RHLeafDecay Plugin pre Minecraft 1.21.1, 1.21

With RHLeafDecay all your floating leaves will disappear in no time.

This plugin supersedes its Spigot version.

Made with love in Germany 🇩🇪

Features

Decay Modes

Cluster Mode (Default): → Breaks leaves in groups for faster decay.

Single Mode: → Breaks leaves one by one for a slower, more natural decay.

Customizable Tick Rates

break (Default: 8) → Controls the delay between leaf decay events.

check (Default: 4) → Defines how often the plugin checks for decaying leaves.

⚠️ Note: The break tick rate should never be below 5 to avoid performance issues!

Additional Effects

Drops: → Leaves can drop items when they decay.

Particles: → Adds visual effects to the leaf decay process.

Sounds: → Plays sound effects for a more immersive experience.

World Filtering

Whitelist: → Decay occurs only in specified worlds.

Blacklist: → Leaves will not decay in excluded worlds.

What does it look like in-game?

Custom trees? World generators?

RHLeafDecay relies on Minecraft’s natural leaf decay. For it to work, leaves must be recognized as part of a tree and not be persistent.

✅ Vanilla trees work because their leaves naturally decay after the trunk is removed.

⚠️ Custom trees and world generators cause two major issues:

• Leaves never decay if marked persistent → RHLeafDecay can’t remove them.
• Leaves vanish instantly if attached to a block that isn’t recognized as a tree trunk.

Why does this happen?

RHLeafDecay checks if leaves are linked to a valid trunk before triggering decay. Many world generators mark leaves as persistent to prevent unwanted decay. Custom trees may use non-standard materials for trunks, making them unrecognizable to the plugin.

What can I do?

RHLeafDecay only works with non-persistent leaves and standard tree trunks. You can manually fix leaves using /data merge block {persistent:false}, but this isn’t practical on a large scale.

If your world relies heavily on custom trees, RHLeafDecay won’t work as expected.

Conclusion

If leaves aren’t detected as part of a real tree or are persistent, they either won’t decay at all or will disappear too quickly. For the best experience, use Vanilla trees with standard leaves. 🌿

Support

If you need help with RHLeafDecay, you can join the RaidersHeaven server on Discord. Just post inside the #rhleafdecay-plugin channel.

Since support is provided exclusively by me, there may be delays and longer response times as I cannot read all messages immediately or only at certain times of the day. Thank you for your understanding!

Metrics collection

RHLeafDecay collects anonymous server statistics through bStats, an open-source statistics service for Minecraft software. You can opt out in plugins/bStats/config.yml at anytime.