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title: "Shape and roots - Wildform wiki"
description: "The Shape and More pages: sliders for what the species normally decides, and growing one part again."
url: https://voxelsprout.com/wildform/wiki/shape-and-roots
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[Wildform](https://voxelsprout.com/wildform) [Wiki](https://voxelsprout.com/wildform/wiki)Shape and roots

# Shape and roots

The Shape and More pages: sliders for what the species normally decides, and growing one part again.

Every tree comes with the species' own values for its age and size, so each slider starts on a real number. Move one and the picker shows yours next to the species' own.

[![The Shape page of the tree picker](https://voxelsprout.com/media/wildform/picker-shape.webp)](https://voxelsprout.com/media/wildform/picker-shape.webp)

## Shape

* **Height:** Of the species' own height at that age. 100% is as the generator grows it.
* **Trunk:** How thick the trunk is at the base, in blocks.
* **Lean:** 0% is a straight trunk. The higher, the more it wanders.
* **Crown spread:** How far the branches reach sideways, in blocks. This sizes the wood; the leaves on it have their own slider under More.
* **Branches:** How many main branches the tree grows.
* **Branch length:** How long the main branches are, in blocks.

## More

[![The More page of the tree picker](https://voxelsprout.com/media/wildform/picker-more.webp)](https://voxelsprout.com/media/wildform/picker-more.webp)
* **Leaf clumps:** How big the clump of leaves on one branch end is, in blocks.
* **Leaf density:** How much foliage the crown is given.
* **Airiness:** Opens up the crown that is there: pockets and windows, so sky shows through the leaves.
* **Roots default species' own:** The root system, with its strength next to it. Species' own follows the species as it ages.

## Grow one part again

[**Roots**](https://voxelsprout.com/wildform/wiki/shape-and-roots#setting-roots), [**Trunk**](https://voxelsprout.com/wildform/wiki/shape-and-roots#setting-trunk), **Limbs** and [**Crown**](https://voxelsprout.com/wildform/wiki/tree-picker#setting-crown) grow that part again with a new seed. The rest of the tree stays as it is.

## Root systems

The generator's root systems, by the names the picker shows:

| Roots        | What it grows                                                                                           |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| species' own | Follows the species as it ages. Most species change root system over their life.                        |
| none         | Nothing above ground. The trunk meets the soil flat, the way a young tree on deep soil does.            |
| shallow      | Roots that leave the trunk and go under within a few blocks. The ordinary case.                         |
| surface      | Long roots snaking away across the ground, dipping under and back out. Old oaks and maples.             |
| taproot      | One anchor driven straight down, and next to nothing on the surface. Pines, oaks, anything young.       |
| buttress     | Wall-like flares radiating from the trunk base, each carrying on as a surface root.                     |
| stilt        | Short thick legs leaving the base of the trunk at an angle and bracing against the ground. Mangrove.    |
| prop         | Columns descending from the branches, thickening into pillars where they land. Banyan.                  |
| strangler    | A lattice of roots spiralling down the outside of the trunk and fusing where they cross. Strangler fig. |
| breathing    | A field of thin spikes standing in the mud around the trunk, thickest near the tree.                    |
| storage      | A swollen base and short fat roots holding water against the dry season. Baobab, silk floss.            |

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