Fence

Fence

Transparent	Yes
Luminance	0
Blast resistance	15 (Wood) 30 (Nether Brick)
Tools
Renewable	Wood: Yes Nether Brick: No‌[Java Edition only]
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	Wood: Yes (5) Nether Brick: No
Catches fire from lava	Wood: Yes Nether Brick: No
Drops	Itself
Data values	See § Data values
Namespaced ID	See § Data values
Tags	See § Data values

Fences are wall blocks that cannot normally be jumped over.

Occurrence

Natural generation

Oak fences spawn naturally:

• As the uprights for the supports in mineshafts, where they are plentiful.
• In plains villages and desert villages‌^{[Legacy Console Edition only]}, where they appear in tables, lamp posts, and even enclosures on roofs or behind buildings.
• In library rooms of strongholds as railings and chandeliers. In the latter case, there are many torches attached to them.

Spruce fences spawn naturally:

• In witch huts.
• In taiga, snowy taiga, and snowy tundra villages, where they appear in tables, lamp posts, and even enclosures on roofs or behind buildings.

Acacia fences generate naturally in savanna villages, where they appear in tables, lamp posts, and even enclosures on roofs or behind buildings.

Oak, birch and dark oak wood fences generate naturally in woodland mansions.

Oak, birch, spruce, jungle, acacia, and dark oak wood fences can generate in shipwrecks.

Nether brick fences can be found naturally in nether fortresses, where they form window bars, balcony fencing, and gate-like structures.

Dark oak fences spawn as the supports in above-ground mineshafts.

Dark oak fences generate in pillager outposts.

Jungle fences generate in desert village armorer houses.‌^{[BE & JE only]}

Obtaining

Wood fences are broken most quickly with an axe, but will drop when broken with any tool. Nether brick fences require a pickaxe, mining it with anything else will drop nothing.

Block	Fences	Nether Brick
Hardness	2	2
Tool
Breaking time
Hand	3	10
Wooden	1.5	1.5
Stone	0.75	0.75
Iron	0.5	0.5
Diamond	0.4	0.4
Golden	0.25	0.25

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Wood Fence	Matching Planks + Stick	333333
Nether Brick Fence	Nether Bricks + Nether Brick	6

Usage

Barrier

While fences appear to be a single block tall, and have a hitbox height of one block, their collision box (for entities) is 1.5 blocks tall, meaning most mobs cannot jump over them without the Jump Boost status effect. They are transparent to light and have visual gaps in the model.

A fence occupies the center space of blocks and automatically connects to any solid block that is placed next to it. Wood fences will connect to other wood fences, but will not connect to nether brick fences.

Leads

Fences can be used to attach mobs with a lead.

Fuel

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

Clicking target

Unlike with most blocks, pressing use on a fence will attempt to play an action. This is an intentionally programmed feature.^{[until JE 1.15]}

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	Attenuation distance
	Block breaking	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	Blocks	0.5	0.25	16
	Block broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	Blocks	0.8	1.0	16
	Block placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	Blocks	0.8	1.0	16
	Footsteps	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	Blocks	1.0	0.15	16
	No subtitle	block.stone.fall	(Plays when fallen on from a height)	Blocks	0.75	0.5	16
	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	Tags
Oak Fence	oak_fence	#fences, #wooden_fences
Spruce Fence	spruce_fence	#fences, #wooden_fences
Birch Fence	birch_fence	#fences, #wooden_fences
Jungle Fence	jungle_fence	#fences, #wooden_fences
Acacia Fence	acacia_fence	#fences, #wooden_fences
Dark Oak Fence	dark_oak_fence	#fences, #wooden_fences
Nether Brick Fence	nether_brick_fence	#fences

Bedrock Edition:

Block	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Wooden Fence	fence	85
Nether Brick Fence	nether_brick_fence	113

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, fences use the following data values:

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

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
east	false	false true	When true, the fence extends from the center post to the east.
north	false	false true	When true, the fence extends from the center post to the north.
south	false	false true	When true, the fence extends from the center post to the south.
waterlogged	false	false true	Whether or not there's water in the same place as this fence.
west	false	false true	When true, the fence extends from the center post to the west.

