I don't think my video is really going to get many responses, which is fine, but I wanted to actually find out what you guys thought.
So in my latest video, I ask the question "What is your least favorite tree type", I also assert that the only proper answer is birch.
So what do you guys think about this? Whether it be for building or some other reason, what is your least favorite tree type?
For me it's jungle logs, I rarely use them Outside growing coca beans which I also hardly use, the only real time I use jungle planks is as an accent to something in builds. I like using Birch for nice clean modern floors, else I use them for sticks - but that's just the way I play/would start a new world. I would collect 17/18 oak logs for an initial stack of planks, crafting bench and wooden pick, but; collect however many birch logs for the sticks.
For me it's jungle logs, I rarely use them Outside growing coca beans which I also hardly use, the only real time I use jungle planks is as an accent to something in builds. I like using Birch for nice clean modern floors, else I use them for sticks - but that's just the way I play/would start a new world. I would collect 17/18 oak logs for an initial stack of planks, crafting bench and wooden pick, but; collect however many birch logs for the sticks.
You can never have enough sticks!
ye Always so annoying to run out of sticks especially when you are down in a mine. It's interesting that you use birch for modern floors, tbh I am not much of a builder. Anyways interesting stuff.
Between jungle planks and acacia logs for me... I find both difficult to implement cohesively in any build. Birch is one of my favorites alongside spruce logs and dark oak planks. Acacia planks are also good if you want to make candy-coated houses or something...
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Jungle for me. The plank texture is really pink and ugly in my opinion. The log texture is ok but I find it really hard to implement both into my building style. I use birch for a clean, bright feel, and acacia if I want some colour. Acacia logs for the grey texture too.
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I think the birch and the dark oak, mainly because they seem to have the least variety of tree models.
But I think all vanilla trees can get are a bit boring, and anyway I love trees so much I tend to make custom ones like these:
Btw, if anyone with tree knowledge who could help me classify the last one I'd be really grateful!
As for planks and so on I have found uses for all of them and think their usefulness depends mostly on the build, what other materials are used.
I really like that the doors and trap doors have different textures now. Birch trap doors for example make great kitchen/food trays in my opinion.
Between jungle planks and acacia logs for me... I find both difficult to implement cohesively in any build. Birch is one of my favorites alongside spruce logs and dark oak planks. Acacia planks are also good if you want to make candy-coated houses or something...
So you like most of them, just not jungle and acaicia. It's interesting how you bring up really how you like certain types in certain situations makes sense I just don't build much tbh lol.
Jungle for me. The plank texture is really pink and ugly in my opinion. The log texture is ok but I find it really hard to implement both into my building style. I use birch for a clean, bright feel, and acacia if I want some colour. Acacia logs for the grey texture too.
Interesting I think most Jungle is the least popular, from what people in the post have been saying. I feel like I just don't run into a jungle very often tbh.
I think the birch and the dark oak, mainly because they seem to have the least variety of tree models.
But I think all vanilla trees can get are a bit boring, and anyway I love trees so much I tend to make custom ones like these:
Btw, if anyone with tree knowledge who could help me classify the last one I'd be really grateful!
As for planks and so on I have found uses for all of them and think their usefulness depends mostly on the build, what other materials are used.
I really like that the doors and trap doors have different textures now. Birch trap doors for example make great kitchen/food trays in my opinion.
Yeah, I love the idea of "If you don't like something, make it better".Thosee are some nice tree textures btw!
So you like most of them, just not jungle and acaicia. It's interesting how you bring up really how you like certain types in certain situations makes sense I just don't build much tbh lol.
This brings up another interesting notion - one that too often gets mulled over due to preconceived impressions about certain building materials. For example, I highly dislike how cobblestone looks. I never use it... except when the style of the build calls for it. What if I am trying to emulate a cobblestone road or an old ruin? There's a place and purpose for every block, even the damned jungle planks, because every aesthetic style is different. What makes a block good for building, therefore, depends on exactly what you're going for (and I never go for jungle planks).
Yeah, I love the idea of "If you don't like something, make it better".
The very mindset of innovation.
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In some respects Birch is my favorite tree. My favorite biomes for aesthetic purposes are Birch forests and Dark Oak forests.
