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Trees are a central resource in 2hol. They provide material for your first crafts and are a good source for different kind of food. Learn all about the trees in the game in this article.

## Chopping Trees

The ability to chop trees is unlocked by the bronze axe, with the steel axe being the higher technology with a longer durability but no additional abilities (in regards to tree chopping).

It's an important step in a town's progress as it enables you to generate firewood, which creates a longer burning fire and unlocks higher tier foods (via the brick oven, cast iron stove, brewery and the spit roast frame).

Some trees generate only firewood whereas other trees also produce butt logs, which are needed for nearly all wooden items (eg. boards, Bee Hives, tables, shelves, carts etc.). There are three different colored wood types: original (yellow), light and dark wood. The different colors will only matter, if you use the wood for floors, walls or doors though, in any other cases the boards will turn yellow as soon as you craft an object out of it.

The following graphic shows all the firewood and butt logs producing trees, sorted by the outcome of the chopping. On the right side you can see in which biome the tree is located. Food trees are marked with a yellow square, if they yield a special resource, this is marked with a light blue square. Non-plantable trees are marked with orange.

These trees will only produce kindling and no firewood or butt logs and are therefore not represented in the graphic:

* Banana
* Forsythia

### Chopping Tips

Be careful not to chop all the trees of a specific type from your nearer area. It will be harder to replant this type of tree if there is no living tree left to take a cutting from (Planting Trees). Also many Eves don't like a completely deforested area as it might look a bit blank and boring.

Be careful to not cut trees that have a special purpose (like tinder tree in the smithy or kitchen) and be especially considerate if the tree is not replantable!

See the Etiquette article for more tips. **TODO: add tree farms /orchards to etiquette**

### Special Cases

* Fruit trees can only be chopped when they are in winter stage (no leaves).
* Bald cypress tree with hive can only be chopped after the hive was taken down (see Bees)

## Planting Trees

Most trees can be planted to restore chopped trees or to develop your town (see the use cases Tree Farm, Orchard and Decoration). There are however a few trees that cannot be replanted (compare the Chopping Trees section).

To plant a tree have a bowl or mason jar of honey **(TODO: create honey section in bees, update link)** prepared. Then take a cutting from an existing tree with a steel shears and dip it into the honey to make it root. You have 5 minutes to do so or else the cutting will despawn. In the rooted state however the tree cutting will persist forever and can be stored for later usage.

The rooted cutting can be planted into a deep tilled row like every regular crops (Farming). Once planted the sapling needs to be watered within 10 mins or else it will turn into a hardened row. Now you need to set yourself a reminder to come back after 30 mins, as the sapling needs a second watering after this time. You have 20 mins to do so or else it will die. It helps to check your age in the user interface and add 30 years to your current age or use an external timer to not forget about this.

Although wild trees can only be found in their dedicated biome, planting of trees can be done in all the biomes, independently of the tree type.

## Fruit Trees

### Pollination dependent Trees

Fruit trees are the seasonal trees and will cycle through spring, summer, autumn and winter stage in a 5 mins interval unless the tree is pollinated in spring (showing blossoms on the tree), which will produce fruits in the summer stage. The tree gets stuck in this stage until all fruit is harvested. It therefore usually makes sense to harvest all fruits form a tree to create the possibility for another round of pollination.

Pollination is only possible via Bees. See also Orchard for how to set up an orchard effectively.

There are three types of these trees:

* apple
* lemon
* orange

All three fruits can be eaten raw or made into juice (see Cooking).

#### Special Case: Apple Tree

The apple tree is the fruit tree with the most use cases. A full basket of apples is needed to breed horses. Therefore there is a special transition which allows you to harvest the whole tree into a basket with only one click.

Apples can be used in different food recipes ( apple pie, apple juice, pork pie with apple and roast pig dinner: Cooking), for feeding alpacas and in the Vial of Medicine recipe, which heals stab wounds and snake bites.

### Soil and Water Trees

The following trees don't need any interaction with bees. Instead they will need a basket of soil, followed by a full bucket of water to produce fruit. All trees need 1 hour to produce fruits after being watered.

