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@@Nn-me2nn Indeed they aren't. Interestingly, seaweed isn't a plant at all. They are technically multicellular types of algae, as with some other aquatic "plants". (Though not all. There are certainly some aquatic plants that are really plants.) Take this with a grain of salt, as I don't really know much about it, but the least I can tell is that seaweed is, in fact, not a tree nor any other type of plant.
@molly howell No, they are saying that the term "skill tree" is very confusing if trees don't exist yet, which they didn't until about 350 million years ago.
Maple didn't put any points into aesthetics. It's not the trees fault we find it's dying leaves beautiful. The tree gains no survival advantage from this the way plants with pretty flowers attract more pollinators. It's just a coincidence that human players like looking at it.
Funnily enough maples have been starting to usurp oaks on the Eastern North America servers due to a higher combined resistance to drought conditions and the AOE poison damage of Amur honeysuckle mains
fun fact: birch trees actually developed highly flammable bark as a fire _resist!_ it might seem counterintuitive, but the thin bark catches and burns so quickly, that it doesn't have time to light the actual wood of the tree. this is why, when using birch bark to start a fire, you need kindling as well as large logs.
I've noticed that on relatively old birch trees the paper-like bark at the bottom gets stripped off and starts to look more similar to oak bark, does that mean they get less fire resistant as they age, or is it a non-issue at that point?
When the cambium of a tree dies, the tree will be dead. The heartwood of a tree is not alive at all, only the outer rings of the wood are and transport water to the leaves. The cambium of the tree sits on top of the sapwood under the bark and is the only part of the tree that grows. It pushes the older bark outwards and grows a new ring of wood each year and a new layer of bark outwards and so the layers pile up. The bark of a birch contains a lot of oils and actually protects it more against insects, but less to fire. When the bark burns, the cambium goes along with it, killing the tree. Birches have also specced into the flying seed perk and actually make probably ten times as much seeds as a maple, with this high spawn rate and high spawning range I think they deserve to be C tier.
true, but trees seem to have the oil urn dubuff pre-applied, which can stack with OTHER flamability modifiers like dehydration, and it just really fucks them up.
The Gympie Gympie tree is definitely OP. Its defence stats are off the chart. I would argue that fruit trees are S tier, as they have successfully recruited human players to spread themselves to every continental meta except Antarctica.
TierZoo: "Oak trees contain tannic acid" Video: *Is displaying a screenshot of Wikipedia explaining that Oak trees do not actually contain tannic acid*
I believe it's more a problem of their overall relationship with humans. Algae builds have a greater tendency than trees to contaminate water supplies, which makes them less desirable to human mains. By contrast, tree builds drop the loot item wood when defeated, which human mains have used to craft tools and shelters.
unlike animal mains that suffer from human farming, and I want to ban that strategy as it traps people in the gameplay loop thrown back into suffering characters trees are played AFK so farming them is actually fine for their players and survival so long as the monocropping bug doesn't ruin the soils loot tables.
Your forgetting the fast respawn time that allows the pine tree to mitigate for damage from grief. Christmas or pine trees tend to only take 2-3 years to fully grow whereas tankier builds like oak and mahogony can take 20-50+ years to fully mature. This means that the pine tree is much more adapted for use in agriculture and forest recovery scheeems or recovering from increasing rates of forest fires. While one of the most farmed builds it'swell suited to the current meta and is much more likely to outlast it's tankier competitors.
Imo the eucalyptus tree is also top tier. It has very flammable eucalyptus in its leaves so that when the bushfires go through Australia, it actually makes the flames burn more so it has a higher chance of burning back the entire forest. To combat this hurting it, eucalypts are able to grow back their leaves significantly faster than other tree. It actually grows leaves wherever it can, even out of the trunk so that it can grow back faster than any of its competition. So it burns away and then takes the space of the other trees in its area.
if the trees are players, is more like a player farm, you are paying so 1 player could create multi accounts, I personally prefer to focus in 1 o few account at a time, and start new one when they reach certain point. so I prefer to create my own tree character, but if you can't do it cause you don't have time or the place near by, you can pay for it, whatever help to get the arboreal biome would thrive again.
I have planted a lot of trees and I know a bush whch some call a tree called eve its anoying if you drop a branch it still can grow back that is one OP tree build.
In my local server, the human builds tend to decorate their base networks with maple builds. Especially the "Suburbia" base network. My build is currently in a server where the "Autumn" world event is occurring. The maples are so beautiful I took a few screenshots this morning. Plus, if I ever get enough in-game currency to get my dream base, I plan to try to make spawn points for "sugar maple" support players. The anthropocine is definitely making "support player to human builds" a viable strategy.
As someone who's not a fan of squirrels, that strategy of periodically starving them out is incredible! I may have to try out an Oak Tree in my next play through just to give that strategy a try.
I'd just like to thank all the mangrove trees, an excellent contribution, not to mention that community is really nice and helps a lot of new players, tree or not, accidental or intentional, thank you mangrove trees.
To add, conifers are some of the oldest, a testament to their effectiveness is just how old, around 265 million years old (random guess based on a book that gives me “late Permian” and me using the half and half system or for the third, third, and third system, 260 million years old), which proves how good they are since they survived the Permian Triassic (PTr) extinction event, and the Cretaceous Paleogene (KPg) extinction event
Maybe Oaks should switch the tannic acid in their acorns to something humans like. Sap, maybe, or protein. Acorns are great xp sources for them, especially since humans have the cooking skill entirely to themselves. There are humans who collect acorns and turn them into flour for some of their niche baking clan quests. But they take a lot of extra effort to do it, because they have to get rid of the tannic acid. White oaks are already on this path, having fewer tannins in their acorns, so maybe humans will start planting their seeds for them like they do with their other plant party members.
Plus Mangroves are less an individual build as they are a class of builds. Lots of unrelated species are mangroves, like how there are tons of different bushes that become tumbleweeds.
there is a rare biome subtype located in an near a specific city biome in northern Sweden that is part city biome and part birch tree forest. that city biome is known as "Umeå"
@@ratkeep Seems logical. If you included plants, mushrooms and microbial organisms, stuff like that as playable characters, then Outside’s servers would crash from too many users.
