a mod that would make leaves spawn sapling items every so often, as a way to "grow" a forest
#mod that makes alive leaves drop saplings every so often
old hedge
abstract pivot
In the random tick method, there can be a random chance whether or not a sapling is dropped to make it an even rarer event.
pure solstice
The saplings wouldn't auto-plant, is this what you want?
I can probably make either, optionally limited to forest biomes
feral vale
sounds a good idea, but a laggy idea as already mentioned 😛
abstract pivot
The amount of tree spreading at a given moment would be exponentially increasing with the outer radius of the spread. It would start to lag the server eventually even if the chance of a tree planting a sapling is tiny.
pure solstice
random ticks, and could be limited to forest biomes
coarse sorrel
I would recomend limit to forest biomes, only works for trees native to the biome (easily optional), also only works for leaves with air below it
You could make this server-side only compatible by just using a sapling falling block, which would drop as an item if failing to land properly
You would also have to somehow make it only on the "edges" of existing tree clusters, otherwise you end up with extremely dense forests. This could be acheived by making sure the leaves block has skylight access in an adjacent block