Auto-Plant Saplings Addon

Chopping down entire forests for wood in Minecraft always leaves a massive mess, and honestly, nobody actually takes the time to replant every single sapling manually. Over time, you just end up with completely bald patches of dirt and ugly, stripped biomes right around your base. The Auto Plant Saplings addon fixes this annoying loop by letting the environment take care of itself.

When you chop trees or leaves decay naturally, any saplings that drop onto grass, dirt, or moss blocks will automatically plant themselves back into the ground after sitting there for a bit. Instead of just floating as item entities until they despawn and go to waste, they turn back into actual growing trees on their own. This changes how you gather wood, especially for huge charcoal setups or massive building projects where you need chests full of logs. You can just clear-cut an entire forest, grab your wood, and walk away knowing the trees will regrow without any extra clicking on your part.



What makes this specific Bedrock behavior pack an absolute must-have for long-term SMPs is how flawlessly it blends into standard vanilla mechanics. It works natively with every single wood type—oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak—and even intelligently handles mangrove propagules on mud and clay. The underlying scripting is seriously smart, ensuring it won't try to plant a random tree on solid stone or inside your meticulously decorated house. Plus, if you have admin privileges, you can completely customize the behavior by pulling up a clean in-game UI to adjust the planting delay timer anywhere from five up to sixty seconds. Need to snatch up some extra saplings for your composter before they take root? Just bump the timer up. It even throws in some crisp grass placement sounds and green growth particles to give you that satisfying audio-visual feedback when a forest starts regenerating naturally behind you.

The functionality doesn't just stop at the Overworld boundaries, either. If you are grinding out massive crimson or warped wood farms deep in the Nether, you can easily toggle on fungi support right from the settings panel to automate your hellish lumberjack runs. Bringing this add-on into a populated multiplayer Realm totally changes the server dynamic for the better. Your community spawn area won't look like a heavily deforested apocalyptic nightmare just because lazy players refuse to replant what they chop down. And before you start worrying about performance—no, this won't fry your server's tick rate. The backend optimization is incredibly slick, only scanning for fully settled items on a short interval, meaning it stays completely lightweight even when hundreds of leaf blocks are decaying simultaneously across multiple active chunks

Since the mod relies on tracking dropped item entities on the floor, you just need to enable experimental gameplay toggles in your world settings before loading in. The script is super lightweight, so you won’t get lag spikes or frame drops even if a giant jungle tree drops dozens of saplings all at once. It runs perfectly fine on private realms and local multiplayer worlds too, keeping the landscape green no matter how many players are harvesting wood.

Installation Mod:
- Download the .mcaddon / .mcpack;
- Open the file to import into the game;
- In World Settings → Resource Packs and Behavior Packs, enable it (turn on Experiments if needed);
- Have fun!