Junipers, pines and spruce are top tier trees. Juniper can grow on a rocky surface with basically no nutrients and it has berries so seeds travel with animals and have rich soil to be planted on. Spruce spread fast, grow fast and can survive in shadowy places, making it good at infiltrating forests and growing big enough to drown other trees. It also makes the ground so acidic that only it (and moss) can survive on it. Pines require light, and they do that well with their height. If spruce comes in and drowns them, they drop their bark and die. It then is extremely flammable and will eventually burn the spruce forest down. Other pines stay alive because of their thick bark.
There totally are F-tier trees! It's called the trees that get too close to electric wires, and then have the power company cut them down and just leave the wood in your backyard.
@@maddmaxx5670 That sounds like an unwise player rather than a reflection on the build, to be fair. Don't spawn in another guild's territory smh /s it's the human guild's fault for overreaching
Actually, they're one of the most frost-resistant broad-leaf trees, they generally suffer limited damage from parasytes, and grow easily on difficult (e.g. burnt) grounds. So they're not that bad at all.
@@robertaperoglio And yet none of that usually matters since there roots are so shallow compared to other trees that they fall over with just a little bit of ice/snow weight or wind Therefor they are nonsensical and Tier Zoo called them out on it
I was scrolling through your channel for tier list videos. I watched most of them except for this one. I finally got to watch it and this was better than I thought it would be! 11/10👍 Edit: Even though the video was good, I feel like there were some missed opportunities in this one, such as acacia trees. Other than that, again, pretty good.
There are also trees that've spend points in the thorns ability. No need for thick bark as defense when the line of defense consists of 3 cm long thorns.
In defense of birch mains, I feel that a critical point of that play-style was overlooked. You may think there is no point dumping most of your evolution points into things like "extremely flammable wood and bark", and "there no point in having a tree designed to burn well". HOWEVER THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF PLAYING BIRCH! You plant your trees in a forest, and eventually start a massive forest fire. Now, birch players have a huge advantage. Birch are regarded as "pioneer species" meaning they are able to rapidly colonize open ground, which synergies super well with the forest fire ability. Not only is the area free from other competition, the ground itself is full of nutrients left from the fire. On the relatively calm arboreal servers, birch is probably the most rewarding IMO.
I'm a tree health care specialist for a living and this video was huge treat for me. I couldve watched hours of this.. Really wish he mentioned the Gingko or maybe the coastal redwood tree. Those are very OP.
Shoutout to the craziest tree main of all time. I honestly don't know where his build (quaking Aspen) would fall in the tier list, but Pando has racked up some crazy high scores. Solid contender for highest HP, longest playthrough length, most calories produced/consumed by a single character, and probably a ton of other stuff I'm not even thinking of. If ever there was doubt that there's an art to playing trees, I'd think Pando proves there is.
Yet another amazing video, but I’d love to see an update or a follow up video, as I’d love to hear about some of the specialist builds like eucalyptus trees, fruit trees and palm trees, to name a few
Start with the Red Algae build, then in this order unlock Chlorophyll, Multicellular, Terrestrial, and Vascular. Once you've done that you'll unlock the option to evolve into a tree.
I just was just about to comment asking how he could have possibly overlooked the eucalyptus. They grow bloody TALL. They're drought resistant, fire resistant, their leaves are poisonous, they're incredibly durable, and despite the fact they're such prolific shitposters that they spontaneously combust in California, they still deserved to be on this list.
@@CrazyJayThaNinja >when you put enough points into the fire element that it gives you both fire resistance and fire attacks while having it as a major weakness for your race. truly a S-class tree
I immediately thought of redwoods, with fire-resistant bark. True, eucalyptus trees are great for their climate, but can't hack the cold temperatures and cold. To each his own climate.
Here are some things that I’ve noticed. Conifer trees are MUCH older than angiosperms (leaved plants). In addition to that, not all conifers are evergreen( tamarack). Also some conifers like red pine will drop their lower branches and routinely survive ground fires. Not all conifers are adapted to fire either (balsam fir). I also believe that the video showed aspen trees in the beginning rather than birch. Birch isn’t good with fires but it’s mostly grows in wetter areas where that isn’t a problem. It’s bark is also is chemically resistant to parasites so that also eliminates woodpeckers.
birch trees can grow really up though, in cold climates where i live when you go skying in the mountains the last trees you see as you go up the mountain are a type of birth tree
Another thing that should be factored in is the ability, to reproduce epicormic growth (new tissue from old tissue). Which is almost exclusive to broadleaf trees. With the exception of pitch pine and a few other conifers. Most conifers will die if they lose there foliage ( fir example from a storms, hurricane, pests or humans cutting them). As pests and natural disasters are increasing trees that can produce new growth are going to be more vital than ever. Especially for the city setting. Also you should add a tier for fruit trees. A large portion being from the rose family. They produce tasty fruit in order to get there host to ingest clean and carry the seed to a new location. Wrapped in fertilizer when they go to the toilet. Given there offspring a wide reaching spread. They have given up on trying to hide there seeds from being eaten and have made the process require ingestion. Also a really low level tree would be the palm family. Although they can live in some of the most extreme heats. If they lose the central leader where the new growth is they die. In storms they do all the leafs protecting just the central stern. Named monocots due to only having one live branch. Probably the toughest family though is the juniper as they are found on every continent. Which is an amazing great in itself Could also add the dangers of monoculture and plantation which while temporarily boosted trees numbers, when they get infected they all do. I could go on for ages, so many cool trees 😂😂
I know this is an old video, but i've recently learned that oak trees actually spread partly because of the squirrels burying them and forgetting where they are!
Birch trees are amazing, though! They are the only tree builds on our server in middle europe that can grow in swamp biomes. Their reproductive abilities are seriously overpowering them, and they are the first ones to grab hold of cleared areas where a lot of spruce trees get deleted by storms and ice. And their aesthetics...
