u/FrogTroj

Created by replacing the leaves and logs of poplar trees with dark oak

An aerial view

Dark oak leaves next to poplar leaves to highlight the similarities

With single-sapling dark oak trees being requested since 1.7.2, the dappled forests with their new biome specific brown leaf color for dark oak leaves (as well as others) paired with the dark oak leaves texture being similar to poplars texture makes space for them to be implemented in a unique way.

To create this, I replaced the leaves and logs of a poplar tree with dark oak. The leaf color is vanilla and not edited.

The dark oak leaves already look somewhat similar to poplar leaves, and their adaptive color in the biome is already fitting.

I think the cradle is an interesting concept that needs some work, but the fact that they built it with an exclusive xp system built on the liquidation of weapons was a very odd choice in my opinion. On the surface it makes sense to help with gear fear and vault room, but they made it so critical to the meta that people are just liquidating everything, and almost everyone is running kit because they're melting most of their gear. Now they make high value weapons have frankly low cradle value, seemingly to disincentivize liquidating them, making cradle progression even slower?

know it's tough to balance mid-season but it's clear that the cradle needed more time in the oven. I think making it credit based or runner level based would have made it not have such drastic effects on the item economy, but that seems to be an unlikely pivot until next season. I have no idea how they can go around balancing this into a better place.