Forestlings

Forestlings are small, shy forest elves. They travel from island to island, to wherever trees grow. For a bit of Mana they grant you a blessing – for example a huge leap across the gap to the next island.

Video: Forestlings (1:34, in German, with sound) – Mala shows how to get a blessing with a Mana Apple and take a Forestling along in a Mobplate.

Forestlings aren’t AI residents: they don’t carry “(KI)” and they respond to fixed keywords.

Note

Mala shows you your first Forestling on the meeting island. It flies off right away – one of the same kind waits on the next island you find in the direction it flew.

Where to find them

• Forestlings show up on many islands near you – which kind depends on the biome.
• At most one lives on each island, and after one appears it takes a while until the next.
• Never on your starting island and never on the meeting island.

Getting a blessing

For a blessing you need Mana and a Mana Apple. You craft the apple from an apple in the middle of the crafting table with 4 Mana orbs around it. The apple confirms the purchase.

1. Talk to it

   Click the Forestling (right-click or hit it). On Bedrock, tap it or sneak in front of it.

2. Listen

   It introduces itself, names its blessing and asks: “It costs 20 Mana, you have 57. Would you like it? Then give me a Mana Apple.”

3. Give it a Mana Apple

   Hold the Mana Apple in your hand and click the Forestling. It thanks you, holds the apple in its hand, and the blessing takes effect right away. The Mana is charged at that moment.

Tip

No need to wait: You can give the apple at any time – mid-conversation, while it’s still introducing itself, or without talking at all.

• If you type “yes” or “I’ll take it”, it asks you for the apple. If you don’t have one, it tells you how to craft one.
• You don’t lose the apple: If the purchase can’t happen – not enough Mana, wrong game mode, its blessing is still active on you, or a Forestling without a blessing – you keep it. If it fails afterwards, you get it back, as a parcel the next time you join if need be.
• The Forestling holds the apple until the purchase and for one more minute afterwards.
• Say how does it work? and it explains its blessing, tell me and it tells you a story; bye ends the conversation.
• While you’re talking, only it reads along. Put ! at the start to write to everyone on the server, or use /g for the global chat.
• If you walk away or don’t write anything for a while, the conversation ends.

All blessings

Forestling	Blessing	What it does	Price	Duration
Oak	Sky Leap	Jump with a run-up: a giant leap about 60 blocks straight ahead. Without a run-up, a very high jump boost	20 Mana	120 s
Spruce	Wind Run	Run much faster. Run over the edge and the wind carries you about 75 blocks, then you land gently	20 Mana	120 s
Birch	Air Jump	Jump twice quickly: up to 3 jumps in mid-air, about 20 blocks each, landing without damage	25 Mana	120 s
Jungle	Vine Swinger	Jump twice quickly: a vine pulls you up to 64 blocks to the block you’re looking at, 4 vines. Walk into a wall = run up it	25 Mana	120 s
Acacia	Desert Wind	Hop twice in quick succession: a dash about 45 blocks in the direction you’re looking, every 2 s	25 Mana	120 s
Mangrove	Root Bridge	As you walk, a 3-block-wide root bridge grows beneath you. Look up and jump: it climbs	30 Mana	60 s
Pale Oak	Ghost Step	Jump twice quickly: fly for 8 s, about 105 blocks, then land gently. 2 charges	30 Mana	ready for 120 s
Bamboo	Bamboo Catapult	Jump twice quickly: about 95 blocks far forward, landing without fall damage. 2 charges	30 Mana	ready for 120 s
Cherry	Blossom Leap	Takes you instantly to a random island, usually 100–300 blocks away	30 Mana	instant
Dark Oak	Shadow Portal	Takes you instantly to a random island, usually 300–500 blocks away	40 Mana	instant

• Only one blessing at a time. A new one replaces the one that’s running – the Forestling tells you before. You can only renew the same blessing in its last 10 seconds.
• Blessings only work in survival mode.
• No safety net: Air Jump, Ghost Step and the like won’t catch every fall, and the Root Bridge only grows while you’re walking – it doesn’t build downwards.
• The island jumps only land on islands that already exist. If there’s none in the range, they jump a bit closer or farther (half to one and a half times the distance). If there’s no suitable island at all, nothing is charged.

Taking Forestlings along

With a Mobplate

Click the Forestling with an empty Mobplate – no fight, no marking. It’s then inside the plate, and you can take it to any island.

• Setting down: Right-click a block with the filled plate. It needs solid ground and two free blocks above; water doesn’t work. Where you set it down is its new home.
• At most 6 Forestlings within 32 blocks. If it doesn’t work, you keep the plate.
• The plate shows its kind, for example “Kind: Oak Forestling”. Same kinds stack, different ones don’t. In a ChestShop the sign names the kind.
• On other players’ islands you need the Animals right to catch and set down.
• Not into a plate: a Forestling that’s holding your apple for a purchase, and the resident Forestling in a clan island’s grove.

On a lead

Hold a lead and click the Forestling. It follows you. Where you take the lead off is its new home.

• On other players’ islands you need the Animals right for this – to put it on a lead and to untie it, whether by hand, at a fence post or with shears.
• Nobody can put the resident Forestling in a clan island’s grove on a lead.

Related pages

• AI Residents
• Mana & Ruby
• Mobplates
• The Island World