Rise Of Trees
Few things change a Minecraft landscape as dramatically as scale. The Rise Of Trees add-on takes the familiar oaks, birches, and spruces you have walked past a thousand times and gives them the room to grow into genuine giants. Instead of replacing vanilla trees with alien models, this mod keeps their natural shape, foliage, branches, and roots intact while adding configurable height bonuses on top. The result is a world that feels taller, wilder, and far more impressive without losing the classic Minecraft look players know and love.
What Rise Of Trees Actually Does
At its core, the mod increases tree height while preserving vanilla generation behavior. That distinction matters. Many tree mods simply stretch a model vertically, which distorts leaves and produces awkward, unnatural silhouettes. Rise Of Trees instead respects the original generation logic, so branches, roots, decorators, and foliage placement all continue to work the way they always have. The tree just ends up considerably taller.
Every major Overworld tree type is supported with its own separate height setting:
- Oak and birch
- Spruce and jungle
- Acacia and dark oak
- Mangrove and cherry
Both standard trees and 2x2 variants are covered, including the large tree types grown from four saplings. Vanilla collision checks and build-height limits stay fully active, so nothing breaks the rules of the game world.
Supported Minecraft Versions and Loaders
Rise Of Trees for Minecraft is available for Forge, Fabric, and NeoForge across multiple Minecraft versions. That means whether you are running a modern Fabric setup or a long-standing Forge pack, there is a build that fits. Always match the mod version to your game version and loader before you begin, since mixing them is the most common cause of a failed launch.
If you would rather skip manual file management entirely, the foxygame.net launcher handles Rise Of Trees through its built-in add-on catalog, so you can add it to a profile with a single click and let the launcher keep it updated.
How to Install Rise Of Trees
Step 1: Prepare Your Loader
Install the correct loader for your Minecraft version. Forge, Fabric, and NeoForge are all supported, so pick the one your other mods already use.
Step 2: Download Rise Of Trees
Grab the file that matches both your Minecraft version and your loader. When you download Rise Of Trees, double-check the version number against your game to avoid compatibility headaches.
Step 3: Place the File
Drop the jar into your mods folder, then launch the game once so the config file generates.
Step 4: Configure Your Heights
Open .minecraft/config/riseoftrees-common.toml and set the height bonus individually for each tree type. This is where the mod really shines. You can keep birch close to vanilla height while turning dark oak into a towering canopy, or push every species upward for a fully overgrown world.
Existing Worlds and New Worlds
One of the best features here is flexibility. You can add Rise Of Trees to an existing world at any time. Trees generated before installation remain exactly as they were, so your old builds and familiar forests stay untouched. From that point forward, any new tree grown from a sapling or bonemeal uses your configured heights, and trees generated in newly explored chunks follow the same rules. You do not need to start over.
If you begin a completely new world with the mod already installed, every supported naturally generated tree uses the increased heights from the very first chunk. Both approaches work cleanly, which makes this an easy addition to long-running survival saves.
Final Thoughts
Rise Of Trees is a focused mod that does one job extremely well. It makes forests feel monumental while leaving vanilla behavior, collision, and build limits completely intact. The per-species configuration gives you precise control, and the fact that it works with saplings, bonemeal, and existing worlds removes almost every reason to hesitate. Whether you want slightly taller oaks or a jungle that scrapes the clouds, this add-on delivers a bigger, bolder Overworld without sacrificing the Minecraft you already know.