Big Oak Trees fail to generate in Forest Biomes

Hm... could be intentional, but we don't know exactly. Allthough, this is still a Duplicate of MC-11208, possibly with another reason.

So MC-30408 was closed as a dublicate of this? OK, fine, but still two things to do here:
1.) Upvote this, everyone. Upvote.
2.) Someone please add 13w37b to the versions list.
Thanks !

added 13w37b to affected versions

you realise they still generate in Jungles

@Atom clark:
Show me one screenshot with a big oak tree in a jungle biome. With "big", I mean this size: http://media-mcw.cursecdn.com/9/99/TreeComparison.png.
I can't remember them generating in any jungle biome in 1.6.2 (which seems to be intended). But now, they are missing everywhere.

challenge accepted Zombie Hunter

Still no big oak trees in 13w38a !

No big oak trees in 13w38b/c 😞

Still only 3 votes? Does no one miss the big oak trees ???? Where are the upvotes?

Still no big oak trees in 13w39a/b !

Still present in 13w41a.

Confirmed for 13w41b !

Jeb said here that he removed them to reduce lag, but he plans to readd them when he manages to fix that.

Obviously Jeb didn't fix it yet, still no big oak trees in 13w42b !

No big oak trees in 1.7.2.

fixed in 1.7.4 - I created a new world in creative mode and found an appropriate forest.
seed: -766357888
x:-556
z:980

um... still present bro, look in any forest other than that seed (cos that may just be a mix up in terrain)

I agree - still present. @Sean: are you sure you got the seed and coords right? I couldn't find a forest biome at that location.

Here are two screenshots from the latest snapshot and two different seeds. Complete with large oak trees, cords, and seed.

Now if you are talking about the multiple branch trees I had to grow this one in 1.7.4

Ah, this report is indeed referring to branched oaks, not dark oaks.

Confirmed in 1.7.5 / 14w10c:
Created a flatworld seed "1" with the preset (14w10c)

3;minecraft:bedrock,59*minecraft:stone,3*minecraft:dirt,minecraft:grass;4;stronghold,biome_1,village,decoration,dungeon,lake,mineshaft,lava_lake

(1.7.5 / 1.6.4)

2;7,59x1,3x3,2;4;stronghold,biome_1,village,decoration,dungeon,lake,mineshaft,lava_lake

• in 1.6.4 big oak trees generate

• in 1.7.5 / 14w10c not
  Screenshots attached.

can someone update the description, they ONLY fail to generate in Forest Biomes, Jungles, Extreme Hills+ and River biomes are unaffected

Someone needs to find out the line that causes this and to fix it.

Agreed.

Can you confirm that it's still an issue in any of the current versions? 1.7.9, 1.7.10-pre2, or 14w21b?

Yes, it's still an issue in 1.7.9, 1.7.10pre3 and 14w21b

Turns out it's a so-called "FPS fix" by Jeb.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1m97cw/while_you_are_all_crying_over_the_name_change_of/

"The reason they got removed was because they don't follow the leaf decay rules, and thus caused a LOT of chunk updates. I basically doubled my FPS in forests by removing these. My intention was not to remove them completely, though, but rather "fix them later". The problem now is that the code for those trees is super-complex, and not the easiest thing to work with."

BigTree source code from Jeb:
http://pastebin.com/XBLdGqXQ

Paul Spooner, original maker of Forester Filter and gave the Big Tree generation code to Notch, says:
"
The stuff you're looking for is in the "foliageShape" function. I suggest replacing the line:

else if ((y == 0) || (y == (foliageHeight - 1))) return (float) 2;
with the following two lines
else if ((y == 0) || (y == (foliageHeight - 2))) return (float) 2;
else if (y == (foliageHeight - 1)) return (float) 1.5;
The change should reduce the size of the foliage clusters and prevent decay.
"

@@unknown: Source ?

Edited comment to add source + extra info.

@@unknown: Thanks for finding this, put it in the descripton.

Somewhat, Big Trees in forests aren't removed, but they have an impossible chance to generate. I'm not sure. I saw a Big Oak Tree in a forest on JL's Edge of The World livestream. http://i.imgur.com/Xj44SaV.jpg So it seems that the world generation broke the chance and proceeded to generate the big tree.

Bear in mind that large oaks still generate by the side of Rivers so it may have actually been in a river biome which happened to border a Forest.

Ah.

Confirmed for 14w34c. Grum works on it, but will probably not be fixed until 1.9: http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/2d8afv/we_can_have_large_oak_trees_back_in_forests_for_18/cjna08x

Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version 1.8.1 Prerelease 3 / Launcher version 1.5.3 or later? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

Wait, how is this resolved?

Resolution: Awaiting Response

Sorry, what does that mean exactly? As far as I can tell, this is still an issue in the current version.

"Resolved" doesn't refer to the bug, it refers to the bug report. In this case it's resolved as "awaiting response" and it will be reopened when someone confirms that the bug is still there in the latest version.

I'll take @unknown's response as confirmation for 1.8.1

Regressed in 16w21b (via https://reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/4lqkh7/ )

Cannot confirm regression. Large Oak Trees are generating for me. (http://imgur.com/a/jDL3b)

Can also not confirm regression.

Can confirm for 1.10.2. For one to see this change they have to generate a new world. The way trees generate in a world doesn't change regardless of the version. The game uses the same generation that was used when creatimg the world.

@@unknown Cannot reproduce. Created a new world in 1.10.2 and was immediately met with a large number of large oak trees.

Brand new world on 1.10.2 - about the new attachment

Seed?

-2185075754171440691

Could not reproduce with given seed, see image.

Ran 1.10 and then 1.10.2 again and they it got fixed. Probably something got messed up.