⭐TreeCollapse [1.8-26.3]⭐ | The Ultimate Tree Felling Plugin

TreeCollapse turns tree chopping into a small event. Break the lowest log of a natural tree with an axe and the whole tree tips over around its base, crashes into the ground and drops its logs and leaves where they land.

It is made for survival servers that want a more satisfying early game without a timber plugin's setup: there is no config file, no command and no permission to configure, and it only acts on structures that pass a natural-tree check.

It is not a vein miner. It fells one tree at a time, charges your axe the way vanilla would and removes only the blocks that belong to that tree.

Real falling animation	The tree tips over around its base edge, picks up speed and lands. Players within 96 blocks can watch it.
Vanilla-style durability	Every log costs what breaking it by hand would cost. Unbreaking is respected, and an axe that cannot afford the whole tree only cuts what it can.
Natural trees only	Trunk, branches, leaves and surroundings are analyzed first. Log builds, player-placed logs and player-placed leaves are not felled.
Dense forests	Trees that touch each other fall one at a time, and neighbouring trunks are left in place.
Only the tree's own blocks	Only that tree's logs and leaves are removed. Terrain, crops and buildings are left in place.
Works with protection	Every log fires a standard BlockBreakEvent for the player, so claim plugins can cancel it and stop the felling.
Remembers and resets	Placed logs and felled bases are saved per chunk, and reset when a new tree grows in the same place.
Lightweight	Packets only (no entities are added to the world), no repeating task while idle, a single jar of about 32 KB.
One jar, many versions	Minecraft 1.8 up to 26.x through a small version layer resolved at runtime.

1. Hold any axe in survival mode and break the lowest log of a natural tree, the one standing on the ground
2. TreeCollapse analyzes the tree: trunk, branches, leaves and what touches them. If it is not clearly a natural tree, nothing special happens and only that log breaks
3. Each extra log is charged to your axe like vanilla and fires a BlockBreakEvent for you, so protection plugins stay in control
4. If the axe can afford the whole tree, its blocks are drawn as one falling shape for nearby players and the tree tips over, away from you when there is room
5. On landing, every block is removed and drops its items where it landed

The fall

• The tree tips over around the edge of its base and accelerates as it falls
• It picks a free direction: if a tree, a wall or a hill is in the way, it tries other directions, and it falls instantly when there is no room at all
• The trunk comes to rest against whatever it hits, and leaves vanish as they touch the ground
• Block-break sound and particles play along the trunk when it lands
• The falling shape is drawn with packets only: no entity is added to the world
• Players within 96 blocks see the animation

Tool durability

Situation	What happens
The axe can afford the whole tree	The whole tree falls
The axe cannot afford it	Logs are cut bottom-up until the axe has nothing left to spend, instantly and without animation. The rest of the tree stays
Unbreaking	Respected, with the same odds as vanilla
Unbreakable axe	No wear
Creative mode or any other tool	Normal vanilla breaking

Example: a 15-log tree and an axe with 10 uses left: 10 logs are cut, the axe is used up and the rest of the tree stays where it is.

Before anything happens, TreeCollapse analyzes the structure (trunk, branches, leaves, height, width and what touches them) and only fells what clearly looks like a natural tree. Logs placed by players are tracked from the moment the plugin is installed.


Forests, dark oak groves and jungles are full of trees whose trunks touch and whose branches overlap. TreeCollapse tells them apart:

• The tree you cut falls on its own: neighbouring trunks are left in place, even when they touch yours
• Different species side by side (oak next to birch, spruce next to oak) are told apart as well
• Giant 2×2 trunks are recognized, even when two of them stand next to each other
• Branches tangled with another tree are left in place instead of guessed at, and come down with the last tree around them
• Leaves that also hold up a neighbouring tree stay where they are
• If a neighbouring tree, a wall or a hill is in the way, the tree falls in another direction

• While a tree is falling, its blocks are locked: breaking them, interacting with them and leaf decay are cancelled until the fall ends
• The original blocks are removed only at the end, and a block that another plugin or player changed in the meantime is skipped
• Stopping the server (or disabling the plugin) mid-fall finishes the falling trees instantly and drops their items
• If the animation cannot run for any reason, the tree is felled instantly instead and a warning is logged
• Items drop where each block lands
• Tree data is written atomically, on chunk unload, on world save and when the plugin is disabled

• Large canopies only animate their outer leaves: hidden inner leaves are not drawn
• Tree data lives in small per-chunk files that are read when needed and released when the chunk unloads

TreeCollapse ships without a config.yml: there is nothing to edit. It sends no chat messages. The console prints one line at startup saying which animation mode is active, plus a warning if the animation cannot run.

It stores only what it needs to remember, in small files under plugins/TreeCollapse/, one per chunk:
Each file holds the positions of player-placed logs and felled tree bases. Delete the folder while the server is stopped to forget all of them.

TreeCollapse registers no commands and no permissions: its plugin.yml declares neither. Any player in survival mode holding an axe can fell natural trees.

To keep trees in an area from being felled, use your claim or protection plugin: a cancelled break stops the felling.

1. Download TreeCollapse.jar and put it in your server's plugins folder
2. Restart the server
3. Hold an axe in survival mode and break the lowest log of a natural tree

Requirements: Spigot 1.8 or newer and Java 8 or newer. No other plugin is needed.

• Tested on: Spigot 1.8.8 and Spigot 26.2
• Java: 8 or newer
• Dependencies: none
• One jar for every range: the server internals it needs are resolved at runtime through a small version layer