Planks

Planks

Transparent	No
Luminance	0
Blast resistance	15
Tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	Yes (5)
Catches fire from lava	Yes
Drops	Itself
Data value	dec: 05 hex: 5 bin: 101
Namespaced ID	See § Data values

Planks are a common block used in many crafting recipes.

Occurrence

Natural generation

Oak

Oak planks also generate as part of:

• Mineshafts where they are used as beams supported by oak wood fence posts and as floor when crossing air.
• Plains villages where they are used for various structures including walls, roofs, and floors of many buildings, as well as paths over water.
• Strongholds where they are used for floors and pillars in the library and storage rooms.
• Woodland mansions
• Shipwrecks

Spruce

Spruce planks generate as part of:

• The swamp biome where they are used as the primary building material for swamp huts.
• Taiga villages.
• Snowy tundra and Snowy taiga village, in some house building.
• Underwater ruins
• Shipwrecks

Birch

Birch planks generate as part of:

• Woodland mansions
• Shipwrecks
• Pillager outposts

Jungle

Jungle planks generate as part of:

• Shipwrecks

Acacia

Acacia planks generate as part of:

• Savanna villages.
• Shipwrecks

Dark Oak

Dark Oak planks generate as part of:

• mineshafts generated in badlands biomes.
• Woodland mansions
• Underwater ruins
• Shipwrecks
• Pillager outposts

The different colors of wood planks. In order, these are Birch, Oak, Spruce, Dark Oak, Jungle, and Acacia.

Obtaining

Planks can be broken by hand, but using an axe speeds up the process.

Block	Planks
Hardness	2
Tool
Breaking time
Hand	3
Wooden	1.5
Stone	0.75
Iron	0.5
Diamond	0.4
Golden	0.25

Crafting

The saplings at the bottom grow into the wood at top, which craft into the wood planks central

Chest loot

Oak planks can be found in 70.5% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–12.

In Bedrock Edition they can be found in all bonus chests in stacks of 1–12.

Usage

Planks can be used for building structures, as crafting ingredients, and as fuel.

Crafting ingredient

Planks are used in many crafting recipes. Doors, fences, fence gates, slabs, stairs, boats, trapdoors, pressure plates, and buttons must be crafted from planks of the same type, and the crafted result depends on the type used. For other products, planks of different types can be mixed freely and the wood types in the product is indeterminate.

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Planks	Matching Log or Matching Stripped Log or Matching Wood or Matching Stripped Wood	444444
Barrel	Any Planks + Any Wood Slab
Bed	Matching Wool + Any Planks
Beehive	Any Planks + Honeycomb
Boat	Matching Planks + Wooden Shovel
Boat	Matching Planks
Bookshelf	Any Planks + Book
Bowl	Any Planks	4
Cartography Table	Paper + Any Planks
Chest	Any Planks
Crafting Table	Any Planks
Fence Gate	Stick + Matching Planks
Fletching Table	Flint + Any Planks
Grindstone	Stick + Stone Slab + Any Planks
Jukebox	Any Planks + Diamond
Loom	String + Any Planks
Note Block	Any Planks + Redstone Dust
Oak Sign or Spruce Sign or Birch Sign or Jungle Sign or Acacia Sign or Dark Oak Sign	Matching Planks + Stick	333333
Piston	Any Planks + Cobblestone + Iron Ingot + Redstone Dust
Shield	Any Planks + Iron Ingot
Smithing Table	Iron Ingot + Any Planks
Stick	Any Planks	4
Tripwire Hook	Iron Ingot + Stick + Any Planks	2
Wood Door	Matching Planks	333333
Wood Fence	Matching Planks + Stick	333333
Wood Slab	Matching Planks	666666
Wood Stairs	Matching Planks	444444
Wooden Button	Matching Planks
Wooden Pressure Plate	Matching Planks
Wooden Trapdoor	Matching Planks	222222
Wooden Axe	Any Planks + Stick
Wooden Hoe	Any Planks + Stick
Wooden Pickaxe	Any Planks + Stick
Wooden Shovel	Any Planks + Stick
Wooden Sword	Any Planks + Stick

Fuel

Planks can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per block.

