Flooded with Saplings

[steev 0]

I've set up camp in an area with a rainfall of 8000 (which sounds HUGE to me, but it's too late to move now) and these saplings... they just keep coming. I've razed the forest for about 100 blocks in every direction, but I just can't get them to stop popping up everywhere, constantly, including in the middle of my construction efforts. Nothing stops these pests and it's getting old fast.

So the question is: Anyone know of a way to end invasive saplings? I'll even config it out, if that's the only way, but that's a last resort (if it's possible at all).

[mayaknife 82]

Hoe all the ground or replace it with stone, sand, gravel, planks, etc.

I'm not sure, but it may be that saplings will only appear on grass blocks. If that's the case then you can replace all of the grass blocks with dirt and ring the area with a grass-proof border (hoed ground, stone, etc).

[Kittychanley 1,002]

Sapling spawning is based off of initial world gen. So if there is a sycamore, oak forest there at world gen, sycamore and oak saplings will continue to spawn in that area. If you don't want to constantly keep an eye out for saplings, build in an area such as a plain or swamp, where there are few to no trees there when you first arrive.

Sapling mechanics have been changed for Build 77. They will no longer spawn if the temperature is below 20C, and they need line of sight in order to grow, so you won't have to worry about a tree coming up out of your basement.

[steev 0]

Hoe all the ground or replace it with stone, sand, gravel, planks, etc.

I'm not sure, but it may be that saplings will only appear on grass blocks. If that's the case then you can replace all of the grass blocks with dirt and ring the area with a grass-proof border (hoed ground, stone, etc).

I am hoping that the other reply is the real answer, because this requires a lot of work and I'm lazy.

Sapling spawning is based off of initial world gen. So if there is a sycamore, oak forest there at world gen, sycamore and oak saplings will continue to spawn in that area. If you don't want to constantly keep an eye out for saplings, build in an area such as a plain or swamp, where there are few to no trees there when you first arrive.

Sapling mechanics have been changed for Build 77. They will no longer spawn if the temperature is below 20C, and they need line of sight in order to grow, so you won't have to worry about a tree coming up out of your basement.

The funny thing is, I built in a swamp and there were about 9 tree species, so that must be why they're so aggressive - I have 9 forests competing for my land. Oops. But the temp is 18.6 and it's mid-summer, hopefully that's as hot as it can get? so now I'm WAY looking foward to Build 77. Thanks guys!

[mayaknife 82]

Sapling mechanics have been changed for Build 77. They will no longer spawn if the temperature is below 20C, and they need line of sight in order to grow

Line of sight to what? A standing tree of that type?

[aliceingame 114]

all tree sapling, and there must be no block over, like nothing

[Kittychanley 1,002]

Line of sight to what? A standing tree of that type?

Line of sight to the sky.

[mayaknife 82]

Line of sight to the sky.

Ah. Too bad. Would have made sense to only allow saplings of a certain type to pop up if there are adult trees of the same type nearby.

[Hammerfury 0]

Ah. Too bad. Would have made sense to only allow saplings of a certain type to pop up if there are adult trees of the same type nearby.

I have cleared out unwanted tree species before and they still spawn. I tried replacing aspen with oak. Oak saplings never spawned and I was constantly picking up aspen saplings.

[aliceingame 114]

Yes, because the sapling regeneration do not depend on the tree type that are grown, but the original tree type in that region. I would call it a tree biome.

Even if you cut all the tree of one type in a region, the sapling will still spawn as you are in that tree biome. The only exception might be sequoia, as I almost never pick up sequoia sapling since there is no more sequoia around the town we built.

So if you want a oak tree farm in a aspen biome, you will have to harvest your saplings by breaking the leaf. With a dozen of tree to start with, you should be able to harves enough saplings from the tree to keep your tree farm alive.