
Living Trees
A Minecraft Fabric mod that brings trees to life. At night, trees wake up, grow arms and legs, and roam the world.
Features
- Trees Come Alive: Trees grow glowing red eyes, wooden arms, and legs
- Night Awakening: ~20% of nearby trees automatically wake up at night
- Day Slumber: When the sun rises, living trees return to their original form
- Dynamic Tree Capture: Works with any tree type (oak, birch, spruce, jungle, etc.)
- Smooth Animations: Eyes open/close, limbs grow/retract with fluid animations
- Hostile Behavior: Some trees are aggressive and attack players and mobs
- Tree Waker Item: Right-click any tree with the wand to wake it up manually
- Loot Drops: Kill a living tree to get a Tree Waker wand
Installation
- Install Fabric Loader for Minecraft 1.21.1
- Install Fabric API
- Download the mod JAR file and place it in your
modsfolder - Launch Minecraft
Usage
Automatic Mode:
- Play normally and wait for night
- Trees around you will start waking up
- At dawn, they go back to sleep
Manual Mode:
- Get the Tree Waker item from the Tools creative tab
- Right-click any tree to wake it up
- Right-click a living tree to put it back to sleep
Tree Behavior
- ~60% of awakened trees are hostile
- Hostile trees attack players, zombies, animals, and other mobs
- Peaceful trees just wander around
- Trees won't attack each other
- Killing a tree drops a Tree Waker wand
Requirements
- Minecraft 1.21.1
- Fabric Loader 0.16.0+
- Fabric API
- Java 21+
Supported Tree Types
Oak, Spruce, Birch, Jungle, Acacia, Dark Oak, Mangrove, Cherry, Crimson, Warped
License
MIT License - Feel free to use, modify, and distribute.
Support
- Discord: Join our Discord
Made by Orca
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.21.3
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as livingtrees-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 35 KB
- Download link checked 10 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.
