Acacia Sapling

Overview

Acacia Sapling is one of the 9 variants of this shape in the game. What changes between them is the material, and with it the hardness, the drops, the durability and the recipe — so every figure on this page is this variant's own. Oak Sapling is the same shape in a different material.

Acacia Sapling is a plant block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. It is gathered by mining rather than crafted. With a hardness of 0 it gives way immediately under almost any tool.

Any tool works, and so do bare hands. Mining it returns the block itself, so it is safe to relocate. It is transparent, which matters when you are managing light levels.

With a blast resistance of only 0 it will not survive an explosion. Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot. No recipe takes it as an ingredient.

About the acacia set

Acacia is the orange wood, and it is the only one — no other tree in Minecraft produces planks in that colour, which is why acacia turns up in builds that need warmth without going red. It grows only in savanna and savanna plateau, on a trunk that leans diagonally under a flat spreading canopy, so felling one leaves floating log segments unless you cut from the top down. The set is the standard twelve-piece one: planks, stairs, slabs, fences, fence gates, doors, trapdoors, signs, hanging signs, buttons, pressure plates and a boat, all sharing a hardness of 2, a blast resistance of 3, and the same recipes as every other wood. Remember that savanna never rains, so an acacia build has no natural fire protection at all — keep lava, campfires and furnaces well away from it, or add a lightning rod.

How long it takes to break

Hardness 0 puts Acacia Sapling at 0 seconds a block bare-handed, or 0 seconds with the right tool at netherite tier.

There is no tier requirement to worry about. Any tool, or none, returns the drop; the numbers below just say how fast.

Efficiency adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed. On a block this soft the enchantment reaches instant mining almost immediately.

Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand	instant	instant	instant
Wooden	instant	instant	instant
Stone	instant	instant	instant
Iron	instant	instant	instant
Diamond	instant	instant	instant
Netherite	instant	instant	instant
Golden	instant	instant	instant

Properties

Acacia Sapling resists blasts at 0, which is not enough to survive anything explosive nearby. Light passes through it, and it emits none of its own. A single slot takes 64, the usual full stack. Being renewable, it can be produced indefinitely in one world. Fire spreads to it readily (encouragement 60, burn 100), so keep it away from lava and away from anything you would rather not lose. An axe is the fastest choice here. A tool of the wrong class is no better than your fist — the speed bonus is tied to the block's own tool tag. As furnace fuel it burns for 5 seconds — half of what a single smelting operation needs.

Transparent: Yes
Required tool: Any
Flammable: Yes (60/100)
Renewable: Yes
Fuel value: 5 s