Wood Planks

Wood Planks

Transparency	No
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	15
Tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	Yes
Drops	Itself
Data value	dec: 05 hex: 5 bin: 101
Name	See Data values

Wood planks^{[Bedrock Edition only][until 1.13]}/Planks^{[Legacy Console Edition only][upcoming 1.13]} is a generic name for a common block used in many crafting recipes. Its texture resembles a neatly stacked pile of wooden planks hewn from one of the six different tree species.

Obtaining

Wood planks can be broken by hand, but using an axe will speed up the process.

Block	Wood 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 between them.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Matching Wood	4 4 4 4 4 4

Natural generation

Oak

Oak planks can be found in 68.4% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–12. In 1.13^[upcoming] they 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.

They also generate as part of:

• Abandoned mineshafts where they are used as beams supported by oak wood fence posts.
• 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^{[upcoming 1.13]}

Birch

• Birch planks can be found in woodland mansions.
• Birch planks can also be found in Shipwrecks ^{[upcoming 1.13]}

Spruce

Spruce planks generate as part of:

• The swamp biome where they are used as the primary building material for witch huts.
• Taiga villages, in place of oak planks.
• ice plains village, in place of oak planks^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
• Underwater ruins^{[upcoming 1.13]}
• Shipwrecks^{[upcoming 1.13]}

Jungle

Jungle wood planks do not generate naturally^{[until 1.13]}

• Jungle planks generate in Shipwrecks^{[upcoming 1.13]}

Acacia

Acacia planks can be found in savanna villages.

Dark oak

Dark oak planks generate as part of:

• Abandoned mineshafts generated in mesa biomes.
• Woodland mansions
• Underwater ruins^{[upcoming 1.13]}
• Shipwrecks^{[upcoming 1.13]}

Usage

A shack made out of oak wood planks.

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

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

Crafting ingredient

Wood planks are used in many crafting recipes. Doors, fences, fence gates, slabs, stairs and boats must be crafted from wood planks of the same species and will match the species used. For other products, planks of different species can be mixed freely and the wood species in the product is indeterminate.

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Wooden Trapdoor[upcoming 1.13]	Matching Wood Planks	2 2 2 2 2 2
Wooden Trapdoor[until 1.13]	Any Wood Planks	2
Bed	Matching Wool + Any Wood Planks		Wool color must match. Wood planks do not need to match.
Boat	Matching Wood Planks		Java Edition only
Boat	Matching Wood Planks + Wooden Shovel		Bedrock Edition and Legacy Console Edition only. Shovel represents an oar.
Bookshelf	Any Wood Planks + Book
Bowl	Any Wood Planks	4
Chest	Any Wood Planks
Crafting Table	Any Wood Planks
Fence Gate	Stick + Matching Wood Planks
Jukebox	Any Wood Planks + Diamond
Note Block	Any Wood Planks + Redstone
Piston	Any Wood Planks + Cobblestone + Iron Ingot + Redstone
Shield	Any Wood Planks + Iron Ingot
Sign	Any Wood Planks + Stick	3
Stick	Any Wood Planks	4
Tripwire Hook	Iron Ingot + Stick + Any Wood Planks	2
Wood Door	Matching Wood Planks	3 3 3 3 3 3
Wood Fence	Matching Wood Planks + Stick	3 3 3 3 3 3
Wood Slab	Matching Wood Planks	6 6 6 6 6 6
Wood Stairs	Matching Wood Planks	4 4 4 4 4 4
Wooden Button (1.13)	Matching Wood Planks
Wooden Button	Any Wood Planks
Wooden Pressure Plate (1.13)	Matching Wood Planks
Wooden Pressure Plate	Any Wood Planks
Wooden Axe	Any Wood Planks + Stick
Wooden Hoe	Any Wood Planks + Stick
Wooden Pickaxe	Any Wood Planks + Stick
Wooden Shovel	Any Wood Planks + Stick
Wooden Sword	Any Wood Planks + Stick

Fuel

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

Repairing

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

Data values

Wood planks have the ID name minecraft:planks and are further defined by their block data or block state.^{[until 1.13]}