There are also species capable of surviving in cold and dry climates. Birch trees are the most common leaf tree in the nordic nations, making up about 12% of Swedish trees with asp, the second most common leaf tree only making up about 1%. With this wide margin their viability is unquestionable
A fungus tier would be a fun one. Fungus are so diverse. There are over 2.2 million species of fungus. Some are edible, some are poisonous and some are psychedelic. There’s even evidence that some species could even survive the vacuum of space with their spores.
A few related side-notes: living redwoods are very fire-resistant, and drought-resistant, as they get 1/3rd of their water by pulling in fog. Also, when you cut down a redwood, suckers will sprout from the stump, so unless you burn it out or remove the taproot, they will keep growing. Inversely, dry redwood boards go up like tinder.
🌳Greenpath music! Glad to know someone is cultured! Besides that this is a very good analysis of trees, for a long time I couldn't tell most apart so thank you!🌲
I wish you would’ve mentioned the gum tree. I know it’s not big but they have an amazing ability to start forest fires to clear land for their seeds to grow.
I’d put aspen in A, being a superorganism that doesn’t get crowded out like birch, with less flammable and more durable wood. The bark is still papery but it’s got the potential for much sturdier trunks and branches.
the major exception to the placement of the maple is the Norway maple. Due to it's lower need for light and longer growing period, in that, they keep their leaves for longer, allows them to grow larger faster than other deciduous trees in regions like southern Canada and Alaska
The oak has quest contracts with other players like Jay that actually bury acorns far away from the original spawn point. This makes the acorns less likely to be scavanged by squirels and woodpeckers, disperses spawn points over the map and also makes it easier to sprout.
Lvl 70 Eucalyptus here: you've got to be joking by leaving out our clan, right? We're like the Vikings of the tree meta. We don't just have defense. We literally gank other trees and kill them. We spread a poison through our leaves that kills off other trees. Our raids are so super effective that we completely dominated one of the toughest servers for trees--the Australia server--eons ago, and now we're spreading like wildfire (pun intended) across all the other non-Arctic servers. Stand in awe of the Eucalyptus clan, you noobs!
Level 10 pedunculate oak: *laughs* he’s full of it Level 15 common ash: *chuckles* who does he think he’s kidding Level 40 silver birch: *sniggers* this dude can barely survive out of garden care Level 5 scots pine: you’re literally a worm under my boot
Not to mention eucalypts contain flammable oils that help Australian wildfires spread, thinning out other tree species to reduce competition for nutrients while also reducing the canopy and exposing their own seedlings to more sunlight. Using Australia's harsh environment to their advantage to both reduce competition and help friendly spawn.
"You see, the trouble with the maples, and they're quite convinced they're right, is that the oaks are just too lofty and they grab up all the light." - Geddy Lee This is a good information for getting to the bottom of The Trees civil war first reported on by Rush. More on the plant meta would be enjoyable.
Conifers keep their needles all year round, but they actually can't use photosynthesis in winter. They sleep like all other trees do. The advantage about keeping the needles is only that they don't have to regrow them in spring. But the risk is breaking under heavy snow load.
Just had a chance to watch the whole video. Super good man. teamtrees.org
Thanks Destin, that means a lot! Let's get that 20 million! teamtrees.org
Does anybody else know who made team trees?
@@seanmahoney2671 Mr. Beast and Mark Rober
@@beetal7128 I didn't make it
@@TierZoo You did forget the Manchineel tree! Thas tree is so scary it sounds like it comes from a fantasy horror movie.
When you balance out acidity levels in the ocean but nobody pays attention:
*Sad seaweed noises*
I dont know if those are trees but they are definitely a high tier!
@@Nn-me2nn Indeed they aren't. Interestingly, seaweed isn't a plant at all. They are technically multicellular types of algae, as with some other aquatic "plants". (Though not all. There are certainly some aquatic plants that are really plants.)
Take this with a grain of salt, as I don't really know much about it, but the least I can tell is that seaweed is, in fact, not a tree nor any other type of plant.
HyperShard Thanks dude, that’s facinating
*50% SEA 50% WEED*
When you're a really cool looking tree but you're not native to North America
*sad baobab noises*
The term "skill tree" was extremely confusing to players before this expansion.
Wasnt the tree expansion one of the first in the game?
@@leela4kpr no
@@leela4kpr at first tree were npc
Before trees they were known as "Skill Hyphae"
@molly howell No, they are saying that the term "skill tree" is very confusing if trees don't exist yet, which they didn't until about 350 million years ago.
"Perhaps if the maple didnt put so much into aesthetics"
The maple: "my goals are above you"
The true endgame is fashion!
@@lardoram what about the cherry tree
Maple didn't put any points into aesthetics. It's not the trees fault we find it's dying leaves beautiful. The tree gains no survival advantage from this the way plants with pretty flowers attract more pollinators. It's just a coincidence that human players like looking at it.
@@bonitabromeliads indeed, I am a newer player and even I know cherry blossom trees focused all their points onto aesthetics.
Funnily enough maples have been starting to usurp oaks on the Eastern North America servers due to a higher combined resistance to drought conditions and the AOE poison damage of Amur honeysuckle mains
fun fact: birch trees actually developed highly flammable bark as a fire _resist!_ it might seem counterintuitive, but the thin bark catches and burns so quickly, that it doesn't have time to light the actual wood of the tree. this is why, when using birch bark to start a fire, you need kindling as well as large logs.
I've noticed that on relatively old birch trees the paper-like bark at the bottom gets stripped off and starts to look more similar to oak bark, does that mean they get less fire resistant as they age, or is it a non-issue at that point?
@@durgun8247 i have absolutely no clue, but i believe that generally, the younger almost any living thingis, the healthier it is.
Bitch don’t get particularly old. Instead they just have really high spawn rates and advancement. A perfect build for when you’re commuting.
