Better Trees from Saplings – Changelog

3.0.0 – The Big Rebuild

Highlights

• No more Beta APIs! The addon now runs on the stable script API. No experimental toggles or cheats needed, and it works on Realms as a normal addon.
• Rebuilt tree engine for much more natural, realistic trees.
• 6 brand new 3D items, modelled in Blockbench and all craftable.
• Whole-forest planting for every player with the Forest Seed Pouch.

Tree Engine

• Trunks now taper from a wider flared base to thin branch tips.
• Branches curve and spread evenly in every direction around the trunk.
• Tall trees grow side branches partway up the trunk for layered, fuller crowns.
• Branch logs now lie along the branch instead of all standing upright.
• Leaf clusters are rounder and more natural, with softer, uneven edges.
• Spruces now grow as proper cone-shaped conifers with tiered layers of needles.
• Frosted Spruces get snow resting on their branches.
• Acacias grow flat umbrella-shaped crowns.
• Weeping trees drop hanging strands of leaves.
• Mangroves stand on arching mangrove roots.
• Fungi grow wide mushroom-style caps.
• Roots now dig down into the ground around the trunk.
• Bamboo grows small leaf tufts along the stalk.
• Moss carpets and mushrooms are placed on the ground around the tree instead of floating.
• Grown leaves never decay.

New Items

• Seed of Any Tree: use it on the ground and pick any of the 14 tree types and any variant. Any sapling + bone meal (makes 2).
• Forester's Staff: mark up to 32 spots with glowing markers, then sneak + use to grow trees on all of them at once (same tree, one type with random variants, or a random mix). Use it on a mark again to remove it. Emerald on top of 2 sticks.
• Forest Seed Pouch: plant a whole forest. Choose tree type or a mixed forest, radius (6–40), number of trees (3–40) and tree size. Trees follow the shape of the land. 8 Seeds of Any Tree around a leather.
• Arborist's Shears: use to undo your last tree or forest; sneak + use to stop your growing trees. Shears + stick + red dye.
• Arborist's Guide: opens the tools menu. Book + Seed of Any Tree.
• Growth Tonic: drink it and your next 3 trees grow instantly. Glass bottle + bone meal + glowstone dust + Seed of Any Tree (makes 2).

Menus & Tools

• New Random Small / Medium / Large picks in the variant menu.
• Variants now show their height next to their tags.
• Moss tag added to the variant list.
• Favourites now hold up to 6 trees, and Save a Favourite works from any variant list.
• Admin Panel moved into the tools menu (players with the admin tag).
• New Help page explaining every item and command.
• Particle, sound and progress bar preferences now actually apply while trees grow.

Undo

• Undo now remembers your last 5 trees or forests, not just the last one.
• Each undo restores the whole tree, however big (before, it stopped after a set number of blocks).
• A whole forest or Staff planting undoes in one step.
• Undo now works correctly even if you changed dimension.

Commands

• Old chat commands (!trees, !undo, !treestats, !stoptrees) are replaced by slash commands:
  • /nasa:trees – tools menu
  • /nasa:undotree – undo your last tree or forest
  • /nasa:treestats – your stats
  • /nasa:stoptrees – stop your growing trees
• /scriptevent nasa:... commands still work as before.

Fixes & Performance

• Stop growths now really stops trees mid-growth (before, they kept growing).
• Lag protection: a limit on blocks placed per tick, shared across all growing trees.
• The biggest trees can no longer branch out of control and freeze the game.
• Leaves no longer replace a tree's own logs.
• Vines, glow berries and snow only appear where they fit, instead of replacing other blocks.
• Fixed the Admin Panel's fast growth toggle leaving a stray sapling behind.
• Fixed the forest generator planting trees in mid-air or underground; trees now find the ground.
• Fixed favourites saving the wrong thing (the old save button didn't save a tree).

Requirements

• Minecraft Bedrock 1.26.0 or newer.
• No experimental toggles or cheats needed.