Spruce

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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 (and variants), but they may also generate in windswept forests, snowy plains, and groves.

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.
• Pines are a fairly tall variant of spruces which generate in a matchstick style, with only a few leaves at the top, with a rare variant which is small. They can't be grown from spruce saplings.
• Mega spruces are larger variants of spruces which generate in the old growth spruce taiga and rarely in the old growth pine taiga. They have considerably more leaves than the mega pine.
• Mega pines are a larger variant of pines which generate only 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.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

• 👁 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.
  
  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.
  
  Mega spruce with canopies in different shapes.

The spruce variants spawn naturally in the indicated biomes, ordered in density:

In groves, spruces grow on an additional block of dirt in the snow block terrain. In ice spikes, no blocks generate where trees can grow, but they might leak on biome borders.

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.

These items can be obtained from all variants of spruce.

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

Spruce saplings may be planted and grown on:

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; that is, a sapling planted in a hole 2 blocks deep can still grow.

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, the three adjacent blocks outside the northwest corner of the square must be clear. Also, there must be an unobstructed 5×5 column of blocks centered on the northwestern sapling, starting from the top of the sapling and at least 14 blocks tall (15 blocks including the sapling), or up to the final height of the tree, which can be 30 blocks above ground. Bone meal can be used on any of the saplings to accelerate growth.

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

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 spruce log.

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

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.

Java Edition:

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

• 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.

• 👁 The first image of an old growth taiga
  
  The first image of an old growth taiga
• 👁 Spruce trees
  
  Spruce trees
• 👁 Two dying spruce trees in a taiga
  
  Two dying spruce trees in a taiga
• 👁 A snowy spruce forest on the left
  
  A snowy spruce forest on the left
• 👁 A spruce forest in the snowy taiga
  
  A spruce forest in the snowy taiga
• 👁 Numerous spruce trees
  
  Numerous spruce trees
• 👁 Pine forest
  
  Pine forest
• 👁 The difference between a pine and a spruce
  
  The difference between a pine and a spruce
• 👁 A lollipop pine tree
  
  A lollipop pine tree