@@benoithudson7235 lol
When the cambium of a tree dies, the tree will be dead. The heartwood of a tree is not alive at all, only the outer rings of the wood are and transport water to the leaves. The cambium of the tree sits on top of the sapwood under the bark and is the only part of the tree that grows. It pushes the older bark outwards and grows a new ring of wood each year and a new layer of bark outwards and so the layers pile up. The bark of a birch contains a lot of oils and actually protects it more against insects, but less to fire. When the bark burns, the cambium goes along with it, killing the tree. Birches have also specced into the flying seed perk and actually make probably ten times as much seeds as a maple, with this high spawn rate and high spawning range I think they deserve to be C tier.
2018: Using Mom's credit card to buy V-bucks
2019: Using Mom's credit card to save the world
You must live in a city.
@@Va11idus clearly
How dare.you play the worst game.
@@rubiroman8121 minecraft good fortnite bad
@@Prodawg both game normalizes deforestation
"Most trees are vulnerable to fire."
I suspect most living organisms are in general.
Well most animals have an ability called running the fuck away from fire which makes them avoid the fire
true, but trees seem to have the oil urn dubuff pre-applied, which can stack with OTHER flamability modifiers like dehydration, and it just really fucks them up.
only the tardigrades disagree
Some trees actually need fire to reproduce like a lot of pine trees. The seeds won't open until a fire comes through.
What about those Australian Hawk Mains who've started USING fire?
I feel that the tree faction deserved more coverage than just one mention in each tier
The Gympie Gympie tree is definitely OP. Its defence stats are off the chart.
I would argue that fruit trees are S tier, as they have successfully recruited human players to spread themselves to every continental meta except Antarctica.
TierZoo: "Oak trees contain tannic acid"
Video: *Is displaying a screenshot of Wikipedia explaining that Oak trees do not actually contain tannic acid*
Wikipedia is unreliable
@@eliyahubarkhordar6518 I do have money, just not real actual human America money.
@@xxlegolas Tannins are a class of chemicals that can tan leather. Tannic acid is the original one we found
@@bobgilbert1953 I like the era when it was done using piss, shit, and brains.
@@xxlegolas Legit. Generally speaking, I prefer wine tanned leathers. Fascinating colors, and they always smell nice.
When you make just as much oxygen as trees but get hated anyways:
Sad algae noises
Best comment ever
Vastly more oxygen actually.
I believe it's more a problem of their overall relationship with humans. Algae builds have a greater tendency than trees to contaminate water supplies, which makes them less desirable to human mains. By contrast, tree builds drop the loot item wood when defeated, which human mains have used to craft tools and shelters.
XD 😂
Awww. I like you. I even had the idea of putting algae tanks on space stations for oxygen production and CO2 scrubbing.
The only F Tier conifer: The Christmas tree. Gets farmed and griefed by humans in a brutal annual massacre.
unlike animal mains that suffer from human farming, and I want to ban that strategy as it traps people in the gameplay loop thrown back into suffering characters trees are played AFK so farming them is actually fine for their players and survival so long as the monocropping bug doesn't ruin the soils loot tables.
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Wait you realize that the chrismas tree is actually S-tier.
I mean it is not because some of them are farmed by human that the build is trash.
Your forgetting the fast respawn time that allows the pine tree to mitigate for damage from grief. Christmas or pine trees tend to only take 2-3 years to fully grow whereas tankier builds like oak and mahogony can take 20-50+ years to fully mature. This means that the pine tree is much more adapted for use in agriculture and forest recovery scheeems or recovering from increasing rates of forest fires. While one of the most farmed builds it'swell suited to the current meta and is much more likely to outlast it's tankier competitors.
Disappointed that the conifer's pinecone fire ability isn't called "martyrdom" :^)
Should be called last stand perk lol, or maybe a tactical insertion
Would be badass
Imo the eucalyptus tree is also top tier. It has very flammable eucalyptus in its leaves so that when the bushfires go through Australia, it actually makes the flames burn more so it has a higher chance of burning back the entire forest. To combat this hurting it, eucalypts are able to grow back their leaves significantly faster than other tree. It actually grows leaves wherever it can, even out of the trunk so that it can grow back faster than any of its competition. So it burns away and then takes the space of the other trees in its area.
Facts, passive pyro build.
Eucalyptus players are insane maniacs that will commit suicide to defeat the competition.
Also extreme temperature resistance both high and low.
"For every donation a new tree will spawn"
So we just became pay to win mobile game.
We've always been.
More like pay to survive really... but surviving is winning in a sense... happy winning guys :)
if the trees are players, is more like a player farm, you are paying so 1 player could create multi accounts, I personally prefer to focus in 1 o few account at a time, and start new one when they reach certain point. so I prefer to create my own tree character, but if you can't do it cause you don't have time or the place near by, you can pay for it, whatever help to get the arboreal biome would thrive again.
@@elielbourrelly9902 "You dont win, you just do a little better each time."
Capitalism baby
"Just by watching this video, you've planted 1/500th of a tree."
*Watches video 500 times*
Gingie that is what you call big brain
I have planted a lot of trees and I know a bush whch some call a tree called eve its anoying if you drop a branch it still can grow back that is one OP tree build.
Gingie, 😂
#teemtrees
Gingie thank you for the patronage
Honestly trees are so amazing, especially once you recognize them as "smart" or "communicative". Much more than scenery. I love it!
Terrifying when you realize you're surrounded by intelligent beings at all times...
Let's not forget the Gympie Gympie tree. Australia has a lot of scary things, but that one might be the worst of them.
Can sadly confirm
Tierzoo: Maple trees are B tier
All of Canada: Say sike right now.
Canada is B tier confirmed
As an Albertan I gotta say B seems accurate we have almost none
Nah man they’re B tier because we counter them so hard
You can guess by my profile pic how I felt after that one
As a tree economically valuable to humans, it's fate is probably tied to ours
"If Maples hadn't put so many points into aesthetics, they'd be top-tier"
Everyone knows that fashion is the true endgame of any successful MMO.
