Defensive Trees

A big update: two brand-new helper trees, a rebuilt Ent and Grove Keeper, a smarter XP Willow, and a much bigger, easier-to-use in-game guide.

New

Healing Tree — the Medic Bear

• Plant a Healing Tree sapling (white bark, red-cross scar). A blocky Medic Bear steps out beside it and stays near the tree.
• Every 2 seconds the bear heals one heart on up to 12 friendly creatures within 10 blocks: tamed pets and tamed mounts (dogs, wolves, cats, parrots, horses, donkeys, mules, llamas, camels and more), saddled animals, villagers and iron golems.
• It never heals players, hostile mobs, wild animals or other tree helpers. The bear can't be hurt, and the tree brings it back if it's ever lost.
• Healing Tree wood, planks, leaves, saplings and recipes included. Saplings can be bought from the Grove Keeper.

Last Rations Crate — Acorn Soldiers

• Plant a Last Rations sapling. Beside the trunk stands a supply crate, guarded by chunky Acorn Soldiers who parachute down from the canopy on a leaf parachute.
• Three soldier types:
  • Acorn Trooper — 12-block range, advances on mobs.
  • Acorn Sergeant — 14-block range, advances on mobs.
  • Acorn Heavy Gunner — 16-block range, fires 3-shot bursts, holds position.
• +75% damage over the first version: Trooper 5.25, Sergeant 7, Heavy Gunner 3.5 per shot (burst of three = 10.5). Fire rates unchanged.
• A Trooper drops when the tree grows. When a hostile mob comes within 24 blocks of the crate, more soldiers drop in, up to a squad of 4 (Trooper, Sergeant, Heavy Gunner, Trooper).
• Soldiers shoot hostile mobs only — never players, pets, villagers or golems — and can't be hurt. Daytime: Sergeants and Heavy Gunners only stay on duty while a hostile is around; extras pack up after a calm spell and one Trooper always stays on guard.
• Tap the crate to receive a few rations (bread, cooked chicken, apples), once per in-game day per player.
• Rations wood, planks, leaves, saplings and recipes included. Saplings can be bought from the Grove Keeper.

XP Willow now repairs gear

• Every 30 seconds the willow spends XP from its bank to repair gear, 2 durability per XP, at most 10 XP per chest and per player each cycle.
• Chests / barrels touching the trunk: any damaged tool, weapon or armor inside is repaired, Mending or not.
• Players standing within 6 blocks of the trunk: only items with Mending are repaired (inventory, hotbar, armor and offhand). Plain gear is never touched.
• One item per container / player per cycle, Mending items first, then the most damaged.
• Green sparkle particles show where something was repaired, and the player sees an action-bar message with the XP spent and what is left in the tree.
• Nothing is repaired when the tree's XP bank is empty.

Guide grown to 58 pages

• New guide pages for the Healing Tree and Last Rations, plus updated Ent, Keeper, XP Willow and Rations text. The guide has grown from 51 to 58 pages.
• Controller support: turn pages with LB / RB (left / right bumper).

Changed

New Ent

• Completely rebuilt model and texture with real lantern eyes.
• Bigger hit box: 1.5 wide × 6 tall, so the whole Ent is easy to tap.
• The Ent now stays with you. It no longer walks home by itself — no return after fights, long walks, distance, portals, idle time, day or night. It goes home only when you cycle it to Patrol (tap the Ent: Follow → Stay → Patrol; Patrol walks it back to its home tree), or when you log out.
• If you wander too far or leave the dimension, the Ent simply stands where it is and follows again when you return within 16 blocks.
• On logout the Ent is removed cleanly and the tree puts a fresh one at its home — no duplicates, no stray Ent left when you rejoin.
• Creepers never explode when the Ent strikes them. A creeper hit by a stomp, slam or swing has its fuse stopped, any queued blast cancelled, and it fizzes away — no explosion, no fire, no block or player damage.

New Grove Keeper

• Rebuilt model and texture: layered leaf cloak, small lantern eyes, a single thin golden sash over one shoulder, and a belt with buckle.
• Keeper trades now include the Healing Tree and Last Rations saplings.

Fixed

• Guide crash fixed — the guide form was reworked so it opens reliably.
• Guide page graphics fixed — all pages redrawn and corrected.

Notes

• This update adds new blocks, items, entities and recipes; update both packs together (the .mcaddon contains the Behavior Pack and the Resource Pack).