Fast Leaf Decay Wiki

Fast Leaf Decay is a small, focused quality-of-life mod that fixes one of vanilla Minecraft's most annoying delays. Normally, when you chop down a tree, the leaves linger for a long time before slowly disappearing. With this mod, leaves that lose their supporting log decay within a few seconds, leaving you with clean ground and any drops almost immediately.

It is lightweight, server-friendly, and does exactly one thing well - no new blocks, items, or recipes.

There is nothing to craft or activate - the effect works automatically everywhere in your world.

1. Chop down a tree. As soon as the leaves are no longer connected to a log, they begin decaying within seconds.
2. Watch the unsupported canopy clear on its own, dropping saplings, sticks, and apples as it goes.

That is the entire core loop; just break the supporting logs and the leaves take care of themselves.

The mod watches for leaf blocks that have lost their supporting log. When you break or cut the log a group of leaves depends on:

• the now-unsupported leaves are flagged for rapid decay,
• they disappear within a few seconds (configurable), spreading outward from where the support was removed,
• as they decay they roll the normal vanilla drop chances for saplings, sticks, and apples (unless you disable drops).

Because it only accelerates the existing decay mechanic, it stays compatible with most tree-related mods and does not change how trees generate or grow.

Fast Leaf Decay exposes a couple of simple options in its config file:

• Decay delay / speed - how quickly unsupported leaves vanish. Lower it for near-instant cleanup, or raise it slightly if you want a brief, more natural fade.
• Drop items on decay - whether decaying leaves can still drop saplings, sticks, and apples. Turn this off if you only want the leaves cleared without loot.

Edit the config and reload the world for changes to take effect.

Leaves still take a while to disappear. Check the decay delay setting - increase the speed (lower the delay) if you want faster cleanup. Also note decay spreads outward, so very large canopies clear in a quick cascade rather than all at once.

I'm not getting saplings/apples anymore. Make sure drop items on decay is enabled in the config.

Does it work in multiplayer? Yes - the faster decay applies in the world for everyone.

Is it compatible with modded trees? Generally yes, since it hooks the standard leaf-decay behavior; trees that use entirely custom leaf blocks may behave differently.