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Why so few jungle saplings ?

Hello,

I played Minecraft a lot, a few years ago, but I stopped approximatively when 1.9 was released. I have started playing again since now one month and it's a pleasure to rediscover the game as it is now, with all its new improvements, wich are most of the time excellent !

But something about the jungle biome bothers me. Maybe it's new, maybe I just didn't notice it before, but according to my opinion, there is a real problem about it : the jungle trees. I can't manage to understand why the drop rate of a jungle sapling is twice as low as other saplings. I mean, of course, jungle trees are bigger, but they don't have that much leaves. Also, there are many oak trees, I find it hard to understand aswell. Finally, the "bushes" in jungle biomes are made with jungle wood but... oak leaves. After cuting a few trees in my jungle, I almost have half a stack of oak saplings, but barely 8 jungle saplings, in a JUNGLE biome... Doesn't sound logical to me.

All this can make a player struggle to farm jungle trees, although it's very easy to farm other trees. I would be very greatful if you fixed that in the next updates !

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    I'm seeing this too, I just spent an hour a half getting wood. I cut down exactly 69 jungle trees and only got 58 saplings, when I cut down no more than 10 oak trees it dropped a stack and 8 saplings... 

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    Agreed. I just settled in a jungle, and after clearing away a bunch of trees, I can barely replant what I had. The main appeal to me of settling in a jungle is the dense environment. It's not like fortune helps either. At Fortune III, jungle saplings only drop 4.18% of the time, which is about 1% lower than all other saplings drop normally. 

    The amount of leaves shouldn't matter, especially considering there's a taiga tree variant that's like 80% leaves. I can't see it being a griefing problem when something like lava casting is far more time efficient, and if it were a griefing issue, people would already be using spruce wood.

    I guess I don't see how jungle wood is superior enough to spruce, where it would warrant a nerf that large.

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    It really isn't fair how hard it is to even break even growing Jungle trees. I don't want to destroy a biome just to have a pretty kind of wood.

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    Dark Oak as well.

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    I always thought it was weird for the bushes using different types of leaves, but I have no problem with oak trees being in the jungle. But obviously the main issue here and the one that bothers me is how extremely rare jungle saplings are, if you chop down trees you literally can't even plant them again, and there will be forever one less tree in your world.

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    Please increase jungle sapling rate so that the trees are renewable

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    I feel like the drop rate for jungle saplings needs to double. I cut down one jungle tree and I barely get enough to replant it, much less have enough to be able to plant more. The fact that these trees have more leaves than oak trees and somehow still drop less saplings overall feels weird to me.