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Oak Sapling
Utility Blocks

Oak Sapling

Oak Sapling is a plant that grows into a oak tree when placed on dirt or grass with adequate light and space.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

oak_sapling

Oak Sapling at a glance

Utility Blocks holds Oak Sapling: a block out of leaf drops and natural world generation. A single slot takes 64 Oak Sapling, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest. As fuel Oak Sapling is thin: 2 per item smelted, 32 items out of a full stack.

Oak Sapling has no mining time at all. Of the 2 kinds of generated chest that can hold Oak Sapling, plains village houses are the best bet at about 48% per chest. It sits between Oak Planks and Oak Sign in Utility Blocks, number 220 of 340 there.

How to obtain

  • Leaf drops
  • Natural generation

Fuel value

Oak Sapling burns for 5 seconds (100 ticks), so 2 Oak Sapling smelt one item

Notes

Can be grown instantly with bone meal.

Frequently asked questions about Oak Sapling

  1. Oak Sapling as it appears in the game, the item this answer is about

    How do you get Oak Sapling in Minecraft?

    Oak Sapling is obtained through leaf drops, and Oak Sapling from natural world generation. Nothing you can build: Oak Sapling is found, and plains village houses come out at about 48%.

  2. Oak Sapling on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Oak Sapling used for?

    Oak Sapling is a plant that grows into a oak tree when placed on dirt or grass with adequate light and space.

  3. A chest beside Oak Sapling, the loot this answer lists

    Where do you find Oak Sapling in chests?

    Oak Sapling is chest loot in plains village houses (about 48%, 1 to 2 at a time) and village weaponsmith chests (about 23%, 3 to 7 at a time). Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

  4. Oak Sapling beside a furnace, which is where its 5 seconds of burning go

    Can Oak Sapling be used as fuel?

    It burns, but thinly: 5 seconds per Oak Sapling against the 10 a furnace needs, so 2 Oak Sapling go into one smelted item. Nothing on Oak Sapling is wasted: the furnace keeps what is left of a Oak Sapling and spends it on the next item.

  5. 64 Oak Sapling drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Oak Sapling can you stack?

    A slot of 64 Oak Sapling burns for 32 smelted items, and that is what the stack is worth as fuel. A shulker box of Oak Sapling comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

Building with it

Oak saplings come from oak leaves and grow into the most forgiving tree in the game: one sapling, a bit of space, and a few minutes. Bone meal speeds that up, and four planted in a square can grow into the larger variant with a thicker trunk.