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Trees and grass
A tree you chop can be planted again, and a dug-up lawn closes over. Saplings grow into trees, giant mushrooms grow from their spawn, a cactus on sand grows taller, and grass spreads over bare dirt.
Saplings
| Sapling | Where it comes from | Plant it on | Grows into | In about |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oak sapling | Broken leaves (1 in 8), a chopped oak (1 in 2, for the base of its trunk), the Trade Post (12 gold) | Grass, dirt, snow or mud | An oak: 4 to 6 logs and a round crown of leaves | 8 minutes |
| Pine sapling | Broken pine needles (1 in 8), a chopped pine (1 in 2, for the base of its trunk), the Trade Post (12 gold) | Grass, dirt, snow or mud | A pine: 5 to 8 logs and a cone of needles | 10 minutes |
| Giant mushroom spawn | A broken giant mushroom cap (1 in 5), the Trade Post (20 gold) | Dirt, mud, stone or mossy stone | A giant mushroom: a stem of 3 to 5 and a glowing cap | 12 minutes |
- Planting. Hold the sapling and right click the air just over the ground. When you point at a spot, the box is green if the sapling can go there and red if it cannot.
- Room. A tree needs at least three free tiles over its sapling; how tall it grows depends on the spot. A sapling with a block too close over it, or no room for the top of its crown or cap, waits, and grows once there is room. Leaves and caps only fill air and small plants. They never grow into a town or onto someone else's Home, and a mushroom cap never closes over anyone.
- Where. Planting follows the same rules as building. You cannot plant in a town, on the land near a town that grows back, or on someone else's Home. Anywhere else you can, even under the ground and on your own Home's land. What a friend plants on your Home (anyone it lets build there) grows there as the Home's.
- Breaking one. A sapling you break comes back as a sapling.
- Away. A sapling grows only while someone is near enough for its part of the world to be awake. If its time passed while nobody was there, it grows as soon as someone comes back.
- Trees you grow are part of the land. They do not fade like builds, and like any other tree they can be chopped for wood.
Cactus
Put a cactus block on sand and it takes root. Every 4 minutes it grows one block taller, until it is 2 to 4 blocks tall. A cactus planted on sand does not fade like a build.
Grass
- Grass seeds come from the Trade Post, 5 for 5 gold. Right click bare dirt (nothing on top of it) and it turns to grass at once.
- Grass spreads by itself. Bare dirt with grass beside it, to either side or on a diagonal, turns to grass after half a minute to a minute and a half. A trench you dug across a meadow closes over on its own, one tile at a time. Dirt with no grass near it stays dirt, and so does dirt with a block on it. Grass from outside a Home never creeps onto it; grass inside a Home spreads inside it.
- Built dirt still fades. Dirt you put down turns to grass like any other, but it still fades 2 hours later like any build on land nobody holds (see Homes and land).
- A Hoe turns grass or dirt into tilled soil for crops, as before. Tilled soil never turns to grass.