MagroveUnbound

A Paper 26.x plugin that lets mangrove propagules grow like any ordinary sapling — no mud grid, no minimum distance from solid blocks, no large clear volume.

How it works

Growth is attempted in two stages.

1. Vanilla first. World#generateTree(...) runs the real mangrove feature and returns a boolean. If it succeeds, you get a genuine vanilla mangrove — identical to normal swamp growth. This is the common case out in the open.
2. Fallback generator. When vanilla returns false (it refused for lack of room), the plugin builds a mangrove itself: trunk, canopy, and a suggestion of the root flare.

The fallback is deliberately non-destructive. It only writes into air, water, and foliage; anything solid is simply skipped, and the trunk truncates to whatever vertical room exists. It never breaks a player's blocks to make space. (The single exception is opt-in: prop roots may burrow one block into mud, becoming muddy mangrove roots, as vanilla does. Turn off growth.replace-mud-with-muddy-roots to forbid even that.)