#### Mango

Mango trees are plantable. Unfortunately this comes with the drawback that you have to plant a mango tree first before you can harvest mangos. Getting mangos for the first time is therefore a task that spreads via multiple generations.

Mangos can be put on a plate and cut with a knife (bronze or steel). The cut mango has two bites and is only one yum. Mango leaves can be picked from the fruitless tree (wild and domestic) and used to poison a cow to gain yellow color for painting color or dying (Clothes).

Wild Mango Tree
#### Banana

The banana tree is not plantable. So you depend on caring for wild trees found in the jungle biome to get bananas. Banana fruits can only be used as raw food and provide therefore just one yum. Banana leaves are used in the fermentation process of cocoa and therefore contribute to the recipe for hot chocolate.[1]

Banana Tree
#### Cocoa

The cocoa tree is not plantable. So you depend on caring for wild trees found in the jungle biome to get the fruits. The trees are very rare, so try to remember their location if you ever come across one by accident. Cocoa beans are used to make hot chocolate.

Cocoa Tree
#### Coconut

The coconut tree is not plantable. So you depend on caring for wild trees found in the desert biome to get the fruits. Coconuts provide two small yums and are accessible very early in the game (see Coconut). You can even create a fancy bra from the coconut bowls.

Coconut Tree
## Other Resources from Trees

### Tinder

The Juniper Tree is used as the most common source of tinder. You can grab a piece of tinder from the tree as often as you want. You will often see a single Juniper Tree spared from chopping near the kitchen or the smithy for easy tinder access.

Juniper Tree
### Pine Needles

Pine needles can be used as tinder or to create a brown pine floor, when added to floor stakes or a floor blueprint. They are also used to create pine panels, which are used as doors or walls in building.

These trees produce pine needles:

* White Pine Tree
* Balsam Tree
* Cedar Tree

Each tree regenerates the needles after 1 hour.

White Pine TreeBalsam TreeCedar Tree
### Branches

There are different types of branches in 2hol. All can be used to make kindling, but some are more valueable than others as they are used in more crafting recipes. These are the different branches sorted by importance:

#### Straight Branches

The following trees produce straight branches:

* Maple Tree
* Ash Tree (only 50%)
* Field Maple Tree (only 50%)
* Jelutong Tree (only 50%)
* Hickory Tree (only 50%)

All tree regenerate the branch within 1 hour.

Straight branches are used in many building recipes, but also for tool shafts, the spinning wheel, carts, shelves and many more. This is why having many maple trees around or even planting a small maple tree farm can be very useful, especially if you plan to build a lot.

Maple TreeAsh TreeField Maple TreeJelutong TreeHickory Tree
#### Curved Branches

The following trees produce curved shafts:

* Lombardy Poplar Tree

Curved Branches are used in some recipes, like bows, spinning wheel and fishing pot. Usually there is not much shortage of these branches though.

Lombardy Poplar Tree
### Leaves/Flowers

You can collect leaves or flowers from trees with a basket. These are the available options:

#### Forsythia

Collect the blossoms from this beautiful yellow tree with a basket and add it to floor stakes or a floor blueprint to create a bright yellow floor. Throw the flowers on the ground and add a rope to create a pretty flower crown. The flowers in the basket will despawn after 5 mins. This resource is infinite.

#### Fruit tree leaves

Each of the three fruit trees (orange, lemon and apple), can be used to get up to 5 baskets of colorful autumn leaves, when they are in their autumn state. Taking the last basket from the tree will move it to the winter state immediately. The leaves in the basket will not despawn. Add them to floor stakes or floor blueprint to create a yellow-orange-red colored leaf floor.

### Special Resources

#### Bay Tree

Bay trees are the source of bay leaves, which are used in food recipes (pickles and dry rub, which is used to create rubbed meat dishes in the Iron Pan).[2]

Bay Tree
#### Oil Palm

Oil palms can be found in the jungle biome and are a source for palm kernels, which are used to make palm oil. Palm oil is involved in Rubber making as well as in a few recipes (French Fries, and Tortilla Chips) and can be used to make candles.

Oil Palm
#### Mossy Tree

Mossy trees can be found in the swamp and are a source of moss (Mossy Big Hard Rock is the alternative). Moss used to turn walls ancient, making them indestructible (Construction).

