Dark Oak

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The dark oak is a type of tree with dark bark and wood, being a dark variant of oak. Dark oaks have thick trunks (2×2 blocks) and are found in the dark forest biome.

Dark oak trees generate with thick 2×2 trunks. Dirt blocks appear under the trunk if generated on a steep cliff. Dark oak trees nearly always generate with irregular logs connected to the trunk – these represent large branches.

Dark oak trees with trunks consisting of 1×1 dark oak logs, instead of 2×2, can be found in two types of rooms in woodland mansions: the tree chopping room, and the nature room. These are not generated elsewhere in the world, and cannot be grown from saplings.

• 👁 Tree chopping room.
  
  Tree chopping room.
• 👁 Nature room.
  
  Nature room.

Dark oaks spawn naturally only in the dark forest biome. A dark oak always generates with dirt under its trunk, even if it spawns partly or wholly over air or water blocks.

The ground surrounding naturally-generated dark oaks is covered by leaf litter.

These items can be obtained from all variants of dark oak:

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  Dark Oak Log (harvested with any tool including hands)
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  Dark Oak Leaves (harvested with shears)
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  Stick (chance of dropping when breaking leaves)
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  Dark Oak Planks (created from a log in the inventory crafting grid)
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  Stripped Dark Oak Log (created by using an axe on a log)
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  Dark Oak Sapling (chance of dropping when breaking leaves)
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  Apple (chance of dropping when breaking leaves)
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  Vines‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} (harvested with shears from a dying tree)

Dark oak saplings can be planted on:

Growing these trees requires four dark oak saplings arranged in a 2×2 grid; they do not grow if planted individually. Dark oak trees grow at a much faster rate than most other trees. They require a 3×3 column of unobstructed space at least 7 blocks above the northwestern sapling to grow (8 blocks including the sapling itself). Additionally, dark oak trees require 5×5 layers without obstruction for the top 3 layers of its final height. No horizontal clearance is needed at the base of the tree (saplings planted in a 2×2 hole 1 block deep still grow).

In Bedrock Edition, dark oaks can generate as a dying tree. Dying dark oaks generate naturally, and can be grown from normal saplings.^[1][2] A dying dark oak has the standard growth pattern of any other tree, however, all exposed logs in the main trunk are covered with vines.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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

• Dark oak is called 'big oak' in the 1.12 client.jar.

• 👁 A giant dark oak (left) and a giant jungle tree (right). The giant variety of spruce is not pictured.
  
  A giant dark oak (left) and a giant jungle tree (right). The giant variety of spruce is not pictured.
• 👁 A dark oak generated on a cliffside with dirt underneath.
  
  A dark oak generated on a cliffside with dirt underneath.