Productive Trees

Getting started

Almost every tree starts from vanilla ones. Oak and birch give a Beech or a Silver Lime, dark oak and jungle a Teak, spruce and birch a European Larch. Those are the parents of most of the rest.

Set up a beehive with bees and flowers, and plant the two parent trees so their leaves are within four blocks of the hive. Each time a bee comes home from a flower, it may pollinate a leaf. Break that leaf and it drops the new sapling. JEI's Tree Pollination tab lists every pair.

Saplings grow on dirt, grass or farmland, and bone meal works on them. Leaves drop their own sapling like vanilla leaves do, so one grown tree gives you more.

Breeding trees with bees

• Any beehive works, a vanilla one or a Productive Bees Advanced Beehive.
• The bees look at the leaves in a cube four blocks out from the hive. Each Range upgrade in an Advanced Beehive adds two blocks.
• A pollination is tried every time a bee returns with honey, so bees need flowers nearby.
• If several pairs fit, one is picked at random each time and rolls its chance: 50% for Beech, 10% for most trees, 5% for the rarer ones.
• A pollinated leaf never decays. Hold a Spyglass to see green sparkles on it.
• Break it with anything and the new sapling drops.

Keep only the two trees you want near the hive. Every extra kind of leaf adds pairs, and the roll may go to a cross you didn't want. Advanced Beehives also come in every Productive Trees wood, like the Advanced Rubber Tree Beehive.

Pollen and the Allergy Bee

Pollen carries one kind of leaf. In ATM10 it comes from the Pollen Sieve upgrade in an Advanced Beehive with an Expansion Box: on 2 bee trips in 100 the hive gets a pollen of a random leaf in range. More than one sieve doesn't help.

Use pollen on a leaf of the other parent and that leaf is pollinated at once, with no chance to miss. If the two make no new tree, the leaf holds a sapling of one of the two instead. That is the sure way to a 5% tree.

Use Pollen on a vanilla bee and 1 time in 10 it becomes an Allergy Bee. It feeds on leaves, makes no comb, and is five times as likely to pollinate and to bring back pollen.

Mutations

A few trees have no breeding pair. When a sapling of the tree before them grows, it has a 5% chance to grow into the next one instead. Plant many saplings and grow them in the world: a Botany Pot never mutates.

Crepe myrtle

Purple to Red to Tuscarora to Moonlight Magic.

Ipe

Ipe to White Ipe to Pink Ipe to Purple Ipe.

Beech

Beech to Copper Beech.

Blackthorn

Blackthorn to Purple Blackthorn.

The special saplings

Six glowing or odd trees can't be bred from anything. Their saplings are extra loot in vanilla structures, rolled once when the chest is first opened.

Soul Tree

Soul Tree Sapling: End City treasure chests, 5%.

Black Ember

Black Ember Sapling: bastion treasure and hoglin stable chests, 30%.

Blue Yonder

Blue Yonder Sapling: shipwreck treasure chests, 30%.

Firecracker

Firecracker Sapling: ancient city chests, 15%.

Flickering Sun

Flickering Sun Sapling: desert pyramid chests, 15%.

Brown Amber

Brown Amber Sapling: brushing suspicious sand or gravel in cold ocean ruins, 10%.

In ATM10 the Bumblezone's Bee Queen also takes Pollen in trade. Most trades give Sawdust, and each of the six saplings comes up about once in 100.

Crossed with each other at 5%, they make the rest of the glowing trees: Firecracker and Soul Tree give Sparkle Cherry, Blue Yonder and Soul Tree give Water Wonder, Blue Yonder and Flickering Sun give Rippling Willow, Black Ember and Soul Tree give Cave Dweller. From those come Time Traveller, Slimy Delight, Thunder Bolt and more.

Growing trees

Some trees only grow from a square of saplings. A 2x2 grows the big form of many trees and is the only way for an Elm. Brown Amber and Cave Dweller need 3x3, a Sequoia 5x5. A larger square still grows a giant.

In a Botany Pot every sapling gives two logs and a leaf block per harvest, fruit trees their fruit too, and its own sapling 5% of the time. Fruit trees grow fruit on their leaves: right-click a ripe one to pick it, and bone meal ripens it faster. Nuts and coffee beans roast in a furnace or smoker.

Stripper, Sawmill and sawdust

Stripper

Stripper: logs in, stripped logs out, every half second. It needs an axe, which wears down. With Speed upgrades it strips four logs at a time for each upgrade.

Sawmill

Sawmill: one log into six planks and two Sawdust in ten seconds, with no power. Speed upgrades make it faster.

Some trees give more. Stripping Cinnamon logs drops Cinnamon, Cork Oak drops Cork and Slimy Delight drops slime balls, by hand or in the Stripper. The Sawmill adds Haematoxylin from Logwood and Brazilwood, and Fustic from Old Fustic.

In ATM10 every log with a planks recipe also has a Sawmill recipe, and a Mekanism Precision Sawmill cuts Productive Trees logs too.

Rubber, maple syrup and saps

ATM10 includes Tree Tap. A Tap on the trunk of a grown tree draws from it, and JEI's Tree Tapping tab lists what each tree gives.

Rubber Tree

Rubber, which smelts into Cured Rubber.

Sugar Maple

Maple Sap in a bucket, which smelts into Maple Syrup.

Socotra Dragon

Dracaena Sap in a glass bottle, a red dye.

Sandalwood

Sandalwood Oil in a glass bottle.

Date Palm

Date Palm Juice in a glass bottle.

What ATM10 uses them for

• A Socotra Dragon Sapling goes into the Dragon Soul, one part of the ATM Star.
• A Moonlight Magic Crepe Myrtle Sapling goes into one of the two recipes for ATM10's Magical Soil.
• Cured Rubber is the only rubber in ATM10 that makes Mystical Agriculture's Rubber Seeds.
• The Pollen Sifter in the book is not in ATM10: it exists only for packs without Productive Bees. Use the Pollen Sieve upgrade.

Questions