Repairing

Wooden pickaxes, axes, shovels, hoes, swords, and shields can be repaired with planks in an anvil.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	Attenuation distance
	Block breaking	block.wood.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	Blocks	0.5	0.25	16
	Block broken	block.wood.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	Blocks	0.8	1.0	16
	Block placed	block.wood.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	Blocks	0.8	1.0	16
	Footsteps	block.wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	Blocks	1.0	0.15	16
	No subtitle	block.wood.fall	(Plays when fallen on from a height)	Blocks	0.75	0.5	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Block	Namespaced ID
Oak Planks	oak_planks
Spruce Planks	spruce_planks
Birch Planks	birch_planks
Jungle Planks	jungle_planks
Acacia Planks	acacia_planks
Dark Oak Planks	dark_oak_planks

Bedrock Edition:

Block	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Wood Planks	planks	5

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, wood planks use the following data values:

	DV	Description
	0	Oak Planks
	1	Spruce Planks
	2	Birch Planks
	3	Jungle Planks
	4	Acacia Planks
	5	Dark Oak Planks

If a command is used to create planks with data value 6 or higher, the resulting planks have the name "Oak Wood Planks" but don't have a texture. They can't be used to craft stairs, slabs, doors, fences or gates. If placed, they become actual oak planks.

Block states

See also: Block states

In Bedrock Edition, wood planks use the following block states:

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
wood_type	oak	oak	Oak Planks
		spruce	Spruce Planks
		birch	Birch Planks
		jungle	Jungle Planks
		acacia	Acacia Planks
		dark_oak	Dark Oak Planks

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	Benchmaking	Craft a workbench with four blocks of planks	Pick up a crafting table from the inventory's crafting field output or a crafting table output.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	10G	Bronze
	Librarian	Build some bookshelves to improve your enchantment table	Pick up a bookshelf from a crafting table output.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	20G	Bronze

Advancements

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	Minecraft	The heart and story of the game	—	Have a crafting table in your inventory.	story/root

