Overview
Tree Harvester is a Minecraft mod created by Serilum that enables players to quickly chop down entire trees and huge mushrooms using an axe. Rather than breaking each log individually, cutting down a single block fells the whole structure. The mod also provides fast leaf decay and automatic replanting using dropped items.
Harvesting Mechanics
By default, the harvesting mechanic activates when a player crouches and breaks a tree block while holding an axe in their main hand. Here's the thing, the mod automatically locates the bottom log of the tree, allowing a player to strike any section of the trunk to take down the complete tree. In addition to standard overworld trees, the system supports huge mushrooms as well as warped and crimson nether trees. It functions on both vanilla and modded trees.
To keep harvesting balanced, the time required to fell a tree scales with the total number of logs it contains. Felling also expends tool durability and increases player exhaustion for every harvested log. Once the wood is cleared, surrounding leaves decay rapidly at a default rate of three leaves per tick. When the final leaf has decayed, the mod automatically replants a sapling using the tree's dropped items. If two different tree varieties grow adjacent to each other, the mod ensures that only the foliage connected to the harvested tree will decay.
Configuration and Safety
Tree Harvester offers extensive configuration options to customize behavior. Players can disable the sneak requirement, remove the necessity of holding an axe, toggle fast leaf decay, or turn off automatic replanting for trees and huge mushrooms. Durability consumption, exhaustion rates, and leaf decay speed can also be adjusted.
To prevent players from accidentally destroying wooden structures, the mod includes safety checks that ignore trees containing player-placed leaves. In addition, an axe blacklist file is generated at ./config/treeharvester/harvestable_axe_blacklist.txt upon initial launch, allowing specific vanilla or modded axes to be excluded from triggering harvesting. The project was developed to operate alongside the Ore Harvester mod.
Technical Details
Tree Harvester is required on the server side and is unsupported on the client side. The mod provides support for the Fabric, Forge, Neoforge, and Quilt mod loaders. It supports Minecraft versions 26.3, 26.2, 26.1.2, 26.1.1, 26.1, 1.21.11, and 1.21.10.