I have never used Birch wood as the main building material for a large outpost, but a cozy birch cottage looks great in the proper setting. There are certain things I always use birch wood for so I always like to have a small supply on hand.
I always use birch wood to make gates. I usually make fences from oak because it is so common and because oak fencing is plentiful in abandoned mine shafts. It easier to spot a gate if the gate is made of light colored birch wood.
I also love using birch planks for floors or ceilings and for setting accents in combination with darker wood types.
The only problem I have with birch is that it takes more work to obtain than other common wood types. The trees are usually small and you have to chop down a huge amount to get a good supply of birch wood. I replant every single tree I chop down in the game (unless I am terraforming), so I need to collect all the saplings that fall and replant them as well.
My least favorite tree are the trees with hanging vines in swamp biomes. I think they are oaks but I hate the vines.
Interesting that so many of the replies are based on the writer's aesthetic opinion of the various woods…
I read the question as being one's favorite tree type (and further see the main selection criterion as being ease of logging [YMMV])…
By that standard birch would be my favorite tree type:
the player planted form grows a maximum of seven tall, so it is harvestable from the ground,
there are no branches that require attention when harvesting,
saplings drop at a rate that natural leaf decay effectively ensures a renewable supply (in contrast to jungle wood that must be grown as singles and needs fairly scrupulous attention to breaking leaf blocks with a Fortune3 tool to be sustainable).
Based on the utility of the wood, I'd go with oak largely because of the doors: oak is the only easily obtainable door type with a 'peep-hole'. [Acacia and jungle wood doors also have (functionally speaking) this feature, but neither type is particularly likely to be available early when the feature is most useful.]
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This brings up another interesting notion - one that too often gets mulled over due to preconceived impressions about certain building materials. For example, I highly dislike how cobblestone looks. I never use it... except when the style of the build calls for it. What if I am trying to emulate a cobblestone road or an old ruin? There's a place and purpose for every block, even the damned jungle planks, because every aesthetic style is different. What makes a block good for building, therefore, depends on exactly what you're going for (and I never go for jungle planks).
The very mindset of innovation.
Ye! Just imagine someone using every type of block in a single build... Now that's Innovation. lel. I just wonder if someone could pull it off,
Interesting that so many of the replies are based on the writer's aesthetic opinion of the various woods…
I read the question as being one's favorite tree type (and further see the main selection criterion as being ease of logging [YMMV])…
By that standard birch would be my favorite tree type:
the player planted form grows a maximum of seven tall, so it is harvestable from the ground,
there are no branches that require attention when harvesting,
saplings drop at a rate that natural leaf decay effectively ensures a renewable supply (in contrast to jungle wood that must be grown as singles and needs fairly scrupulous attention to breaking leaf blocks with a Fortune3 tool to be sustainable).
Based on the utility of the wood, I'd go with oak largely because of the doors: oak is the only easily obtainable door type with a 'peep-hole'. [Acacia and jungle wood doors also have (functionally speaking) this feature, but neither type is particularly likely to be available early when the feature is most useful.]
Very interesting, that answer is not from a building perspective at all, instead, it's an efficiency decision. I've seen you in a few forum posts your playstyle is very interesting!
I'd go with birch, mainly because it is my least-used type of wood, not necessarily because I don't like it; I've mainly used oak and spruce (as planks) for building (mainly floors) while I use jungle wood while caving (jungle is the best way to get a lot of wood in 1.6.4 and I use close to a stack of logs per caving session; I do not find the sapling drop rate to be an issue even without using Fortune on the leaves (it does take a while to accumulate a significant surplus though and I bring 16 with me to a new base for this reason). In my modded worlds, which have many more types of trees than 1.7+ has (not additional types of wood), I use 2x2 spruces (based on the ones in 1.7) to get wood for caving, as they are easier to harvest due to a lack of branches, as well as easier to find, than jungle trees.
I'd go with birch, mainly because it is my least-used type of wood, not necessarily because I don't like it; I've mainly used oak and spruce (as planks) for building (mainly floors) while I use jungle wood while caving (jungle is the best way to get a lot of wood in 1.6.4 and I use close to a stack of logs per caving session; I do not find the sapling drop rate to be an issue even without using Fortune on the leaves (it does take a while to accumulate a significant surplus though and I bring 16 with me to a new base for this reason). In my modded worlds, which have many more types of trees than 1.7+ has (not additional types of wood), I use 2x2 spruces (based on the ones in 1.7) to get wood for caving, as they are easier to harvest due to a lack of branches, as well as easier to find, than jungle trees.
