Heartwood: Tree Capitator

Heartwood: Tree Capitator

Chop one log and the whole tree comes down. The leaves clear, every drop lands in one pile and a sapling goes back in. Your log builds stay put.

Heartwood fells a whole natural tree when a player breaks one of its logs with an axe, then clears its leaves and replants it.

A free datapack for Minecraft Java 1.21.4. No mods and no plugins, so it works in single-player, on Realms and on vanilla, Paper, Purpur and Fabric servers.

Features

• Whole tree from one log: any axe fells the full tree, branches included
• All 11 wood types: oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, mangrove, cherry, pale oak, and crimson and warped stems
• Build-safe: only trees touching natural leaves or wart caps are felled, so log houses, fences and builds stay
• Fast leaves: leaves clear within about two seconds and drop saplings, sticks and apples as usual
• One drop pile: every drop lands at the stump
• Auto-replant: the right sapling goes back where the trunk stood, as a 2×2 for dark oak and pale oak (and big spruce and jungle trees), and azalea trees get an azalea
• Fair on tools: each extra log costs 1 durability, Unbreaking works like vanilla, and an axe that would break is never used up (the tree simply isn’t felled, and you get a message)
• Sneak to chop one log when you only need one
• Per-player switch: every player can turn it off for themselves
• Settings for operators: a clickable menu and a one-command uninstall

Commands

Sneak while you chop to break a single log.

Settings

Sneak mode can also be set so sneaking is ignored, or so trees are felled only while sneaking. Settings stay after /reload.

Install

Single-player

1. In Minecraft Java 1.21.4, click your world, then Edit > Open World Folder.
2. Put Heartwood-1.0.0.zip in the datapacks folder. Don’t unzip it.
3. Load the world. If it’s already open, type /reload.

New world: Create New World > More > Data Packs, then drag the zip in.

Servers (vanilla, Paper, Purpur, Fabric)

1. Put Heartwood-1.0.0.zip in world/datapacks.
2. Restart the server, or type /reload (on Paper and Purpur, /minecraft:reload).
3. Operators open the settings with /function heartwood:settings.

Realms
Add the datapack to a single-player world, then upload that world to your Realm. Uploading replaces the Realm’s current world, so download a backup first.

Requirements

• Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4
• Survival mode (in Creative, broken blocks don’t drop, so nothing is felled)
• No mods, no plugins, no resource pack. Players join with a normal game.

Good to know

• 1.21.4 only for now. Newer versions need an update.
• Land claims: datapacks can’t see land-claim plugins, so a tree that crosses a claim border is felled on both sides. Server owners can turn Heartwood off in the settings.
• Logs touching a tree: a log build pressed against a living tree’s leaves or logs can come down with it. Leaves you place yourself don’t count. Sneak while you chop next to builds.
• Chop the bottom log. Cut higher up and the stump stays and nothing is replanted.
• Replanting limits: mangroves are not replanted, and dark oak and pale oak come back only when all four trunk blocks stood on dirt.
• Nether trees: wart blocks and shroomlights touching crimson or warped stems count as the cap and are cleared within a few blocks of the stems.

Tested

Tested on our Paper 1.21.4 test server with a bot player chopping real trees: 79 checks, including every wood type, leaf clearing, replanting, the log limit, worn, Unbreaking and unbreakable axes, settings, /reload and uninstall.

Links

• Product page: https://craftspawn.com/shop/heartwood
• Licence (one stated purpose, no re-uploads): https://craftspawn.com/legal/license
• Help: open a ticket on our Discord or go to https://craftspawn.com/support

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