Greener Forests
by Timpaw21
Greener Forests gives NeoForge worlds a new green wood variant, the Vinewood, along with two biomes where its trees grow.
What it does
Vinewood trees generate the way cherry trees do, with Vinewood logs, Vinewood leaves and a blue tint. They appear around the Vinewood Hardlands biome, and a second biome, Greenwood Heights, is where the author has placed trees of the same kind. Vinewood foliage is denser than the leaves of other trees, so a tree gives more drops when it is cut.
Vinewood trees are fitted to drop apples, and the author describes them as a richer food source than oak. Greener Forests is a world generation mod, so it changes what gets placed in new terrain rather than adding recipes or machines. It fits adventure maps and survival worlds that want an extra forest type on top of vanilla.
Greener Forests is released under the MIT License and is not open source. It is published as a single NeoForge file, version 1.0.0 for 1.21.1, on the alpha channel. Both the server and every player need it, because the trees are generated on the server and clients must render them.
Key features
Vinewood wood type
A new green wood type with its own logs, planks and leaves, added to the game as a variant of the usual trees.
Two biomes
The mod adds two biomes that hold Vinewood trees, Vinewood Hardlands and Greenwood Heights.
Cherry-style generation
Vinewood trees generate in the same manner as cherry trees, with spruce-style placement for some features.
Apple drops from leaves
Vinewood leaves drop apples, which the author intends as a food source.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Woods+ is a NeoForge mod for 1.21.4 – 1.21.8, with a client and server environment and an All rights reserved license, so it does not cover 1.21.1. New Big Trees targets 1.21.1 alone, is a server-required, client-optional mod under the CC0 1.0 Universal license and is not open source. Alex's Magical Biomes covers 1.21.1 – 1.21.4 on NeoForge, runs on client and server and is published under All rights reserved.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greener Forests | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-07-18 |
| Woods+ | NeoForge | 1.21.4 – 1.21.8 | Client and server | 2025-11-29 |
| New Big Trees | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Server required, client optional | 2026-04-15 |
| Alex's Magical Biomes | NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 1.21.4 | Client and server | 2025-03-19 |
Questions
Does Greener Forests need to be installed on the server?
Which loader and version does Greener Forests support?
Does Greener Forests add any other dependency?
In the catalog
Greener Forests is one of 8,515 World generation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,175 World generation mods for NeoForge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
A mod that adds a new wood type and 2 new biomes to go with it. Vinewood is just a green wood variant because Minecraft doesn't have green wood yet -_-
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/greener-forests
- Owner
- Timpaw21
- Published
- 2026-07-18
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-18
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15