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Underwater Trees

Underwater Trees

Allows placing and growing tree saplings underwater with optional lightning requirements override.

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Compatibility

Minecraft: Java Edition

1.21.x

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hro_basti
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Details

Licensed Apache-2.0
Published 2 weeks ago
Updated last week

Let your players plant saplings below the surface without weird hacks. Underwater Trees keeps placement safe, auto-replants when you want it, and locks configs down so griefing doesn't spiral out of control.

Underwater Trees demo

Why server owners love it

  • 🌱 Custom soil + sapling allowlists mean only the trees you approve can grow underwater.
  • 🛡️ Stability guard cancels physics + fluid breakage so underwater builds stay intact.
  • 💡 Optional light override keeps saplings alive even in deep oceans.
  • 🔁 Live reload + config watcher merge new defaults automatically—edit, save, done.
  • 🔔 Update checker (Modrinth + Hangar) and join reminders keep your fleet current.
  • 🌐 MiniMessage-powered localization lets you style player + console feedback exactly the way you like.

Requirements

  • Paper 1.21.x server (Spigot/vanilla forks are not supported).
  • Java 21 runtime.
  • Optional: a permissions plugin (LuckPerms, etc.) for fine-grained access to /timberella commands.

Setup in 3 steps

  1. Drop underwatertrees-paper-<version>.jar into plugins/.
  2. Start the server once. config.yml, lang/, and defaults appear under plugins/UnderwaterTrees/.
  3. Adjust the config (materials, chat prefix, watcher flags) and run /underwatertrees reload.

From here the async watcher keeps your external edits synced, and reloads also refresh listeners, locales, and update status.

Everyday tips

  • Use saplings/soils maps to whitelist exactly what blocks are allowed underwater—unknown materials are ignored safely.
  • protect-underwater-saplings shields saplings from physics until your placement rules are broken; leave it on for survival worlds.
  • Enable log-detail temporarily to print a full list of active materials and catch typos fast.
  • Set update-check.notify-console + update-check.notify-op-join to true so updates are surfaced automatically, and flip update-check.notify-console-always-shown if you still want no-update provider summaries.
  • Metrics (metrics-enabled) and update checks (update-check.enabled) are opt-out friendly if your policy requires it.

Supported languages

Underwater Trees bundles each locale as a MiniMessage YAML file so you can recolor or restyle them freely:

  • 🇺🇸 English (en_US)
  • 🇩🇪 German (de_DE)
  • 🇸🇦 Arabic (ar_SA)
  • 🇪🇸 Spanish (es_ES)
  • 🇫🇷 French (fr_FR)
  • 🇮🇹 Italian (it_IT)
  • 🇯🇵 Japanese (ja_JP)
  • 🇰🇷 Korean (ko_KR)
  • 🇳🇱 Dutch (nl_NL)
  • 🇵🇱 Polish (pl_PL)
  • 🇵🇹 Portuguese (pt_PT)
  • 🇹🇷 Turkish (tr_TR)
  • 🇺🇦 Ukrainian (uk_UA)
  • 🇨🇳 Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)

Need deeper guidance?

This README keeps things short on purpose. All developer and deep-dive documentation (config matrices, command charts, operations guides) lives in the project wiki. Start there whenever you need advanced workflows or contribution notes.

License & Credits

  • Underwater Trees is released under the Apache License 2.0 (see LICENSE).
  • Third-party components (MiniMessage MIT, bStats MIT, etc.) are acknowledged inside THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md and the bundled licenses/ directory.
  • Parts of this plugin and documentation were produced with AI assistance (e.g., GitHub Copilot) and reviewed by the maintainer before release.