TreeReplanter

TreeReplanter     (works in 0.7.x releases AND 0.8-pre.3-release)   

New in version from Oct 29, 2026 see in 'No saplings for' section below.

This plugin turns the remaining roots into some dirt or whatever else is surrounding the tree and places a sapling after chopping it down while crouching. This will keep your forests growing instead of disappearing slowly over time.

The first trunk block you hit will be taken as "ground" and the sapling will be placed at same height. So think twice where you hit the trunk - especially in uneven terrain! 

This plugin is far from beeing perfect, but it works for most trees. 

Hint: Break all trunk blocks on the same height as the first one until the tree is completely separated from the ground. That's it, have fun!

Server admins can now get reports when players remove the sapling after felling a tree. When this feature is enabled, players who cut down trees and collect/take the saplings with them will be logged in the server log. If they do this multiple times, it will also be announced in the game chat visible for all other players. This is intended as an educational tool for server admins and aims to encourage fair play on multiplayer servers by using the plugin as intended: to prevent the number of trees in the game world from slowly but surely dwindling. 

There are 3 values for finetuning in the config file also. Use these carefully! You surely don't want to publicly shame players when they just place a sapling somewhere else once or twice because it fits better at an other place, do you?

Warning: Don't turn on the debugMode! It would spam your server logs with tons of messages most of you couldn't read anyway, because they are not written in english. They are ment for me only to help finding out why something went wrong.

No saplings for:

burnt trees: These have no saplings in game, they wouldn't grow anyway, because they are dead.

palm trees: They don't give trunks anyway, because their trunks are only stacked branches atm.

(Palm tree trunks aka GoldenWood (needed to tear up farmer's workbench) can only be found in dessert chests atm.)

... and not fully grown up trees.

fir trees: In real life they would grow out of pine cones I think. These can be found in some biomes, but we can't use them for anything in the game yet, so we will have to wait until the Hytale devs do something with them.

Fir trees have no saplings in Hytale AND spruce trees have no trunk blocks, so because of this oddity the fir tree will now be replanted with a spruce sapling and grow up to a fir tree again. Fir trees in snowy biomes will correctly be replanted with a frost spruce sapling and so will dead fir trees.

Bottletree: Bottle trees now also will be replanted after felling, so this entry only stands here for a while to get you informed. So does the fir tree entry in this section.

Known issues:

Gumboab trees: Small and medium-sized trees now work as expected. The fat ones require special processing, which possibly will be added in a later update. - On the other hand, the gigantic gumboab trees will very rarely grow back to such a stately size again so perhaps it's better to leave them standing anyway..

Other:

This plugin is free for all! No one is allowed to charge money for this in any way. Also don't share the file anywhere else than here or in the game mod browser.