| CChaos said: Well, that's the thing. The inside of the central trunk is hollow, but 28 trees make up all around it. I do that by getting a base and planting saplings all the way around. Now, when the tree grows off of THAT sapling, you get onto the top of the tree, you cut away the leaves and then put a single piece of dirt atop the tree trunk. Then you plant a sapling atop that. After that sapling grows, you knock the dirt block out and place a trunk piece. While I suppose that is technically not growing EVERY piece, it allows you to grow absolutely massive looking oak trees naturally. I did that for all 28 trees around the trunk and grew them to the point I needed them. Once it got to that point, I cut them off to be perfectly level and started on the canopy. The canopy...I think these two screenshots will show best how I did it.
As you can see in the first picture, I had the scaffolding all the way around where the trunk was growing, but placed a massive dirt layer at the top of where the tree trunk would end. This allowed me to use that to run around without the threat of death. Once that was done, I planted the trees like in the second picture. Planting trees on elevated bits of dirt allowed me to ensure a slowly rising canopy that looked far more like an actual tree. The close together growing did the same, allowing for no breaks in the leaf part of the canopy. In the foreground of picture two, you can see one of my spine branches, two wide and laid on their side for the lesser branches to connect to. All in all, I think it worked pretty well! |
That's actually not as bad as I thought it would be. Pretty straightforward!