Cool Cool! Wait you play in 1.6.4? are you in another version other than java, or do you just like to play older Minecraft versions?
From a tree perspective, I don't like how Birch and Oak are just the same, but Birch is occasionally larger. If I designed the trees, they'd look something like this:
Birch should split into two or three branches near the base, while Oak should just have larger trees and not use the current, boring model.
As for the blocks themselves, I think Birch logs aren't that useful for construction even if Birch Wood is. The black specs just look kinda odd on the white texture, so it suffers from the same problem diorite has.
Jungle Wood has a strange off-red color that I find hard to integrate into builds, even as a "rotten wood" kind of block. Acacia Wood has this problem too, although it seems like if you have enough blocks of a similar palette you could use the wood there. Dark Oak is useful in dark builds, but it's way too dark. At a certain point if a texture is dark enough, it just looks like a glitchy lighting error.
Doorwise, I think Acacia and Jungle are again the least useful doors to match their wood types. This is kind of a shame because it means that not even in a situation where you can find a spot where Acacia or Jungle wood could be used, their door types are less useful in those situations.
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I don't think my video is really going to get many responses, which is fine, but I wanted to actually find out what you guys thought.
So in my latest video, I ask the question "What is your least favorite tree type", I also assert that the only proper answer is birch.
So what do you guys think about this? Whether it be for building or some other reason, what is your least favorite tree type?
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Birch is my favorite.
I really like the aesthetics.
OH NO! lol, its all subjective you know. I don't like birch, but It all cool that you do!
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For me it's jungle logs, I rarely use them Outside growing coca beans which I also hardly use, the only real time I use jungle planks is as an accent to something in builds. I like using Birch for nice clean modern floors, else I use them for sticks - but that's just the way I play/would start a new world. I would collect 17/18 oak logs for an initial stack of planks, crafting bench and wooden pick, but; collect however many birch logs for the sticks.
You can never have enough sticks!
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ye Always so annoying to run out of sticks especially when you are down in a mine. It's interesting that you use birch for modern floors, tbh I am not much of a builder. Anyways interesting stuff.
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Between jungle planks and acacia logs for me... I find both difficult to implement cohesively in any build. Birch is one of my favorites alongside spruce logs and dark oak planks. Acacia planks are also good if you want to make candy-coated houses or something...
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Jungle for me. The plank texture is really pink and ugly in my opinion. The log texture is ok but I find it really hard to implement both into my building style. I use birch for a clean, bright feel, and acacia if I want some colour. Acacia logs for the grey texture too.
I think the birch and the dark oak, mainly because they seem to have the least variety of tree models.
But I think all vanilla trees can get are a bit boring, and anyway I love trees so much I tend to make custom ones like these:
Btw, if anyone with tree knowledge who could help me classify the last one I'd be really grateful!
As for planks and so on I have found uses for all of them and think their usefulness depends mostly on the build, what other materials are used.
I really like that the doors and trap doors have different textures now. Birch trap doors for example make great kitchen/food trays in my opinion.
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Dark Oak, Birch and Spruce are my favourite ones. Acacia on the other hand... Oh god...
You can actually make mega-trees of each tree type by making a 2x2 platform of the appropriate logs and then planting 4 saplings on top.
This is a pretty cool effect, acacias are especially weird.
So you like most of them, just not jungle and acaicia. It's interesting how you bring up really how you like certain types in certain situations makes sense I just don't build much tbh lol.
Interesting I think most Jungle is the least popular, from what people in the post have been saying. I feel like I just don't run into a jungle very often tbh.
Yeah, I love the idea of "If you don't like something, make it better".Thosee are some nice tree textures btw!
Ye I also don't much like Acacia.
Oh Cool! I didn't release that you needed to place the logs now, to do that. Cool!
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This brings up another interesting notion - one that too often gets mulled over due to preconceived impressions about certain building materials. For example, I highly dislike how cobblestone looks. I never use it... except when the style of the build calls for it. What if I am trying to emulate a cobblestone road or an old ruin? There's a place and purpose for every block, even the damned jungle planks, because every aesthetic style is different. What makes a block good for building, therefore, depends on exactly what you're going for (and I never go for jungle planks).
