You’ll find poplar trees in Dappled Forests, with red, orange, and yellow leaves across their wide canopies. Whichever color you find, the trunks give you the same poplar logs, and the leaves can drop the same saplings.
Find a Dappled Forest
Look for tall trees with light brown trunks and autumn-colored leaves. Some have shelf mushrooms on their sides. Fallen trunks are handy for wood; to collect saplings, find a standing tree with leaves.
If your debug screen shows biome names, look for minecraft:dappled_forest.
With cheats enabled or operator permissions, run this in the Overworld to find the nearest Dappled Forest:
/locate biome minecraft:dappled_forestThe command gives you coordinates to travel to; it does not teleport you.
Collect wood and saplings
- Chop the poplar logs. An axe makes this faster.
- Let unsupported leaves decay, or break leaves without shears or Silk Touch, for a chance of getting saplings.
Without Fortune, each leaf has a 5% sapling chance; Fortune raises that chance to 6.25%, about 8.33%, and 10% at levels I, II, and III.
For leaf blocks to build with, use shears or Silk Touch. Harvesting leaves this way won’t give you saplings.
Grow a poplar tree at home
Plant a single sapling on dirt or grass, with plenty of room for a full-sized tree.
The block above the sapling needs a light level of at least 9 for natural growth. Try bone meal to speed things up; it may take a few uses. If the sapling stays small, check for blocks crowding it or hanging overhead.
Each tree has an equal chance of growing red, orange, or yellow leaves. For a particular color, keep planting until you get it—the parent tree and the biome won’t affect the result.
Poplar leaves and wood
Red poplar leaves, orange poplar leaves, and yellow poplar leaves are separate blocks. The little leaves drifting down from the trees are just particles. Leaf blocks you place yourself stay put without a supporting log.
One poplar log makes four poplar planks.
Craft Poplar Planks
1 × any of (Poplar Log, Poplar Wood, Stripped Poplar Log, Stripped Poplar Wood) → 4 × Poplar Planks
Ingredients
4 accepted materials
Poplar Wood
Stripped Poplar Log
Stripped Poplar WoodUse the planks for stairs, slabs, doors, fences, or a poplar boat. Use an axe on a placed log to make a stripped poplar log.