Gardening and biome trees

The same oak sapling can grow a different tree when you plant it in a different biome. At home, a flower pot can hold far more than a small flower. These additions use ordinary plants and blocks, with no special seed to craft.

Grow a tree for its biome

Collect a normal sapling, then plant it in a biome with a matching tree. Plant it without sneaking to select the local tree style. For example, a birch sapling in an autumnal forest selects its autumnal tree, while a jungle sapling in a rainforest selects a rainforest tree. The supported placements also include oak, dark oak, cherry, and other birch and jungle settings. Growth uses the sapling's normal growth steps, including bone meal.

The biome and sapling type both matter. Planting the same sapling at a different location can select a different tree, while planting a species the biome does not support follows ordinary growth. Sneaking while placing bypasses the local tree selection. There is no separate biome-sapling item to carry home, and a sapling planted outside its matching biome does not remember a foreign tree style.

Cut new flower pot styles

Put one flower pot in a stonecutter. It offers 44 styles, each costing one flower pot for one styled pot:

• Red, Blue, Green, Purple, and Terracotta.
• Clean Red, Clean White, Decorated, and Petals.
• Dark, Light, and Modern.
• Azalea, Bloom, Cauldron, Composter, Wave, Glass, Paper, Porcelain, Pot, Barrel, Basket, Heart, Black, Bucket, Bronze, and Gold.
• Terracotta pots in all 16 dye colors.

You can cut a styled pot back into an ordinary flower pot in the stonecutter. The same stonecutter also offers an open-looking barrel style from a barrel.

Stand on an empty pot, hold a plant in your main hand, and sneak to place a display plant. The action triggers while you hold the item; no right-click is needed. The added plant choices go well beyond vanilla pots:

• Tall plants: sunflower, lilac, rose bush, peony, pitcher plant, tall grass, and large fern.
• Foliage: leaves, vines, mangrove roots, moss, dripleaf, and hanging roots.
• Farm plants: wheat, carrot, potato, beetroot, nether wart, and sugar cane.
• Water and unusual plants: kelp, seagrass, coral, spore blossom, sea pickle, chorus flower, and pale garden plants.

The same display method also works with ordinary flower pots, decorated pots, and some larger containers such as cauldrons, composters, and barrels. A displayed crop or leaf is decoration; it is not a growing farm block. Stand on a planted pot with a stick in your main hand, then sneak to rotate plants that support rotation. This also needs no right-click.

For a smaller cauldron or composter planter, hold that block in your main hand and a soil block in your offhand, then sneak while placing it. The soil appears inside the half-height planter. Right-click the planter with another soil block to change the fill. The soil choices include dirt, sand, moss, stone, and many other blocks.

Flower a lily pad

Place a lily pad on water, then right-click its top while holding a cactus flower or spore blossom. Either becomes a decoration on the pad. Coral fans, lanterns, and torches work too. You can place one to four candles of the same type on a pad; add more by right-clicking the first candle. Light them in place with flint and steel or a fire charge, and right-click to put them out. Lit candles, lanterns, and torches shine over the water.

A copper lantern on a pad changes color as it weathers. Right-click it with honeycomb to keep its current finish, or use an axe to scrape it back. A waxed lantern can be scraped to remove the wax.

These are decorations on an existing lily pad, not a new kind of solid pond floor. The pad still needs water beneath it. For other ways to present a plant or a find, see display cases and decor.

See also

• Pig Tractors for tilling and replanting field crops
• Biomes & terrain for places to look for tree styles
• Display cases & decor for indoor displays