Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27516710-20160505214209/@comment-27516710-20160506064718

Well this is a very specific instance rather than it being applied to all fruit trees. Most of the other trees in real life produce flowers on multiple branches of the tree that are pollenated and then create the fruit - apples, cherries, oranges, limes, lemons, etc. In terms of the mod bananas and dates are the only ones that grow directly on the trunk itself. So the same kind of mechanism on the fruit trees where breaking leaves can produce fruit or saplings wouldn't apply here as a solution. The bug with the date leaves is a unique problem and this is a solution which can address that problem - allowing dates to regenerate means not having to go through massive amounts of headache to have a date orchard.