Dark Oak

Dark Oak

Tree

Sapling

Biomes	Dark Forest Dark Forest Hills‌[BE only]
Grows on	Dirt Grass Block Coarse Dirt Podzol Mycelium
Fruit	Apple
Generates in existing chunks	Yes
Consists of	Dark Oak Log Dark Oak Leaves Leaf Litter Vines (dying)‌[BE only]

The dark oak is a type of tree with dark bark and wood, being a dark variant of oak. Dark oaks have thick trunks (2×2 blocks) and are found in the dark forest biome.

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.

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.

• 
  Tree chopping room.
• 
  Nature room.

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.

These items can be obtained from all variants of dark oak:

• Dark Oak Log (harvested with any tool including hands)
• Dark Oak Leaves (harvested with shears)
• Stick (chance of dropping when breaking leaves)
• Dark Oak Planks (created from a log in the inventory crafting grid)
• Stripped Dark Oak Log (created by using an axe on a log)
• Dark Oak Sapling (chance of dropping when breaking leaves)
• Apple (chance of dropping when breaking leaves)
• Vines‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} (harvested with shears from a dying tree)

Dark oak saplings can be planted on:

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).

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.

 

In Bedrock Edition, dark oaks with vines can generate. They generate naturally, and can be grown from normal saplings.^[1][2] A dark oak with vines has the standard growth pattern of any other tree, however, all exposed logs in the main trunk are covered with vines.

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier
[No displayed name]	dark_oak

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier
[No displayed name]	roofed_tree_feature

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.

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

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

• 
  A giant dark oak (left) and a giant jungle tree (right). The giant variety of spruce is not pictured.
• 
  A dark oak generated on a cliffside with dirt underneath.

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