Green Cuts
by AuxAtlas
Green Cuts is a server-side utility that replants saplings which players or machines drop on the ground, so forests regrow without manual planting.
What it does
When a sapling item lands on the ground, Green Cuts tries to plant it where it fell. If the spot cannot take a sapling, the item is nudged in a random direction and tried again after a short wait. After a couple of nudges without success, the sapling is marked as failed and handled like any normal dropped item. A sapling that does plant is placed after a delay set by the autoPlantDelay option, given in ticks.
A dropped stack is handled one sapling at a time: the first sapling is planted and removed from the stack, and the remaining saplings continue to be nudged around the planted tree. The mod is aimed at deforestation-focused survival multiplayer servers. Green Cuts is open source under the MIT License and needs no client-side install, so players join without it. Files are published for Fabric and NeoForge, covering 1.21.1 – 1.21.10.
Key features
Automatic sapling planting
Saplings dropped on the ground are picked up and planted without any player action.
Random nudging for blocked spots
A sapling that cannot be planted is moved in a random direction and retried, until it succeeds or is marked as failed.
Configurable planting delay
The time before a dropped sapling is planted is set by the autoPlantDelay option in ticks.
Stack handling
From a dropped stack, one sapling is planted and the rest keep being nudged around the new tree.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Deforestation servers
Server owners running a deforestation-focused survival world can let felled trees regrow through dropped saplings.
Who it’s for: Server owners and their players on survival multiplayer servers where trees are cut down often. Single-player players who want the same effect can run the mod on their own server.
How it compares
FallPlanting is a NeoForge-only mod for 1.21.1 under All rights reserved, so it is not open source. Auto saplinging is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt across 1.21 – 1.21.4, under the MIT License, and it is not open source. Green Cuts is open source under the MIT License and covers Fabric and NeoForge for 1.21.1 – 1.21.10.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Cuts | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 1.21.10 | Server-side only | 2025-11-25 |
| FallPlanting | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2026-07-15 |
| Auto saplinging | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21 – 1.21.4 | Server required, client optional | 2024-12-04 |
Questions
Does Green Cuts need to be installed on the client?
Which loaders does Green Cuts support?
How is the planting delay changed?
In the catalog
Green Cuts is one of 29,952 Game mechanics mods on ModsFinder, and one of 19,630 Game mechanics mods for Fabric. 15,569 mods support Minecraft 1.21.10.
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What the author says
This mod automatically tries to plant sapling items that are dropped onto the ground! If you have programming experience and would like to port this mod to another version yourself, please feel free to submit a pull request.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/greencuts
- Owner
- AuxAtlas
- Published
- 2022-10-04
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-11-25
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15