TreeChopper

Breaking one log with an axe brings the mod into action: it detects the rest of the connected tree and chops it down. Leaves disappear without dropping sticks, apples, saplings or other piles, so the inventory does not fill with extra items. Once a valid tree is removed, the mod works out the matching sapling and replants it at the base of the tree. Logs placed by players are tracked, which helps keep wooden builds from being chopped by accident.

TreeChopper is a lightweight mod that stays close to vanilla Minecraft while still offering a number of configuration options for how the chopping behaves. It supports many modded trees generated in the world, as long as they use Minecraft's standard log and leaf tags, and it works alongside worldgen mods such as Terralith, Biomes O Plenty and others. Leaves produce particles as they disappear, and one leaf-breaking sound replaces the dozens of sounds that would otherwise play at once.

The mod is published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge across 8 release versions, 1.20.1 – 26.2, and requires Mod Menu on Fabric. It runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it, and it is released under the MIT License, which is not open source.