Do trees grow only when inside a loaded chunk?

[GrenoZee]

Hi!
I have a feeling the answer to my question is yes. Whenever I'm in a certain area for an extended period of time, planted saplings seem to grow to an adult stage withing several in-game days.
Yet in another area where I planted some saplings and I visit rarely, they are still in teh second stage of growth.

And if so, would it be rather simple in Unity to calculate sapling's age on chunk loading and based on the result provide the correctly aged version of the tree?

[red51]

No, trees always grow, it doesn't matter if a chunk is loaded or not :) Actually it takes a rather long time until trees are fully grown (usually 4-5 realtime hours). But you can change the growth duration in the miscellaneous settings (set a lower value to make them grow faster, for example).

However, before the 0.6.7 update (which was released roughly 1 week ago), there was a bug that caused trees to not grow in some situations. This mostly affected multiplayer servers, but there was also a chance that this happens in singleplayer. To check out if a sapling is still growing, you can try this: Look at the sapling, then open the console and type "plantinfo" - if some yellow text shows up about "growth duration", the sapling is still growing (it also shows the remaining amount of seconds until the plant reaches the next growth stage).
If there is no yellow text, the sapling is broken unfortunately... if it was planted more than 1 week ago, it's most likely due to the bug mentioned above (in this case, just pick it up and plant it again). But if the sapling was planted recently (in survival mode) and still has no yellow text, that sounds like another bug... in this case, please send a report about it (first type the plantinfo command [to get the plant data], then type "report" into console and add some information like "sapling not growing") ;)

[GrenoZee]

Thanks for such a detailed reply! The command shows londonplane_young and no info regarding growth. It was indeed planted before the mentioned update.
Much appreciated.

[darkshvein]

Originally posted by red51:

No, trees always grow,

Good day, then another Q, already generated on map old trees, will growing higher?
This is will look beaty - biggest oaks and etc oldiest trees.

[red51]

Originally posted by GrenoZee:

Thanks for such a detailed reply! The command shows londonplane_young and no info regarding growth. It was indeed planted before the mentioned update.

Oh, yes, then it's unfortunately indeed broken (most likely due to the bug mentioned above) =/ The only way to fix that would be to plant a new tree (at least this kind of issue shouldn't happen anymore with trees planted after the last update) :)

Originally posted by darkshvein:

Good day, then another Q, already generated on map old trees, will growing higher?
This is will look beaty - biggest oaks and etc oldiest trees.

Unfortunately trees don't grow higher than the regular trees =/ But this could be an interesting feature, we'll take that into consideration :)