I mean, yeah. We are beautiful
Also, the points into enhancing their sap has serious synergy bonuses when partnered with certain crafting builds.
Spoken like a true Warframe player
flakyolly no spoken like a true end game mmo player
In my local server, the human builds tend to decorate their base networks with maple builds. Especially the "Suburbia" base network.
My build is currently in a server where the "Autumn" world event is occurring. The maples are so beautiful I took a few screenshots this morning.
Plus, if I ever get enough in-game currency to get my dream base, I plan to try to make spawn points for "sugar maple" support players.
The anthropocine is definitely making "support player to human builds" a viable strategy.
As someone who's not a fan of squirrels, that strategy of periodically starving them out is incredible! I may have to try out an Oak Tree in my next play through just to give that strategy a try.
I'd just like to thank all the mangrove trees, an excellent contribution, not to mention that community is really nice and helps a lot of new players, tree or not, accidental or intentional, thank you mangrove trees.
"helps plant trees" - nah
"helps trees spawn in the game world" - hell yea
"Help reduce the climate patch" - A s c e n d e d
Tierzoo: "I'm the Lorax and I speak for the trees"
You littler again and I’ll break your goddam knees
"...and the trees say "stop killing us you donkeys!""
You mean literally everyone on youtube
#teemtrees
REd_Panda I’m king Treedede, I speak for the trees come near us again and we’ll give you fleas
To add, conifers are some of the oldest, a testament to their effectiveness is just how old, around 265 million years old (random guess based on a book that gives me “late Permian” and me using the half and half system or for the third, third, and third system, 260 million years old), which proves how good they are since they survived the Permian Triassic (PTr) extinction event, and the Cretaceous Paleogene (KPg) extinction event
Gymnosperms (cone bearing plants) actually predate angiosperms (flowering plants), showing that other trees switched and are lower tier because of it
Maybe Oaks should switch the tannic acid in their acorns to something humans like. Sap, maybe, or protein. Acorns are great xp sources for them, especially since humans have the cooking skill entirely to themselves. There are humans who collect acorns and turn them into flour for some of their niche baking clan quests. But they take a lot of extra effort to do it, because they have to get rid of the tannic acid. White oaks are already on this path, having fewer tannins in their acorns, so maybe humans will start planting their seeds for them like they do with their other plant party members.
"The Mangrove is the only tree to spec into salt resistance"
Cypress: "Am I a joke to you?"
Coconut trees : 👀
Plus Mangroves are less an individual build as they are a class of builds. Lots of unrelated species are mangroves, like how there are tons of different bushes that become tumbleweeds.
Palm Trees: 🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@BeGladStayMad Palm trees are pretty tolerant but they actually are a grass. Botany is weird.
Joseph Helms all gamers have salt resistance
Martyrdom:
drop a live pinecone when burned
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yes
How do you unlock it?
Is it another donation bonus?
How long does the death streak have to be?
“...and the largest collaboration of all time.”-5:27
World War factions: Am I a joke to you?
Well ... large groups of conifers actually tend to get blown over *more* quickly than trees like oaks, because many of them have very shallow rootage.
“Yo dude what biome do you play on”
Tree Players: “I AM THE BIOME”
ooooooooooo
Other carbon-based regulators:b r u h
Lmao
Oh what is your play style? i a m t r e e
there is a rare biome subtype located in an near a specific city biome in northern Sweden that is part city biome and part birch tree forest.
that city biome is known as "Umeå"
Trees are the ultimate AFK build, literally all abilities are set to auto-cast
Trees are the clicker games of builds
Auto farm
i like to imagine a good portion of the playerbase for stuff like trees and obscure microbes are ai, just to make outside feel more lived in
@@ratkeep Seems logical. If you included plants, mushrooms and microbial organisms, stuff like that as playable characters, then Outside’s servers would crash from too many users.
@@The_Story_Of_Us this is probably why none of the plankton respond to me…
I love how you made a successful CZcams channel based off of gaming and biology. Good job dude.
Junipers, pines and spruce are top tier trees.
Juniper can grow on a rocky surface with basically no nutrients and it has berries so seeds travel with animals and have rich soil to be planted on.
Spruce spread fast, grow fast and can survive in shadowy places, making it good at infiltrating forests and growing big enough to drown other trees. It also makes the ground so acidic that only it (and moss) can survive on it.
Pines require light, and they do that well with their height. If spruce comes in and drowns them, they drop their bark and die. It then is extremely flammable and will eventually burn the spruce forest down. Other pines stay alive because of their thick bark.
"There are no F-tier trees" bro I felt that.
He should make a ant-tier list and/or are ants op
There totally are F-tier trees! It's called the trees that get too close to electric wires, and then have the power company cut them down and just leave the wood in your backyard.
*Ginkgo wants to know your location.
@@maddmaxx5670 it's not the freaking tree's fault that there are electric wires in their habitat messing up their natural growth
@@maddmaxx5670 That sounds like an unwise player rather than a reflection on the build, to be fair. Don't spawn in another guild's territory smh
/s it's the human guild's fault for overreaching
Mom: "What did you do today?"
Me: "I planted one five-hundredth of a tree"
Mom: "?"
You mean you give them one five-hundred new artificial spawn point, right ?
you didn't even donate ;-;
@@azophi shut
nods in agreement
I think it’s fifth hundredth.
Conifers do not do photosynthesis during the winter.
They can, however, start way faster then broad leafe trees, after the winter has passed.
I really appreciate how the add fits perfectly for this video.
Our biology teacher showed this to us when he was teaching about trees
clearly you had a fun time learning biology then
pog
@@Tyranitar. Why did you spell Pog wrong
teacher of culture xD
Man your biology teacher must’ve been a cool dude
Someone’s finally calling out Birch trees on their nonsense
That’s a cool profile pic
Did you know that the whole forest of birch is just one organism
Actually, they're one of the most frost-resistant broad-leaf trees, they generally suffer limited damage from parasytes, and grow easily on difficult (e.g. burnt) grounds. So they're not that bad at all.
