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Taller Trees to ride horses through forests

Taller trees have been suggested multiple times. However, I want to add a functional context: When my girlfriend and I play Minecraft and try to explore, we use the horse to move and map areas faster. However, when in forests, the leaves are low to the ground and we can't move passed them. This especially becomes an issue when trying to climb a single dirt block on the ground and there is a leaf block above your head. While using a hoe is functional to remove leaves quickly, it becomes overly tedious when leaf blocks impede your path constantly. Once in a while is fine but when it happens constantly, it makes it hard to enjoy and explore the beauty of Minecraft.

You guys can approach this issue any way you'd like. My initial thought is to make trees one or two blocks taller so that leaves spawn on the 5th or 6th block of the tree trunk and occasionally on the 4th. This way riding through a forest is more fun. 

I hope this helps. Thank you for your time. Long Live Minecraft!

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    But, chopping down trees entirely will be much more tedious this way.  Considering how much forest covers the landscape, if you built a house in a forest then you would need to place blocks to chop the tree down completely, or leave floating trees all around your house.

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    To the comment about cutting down talk trees bring tedious. While I agree with your comment I'd like to point out that it already is. Not all trees are 4 blocks tall. Some are 3 some are 10. The tall trees that already exist, still get cut down. So raising the lower bound of tree growth shouldn't be an issue. Plus, I am only suggesting a raise to the smaller trees not all of them. And/or just making the leaves spawn higher. The player on a horse is 3 blocks tall. When a player rides thru a forest with unlevel terrain, they climb 1 block at a time. So they would become 4 blocks tall max at a time. Therefore leaves should spawn on the 5th block. Thus trees should be a minimum of 5 blocks tall. Not too unreasonable. Especially, if the some trees could have only leaf blocks above the 5th log block.

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    I think this should get more views!

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    Abso freaking lutely. The forests would be so much more good looking with taller trees.

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    To th first comment, maybe cope with chopping 3 more logs than usual?

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    Or make players and horses able to clip through leaves while on them