decomposey

I also have a story about starter metals. I got lucky, and ended up building my first home on top of a cave system that had some zinc, but I wanted to get some bronze. I even found some tin after in in game day or two of searching. But copper... copper was my bane. I searched high and low, for days and days and weeks in an expanding circular pattern until I finally found a vein of it in a far off desert. Bearing my burden, it took me two in game days to walk back home. And as I approached my home base, I came at it from a different angle from the one I left from, behind a hill. And sticking out of that hill, close enough that I could SEE my house, was a large vein of native copper, mocking me ><. So maybe you just aren't looking in the right places? (As a side note, now whenever I walk by that copper vein, I mutter to myself 'F* you, f*ing copper vein.)

In early spring, before trees bloom, they are still in their winter mode. So its a fruit tree!

I did notice on my main world, while exploring in the fall, the absolutely beautiful bright orange of the plum tree foliage.

On my fruit trees, not all fruit appeared on the tree at the same time. If they appeared in october, one leaf would have fruit at the beginning, two in the middle, and one at the end (they were small trees at the time). SO if its mid-harvest for your fruit tree and you haven't seen any fruit yet, don't do slashing all the leaves off! maybe they just aren't ripe yet! Also, it's been said that the trees are temperature sensitive, so if you are growing them in the wrong climate maybe they won't bear fruit? I dunno.

I had many of the same questions, until I spent some time with fruit trees. Here's what I found out, maybe it will help. Harvesting? You break the leaves that have fruit on them. How do you know there is fruit to harvest? The leaf block changes to show it has fruit. Orange trees have orange circles, apple trees have red or green circles, and other trees... weren't planted at harvest time for me so I don't know what their fruit looks like yet. Do they produce saplings? Yes! But not like other trees. You'll notice there are smaller wooden branches coming off the main trunk. if you chop those off with an axe, they have a good (around 50% from my efforts) chance of dropping a sapling. How do you know what kind of tree you are looking at? Well, the banana trees wood looks different from the other trees, but otherwise you have to find a tree in fruit to tell the difference. Or chop off branches until it drops a sapling. I haven't discovered any other way yet.

Well, stop settling in the minecraft version of guatemala.