Minecraft:flower forests and Minecraft:forests.

Post-generation

Template:See also Birch leaves generate as part of birch trees grown from Minecraft:birch saplings.

Usage

Template:Main Birch leaves that decay have the same drop chances as when broken by players, yielding Minecraft:birch saplings 5% (Template:Frac) of the time, Minecraft:sticks 2% of the time, and otherwise nothing. Leaves that are burned do not yield saplings.

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.

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

Birch 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.

Color

File:Birch (colormap).png

birch.png colormap

Unlike most other leaves, the color of birch leaves does not change with the Minecraft:biome they are placed in, but always stays green. The texture is always colored with Template:Color.

Template:IN, this color is picked from a colormap which allows biome tinting, though the color is the same in every biome.

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, birch 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. 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

Birch leaves produce falling leaves Minecraft:particles underneath the leaf block, where they slowly fall to the ground. Their color corresponds to the leaves block they fall from, which can change during snowfall.Template:Only

Data values

ID

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Block states

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History

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 saplings without being destroyed due to creation of leaf blocks not supported by logs.

Gallery

Renders

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