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Overview
DyeTrees adds one color of tree for each dye. These trees spawn in the world, somewhat rarely, and can generate with any log material, either vanilla or from mods.
They behave and often look like oak trees, dropping saplings from 5% of leaves and apples from 0.5% of leaves. However, they also have a chance to drop dye items from their leaves, allowing dyes to be farmed. There is a config to make these drops "tree dye" items to avoid infinite bonemeal and lapis.
Dye Trees generate in three shapes. Traditional 5-tall oak shapes (center) are the most common, at 50% of total spawns. Tall trees (left) generate as 30% of all trees, and are about twice the size of a basic tree. The remaining 20% of the trees are "lumpy" trees (right), and contain extra log blocks.
Also present in Dye Trees are large "Rainbow Trees". Rainbow saplings are a very rare drop from normal dye trees, but they are well worth the wait. Rainbow trees, in addition to dropping a large amount of dye, have magical properties, and will fight any evil magic in the vicinity, including ThaumCraft taint and MystCraft instability.
Rainbow Forest
There is also a new biome (which can be disabled in the config), the Rainbow Forest. The rainbow forest consists exclusively of these trees, with clusters of every color of tree.Animals spawn at a much-increased rate in this biome, and sheep may take on any color at random.
These biomes also do not allow the spawning of dangerous mobs. The only hostile mob that may spawn at all are tiny slimes, which cannot deal damage. Slimes in the rainbow forest, like sheep, take on random dye colors, and will drop dye items if killed.
