Dark Oak

Dark Oak

Tree

Sapling

Biomes	Dark Forest Dark Forest Hills‌[BE only]
Generates in existing chunks	Yes
Consists of	Dark Oak Log Dark Oak Leaves Leaf Litter Vines‌[BE only]

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The dark oak is a type of tree with dark bark and wood, being a darker variant of oak. Dark oaks have thick 2×2 trunks that grow thicker near the top, and are found only in the dark forest biome.

Appearance

Dark oak trees generate with thick 2×2 trunks. Dirt blocks appear under the trunk if generated on a steep cliff. Dark oak trees nearly always generate with irregular logs connected to the trunk – these represent large branches. Covered by a wide canopy, many dark oaks together can increase darkness significantly.

Dark oak trees with trunks consisting of 1×1 dark oak logs, instead of 2×2, can be found in two types of rooms in woodland mansions: the tree chopping room, and the nature room. These are not generated elsewhere in the world, and cannot be grown from saplings.

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  Tree chopping room
• 
  Nature room

Dark oaks with vines

Some dark oaks may be covered with vines on 6/7 of all logs of the main trunk, not the branches, but sometimes even replacing leaves. Dark oaks grown from saplings also have a chance to be covered with vines.

Generation

Dark oaks in a dark forest, together with some regular oaks

Dark oaks generate naturally only in the dark forest biome. A dark oak always generates with dirt under its trunk, even if it spawns partly or wholly over air or water blocks.

The ground surrounding naturally-generated dark oaks is covered by leaf litter.

Planting

Dark oak saplings can be planted on:

• Dirt
• Grass Block
• Coarse Dirt
• Podzol
• Mycelium
• Rooted Dirt
• Moss Block
• Pale Moss Block
• Farmland
• Mud
• Muddy Mangrove Roots

Growing these trees requires four dark oak saplings arranged in a 2×2 grid; they do not grow if planted individually. Dark oak trees grow at a much faster rate than most other trees. They require a 3×3 column of unobstructed space at least 7 blocks above the northwestern sapling to grow (8 blocks including the sapling itself). Additionally, dark oak trees require 5×5 layers without obstruction for the top 3 layers of its final height. No horizontal clearance is needed at the base of the tree (saplings planted in a 2×2 hole 1 block deep still grow).

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier
[No displayed name]	dark_oak

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier
[No displayed name]	roofed_tree_feature
[No displayed name]	roofed_tree_with_vines_feature

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.7.2			13w36a				Added roofed oak trees. This tree used spruce wood and oak leaves.
			13w43a				Roofed oak now has its own wood, leaves and sapling variant. Roofed oak trees generated prior to this snapshot remain unchanged.
			1.7				Renamed "roofed oak" to "dark oak".
1.8.2			pre4				Dark oak branches no longer replace solid blocks.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0			build 1				Added dark oak trees and version-exclusive fallen and dying trees.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU27	CU15	1.18	1.18	1.18	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added dark oak, but without its own leaves or sapling.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Added dark oak sapling.

Issues

Issues relating to "Dark Oak" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• Dark oak is called 'big oak' in the 1.12 client.jar.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  Dark oak trees and pale oak trees on their biome border
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  Some dark oaks with vines
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  A dark oak generated on a cliffside with dirt underneath
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  All 2×2 trees in Minecraft
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  A taller dark oak with less branches