How to Build a Tree Farm: Infinite Wood on Demand

Wood is one of the most important resources in Minecraft, and there’s plenty of it in every world. Not only are there many different forests, but you can also plant and grow trees using saplings. This makes wood renewable, but chopping down trees every time isn’t necessarily fun. That’s why today we want to take a look at different tree farms that will make collecting wood much easier. Some are simple to implement, while others require a bit more effort.

Types of Wood in Minecraft

While Minecraft originally started with one type of wood, there are now ten different logs and planks that you can find and craft. This makes Minecraft’s world very diverse, and you have many options to expand your tree farm and collect all ten types of wood.

Overworld:

• Oak
• Birch
• Spruce (+ large variant)
• Jungle (+ large variant)
• Acacia
• Dark Oak
• Azalea (Oak)
• Mangrove
• Cherry

Nether:

• Warped Fungus
• Crimson Fungus

All trees consist of two parts: the trunk and the leaves. While the trunk is an important resource for crafting and building, the leaves disappear and leave behind saplings and sticks, sometimes apples (oak) or vines (jungle). Both are important and should be considered when building a tree farm.

Basics of Tree Farms

To grow and harvest a tree, you first need a sapling. While most trees only need one sapling, you need four saplings for large spruce, large jungle trees, and dark oaks. Trees grow naturally with enough light or can be grown using bone meal. They must be planted on dirt or a variant of dirt.

Each tree has various forms in which it can grow. A single oak sapling can grow into both small and large oak trees. You should harvest the wood with an axe, while leaves can be harvested with shears or a hoe with Silk Touch.

Simple Tree Farm for Any World

You should build this simple tree farm in every one of your worlds, as it is not only easy but also very practical. The trees grow naturally in this design, but you can also use bone meal. Another advantage of this farm is that the trees have enough space for their leaves, so you get enough saplings and other items.

Instructions:

1. What you need is a larger and flat area to build your trees. You can expand the farm as you wish and adjust it to your needs. It is best suited for a single sapling, but less so for 2x2 saplings.

2. Each sapling should be four blocks away from another sapling. You can outline the respective spots or build your tree farm from another material. There are no limits here, as long as the saplings grow on dirt or a variant of dirt.

3. Place a light source between the saplings so they can grow naturally. Bone meal is not necessary if you have little of it or don’t need a lot of wood.

4. If you want to plant oak trees but don’t want them to grow too large, cover the farm with a roof or at least solid blocks. However, a height of 7 blocks must be maintained, and the eighth block serves as a stopper to prevent giant oaks.

Efficient Tree Farm for More Wood

If you can do without leaves but want to focus primarily on one type of wood, a compact farm is most worthwhile. However, you need enough bone meal for this, as trees do not grow naturally when saplings are planted directly next to each other.

You can obtain bone meal in various ways. You can either build a mob farm or search for a skeleton spawner. We already have guides for this (How to Build an Automatic Monster Trap: Endless Resources) . You can also search for a soul sand valley in the Nether, as there are ancient skeletons made of full bone blocks. Each contains 9 bone meals. Check out our article on a Nether hub (How to Build a Nether Hub: Travel Faster in the Minecraft World) for more information.

Instructions:

1. This tree farm works similarly to the one above, but it can be built more compactly. Simply line up your desired saplings in a row and use bone meal to grow them. This also works with large trees.

2. Then you only need to chop down the wood and start the process over again.

Spruce Farm with Water Collection Basin

The trees that give you the most wood by far are large spruce trees. While there are also large jungle trees, they drop four times fewer saplings, making cultivation much more difficult. This farm also uses a collection basin where excess saplings and logs are collected. This makes the farm much easier to use. Bone meal is also necessary here, so keep enough on hand!

Instructions:

1. Measure an area of 16x16 blocks so that the water flow can collect the excess saplings and wood. A row of water sources should be enough to flow over eight blocks. So, two levels fit in the field. One row remains at the end. A water channel leads to a hopper and a chest. We discussed a similar design in our wheat farm (How to Build an Automatic Wheat Farm) .

2. Build a small 2x2 platform a few blocks above the water so that the water flow is not interrupted. You can grow your large spruce trees there. Harvest them by building a spiral upwards.

3. Regularly check the chest to collect new saplings or logs. You can, of course, use this for other trees, but spruce gives you the most wood by far.

Conclusion

You can’t avoid wood in Minecraft! It is everywhere and is required for many recipes. It’s also one of the most important resources if you want to build. A corresponding tree farm is worthwhile to collect enough wood of your choice. Depending on whether you have enough bone meal or not, you can set up your farm. Never run out of wood again! Build a tree farm on your own server and supply yourself and your friends. Rent your Minecraft server and let the trees grow! Working together with friends makes collecting wood for building projects even faster.