A dark oak tree is a variant of the oak tree with a thick trunk. They are found in the dark forest biome.
Structure[]
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.
Generation[]
Dark oaks spawn 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.
Blocks and items[]
These items can be obtained from all variants of dark oak:
- Apple (chance of dropping when breaking leaves)
- Dark Oak Leaves (harvested with shears)
- Dark Oak Log (harvested with any tool including hands)
- Dark Oak Planks (created from a log in the inventory crafting grid)
- Dark Oak Sapling (chance of dropping when breaking leaves)
- Stripped Dark Oak Log (created by using an axe on a log)
- Vines[Bedrock Edition only] (harvested with shears from a dying tree)
- Stick (chance of dropping when breaking leaves)
Planting[]
Dark oak saplings can be planted on:
- Dirt
- Grass Block
- Coarse Dirt
- Podzol
- Mycelium
- Rooted Dirt
- 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 sapling to grow (8 blocks including the sapling itself). This column is centered on the northwestern sapling. 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).
Dying dark oak[]
The different dying tree types.
In Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education, dark oaks can generate as a dying tree. Dying dark oaks generate naturally, and can be grown from normal saplings.[1][2] A dying dark oak has the standard growth pattern of any other tree, however, all exposed logs in the main trunk are covered with vines.
History[]
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | Mega spruce trees, dark oak trees, and acacia trees added. These trees borrowed other trees' leaves and wood. | |||
| 13w43a | Acacia and roofed oak now have their own wood, leaves and sapling variants. Note that acacia and roofed oak trees generated prior to this snapshot remain unchanged. | ||||
| 1.7 | Renamed "roofed oak" to "dark oak". | ||||
| 1.8.2 | pre4 | Big oak and dark oak branches no longer replace solid blocks. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.9.0 | build 1 | Added jungle trees (small and mega), dark oak trees, acacia trees, mega spruce trees, oak trees (swamp and large oak variants), and version-exclusive fallen and dying trees. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU27 | CU15 | 1.18 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added dark oak and acacia wood, but without their own leaves or saplings. |
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Added dark oak and acacia saplings. | |
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Dark oak" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[]
- Dark oak is called 'big oak' in the 1.12 client.jar.
Gallery[]
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.
