Spruce

Spruce / Pine

Tree

Sapling

Biomes	Grove (pine) Old Growth Pine Taiga (pine) Old Growth Spruce Taiga (pine) Snowy Plains Snowy Taiga (pine) Taiga (pine) Windswept Forest Windswept Hills‌
Grows on	Dirt Grass Block Coarse Dirt Podzol Moss Block Mycelium
Fruit	None
Generates in existing chunks	Yes
Consists of	Spruce Log Spruce Leaves Vines‌ (dying trees)

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Spruces and pines are trees with dark bark and brown wood. They have growth patterns and requirements similar to birches, although they appear different. They are mainly found in the taiga biome, but they may also generate in windswept forests, windswept hills‌, snowy plains, snowy taigas, old growth taigas, and groves.

Appearance

Spruces come in several different variants with different properties:

• Spruces are the most common variant with a height between 5 and 12 blocks. The leaves tend to grow in discrete rows rather than the more spherical arrangement of oaks and birch trees. In Bedrock Edition, only this variant can be grown using saplings.
• Pines are a fairly tall variant of spruces which generate in a matchstick style, with only a few leaves at the top.
• Mega spruces are larger variants of spruces which generate in the old growth spruce taiga. They have considerably more leaves than the mega pine. In Bedrock Edition, only this variant can be grown using saplings.
• Mega pines are a larger variant of pines which generate in the old growth pine taiga. These pines have few leaves, concentrated at the top, and can be grown from spruce saplings arranged in a 2×2 square, with or without bone meal.

• 
  Comparison of mega spruce and mega pine sizes from different biomes, left to right: old growth pine taiga, old growth spruce taiga, and a regular spruce tree.
• 
  Mega spruce with canopies in different shapes.

Generation

The spruce variants spawn naturally in the indicated biomes:

Biome	Spruce	Mega Spruce	Pine	Mega Pine
Grove	Yes	No	Yes	No
Old Growth Pine Taiga	Yes	Yes‌	Yes	Yes
Old Growth Spruce Taiga	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes‌
Snowy Plains	Yes	No	No	No
Snowy Taiga	Yes	No	Yes	No
Taiga	Yes	No	Yes	No
Windswept Forest	Yes	No	No	No
Windswept Hills‌	Yes	No	No	No

In an amplified taiga or old growth taiga, some of the spruces generate with snow on them, just like in the other cold biomes.

When mega spruces grow, they convert any grass blocks, dirt, mycelium, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, mud, muddy mangrove roots, moss blocks and pale moss blocks up to a radius of 6 blocks to podzol, centered on the south-eastern sapling.

Like birches, they do not grow branches. When height-constrained, the trunk height maximum is two less than the roof. The headroom of 9 blocks limits the tree to a trunk height of 7, which enables harvesting from ground level.

Blocks and items

These items can be obtained from all variants of spruce.

• Spruce Log (harvested with any tool including hands)
• Spruce Leaves (harvested with shears)
• Stick (chance of dropping when breaking leaves)
• Spruce Planks (created from a log in the inventory crafting grid)
• Spruce Wood (created from logs in the inventory crafting grid)
• Stripped Spruce Log (created by using an axe on a log)
• Stripped Spruce Wood (created by using an axe on wood)
• Spruce Sapling (chance of dropping when breaking leaves)
• Vines‌ (harvested with shears from dying trees)

Planting

Spruce saplings may be planted and grown on:

• Dirt
• Grass Block
• Coarse Dirt
• Podzol
• Mycelium
• Rooted Dirt
• Moss Block
• Pale Moss Block
• Farmland
• Mud
• Muddy Mangrove Roots

In order to grow a 2×2 tree (be it mega spruce or mega pine), four saplings must be placed adjacent to each other in a square. For growth to succeed, there must be no blocks adjacent (even diagonally) to the north-western side up to the final height of the tree. Bone meal can be used on any of the saplings. The largest mega spruces and mega pines reach 30 blocks tall.

1×1 spruces require a 5×5 column of unobstructed space at least 7 blocks above the sapling to grow (8 blocks including the sapling itself). No horizontal clearance is needed at the base of the tree and 1 level above (a sapling planted in a hole 2 blocks deep can still grow).

2×2 mega spruces require a 5×5 column of unobstructed space at least 14 blocks above the saplings to grow (15 blocks including the saplings themselves). This column is centered on the northwestern sapling. A 3×3 area is required at the base of the tree (the level of the saplings).

2x2 spruce trees convert nearby dirt type blocks to Podzol when grown.

Other spruce variants

Spruce trees can generate as one of the two following variants of the normal tree. Both of these generate naturally, and can be grown out of normal saplings.^[1][2]

Fallen spruces and pines

A fallen spruce may consist of a single upright log, or a stump. Logs lying on their side are often found 1–2 blocks from the stump. They occasionally have mushrooms on top.

A fallen spruce log has a length of 6–10 blocks, and the stump is never covered with vines.

Dying spruces

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.

 

Dying spruces and dying pines retain their standard growth pattern. However, all exposed logs in the main trunk are covered with vines.

Foliage colors

Spruce leaves do not follow the foliage color rules that cause the trees to appear in different colors in different biomes. Spruce leaves are always the same color regardless of the biome. In Bedrock Edition, however, they turn white as other leaves do during snowfall in snowy biomes.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier
[No displayed name]	mega_pine
[No displayed name]	mega_spruce
[No displayed name]	pine
[No displayed name]	spruce

Config

History

Issues

Issues relating to "Spruce" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• In real life, "spruce" refers to any member of the Picea genus of trees.
  • Although the leaves of real-life spruce trees are typically referred to as "needles", the leaves of spruce trees in Minecraft are still called "spruce leaves" as well as producing leaf particles and being able to be smelted into leaf litter.

Gallery

• 
  The first image of an old growth taiga.
• 
  Spruce trees
• 
  Two dying spruce trees in a taiga.
• 
  An oak tree loaded after birch and spruce were added.
• 
  A snowy spruce forest on the left.
• 
  A spruce forest in the snowy taiga.
• 
  Numerous spruce trees.
• 
  Pine forest.
• 
  The difference between a pine and a spruce.

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