@@robertaperoglio And yet none of that usually matters since there roots are so shallow compared to other trees that they fall over with just a little bit of ice/snow weight or wind
Therefor they are nonsensical and Tier Zoo called them out on it
@@Dumpylongstockings that's Aspen trees
I'd love to watch a more detailed version! Like, about specific species and taxonomy
I was scrolling through your channel for tier list videos. I watched most of them except for this one. I finally got to watch it and this was better than I thought it would be! 11/10👍
Edit: Even though the video was good, I feel like there were some missed opportunities in this one, such as acacia trees. Other than that, again, pretty good.
No offense to all you tree mains out there. But all this time I thought you guys were actually AI
No, they're just dumb idle players.
Arnt they a lazy way to lvl up you account?
This is just something an animal main would say.
*laughs in sponge*
Most of 'em are tbh
Imagine not being able to utilize CAM Photosynthesis
This post brought to you by Cactus mains
Cactus spec'd into OP tier
Buff cactus
DiceySpike cactus already OP with CAM photosynthesis lmao
KegMinami 2018 PSAT flashbacks
*laughs in camel main*
There are also trees that've spend points in the thorns ability. No need for thick bark as defense when the line of defense consists of 3 cm long thorns.
I love it when he talks about exp sources. I wish you would talk about them more.
In defense of birch mains, I feel that a critical point of that play-style was overlooked. You may think there is no point dumping most of your evolution points into things like "extremely flammable wood and bark", and "there no point in having a tree designed to burn well". HOWEVER THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF PLAYING BIRCH! You plant your trees in a forest, and eventually start a massive forest fire. Now, birch players have a huge advantage. Birch are regarded as "pioneer species" meaning they are able to rapidly colonize open ground, which synergies super well with the forest fire ability. Not only is the area free from other competition, the ground itself is full of nutrients left from the fire. On the relatively calm arboreal servers, birch is probably the most rewarding IMO.
Bob Jones Dude ikr i play the birch class all the time
rn im level err
1248
ive been playing since the medival expansion
@@ngongameplay than can you tell me if the dragon build really existed
@@ngongameplay dang dude i wanna try birch, what server do u play on? I play on north american servers.
@Richard Joyce ngl tree is kinda boring
So essentially just a troll build? Smh too OP pls nerf :((((
Never thought I’d see the days where tress would trend
I know dude, tress has become such interest trend
Yeah tress are amazing
i love tress, finally it's getting popularity.
I genuinely think tress are really interesting
Tress is such an amazing one hit wonder. I still dont know how it didn't gain popularity far back then.
I'm a tree health care specialist for a living and this video was huge treat for me. I couldve watched hours of this.. Really wish he mentioned the Gingko or maybe the coastal redwood tree. Those are very OP.
All my respects went to this man, to make a video about trees and also helping a fundation ... this is to cool
i just realised after finishing hollow knight that the backround music is from Greenpath congrats on that one
I knew it sound familiar
I played the game about 2 years ago and 5 months and I still recognize the music
LMAO my friend started playing last week and instantly thought of this video
that’s what i kept thinking about during the whole video
r/beatmetoit
When you're a tree and TierZoo doesn't mention you
_sad eucalyptus noises_
What about willows?
And acica
And the Joshua Tree
Eucalyptus dont deserve a mention. Most annoying trees on the planet
Arent eucalyptus trees what are causing most of the Cali fires?
Shoutout to the craziest tree main of all time. I honestly don't know where his build (quaking Aspen) would fall in the tier list, but Pando has racked up some crazy high scores. Solid contender for highest HP, longest playthrough length, most calories produced/consumed by a single character, and probably a ton of other stuff I'm not even thinking of. If ever there was doubt that there's an art to playing trees, I'd think Pando proves there is.
Yet another amazing video, but I’d love to see an update or a follow up video, as I’d love to hear about some of the specialist builds like eucalyptus trees, fruit trees and palm trees, to name a few
Trying to unlock the tree expansion pack, but I'm stumped. Anyone got a walkthrough?
It's actually a donation bonus.
Edit: I was wrong, while you can get it in ng+, donating is easier and keeps the game f2p.
Start with the Red Algae build, then in this order unlock Chlorophyll, Multicellular, Terrestrial, and Vascular. Once you've done that you'll unlock the option to evolve into a tree.
You have a video with TeamTrees as well. These guys are really busy today.
@@Jpteryx wait what? I'll have to try that out next playthrough.
Salvia divinorum
One critique for TierZoo: You should take the root systems of the trees into greater account. especially considering he Birch trees.
Lol, I've studied plants formally and finally Tierzoo has made a tier list of plants, and I have so many nitpicks. Lol, it was a good video though.
*PANDO INTENSIFIES*
@@clyelli no, that's aspen
@@1224chrisng I know but it's still impressive.
Love the video, but I hope he does a more comprehensive tier list for trees.
A specific conifer, the long leaf pine, has layered bark that doesn't burn easily and has leaves that are geared towards the top of the tree.
Honestly glad you mentioned the oak tactic of making a bunch of acorns every few years. My plant ecology class from last year has relevance!
"But as powerful as trees are, they could use our help respawning."
That's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.
+
Yeah, that quote warmed my heart. Trees are the best.
I got chills
"Pine trees are well adapted to fire" *Laughs in eucalyptus main*
F/S tier: Eucalyptus - will explode and burn everything.
@@nooblangpoo Im yet to experience this as an Australian living in areas of frequent bush fires. The bark bears the brunt of the fire
I just was just about to comment asking how he could have possibly overlooked the eucalyptus. They grow bloody TALL. They're drought resistant, fire resistant, their leaves are poisonous, they're incredibly durable, and despite the fact they're such prolific shitposters that they spontaneously combust in California, they still deserved to be on this list.
@@CrazyJayThaNinja >when you put enough points into the fire element that it gives you both fire resistance and fire attacks while having it as a major weakness for your race.
truly a S-class tree
I immediately thought of redwoods, with fire-resistant bark. True, eucalyptus trees are great for their climate, but can't hack the cold temperatures and cold. To each his own climate.