History

Java Edition pre-Classic
rd-160052					Added wooden planks.
rd-161348					The texture of planks has now been changed.
Java Edition Classic
0.0.14a					The texture of planks has now been changed again.
					In Survival Test, wooden planks are obtained by destroying wood.
Java Edition Indev
0.31		20100129			Wooden planks are now used to craft crafting tables, sticks, signs, bookshelves, chests and wooden swords, axes, pickaxes and shovels.
		20100130			Wooden planks are now used to craft bowls.
20100206					Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden hoes.
20100223					Destroying a wood block now obtains the wood block itself, which is now craftable into wooden planks.
Java Edition Infdev
20100607					Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden doors.
20100629					Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden stairs.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.1					Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden pressure plates.
v1.0.6					Wooden planks are now used to craft boats.
v1.0.14					Wooden planks are now used to craft jukeboxes.
Java Edition Beta
1.2					Wooden planks are now used to craft note blocks.
1.3					Wooden planks are now used to craft beds.
1.6		Test Build 3			Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden trapdoors.[needs testing]
1.7					Wooden planks are now used to craft pistons.
1.8		Pre-release			Wooden planks can now be found in villages and mineshafts.
					Wooden planks are now used to craft fence gates.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5			The texture of wooden planks has now been slightly changed.
1.2.4					Spruce, birch and jungle wood planks are now available, which are crafted from their corresponding wood. The color of wood planks available to this point is now only obtainable from oak wood.
					The original "wooden planks" are now called 'Oak Wood Planks' and each wood planks color is named with the wood it is taken from.
1.3.1		12w16a			Oak wood planks are now found in the new bonus chests.
		12w22a			Wood planks are now used to craft tripwire hooks.
					Inventory sprites for blocks were flipped from left to right, changing to .
		12w25a			Spruce, birch, and jungle wood planks now craft their respective wooden stairs and slabs.
1.4.2		12w34a			Wood planks are now used to craft wooden buttons, using 2 planks.
		12w34b			Wooden buttons now only require 1 plank.
1.7.2		1.7.1-pre			Acacia and dark oak wood planks are now available, crafted from their corresponding wood.
1.8		14w32b			Different types of wood planks now craft different types of fences and fence gates; the fence recipe now requires planks.
		14w32d			Different types of wood planks now craft different types of doors.
1.9		15w33c			Wood planks are now used to craft shields.
		15w43a			Planks found in bonus chests now may be of any type, rather than just oak.
		15w44a			The average yield of planks from bonus chests has now more than doubled.
1.10		16w20a			Dark oak planks can now be found as a part of abandoned mineshafts in mesa biomes.
					Spruce and acacia planks can now be found as a part of savanna/taiga villages respectively.
1.11		16w39a			Oak, birch, and dark oak wood planks now generate in woodland mansions.
July 19, 2017					Jeb tweets an image of new jungle wood planks, cauldron, and dandelion textures.
July 22, 2017					Jasper Boerstra tweets an image of new crafting table, wood planks, and wood textures.
1.13		17w47a			The names of wood planks have now been changed from "<wood type> wood planks" to simply "<wood type> planks".
					The different block states for the planks ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
					Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 5.
		18w07a			Added stripped logs, a variant of logs, which can be used to craft wood planks.
		18w09a			Spruce and dark oak planks now generate in some underwater ruins.
		18w11a			Wood planks now generate in shipwreck.
1.14		18w43a			Wood planks are now used to craft a loom.
					The textures of planks have now been changed.
		18w47a			The textures of planks have now been changed, again.
		18w48a			Wood planks are now used to craft grindstones.
		18w50a			The texture of spruce planks have now been changed, once again.
					Planks are now used to craft barrels.
		19w02a			Planks are now use to craft a cartography table.
		19w03a			Planks are now used to craft composters.
1.15		19w34a			Planks are now used to craft beehives.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.1.0					Added wooden planks.
					Only oak wooden planks currently exist.
0.3.0					Wooden planks are now used to craft oak wood stairs, slabs and fence gates, wooden doors, bowls and bookshelves.
0.4.0					Wooden planks are now used to craft beds, chests and wooden hoes.
0.6.0					Wooden planks are now used to craft signs.
0.8.0		build 2			Added spruce, birch, and jungle wood planks.
?					The tooltips have now been changed to "(wood type) Planks".
0.9.0		build 1			Added acacia and dark oak wood planks.
					Oak wood planks now naturally spawn in strongholds, abandoned mineshafts and villages.
0.10.0		build 1			Different types of wood planks now craft different types of fences and fence gates.
					Above-ground mineshafts now generate in mesa biomes, using dark oak planks.
0.11.0		build 1			Different types of wood planks can now be crafted into different types of boats.
					Oak wood planks now generate as a bridge in plains and savanna villages.
?					The tooltips have now been changed to "(wood type) Wood Planks" for consistency with the Java.
0.13.0		build 1			Wood planks are now used to craft tripwire hooks, note blocks, wooden pressure plates, wooden buttons, and spruce, birch, jungle, acacia and dark oak doors.
0.14.0		build 1			Spruce wood planks now generate in witch huts.
0.15.0		build 1			Wood planks are now used to craft pistons.
					Spruce wood planks now generate in taiga and snowy tundra villages.
					Acacia wood planks now replace the position of oak wood planks in savanna villages.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Oak and dark oak wood planks now generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Birch wood planks now generate in woodland mansions, instead of oak.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.13.8			Added stripped logs variants, which can be used to craft wooden planks.
		beta 1.2.14.2			Wood planks now generate in shipwrecks.
		beta 1.2.20.1			Spruce and dark oak planks now generate in some underwater ruins.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Wood planks can now be crafted from wood.
					Planks can now be used to craft looms, grindstones, and shields.
					Birch and dark oak planks now generate in pillager outposts.
					The textures of planks have now been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Planks can now be used to craft cartography tables.
1.14.0		beta 1.14.0.1			Planks are now used to craft beehives.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added wooden planks.
TU9					Added spruce and birch wood planks.
TU12					Added jungle wooden planks.
TU27	CU15	1.18			Added acacia and dark oak planks to the creative inventory.
		1.90			The textures of planks have now been changed.
		1.95			Planks can now be crafted from wood.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added wood planks.

Issues

Issues relating to "Planks" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Many items crafted using planks or sticks have textures that most resemble oak planks, regardless of the species used to craft them. On the other hand, item frames and fletching tables resemble birch planks, cartography tables resemble dark oak planks, barrels resemble spruce planks, while smithing tables do not resemble any planks.

Notes

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