How to Get Saplings, Apples, and Sticks with the Crook

Crafting the Crook

The Bone Crook is crafted from bones (typically bone meal or bone blocks combined with sticks — check JEI for the exact recipe). It is a tool, not a block, and it has durability. Use it until it breaks, then craft another.

Using the Crook on leaves

Right-click or break leaves with the Crook equipped. Compared to breaking leaves by hand, the Crook dramatically increases the chance of dropping saplings and sticks, and it can also drop apples from oak and dark oak leaves. This is critical in skyblock-style starts where you have no natural trees — you need saplings to grow more trees, and sticks for tools and crafting.

Scaling up

Harvest logs with an axe, then use the Crook again on the new leaves. Repeat until you have a sustainable tree farm. Sticks from Crook drops can be crafted into ladders, fences, tools, and torches. Apples are food — eat them to survive early on. If you have a Compressed Sieve, you can also sift dirt or gravel for additional sapling chances, but the Crook remains the fastest early-game source.