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Harvesting Leaves Efficiently for Sapling Production

Gathering Leaf Blocks

Because the mod requires intact leaf blocks rather than sapling drops, standard woodchopping methods need a minor adjustment. If you break tree trunks and let the leaves decay on their own, the leaf blocks will disappear.

To prepare a large batch of crafting ingredients:

1. Craft shears using two iron ingots placed diagonally in a crafting grid.

2. Locate the tree species you want to propagate.

3. Use the shears on the tree's canopy. Shears instantly harvest the leaf blocks, dropping them into your inventory instead of rolling for standard sapling drops.

4. Collect a stockpile of sticks by breaking standard wood blocks into planks and crafting them into sticks.

Batch Crafting Saplings

With your inventory stocked with leaves and sticks:

1. Open a crafting table.

2. Place your gathered leaf blocks into the grid.

3. Add a matching number of sticks into an adjacent slot.

4. Collect your crafted saplings from the output slot.

This simple process lets you quickly generate dozens of saplings in minutes without relying on natural leaf decay rates.