The very mindset of innovation.
LP series? Not my style! Video series? Closer, but not quite. Survival journal, maybe? That's better. Now in Season 4 of the Legends of Quintropolis Journal (<< click to view)!! World download and more can be found there.
In some respects Birch is my favorite tree. My favorite biomes for aesthetic purposes are Birch forests and Dark Oak forests.
I have never used Birch wood as the main building material for a large outpost, but a cozy birch cottage looks great in the proper setting. There are certain things I always use birch wood for so I always like to have a small supply on hand.
I always use birch wood to make gates. I usually make fences from oak because it is so common and because oak fencing is plentiful in abandoned mine shafts. It easier to spot a gate if the gate is made of light colored birch wood.
I also love using birch planks for floors or ceilings and for setting accents in combination with darker wood types.
The only problem I have with birch is that it takes more work to obtain than other common wood types. The trees are usually small and you have to chop down a huge amount to get a good supply of birch wood. I replant every single tree I chop down in the game (unless I am terraforming), so I need to collect all the saplings that fall and replant them as well.
My least favorite tree are the trees with hanging vines in swamp biomes. I think they are oaks but I hate the vines.
Interesting that so many of the replies are based on the writer's aesthetic opinion of the various woods…
I read the question as being one's favorite tree type (and further see the main selection criterion as being ease of logging [YMMV])…
By that standard birch would be my favorite tree type:
Based on the utility of the wood, I'd go with oak largely because of the doors: oak is the only easily obtainable door type with a 'peep-hole'. [Acacia and jungle wood doors also have (functionally speaking) this feature, but neither type is particularly likely to be available early when the feature is most useful.]
Ye! Just imagine someone using every type of block in a single build... Now that's Innovation. lel. I just wonder if someone could pull it off,
Very interesting, that answer is not from a building perspective at all, instead, it's an efficiency decision. I've seen you in a few forum posts your playstyle is very interesting!
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I'd go with birch, mainly because it is my least-used type of wood, not necessarily because I don't like it; I've mainly used oak and spruce (as planks) for building (mainly floors) while I use jungle wood while caving (jungle is the best way to get a lot of wood in 1.6.4 and I use close to a stack of logs per caving session; I do not find the sapling drop rate to be an issue even without using Fortune on the leaves (it does take a while to accumulate a significant surplus though and I bring 16 with me to a new base for this reason). In my modded worlds, which have many more types of trees than 1.7+ has (not additional types of wood), I use 2x2 spruces (based on the ones in 1.7) to get wood for caving, as they are easier to harvest due to a lack of branches, as well as easier to find, than jungle trees.
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You can hang cocoa pods on jungle wood for a trippy lantern look. If this is at the top of your wall, spiders cannot get over your wall.
Acacia is pretty much the worst for harvesting, big oak trees as well though. Jungle is bad from sustainability standpoint.
But I like all of them, because if you go big, it's more efficient.
What are you saying that your tree farms have all tree types in them? That sounds interesting lol.
Cool Cool! Wait you play in 1.6.4? are you in another version other than java, or do you just like to play older Minecraft versions?
Ooohoh, spider-proofing. fancy!
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From a tree perspective, I don't like how Birch and Oak are just the same, but Birch is occasionally larger. If I designed the trees, they'd look something like this:
Birch should split into two or three branches near the base, while Oak should just have larger trees and not use the current, boring model.
As for the blocks themselves, I think Birch logs aren't that useful for construction even if Birch Wood is. The black specs just look kinda odd on the white texture, so it suffers from the same problem diorite has.
Jungle Wood has a strange off-red color that I find hard to integrate into builds, even as a "rotten wood" kind of block. Acacia Wood has this problem too, although it seems like if you have enough blocks of a similar palette you could use the wood there. Dark Oak is useful in dark builds, but it's way too dark. At a certain point if a texture is dark enough, it just looks like a glitchy lighting error.
Doorwise, I think Acacia and Jungle are again the least useful doors to match their wood types. This is kind of a shame because it means that not even in a situation where you can find a spot where Acacia or Jungle wood could be used, their door types are less useful in those situations.
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