Tree felling

Vanilla tree-chopping is one log at a time. Climb up, chop the next log, climb back down, gather logs. Sunday Market replaces this with tree felling: chop any one log and the entire tree falls.

Logs land at your feet. Leaves clear automatically. A towering oak disappears in one click.

How it works

When you chop a log block with an axe (any axe — wood through netherite), the system:

Detects the connected tree (logs + adjacent leaves)
Verifies it's a real tree — enough logs and enough leaves nearby, not a player-built log structure
Breaks all the logs
Clears the leaves

Drops accumulate at the base of the tree. There's a size cap per fell, so a truly gigantic tree may take more than one swing — that's the server protecting itself, not a bug.

Toggle per-player

Default: enabled.

/atc

Toggle tree-felling on/off for yourself.

Some players prefer manual chopping for:

Surgical control in a forest where they only want a few logs
Building — they're harvesting placed logs and don't want them all to fall

Pairing patterns

Tree felling + auto-tool

Start chopping with anything in hand — auto-tool swings with your axe, and the fell triggers off it. One click, one tree.

Tree felling + auto-replant

The auto-plant tweak (see Quality of life) makes dropped saplings plant themselves after a short delay. So:

Chop a tree (auto-fell)
Gather the logs at the base
Saplings drop nearby
Saplings auto-plant after a moment
Trees re-grow on their own

Walk through a forest harvesting trees; they re-seed themselves behind you. Sustainable forestry.

What it doesn't do

Doesn't break a player-built log structure — too few leaves nearby
Doesn't break leaves player-placed (vanilla rule on placed-leaf data)
Doesn't break trees while crouching (in some configurations) — useful for "I want to chop just one log"

Wood types

Works on every tree wood type:

Oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak
Crimson and warped (Nether stems)
Mangrove, cherry, pale oak, bamboo

Building considerations

If you've built a structure with logs (a wooden cabin, a log fence), tree felling won't affect it because:

Most player log structures have too few leaves nearby
Most player log structures don't fit the "tree" shape
The system errs on the side of "leave it alone"

If you're worried, sneak-chop (some configs treat sneaking as "manual mode") or temporarily toggle tree felling off via /atc.

Performance notes

Felling a giant tree breaks a lot of blocks at once — on a busy server, that can be a small TPS dip. Be considerate:

Don't fell a giant tree right next to a busy area
Don't fell repeatedly in a loop (clear-cutting forests)
If staff asks you to slow down, do

For most everyday play, tree felling is invisible — a click, the tree falls, no perceptible lag.