I've cut down dozens of Silverwood trees and not ONCE have i gotten a sapling, what am I possibly doing wrong, I've tried letting the leaves decay, I've tried breaking them manually, I've even tried bringing them back to my base to then be broken, yet I've never gotten a sapling, I've tried getting them in both DW20 pack and the Ultimate pack
Silverwood Sapling
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Silverwood saplings are extremely rare. They have a drop chance of 1/500. That means you could break five blocks of silverwood leaves, and get five saplings, or break fifty thousand and get no saplings, as it's a randomized chance which I don't believe has any weighing to "force" an outcome if you go beyond the statistical average.
I haven't heard of any bugs regarding them recently, so it's likely your dozens of trees weren't enough to get you a sapling. For the record, I cut them down whenever I find them so I've liked slaughtered hundreds of them, and I've yet to see a sapling.
You know the Grafter only works on trees run though Forestry's Treealyzer, right? Won't work on even a normal oak tree unless you scanned it before planting the sapling. Unless Thaumic Bees adds Thaumic Tree Breeding as well, you're SOL. The Thaumium Grafter is great for not having to craft a thousand grafters, but it still plays by Forestry's rules.
the sickle doesn't increase the chance of saplings. It just makes it easier to clear all the leaves quickly.
Oh, and in addition, from what I had read in the Thaumic Bees thread, Thaumic Treebreeding is actually something that might get put into Thaumic Bees at some later date. But Silverwood Trees grown this way will not affect the aura in the traditional way.
...Why does everyone want to grow silverwood trees? They aren't all that uncommon. Just set up a base near one.
Because they want to grow a pure node instead of tow one several hundred blocks to their main base? Or because they want to plan a base where it'll be high in the sky? Heck, just getting a tree and placing it near a dark node helps kill off the wisps as long as the node doesn't get consumed.
You guys must be pretty unlucky (either that, or i'm very lucky). I get a sapling from about 1/2 the trees i find.
I've been clearing a flat meadows Mystcraft age of all its silverwoods, and I get about 1 sapling per tree on average.
This works for other types of leaves, but silverwood ones are specifically set to make this impossible.
I get them pretty commonly, i simply cut out all the logs and let them decay, i'd say my average is one sapling every three trees... idk if it's just bad luck for you or you're sabotaging yourself but i can say i used to use a sickle and cut out all the leaves and i never got a single sapling, so i believe you have to allow them to decay if you are to ever see a sapling[DOUBLEPOST=1389187055][/DOUBLEPOST]Case in point i just got another sapling while writing the previous comment just simply waiting for a tree to decay and boom 8th one for this trip alone... one might say i'm testing if you can have too many silverwood trees in one place
This is something that has worked for me. Yes, I do get about 1-3 silver saps per tree. I'm completely talking out of my ass, but just try it.
take a tree and cut it in whatever fashion that breaks the logs asap if not instantly. Then, run/jump in one direction for more than 50 blocks. Run back and check the drops. Do NOT touch the leaves ever. Wait for 5 seconds, run in another direction for just over 50 blocks. Come back and check the drops. Do this 4 times. Then finally Change your video settings from fast to detailed(I can't remember what its called atm) and back again. Run in another direction come back and check drops.
I do not have the absolute reason why this works. I know that there is supposed to be no difference in hand breaking leaves, sickle breaking them, or letting them naturally decompose. That being said, I have never received a silver sap manually breaking the leaves, but the previous method described has always worked. Standing right around the cut silver wood waiting for a sap has never worked.
Maybe there is something that plays with the rolls in vanilla mechanics, or the rolls are refreshed when you leave the immediate vacinity and come back (drops are not viewable until with 20 blocks or something), I don't know. I'm just saying I have no problem saying I can have a surplus of silverwood saps if I wanted to.
And for TC4, just 3 days ago I lumberjacked a silverwood, did my method and got 3 silver saps. Did it earlier before that and got 1.
take a tree and cut it in whatever fashion that breaks the logs asap if not instantly. Then, run/jump in one direction for more than 50 blocks. Run back and check the drops. Do NOT touch the leaves ever. Wait for 5 seconds, run in another direction for just over 50 blocks. Come back and check the drops. Do this 4 times. Then finally Change your video settings from fast to detailed(I can't remember what its called atm) and back again. Run in another direction come back and check drops.
I do not have the absolute reason why this works. I know that there is supposed to be no difference in hand breaking leaves, sickle breaking them, or letting them naturally decompose. That being said, I have never received a silver sap manually breaking the leaves, but the previous method described has always worked. Standing right around the cut silver wood waiting for a sap has never worked.
Maybe there is something that plays with the rolls in vanilla mechanics, or the rolls are refreshed when you leave the immediate vacinity and come back (drops are not viewable until with 20 blocks or something), I don't know. I'm just saying I have no problem saying I can have a surplus of silverwood saps if I wanted to.
And for TC4, just 3 days ago I lumberjacked a silverwood, did my method and got 3 silver saps. Did it earlier before that and got 1.
You forgot to spin around 3 times, knock on wood, and shout "May the Lord Saits Preserve Us!"
