Smart Tree Capitator

Smart Tree Capitator

Chop trees, not your builds.

Smart Tree Capitator is a vanilla-friendly tree chopping addon for Minecraft Bedrock that focuses on one thing: making tree cutting faster without turning every connected log into a disaster.

Instead of blindly destroying every nearby wood block, the addon checks whether what you are breaking actually looks like a tree. It looks at the trunk, leaves, shape, nearby branches, and player-placed blocks before deciding whether Tree Capitator should activate. This makes it much safer around houses, bridges, decorations, and trees growing close to each other.

The goal is to keep the convenience of a Tree Capitator while still feeling balanced enough for normal Survival.

Features
Smart tree detection — trees are validated before chopping instead of using a simple connected-log search.
Player-build protection — player-placed logs are tracked and used to help prevent structures from being mistaken for trees, including across world reloads.
Adjacent tree protection — the scanner is designed to avoid jumping from one tree into another just because their branches or logs touch.
Broad vanilla tree support — works with normal Overworld trees as well as supported Nether wood types and different trunk shapes.
Mod compatibility — compatible with many custom axes and modded tree/log types rather than being limited only to vanilla item IDs.
Vanilla-style durability — chopping additional logs consumes axe durability and respects Unbreaking.
Axes can actually break — a nearly broken axe cannot magically cut an entire huge tree. If the tool runs out of durability, chopping stops.
Tool-change protection — changing, moving, dropping, or replacing the axe while a Tree Capitator operation is running safely cancels the operation.
Fast leaf cleanup — leaves belonging to the chopped tree can be cleaned up without blindly destroying nearby or protected leaves.
Safe block re-checking — blocks are checked again before being removed, so something that changed after the tree was scanned will not simply be destroyed.
Multiplayer-safe chopping — two players cannot accidentally process the same tree at the same time, while nearby independent trees can still be chopped normally.
5-second cooldown — Tree Capitator cannot be spammed continuously. The cooldown begins after the current tree has finished chopping.
Progressive processing — large trees are handled over time instead of trying to destroy everything in a single game tick.
Sneak behavior options — choose how Tree Capitator activates, including normal and reverse-sneak behavior.
In-game configuration item — activation behavior can be changed without editing addon files.
Clear feedback — the addon reports the number of logs chopped and provides feedback when Tree Capitator is ready again.
Safe cancellation — leaving the world, dying, changing dimensions, changing tools, or encountering an inaccessible area safely stops the current operation instead of leaving it stuck.
Smarter than a normal Tree Capitator

Many Tree Capitator addons use a simple rule: if two logs are connected, they belong to the same tree.

That works most of the time, until your tree touches another tree — or your house.

Smart Tree Capitator takes a more cautious approach. It checks the shape and surroundings of the tree and uses directional scanning to follow realistic trunks and branches. Player-placed wood is also taken into account, giving builds another layer of protection.

It is still possible to build unusual structures that resemble natural trees, so no automatic detection system can be perfect, but the addon is intentionally designed to favor safety over blindly chopping everything nearby.

Survival-friendly

Tree Capitator is powerful, but it is not intended to remove the cost of chopping wood.

Your axe still matters. Durability is consumed while logs are chopped, Unbreaking is respected, and the operation stops if the axe breaks. The built-in cooldown also prevents Tree Capitator from becoming a rapid-fire logging tool.

The result is faster wood gathering without completely removing the Survival progression around tools and durability.

Mod compatibility

Smart Tree Capitator was designed with other addons in mind.

It can recognize many modded axes and custom tree blocks instead of relying only on hard-coded vanilla names. Custom logs that follow common naming or tagging conventions can work automatically, while the internal tree-family system helps keep different wood types separated.

This means it should work well in addon-heavy Survival worlds without requiring every custom axe or tree to be individually built into Smart Tree Capitator.

Multiplayer

Multiplayer safety is built into the chopping system.

When one player starts processing a tree, the specific tree blocks involved are temporarily claimed by that operation. Another player cannot start a conflicting Tree Capitator operation on the same tree, but they are still free to chop a different nearby tree.

The addon also re-checks blocks while chopping, helping prevent situations where another player changes a block after the original tree scan.

Made to feel like part of vanilla Bedrock

Smart Tree Capitator is intentionally kept simple from the player's point of view.

Break a valid tree with an axe, let the addon handle the rest, wait for the short cooldown, and continue playing.

No giant menus, no complicated setup, and no need to think about the systems running behind it.

Just faster tree chopping with more care taken around the rest of your world.