Knots & Rings

The mod revamps the saplings and adds tree seeds, new bark patterns and oak leaves that drop acorns. Wood imperfections such as knots and holes sit alongside growth rings whose thickness varies in large trees. Connected logs share ring patterns across adjacent blocks, so a trunk reads as one continuous cross section, while chopped logs stay separate as they do in vanilla. The look blends with the vanilla style rather than replacing it.

Tree behavior changes as well. A log that is part of a living tree stays alive, and a trunk cut from its tree becomes nonliving. Logs and leaves connect through a path of adjacent blocks, and a log that loses that link becomes a stump that remembers its place. A nonliving trunk can be split apart with a pickaxe, and single logs slowly heal back together with bonemeal.

Fabric API is required on all loaders. The server and every player need the mod installed. Files are published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1, 1.21.1, 1.21.5, 1.21.11, 26.1.2 and 26.2, and the code is released under CC0 1.0 Universal, which places it in the public domain. Optifine Continuity and Fusion are only needed for certain texture variants.