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.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Wood planks can be broken by hand, but using an axe will speed up the process.
Block | Wood Planks | |
---|---|---|
Hardness | 2 | |
Tool | ||
Breaking time[note 1] | ||
Hand | 3 | |
Wooden | 1.5 | |
Stone | 0.75 | |
Iron | 0.5 | |
Diamond | 0.4 | |
Golden | 0.25 |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds.
Crafting[edit]
Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
---|---|
Matching Wood |
Natural generation[edit]
- 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[edit]
Wood planks can be used for building structures, as crafting ingredients, and as fuel.
Crafting ingredient[edit]
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.
Fuel[edit]
Wood planks can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per block.
Repairing[edit]
Wooden swords, shields, pickaxes, axes, hoes and shovels can be repaired with wood planks in an anvil.
Data values[edit]
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 |
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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
|
Block data[edit]
- 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 |
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[edit]
- 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[edit]
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[edit]
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 |
Video[edit]
History[edit]
Pre-classic | |||||
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Classic | |||||
0.0.14a_01 | ![]() | ||||
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 | ![]() | |||
1.2.4 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||||
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 | ![]() ![]() | |||
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 | ![]() | ||||
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 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
? | Tooltip changed to "(wood type) Planks" | ||||
0.9.0 | build 1 | ![]() ![]() | |||
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[edit]
Issues relating to “Wood Planks” are maintained on the issue tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[edit]
- 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.