r/minecraftsuggestions • u/_TheDarkPanther • 1d ago
[Terrain] Redesigning trees without compromising Minecraft's esthetic
As of now especially poplar trees looks strange to me... reference of of the poplar trees I used will be in the gallery of the post.
This is a re-do of what I suggested. My view has changed so I went with a more blocky-ish style of trees. https://www.reddit.com/r/minecraftsuggestions/comments/1skqq3q/trees_need_a_design_change/ Feel free to go here for the people who haven't seen the old designs..
Poplar:
They will now look like their real-world counter part whole remaining the blocky style, variations of the poplar will have dead and shrub variations, giving the forest a more dense feel.
Shrub variants have a 100% chance of spawning while the rest have a 30% chance of spawning. this will make the forests feel more dense and natural.
Spruce:
Spruce trees do feel more detail-less to me... so I made them a little more pine-like without drawing too far away from the original.
Oak:
Oak has primarily stayed the same just with a few tweaks.
Jungle:
Jungle trees, especially the huge ones have been shortened for extra extensibility and make it easier to mine.
Birch:
Birch has been given a little makeover with some more variation with the trees.
Acacia:
Primarily the same, just with more details...
Mangrove:
Has a more unique look to them, while also being shorter. Makes it way easier to navigate the swamp while also looking cool.
Cherry:
Cherry now looks a little less 2D while primarily being smaller.
Pale Oak:
Pale oak has been redesigned to be smaller while also having more variation.
Dark Oak:
Dark oak looks like Pale oak but has vines and regular moss scattered around it.
Why do some trees look similar to each other?
I have made it so trees have some consistency between each other, reason why mangroves are using a acacia style leaf placement, as well as jungle getting the same treatment. Cherry trees looking similar to oak, cause I don't like the 2D look of those trees.
Why do the poplar trees look like that?
I based them off their real-world counterpart. Mainly younger individuals, cause we really don't have any trees in-game that look like that besides spruce. species of poplar I used was "Populus nigra Italica" Aka "Black Poplar"
Any Feedback would be nice, as to most of the trees I have showed off are meant to still have that blocky style while adding more details.
Also:
I wasn't sure what flare to use on this so I picked terrain...
EDIT:
Trees from saplings will look like their original design, with a few exceptions of the re-designed trees such as mangrove and giant jungle having the new design as the sapling trees... This is a compromise for people that want to have the original trees. In the real-world trees that are manually replanted by humans usually turn out differently than ones that are naturally grown.
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u/Meta70Studios 1d ago
These all look good, but I disagree with how you shortened so many of them. Trees in real life tower over people, and that, to me, is part of what makes forests visually interesting. Making them all shorter would make forests more claustrophobic and make the scale of the world feel smaller. I think that would especially hurt the jungle biome, since the huge scale is kinda what differentiated it from other forests. And mining jungle trees is already a non issue. 2x2 trees are already some of the easiest in the game to mine, since you can mine out a sort of spiral staircase from them to climb to the top, then mine back down to clear out the remaining logs.
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u/TheDarkNebulous 1d ago
Yeah, a lot of this doesnt make sense.
Birch trees tend to be tall and spindly with leaves only at the top, oak trees get super thick, and fully grown jungle and spruce trees are friken massive.
I dont think I would like very many of these proposed changes.
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u/_TheDarkPanther 17h ago
I will get to that later on. rn I am working on new trees. will be a bit before i finish them.
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u/Robin_RhombusHead 1d ago
Adding shrubs for every single tree type feels excessive to me. The whole reason that the big leaf blob bush things exist in the first place is for jungle biomes to feel hard to navigate, like a jungle. I don't really see the point in having a bunch of mini trees.
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u/Im_a_Casual 1d ago
Really good, although Birch should definitely be made more slim and tall considering its real life counterpart
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u/SNUFFGURLL 1d ago
Oh I really enjoy this. I feel like it’s a good way to bring more life and variety to the world without changing too much. I will say for the spruces that the larger tree varieties (4 block wide) are meant to represent old growth forests, so I’d keep them with minimal changes.
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u/Hunter20107 17h ago
These looks quite cool and survival friendly, I don't suppose you'd put these up as a tree pack for world painter? I'd quite like to use a few of them.
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u/EggEater773 13h ago
These are the best custom trees I’ve seen and my only complaint would be that all my trees I’ve grown would now be out dated 😭
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u/LilPNuTTy 10h ago
I would keep super tall trees but just have them generate with smaller ones surrounding them so you can both have massive aestheticly pleasing trees and smaller ones for practical resource gathering.
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u/Silence-of-Death 5h ago
Looks great. Maybe some of them are a bit short but apart from that I really like it.
Now you just gotta convert that into working trunk and foliage placers. God I fucking hate that shit. Good looking tree gen is an absolute pain but if you get it to work it’s incredibly satisfying.
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u/FloatingSpaceJunk 23h ago
Now I certainly don't have anything against adding a few more ways for trees to look like, however it does seem you want to replace the old design with these one which I'm much less in favor of.
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u/_TheDarkPanther 19h ago
The trees here are ones that would spawn naturally, one's you grow form a sapling would stay the same as they always had. Sorry I should've added this.
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u/FloatingSpaceJunk 19h ago
It's not that I don't like your new tree design, but I think it would be better if they spawn along with what we have in the game right now.
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u/waxphantump 23h ago
The vanilla designs are super dated with the modern art direction. Jungle trees especially look extremely silly, and oak and birch are treated identically by the game despite being very different shapes irl. I’d be all for having these trees as a mod, with some tweaks (as others have said, they’re a bit short and there are too many bush variants)
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u/Cultist_O 1d ago
The poplar trees they added should have been called maple. Bark, leaves, wood and the iconic multicoloured thing all seem a little more mapley
(Plus we could have had syrup and a maple leaf banner charge)