I watched all ur vids in a day ❤️ they are so good thank u for existing
Conifers 🤝 The Grimm Troupe
"Burn the father, feed the child."
Trees more like bees, seriously we need a bee tier list
Bee/ant/wasps tier list.
ya boi Ikr! Bees are op in swarms definitely one of their best abilities.
@@WinterFlare that goes to Hornets
Majestic Gothitelle Close enough.
Ya like *JAZZ?*
The Hollow Knight music (Greenpath, the first theme) fits so well to this kind of forest footage!
So many people who know about hollow knight! I love it!
Stony2103 I knew that I heard this from somewhere
Ah, i see you are a bug of culture as well
Yee I was gonna say this
Just as the music started I got flashbacks of Hornet kicking my butt in Greenpath and then I realized it's Hollow Knight music :D
Here are some things that I’ve noticed. Conifer trees are MUCH older than angiosperms (leaved plants). In addition to that, not all conifers are evergreen( tamarack). Also some conifers like red pine will drop their lower branches and routinely survive ground fires. Not all conifers are adapted to fire either (balsam fir). I also believe that the video showed aspen trees in the beginning rather than birch. Birch isn’t good with fires but it’s mostly grows in wetter areas where that isn’t a problem. It’s bark is also is chemically resistant to parasites so that also eliminates woodpeckers.
Trees: I'm a meta defining build!
Humans: I'm about to end this mans whole career
Ahahahahahahah omg hahaha did you come up with that!? Hahaha man you should be a comedian...his career he said! Bahahahahah
@@_MrTrue Are you okay? You sound unhinged
@HiIamFin and they are also unoriginal and not funny
@@_MrTrue so are you
Eggverse Offficial Ik someone would say it
Playing a tree is basically like playing an Idle Clicker
Yea, also takes 40 levels for it to become a full grown tree, not the best class
it's more like a gsg
im a alcoholic
With a chance of losing
99 mage in 20 days.
Tree’s get it.
birch trees can grow really up though, in cold climates
where i live when you go skying in the mountains the last trees you see as you go up the mountain are a type of birth tree
Another thing that should be factored in is the ability, to reproduce epicormic growth (new tissue from old tissue). Which is almost exclusive to broadleaf trees. With the exception of pitch pine and a few other conifers. Most conifers will die if they lose there foliage ( fir example from a storms, hurricane, pests or humans cutting them). As pests and natural disasters are increasing trees that can produce new growth are going to be more vital than ever. Especially for the city setting.
Also you should add a tier for fruit trees. A large portion being from the rose family. They produce tasty fruit in order to get there host to ingest clean and carry the seed to a new location. Wrapped in fertilizer when they go to the toilet. Given there offspring a wide reaching spread. They have given up on trying to hide there seeds from being eaten and have made the process require ingestion.
Also a really low level tree would be the palm family. Although they can live in some of the most extreme heats. If they lose the central leader where the new growth is they die. In storms they do all the leafs protecting just the central stern. Named monocots due to only having one live branch.
Probably the toughest family though is the juniper as they are found on every continent. Which is an amazing great in itself
Could also add the dangers of monoculture and plantation which while temporarily boosted trees numbers, when they get infected they all do.
I could go on for ages, so many cool trees 😂😂
I know this is an old video, but i've recently learned that oak trees actually spread partly because of the squirrels burying them and forgetting where they are!
Yup pretty cool
Squirrels have Alzheimer's
That’s actually called “losing in PvP” rather than actual forgetting, but yes, that includes forgetting, so you’re technically not wrong
When your marker gets lost in the map due to your intelligence stat- Nice.
@@jerrygreenest When you are so bad in PvP that you lose to an immobile AFK build.
Birch trees are amazing, though! They are the only tree builds on our server in middle europe that can grow in swamp biomes. Their reproductive abilities are seriously overpowering them, and they are the first ones to grab hold of cleared areas where a lot of spruce trees get deleted by storms and ice. And their aesthetics...
There are also species capable of surviving in cold and dry climates. Birch trees are the most common leaf tree in the nordic nations, making up about 12% of Swedish trees with asp, the second most common leaf tree only making up about 1%. With this wide margin their viability is unquestionable
I hate the look of them tho
Holy, with the greenpath music it was perfect. Goosebumps at the end
Loved this! Need to do some plant tier lists.
AH HOLLOW KNIGHT MUSIC
You've won my heart, Tier Zoo.
Raiin S tier music
Greenpath has such a pleasant atmosphere to it.
Conifers should have had Conifer dialouge noise in the background.
Skanky Panky friend
You right but he's not getting my heart
Living in Canada, I was driving today and thinking:
"The reds and oranges on these trees look gorgeous today!"
10/10 aesthetics skill points.
@Rorome From Qc T'es quelque part dans le nord?
À Montréal, il fait encore assez beau, si on oublie qu'il pleut!
weather here in ottawa is gloom and chilly as usual
Canada isn’t being deforested as much
Rorome From Qc that must be hard. It’s highly likely I live further north then you and I’ve had snow but been lucky enough that it hasn’t stayed
饭Kevin 300 days of rain over here boys
A fungus tier would be a fun one. Fungus are so diverse. There are over 2.2 million species of fungus. Some are edible, some are poisonous and some are psychedelic. There’s even evidence that some species could even survive the vacuum of space with their spores.
A few related side-notes: living redwoods are very fire-resistant, and drought-resistant, as they get 1/3rd of their water by pulling in fog. Also, when you cut down a redwood, suckers will sprout from the stump, so unless you burn it out or remove the taproot, they will keep growing. Inversely, dry redwood boards go up like tinder.
"They could use our help respawning." CUUUTE I donated.
Gregory Gaming i feel like it’s prolly non ya business
Gregory Gaming how tf is it your business
@@Gregory_12 about tree fiddy?