History

Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.17					Added fences. Nothing can be placed on top of them.
					Fences do not connect to solid blocks [more information needed].
v1.0.17_01					The player no longer starts with fences in their inventory.[needs testing]
Java Edition Beta
1.3					Standing on top of fences causing players to get stuck and crashing the server in multiplayer have now been fixed.
1.6		?			Fences are now flammable and the visibility of them has now been improved.
1.7					Any block, including torches and other fences, are now able to be placed on fences.
1.8		Pre-release			Added villages and strongholds, where wooden fences naturally generate.
		?			Axes will now break fences faster.
1.8.1					Fences now generate in abandoned mineshafts.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease			Added nether fortresses, including nether brick fences.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2			The collision boxes of fences have now been reduced.
					Fences will now connect to solid blocks.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5			Fence selection area has now been changed to match its collision box.
					The texture of wooden fences has now been slightly changed.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6			Fences no longer prevent farmland from decaying when placed below farmland.
1.4.2		12w36a			It is now possible to place pressure plates on top of nether brick fences.
1.4.4		?			Mobs no longer try to jump over nether brick fences.[more information needed]
					The texture of fences has now been fixed. There was a problem when attached single slab or stairs because the face not rendered when attached other blocks.
1.5		?			Fence corners now have a smaller collision box, allowing players to fall through the gap in the middle of four fences placed in a square.
1.6.1		13w16a			Mobs can now be tied to fences.
1.8		14w32b			Fences have a new crafting recipe using 4 plank blocks of the same type to produce 3 fences. Previously, it required six sticks in a 2×3 grid to produce 2. Old Recipe 2
					Fences now vary in appearance based on the planks used to make them.
					"Fence" has now been renamed to "Oak Fence".
1.11		16w39a			Oak, birch and dark oak wood fences will now generate in woodland mansions.
1.12		17w15a			Fences will now connect to the solid back sides of stairs.
1.13		17w47a			The Oak fence ID has now been changed from fence to oak_fence.
					It is now possible to place a fence when the player is within a corner of three fences to form a ring of four, provided the space is sufficient.
					Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 85, 113, 188, 189, 190, 191 and 192.
		18w10c			Water can now be placed on the same block as fences.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of fences have now been updated.
					Nether brick fence recipe has now been changed to avoid conflict with the nether brick wall recipe.
		19w03a			Wood fences can now be used to craft composters.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.2.0					Added fences.
0.9.0		build 1			Fences now naturally spawn in strongholds, abandoned mineshafts and villages.
					Added smooth lighting to fences.
0.10.0		build 1			Added spruce, birch, jungle, acacia and dark oak variants.
					"Fence" has now been renamed to "Oak Fence".
0.12.1		build 1			Added nether brick fences.
		build 12			Torches can now be placed on top of nether brick fences.
0.14.0		build 1			Spruce wood fences now generate in witch huts.
0.14.2					The texture for the nether brick fence is now brighter.
0.15.0		build 1			Savanna villages now generate with acacia wood fences rather than oak fences.
					Spruce wood fences now generate in taiga, snowy tundra and snowy taiga villages.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Oak, birch and dark oak wood fences now generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			Wooden fences now generate in shipwrecks.
1.9.0		beta 1.9.0.0			The recipe for nether brick fences has now been changed to avoid conflict with the nether brick wall recipe.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of fences have now been updated.
					Dark oak fence gates now generate in pillager outposts.
					Due to architecture changes, oak fences no longer generate in desert villages.
					Jungle fences will now generate in desert village armorers.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	Patch 1	Added fences.
TU3					Fences are now stackable.
TU5					Pressure plates are now placeable on fences.
TU6					The fence collision box has now been decreased to size of fence block.
TU7					Added nether brick fences.
TU25	CU14	1.17			Added spruce, birch, and jungle variants.
					The crafting recipe now uses 4 planks and 2 sticks instead of 6 sticks.
					"Fence" has now been renamed to "Oak Fence".
TU27	CU15	1.18			Added acacia and dark oak fences to the creative inventory.
TU54	CU44	1.52	Patch 24	Patch 4	Fences will now connect to the solid back sides of stairs.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The textures of fences have now been updated.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added fences.

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  First screenshot of nether brick fences released by Jeb. The nether brick fences are visible on the side of the nether fortress bridges.

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  Brightly lit version.

Issues

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

Trivia

• If a carpet is placed on top of a fence, a player can jump onto the carpet, while mobs will not (except rabbits).
• Getting hit by someone else (or shooting yourself with a Punch enchanted bow while sprinting forwards) while in midair can cause the knockback to propel you over a fence you would not be able to jump over normally.
• Contrary to popular belief, placing a carpet on top of a fence does not reduce the fence or wall collision box down to one block, it just provides a platform one block high around the fence/wall to make it easier for climbing on the top of the fence.
• Projectiles will be stuck in the collision box of the fence and remain there if shot from upward.

Gallery

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  Pressure plates on fences, used to create tables.

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  Naturally occurring fences in a village.

• 

  Mobs can jump onto this fence because of the red wool. Remove the red wool or replace the adjacent fence with a solid block.

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  Underwater buildings with walls composed of stacked fences.

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  All fence types.

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  Three nether brick fences in the pre-release of beta 1.8. Some nether bricks can also be seen in the background.

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  Fences and nether brick fences connected by fence gates. Notice that they do not form a connection directly between the two types of fences (in the middle).

See also

• Fence Gate
• Cobblestone Wall

References

Blocks

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