Mossy Tree
#### Dead Tree (Hops)

Dead trees are found in the desert, but don't let them fool you. They provide the fundament for a precious little plant, that helps you make beer. After 5 hrs the dead tree will have a hops fruit growing on it, which will last there for 1 hour. Pick the hops fruit to plant it (see hops).

Dead Tree
#### Bald Cypress Tree (Honey)

Some bald cypress trees bear a wild bee hive, which can be shaken down to eat the wild honey comb or to take it and create domestic bees. Find more info in the main Bees article.

Bald Cypress Tree
## Tree Farm

While in the early gameplay there are plenty of resources around and chopping a few trees in the swamp might be sufficient for the immediate need of a small town, the more your city develops the more wood you will need to supply your building and crafting needs. Most long term players therefore choose to start a tree farm at some point in time. That means a dedicated area to grow trees to be chopped later.

As butt logs are often more needed than firewood, these are the trees with the highest yields (2 logs per tree). Some players prefer trees with less firewood yield as they often have more than enough firewood in their town.

Birch
 regular
 dark

A few tips:

1. Don't cut all the trees, but always leave at least one tree of each kind to take cuttings from. You might also want to plant them in a dedicated area a bit separate from the chopping section.
2. Have a honey farm nearby, so you can produce new saplings easily.
3. If you cut the trees, move all produce from the stomp so that it will eventually despawn, making space for new trees in this spot.
4. Have compost boxes and a water source nearby.
5. You will need these tools: axe, hoe, shovel (compost), froe and adze (to make mallets) if you choose to make the boards right on site.
6. If you want to produce a lot of logs in advance, shelters are really helpful to store a lot of wood.

## Orchard

Pollination is only possible via Bees. The hive must be located in the same biome, the type of biome doesn't matter though. To increase the changes of pollination it is advised to rather use a higher number of small hives, instead of one hive with multiple layers, as each hive spawns only one bee every 10 minutes independent of their height.

It is helpful to create a barrier around the orchard to increase the chance of the spawned bee finding the tree and returning back to the hive with the honey before it runs out of moves and despawns.

Here are a few examples for an orchard set-up, more details are available in the Bees article.

## Decoration

### Tree Pits

Trees can be planted to decorate your town. To save them from being cut too easily or for aesthetic reasons tree pits can be added to every plantable tree in the game. Be aware that this renders the tree unuseable, it will no longer produce any branches, fruit or change its state. This method can also be used to freeze seasonal trees (like fruit trees or the blossom tree) in a specific state for decoration.

To create a tree pit, use stakes on the tree (might be that you need to pick the branch from the tree before being able to do so). In this form the tree will still change its appearance. Add small cut stones to the staked tree, when it reaches the wanted state.

A tree pit can be removed with a steel mining pick.

The most common use case for a tree pit is a Juniper tree near or in the kitchen or the smithy. It prevents this tree from being cut down and marks it as the preferred source of tinder to start a fire in these locations. The Juniper tree is the only tree that keeps its ability to create output in the pitted form.

### Potted Trees

There are currently two types of potted trees available for decoration: Christmas tree and Bonsai.

Christmas Tree

A fully Decorated Christmas Tree is essential to put your town into this cozy holiday spirit. It is also a container that can hold 6 tiny items, which allows you to place up to six presents under the tree.

To start a Christmas tree, make a cutting from a Balsam tree, dip it into honey and plant it in a clay crock filled with a basket of soil. After that proceed in the same way as planting any other tree.

The Christmas tree is not moveable, so choose the final position right from the start!

The tree can be decorated with Christmas lights and up to two small golden bells. Merry Christmas!

Bonsai

The bonsai is a delicate and a very tedious decoration object. It's started with a Yes tree cutting, dipped in honey and planted in a clay bowl with soil. Then it needs a sequence of timed watering and cutting with steel shears to go through the different life stages without dying. In the last stage (ancient) it will cycle between wet and dry state and never come to a stable state again, so that it needs constant care to not die.

These are the states and the times after which they will die in a table. If you want to have a stable decoration version of the bonsai, you have to stop the development of the tiny tree in one of the two "stable" states (overgrown).