@@eyesdut387 nice feelings
As a tree main I thank you
i hate the fact i understand this so perfectly but can’t understand shit when it’s in actual english
That's more on tierzoo being excellent at teaching tbh
@Eric Lee I'm confused too, isn't this whole video in english?
@Eric Lee subcultural lingo can be considered a localized dialect of the language it's derived from :0 ain't that crazy?
@@theviniso he means when people speak normally unlike how tier zoo speaks as if he was talking about a game
@@theviniso
I think by "actual english" they mean the way their professors explain it or whatever.
🌳Greenpath music! Glad to know someone is cultured! Besides that this is a very good analysis of trees, for a long time I couldn't tell most apart so thank you!🌲
I wish you would’ve mentioned the gum tree. I know it’s not big but they have an amazing ability to start forest fires to clear land for their seeds to grow.
Ah, greenpath.
The music you play when you want to say:
“Hey.”
“Plants. Am I right?”
Instantly 😫
Ah frig i Just commented about that without seeing this guess i'll delete my comment
I liked hollow knight
It was a perfect choice.
Greenpath plays:
Everyone: I am in the domain of plants.
“By watching this video, you’ve planted 1 500th of a tree.”
So what you’re saying is we should watch the video 500 times.
Or grow a fruit tree. Pretty fun. Just sayin
Doable. I already watched it 3 times.
Leave it ooen in background at 0 volume with loop
The conifer’s needles also allow it to ignore much longer the thin air effect caused by high altitude.
This helped me alot in my school assignment. Thanks alot
"The weeds are too OP please nerf"
-Flower mains
"..."
-Dandelion
@Tello 64 Pumpkins are also surprisingly spiny.
You know, if you want, you can live in our base, we have very few close player
-lotus main
Flowers are weeds tho
Wait..... IS THIS.... NOOOOOO!
Conifer players when they're hit with the burning debuff:
"Did you die?"
"Sadly. yes...
BUT I LIVED!!"
true for 2 specific conifers. the rest either haven't developed fir protection, or just explode when a wildfire happens
Redwood mains rise up
@@caesarspeaks and douglas fir. dont forget about the other really god damn tall tree
The major weakness of the Conifer players are the Human players that have specced into the Meth addiction trait.
I didn't know there was a new Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs meme template.
I’d put aspen in A, being a superorganism that doesn’t get crowded out like birch, with less flammable and more durable wood. The bark is still papery but it’s got the potential for much sturdier trunks and branches.
Beautifully summarized.
Outside played by Factions.
Mammals/most animals: Action RPG
Eusocial Insects: RTS
Trees: Strategic Simulation
Trees are more like idle games.
You just sit and wait until you gain enough Exp to grow a bit, then grow to gain Exp faster.
@Melon Lord mantis shrimp:RTX on
@@semihozturk8387 buller’s albatross: all graphics on low
Waterbears: current objective: *SURVIVE*
@@Kartoffelkamm Isn't that every AFK build?
"Just by watching this video, you've already planted 1/500th of a tree"
*watches video 500 times*
'Conifers can't easily fall over'
That one Conifer in the back : *casual whistling*
Arthropods before trees: smol
Arthropods after trees: huge
Arthropods now when trees still exist: smol
Life is not a game
Tier zoo: hold my controller
I honestly can’t imagine playing these super-complex mmorpgs without keyboard & mouse.
Keyboard and mouse arent enough. You have to use VR for this.
You gotta use 4 keyboards one for each limb, and a VR headset
at the time of replying, this comment has 666 likes. metal.
I don't remember
Where I was
I realized
Life was a game
The more seriously
I took things
The harder the wars became
It’s nice to see this channel *branching out* . I’ll see myself out.
No, don't leaf
keep it toakether
I pine for more tree puns
@@cliffordrioux6127 I'll show you my treecks !
these are some pretty nutty tree puns
the major exception to the placement of the maple is the Norway maple. Due to it's lower need for light and longer growing period, in that, they keep their leaves for longer, allows them to grow larger faster than other deciduous trees in regions like southern Canada and Alaska
The oak has quest contracts with other players like Jay that actually bury acorns far away from the original spawn point. This makes the acorns less likely to be scavanged by squirels and woodpeckers, disperses spawn points over the map and also makes it easier to sprout.
Lvl 70 Eucalyptus here: you've got to be joking by leaving out our clan, right? We're like the Vikings of the tree meta. We don't just have defense. We literally gank other trees and kill them. We spread a poison through our leaves that kills off other trees. Our raids are so super effective that we completely dominated one of the toughest servers for trees--the Australia server--eons ago, and now we're spreading like wildfire (pun intended) across all the other non-Arctic servers. Stand in awe of the Eucalyptus clan, you noobs!
Palm trees should be on B tier:
They grow on sparsely populated beaches and it's fruits have a unusual ocean navigation ability to reproduce.
Level 10 pedunculate oak: *laughs* he’s full of it
Level 15 common ash: *chuckles* who does he think he’s kidding
Level 40 silver birch: *sniggers* this dude can barely survive out of garden care
Level 5 scots pine: you’re literally a worm under my boot
LOL come back when you're not getting bodied by F tier smooth brain koalas
Not to mention eucalypts contain flammable oils that help Australian wildfires spread, thinning out other tree species to reduce competition for nutrients while also reducing the canopy and exposing their own seedlings to more sunlight. Using Australia's harsh environment to their advantage to both reduce competition and help friendly spawn.
Spread more as a human main i need more of your wood item drops
"You see, the trouble with the maples, and they're quite convinced they're right, is that the oaks are just too lofty and they grab up all the light."
- Geddy Lee
This is a good information for getting to the bottom of The Trees civil war first reported on by Rush. More on the plant meta would be enjoyable.
I'd make a joke here about Broon's Bane if I was talented enough lmao
Conifers keep their needles all year round, but they actually can't use photosynthesis in winter. They sleep like all other trees do. The advantage about keeping the needles is only that they don't have to regrow them in spring. But the risk is breaking under heavy snow load.
I never knew I needed this