Name	ID Name
Oak Wood Planks	oak_planks
Spruce Wood Planks	spruce_planks
Birch Wood Planks	birch_planks
Jungle Wood Planks	jungle_planks
Acacia Wood Planks	acacia_planks
Dark Oak Wood Planks	dark_oak_planks

^{[upcoming 1.13]}

Block data

See also: Data values

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

^[upcoming]

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

Block state

See also: Block states

Name	Value	Description
variant[until 1.13]	oak	Oak Wood Planks
	spruce	Spruce Wood Planks
	birch	Birch Wood Planks
	jungle	Jungle Wood Planks
	acacia	Acacia Wood Planks
	dark_oak	Dark Oak Wood 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
	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)	Internal ID
	Minecraft	The heart and story of the game	—	Get a crafting table in your inventory.	minecraft:story/root

History

Pre-classic
rd-20090515					Wooden planks were added. When first introduced into the game, wooden planks had somewhat brick-like markings, which still exist on the wood planks texture today but are hard to see, and the wooden planks have a reddish tinge somewhat resembling the current jungle planks.
rd-161348					The texture was changed to a darker texture, with a shade more appropriate to oak trees.
Classic
0.0.14a_01					The texture was changed again.
					In Survival Test, wooden planks were obtained by destroying a wood block.
Indev
0.31			January 29, 2010		Wooden planks are now used to craft crafting tables, sticks, signs, bookshelves, chests and wooden swords, axes, pickaxes and shovels.
			January 30, 2010		Wooden planks are now used to craft bowls.
February 6, 2010					Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden hoes.
February 23, 2010					Destroying a wood block now obtains the wood block itself, which is now craftable into wooden planks.
Infdev
June 7, 2010					Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden doors.
Alpha
1.0.0					Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden stairs.
1.0.1					Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden pressure plates.
1.0.6					Wooden planks are now used to craft boats.
1.0.14					Wooden planks are now used to craft jukeboxes.
Beta
1.2					Wooden planks are now used to craft note blocks.
1.3					Wooden planks are now used to craft beds.
1.6					Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden trapdoors.
1.7					Wooden planks are now used to craft pistons.
1.8					Wooden planks can now be found in villages and mineshafts.
					Wooden planks are now used to craft fence gates.
Official release
1.0.0			Beta 1.9-pre5		The texture was slightly changed.
1.2.4					Spruce, birch and jungle wood planks are now available, 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.
			12w25a		Birch, spruce 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		More than doubled the average yield of planks from bonus chests.
1.10			16w20a		Dark oak planks can now be found as a part of abandoned mineshafts in Mesa biomes. Acacia and Spruce 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.
Upcoming Java Edition
July 19, 2017					Jeb tweets image of a 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		Name changed from <wood type> wood planks to simply <wood type> planks.
					The different block states for the planks ID have been split up into their own IDs.
			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.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.1.0					Wooden planks were added. Only oak existed.
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		Birch, spruce and jungle wood planks were added.
?					Tooltip changed to "(wood type) Planks"
0.9.0			build 1		Acacia and dark oak wood planks were added.
					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 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 plank generate as a bridge in plains and savannah village.
?					Changed tooltip to "(wood type) Wood Planks" for consistency with the Java Edition.
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 plank generate in Witch Hut.
0.15.0			build 1		Wood planks are now used to craft pistons.
					acacia wood plank now replace position of oak wood plank in savannah village
					spruce wood plank now generate in taiga and ice plains village.
Pocket Edition
1.1			build 1		Oak and dark oak wood planks now generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.2			build 1		Birch wood planks generate in woodland mansions instead of oak
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.2.13			build 3		Added stripped logs variants which can be used to craft wooden planks.
1.2.14			build 1		Wood planks now generate in shipwreck.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Wooden planks were added.
TU9					Spruce and birch wood planks were added.
TU12					Jungle wooden planks were added.
TU27	CU15	1.18			Added acacia and dark oak planks to the creative inventory.

Issues

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Trivia

• Many items crafted using wood planks or sticks have textures that most resemble oak wood, regardless of the species used to craft them. item frames, on the other hand, resemble birch wood.

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