How to change tree planting minimum separation/distance?

[bob the big blob of goo]

How can we change the distance between planting of tree seeds?  We keep running into issues with players creating large tree farms that end up making the region lockup.  We want to make it so they have to plant them farther apart to keep the regions loadable.  I have tried several different properties and values and haven't found anything that over-rides the four block current spread.

[Cranberry Monster]

I believe what you want to do is change this in the blocks.xml:

 

    <property name="BigDecorationRadius" value="4"/>

 

Try pumping that up to a value of something like 10 or 15 and it would keep trees from being planted too closely together. Although the value is set for "treeMasterGrowing", it also seems to be set case-by-case. You'll want to change it just for the first stage of the ones players can plant, so blocks starting with "treePlanted". I'd do treePlantedOak1m, treePlantedMountainPine1m, and treePlantedWinterPine1m and see if that works.