Deciduous Trees

Features (more than you'd think)

Summarized by users: "Real leaf fall! Falling leaves! REAL!!!!!! PEAK!"

• Highly performant with little overhead, you actually stand to gain FPS during winter now (only without eco). It's light on servers too!
  
  
• Realistic seasonal leaf drop, as well as spring flowering stages and slow spring leaf-out.
  
  
• Local temperatures that realistically influence the leaf drop, which create microclimates along seasonal altitude bands. Mountains stay bare longer, valleys green out sooner.
  
  
• Different tree species react differently to the temperature changes.
  
  
• Fluttering falling leaf particles that blow in the wind and are tree specific.
  
  
• Our own in-house procedural branches with vanilla aesthetics in mind. Don't worry, we're trying not to cramp Eco Machina's style, they touch logs, while we touch the leaves. If you prefer Eco, no worries, both mods run fine with each other.
  
  
• Snow falls through the canopy and even lands where leaves are hidden. Did I mention it all melts even with leaf blocks overhead?
  
  
• Fancy pine boughs! They slope and look realstically piney. These shapes are parted-out from the Florasphere mod so that Pafnutiy's work lives on. Go send Pafnutiy kind wishes.
  
  
• Leaf only trees, or "young trees", now show as having a trunk of their own in winter, despite not being made of wood.
  
  
• You can walk and build through bare trees. Hidden leaves have no collision, and you can build into them like tall grass. Leaves you can see still block placement like vanilla.
  
  
• Weather can go through bare trees. Rain, splashes and dust pass through bare canopies, and hidden leaves stop dripping water.
• Trees of the same species shed and leaf out a few days apart, so a forest turns gradually instead of all at once.
  
  
• Placing a Bony Soil block beneath a tree trunk makes that tree visually appear bare year-round.
  
  
• High mod compatibility works out of the box with modded trees, but you may have to tweak the config to make your evergreens ever green.
• Speaking of configs, highly customizable and easy to read configs to tailor your experience.
  
  
• No added blocks, no blocks removed, so your save won't get corrupted if you uninstall.
  
  
• There may be a hidden Halloween day (IRL time) easter egg...

FAQ - Read this before you submit a bug report, please

Note: This is largely a personal mod, this mod gives me massive headaches and I probably won't be too active on it. I also reserve full rights to say "no" on bad ideas for it.

Performance
Q. Well, how is performance?
Since 2.0, performance has been borderline supernatural.

Q. Why? Show chart.
A. It's simply much lighter and I got better at coding. Each tree’s branch layout is worked out once and reused, instead of being recalculated every time its chunk redraws. Hidden leaves also stopped sending invisible geometry to your GPU.

Work per tree, each time its chunk redraws (lower is better)

DT 1.9.1, autumn       ████████████████████████████████████████  1.82 ms*
DT 1.9.1, winter       ███████████                               0.50 ms*
DT 2.0, autumn         ███████                                   0.31 ms
DT 2.0, winter         ██████████                                0.44 ms

*Average of 12 vanilla oak, maple, birch and walnut trees.

Mod Compatibility Section

Q. Does this mod need Eco Machina to run?
A. No. Since 2.0, Deciduous Trees draws its own bare branches. Eco Machina is still supported if you prefer its curvy trunk-based-branches rather than our leaf-based-branches.

Q. What happens if I don’t use Eco Machina?
A. Bare trees get vanilla-style branches that grow out of the trunk and fork into twig fans. The fans pick up the color of each tree’s own bark, so birch and maple read greyer than oak. Compare pictures in the showcase to see both looks.

Q. What happens if I do use Eco Machina?
A. Eco draws the tree branches; Deciduous Trees handles the leaves, seasons and snow. Bushes without logs still get our twigs, since Eco leaves them bare. Turn that off with “EcoMachinaBushes”.

Q. Can I use foliage recolors, or mods that modify seasonal tint?
A. Yes! I made sure that mods like Natural Foliage are unbothered. I actually used that mod in the screenshots to display this in action.

Q. Does it work with Place on Slabs and Terrain Slabs?
A. Yes. Snow under bare trees and bushes lines up with slabs properly. I use both mods myself.

Q. Does it work with Leaf Litter?
A. Yes, they talk to each other. Litter builds up under trees as their leaves drop.

Q. Can I add or remove this mod from existing saves?
A. Yes! You can even remove the mod when the leaves are bare. They’re not actually removed, so your trees are safe. Snow that piled up under a canopy may stay if you uninstall mid-winter, it may be a good idea to thaw that first.

Q. Evergreens from modded trees lose their leaves?
A. I’m hesitant to include modded trees into the config by default as it would be playing favorites to the infinite number of tree adding mods. You can add the trees you want to keep leaves in the config yourself. In comments to this mod, MrFastZombie made a comprehensive list that is ready to use here (Wildcraft and FloralZones).

Gameplay Section

Q. I can’t target or break hidden leaves?
A. The leaves are still there, just hidden (physically removing them would lag your game). Turn on “HighlightHiddenLeaves” in your own client-side config, not the server config, to see and break them.

Q. Does snow fall through bare trees?
A. Yes. Snow lands on the ground under bare canopies and melts in spring like anywhere else. Ground-level leaves and bushes show snow around them too.

Q. Can I purposely kill a single tree?
A. Trees standing on bony soil are dead and stay bare. Turn it off with “DeadTreesOnBonySoil” if that secret feature bothers you.

Q. My trees are flowering?
A. In spring, bare twigs flower just before or as leaves return. Timing follows local warmth like everything else. Turn it off with “SpringFlowers”.

Q. My pine trees look different?
A. Vanilla pines use layered, drooping bough shapes from Florasphere by Pafnutiy, used with permission. Turn it off with “FancyPineBoughs” in the server config.

Q. Can I change how bare trees look?
A. Yes. “TwigDensity” thins the twig fans, “FanlessTrees” lists woods that get branches only, and “BareBranches” turns branches off entirely for plain hidden leaves (Herobrine-tree mode if you will).

Q. The falling leaf particles may make me lag, how heavy are they? Can I turn them off?
A. They were rebuilt from scratch for 2.0 are much lighter than they look. Lower “FallingLeafAmount” or turn them off with “ParticleFallingLeaves”.

Q. I am evil and do not like Fall or the gradual leaf shedding, can I turn it off?
A. Yes, much to my ire, it’s in the config as “AutumnDrop”. The mod will instead jump straight to winter mode when it gets too cold.

Q. I don’t want X type of tree to lose leaves, is there a way for me to exclude it?
A. Yes. Add it to “KeepLeavesTrees”.

Misc. Section

Q. Why did you make this mod?
A. I’ve always wanted to see actual desolate winters in a sandbox game. Fall is also my favorite season, and I look forward to it all year round. I’ve been trying to bribe people to make this mod for a while now, and since Eco Machina originally did the heavy lifting, I decided to try. I’m a finance bro by trade, not a coder. But homesickness for Michigan is sorta bridging the gap. By now, the mod no longer needs Eco Machina and I’ve grown as a programmer, solving the original hurdle that prevented me from making the mod. We’ve come full circle.

Q. If this mod falls out of date can I fork or patch it?
A. If I’m MIA for a while, you have the authority to patch, do not fork.