Tree Growth Helper

Tree Growth Helper is a lightweight utility mod for Minecraft survival players that shows plant growth problems directly in the world.

Planted a sapling and used bone meal, but still no tree? The problem might be a block overhead, an obstruction nearby, or unsuitable soil or lighting. Tree Growth Helper helps you find the cause without repeatedly removing blocks and guessing. Hold bone meal, aim at a plant, and press H, or press G to enable inspection mode and see the checked areas and detected problems.

The mod focuses on in-world visual markers, with no complicated menus or long messages covering your screen. Obstructing blocks receive red outlines. Missing water or support positions appear as translucent red cubes. Lighting issues use yellow markers, while checked, available growth space can appear in green. Short hints above the hotbar provide additional context so you can quickly see what needs attention.

Features include:

• Obstruction detection: Highlights relevant obstacles above, beside, and along a plant’s actual growth path, including invisible light blocks when they obstruct growth.
• Environmental checks: Checks light, soil, water, and support according to each plant’s rules rather than applying the same requirements to every plant.
• Bone meal outcome monitoring: Automatically checks conditions when normal bone meal use produces no observed growth, and clears previous markers when growth succeeds.
• Broad plant support: Covers vanilla saplings, crops, bamboo, sugar cane, cactus, fungi, aquatic plants, vines, and more.
• Modded plant compatibility: Automatically adapts to common modded crops that inherit vanilla growth logic, with dedicated checks for selected plants from Farmer’s Delight and Biomes O’ Plenty.
• Customizable visuals: Toggle green ranges, red markers, or text, and adjust how long markers remain visible. They disappear after five seconds by default.

Tree Growth Helper adds no items, blocks, or entities. It does not change growth probabilities, tree shapes, bone meal consumption, or bone meal effects. It only helps you understand current conditions, checking plants you actively inspect or fertilize without scanning the entire world in the background.

Green markers indicate that the checked conditions are suitable; they do not guarantee that the next bone meal use will succeed. Special modded growth algorithms that cannot be fully verified are marked as partially unchecked rather than given invented failure reasons. Modpack creators and mod developers can extend compatibility through datapacks or a read-only API.