Fence

Fence

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tools
Blast resistance	3 (Wood) 6 (Nether Brick)
Hardness	2
Luminant	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	Overworld Wood: Yes (5) Nether Wood: No Nether Brick: No
Catches fire from lava	Overworld Wood: Yes Nether Wood: No Nether Brick: No

A fence is a barrier block that cannot normally be jumped over, similar to a wall. Unlike a wall, a player (but not mobs) can see through the openings in a fence.

Obtaining

Breaking

Wooden fences are broken most quickly with an axe, but drop when broken with any tool. Nether brick fences require a pickaxe; mining it with anything else destroys it and drops nothing.

Block	Fences	Nether Brick
Hardness	2	2
Tool
Breaking time
Default	3	10
Wooden	1.5	1.5
Stone	0.75	0.75
Iron	0.5	0.5
Diamond	0.4	0.4
Netherite	0.35	0.35
Golden	0.25	0.25

Natural generation

Fence blocks naturally generate as mineshaft supports.

Oak

Oak fences generate as part of:

• Regular Mineshafts, as the uprights for the supports, where they are plentiful.
• Library rooms of Strongholds as railings and chandeliers. In the latter case, there are many torches attached to them.
• Plains villages
• Woodland Mansions
• Shipwrecks

Spruce

Spruce fences generate as part of:

• Swamp huts
• Taiga and snowy tundra villages, where they appear in tables, animal pen, butcher and shepherd houses, lantern lamp post, and other buildings.
• Shipwrecks

Birch

Birch fences generate as part of:

• Woodland mansions
• Shipwrecks

Jungle

Jungle fences generate as part of:

• Desert village armorer houses as the window.
• Shipwrecks

Acacia

Acacia fences generate as part of:

• Savanna villages, where they appear in tables, animal pen, butcher and shepherd house, stilt house buildings, and other buildings.
• Shipwrecks

Dark oak

Dark oak fences generate as part of:

• Mineshafts generated in badlands biomes, as the supports.
• Woodland mansions
• Shipwrecks
• Pillager outposts, as part of watchtower, tent, cage, and scarecrow.

Nether brick

Nether brick fences generate as part of:

• Nether Fortresses, where they form window bars, balcony fencing, and portcullises.

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Wood Fence	Matching Planks + Stick	3333333333
Nether Brick Fence	Nether Bricks + Nether Brick	6

Usage

Barrier

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).

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. Spiders can climb over a fence, just like any other vertical object.

A fence occupies the center space of blocks and automatically connects to any solid block that is placed next to it. Wooden fences connect to other wooden fences, but do not connect to nether brick fences. Interestingly, however, nether brick fences connect to wooden fence gates.

Leads

A horse tied to a tall fence post with a lead.

Fences can be used to attach mobs with a lead.

Fuel

Fences made from wood can be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per block.

Sounds

Wood

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Breaking the block	block.wood.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wood.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	Mining the block	block.wood.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	Placing the block	block.wood.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition: ^{[needs in-game testing]}

Sound	Source‌[upcoming: BE 1.16.200]	Description	Namespaced ID	Volume	Pitch
?	?	Breaking the block	dig.wood	?	0.8
?	?	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.wood	?	?
?	?	Mining the block	hit.wood	?	0.5
?	?	Jumping from the block	jump.wood	?	?
?	?	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.wood	?	?
?	?	Walking on the block	step.wood	?	?
?	?	Placing the block	use.wood	?	0.8

Nether Brick

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Breaking the block	block.nether_bricks.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	?	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.nether_bricks.fall	None	0.5	?	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	Mining the block	block.nether_bricks.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	?	16
	Block placed	Blocks	Placing the block	block.nether_bricks.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	?	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.nether_bricks.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	?	16

Bedrock Edition: ^{[needs in-game testing]}

Sound	Source‌[upcoming: BE 1.16.200]	Description	Namespaced ID	Volume	Pitch
	?	Breaking the block	dig.stone	?	0.8
	?	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	?	?
	?	Mining the block	hit.stone	?	0.5
?	?	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	?	?
?	?	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	?	?
	?	Walking on the block	step.stone	?	?
	?	Placing the block	use.stone	?	0.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Block tags (JE)	Item tags (JE)	Translation key
Oak Fence	oak_fence	fences wooden_fences	fences wooden_fences	block.minecraft.oak_fence
Spruce Fence	spruce_fence	fences wooden_fences	fences wooden_fences	block.minecraft.spruce_fence
Birch Fence	birch_fence	fences wooden_fences	fences wooden_fences	block.minecraft.birch_fence
Jungle Fence	jungle_fence	fences wooden_fences	fences wooden_fences	block.minecraft.jungle_fence
Acacia Fence	acacia_fence	fences wooden_fences	fences wooden_fences	block.minecraft.acacia_fence
Dark Oak Fence	dark_oak_fence	fences wooden_fences	fences wooden_fences	block.minecraft.dark_oak_fence
Crimson Fence	crimson_fence	fences non_flammable_wood wooden_fences	fences non_flammable_wood wooden_fences	block.minecraft.crimson_fence
Warped Fence	warped_fence	fences non_flammable_wood wooden_fences	fences non_flammable_wood wooden_fences	block.minecraft.warped_fence
Nether Brick Fence	nether_brick_fence	fences	fences	block.minecraft.nether_brick_fence

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Wood Fence	fence	85	tile.fence.name tile.spruceFence.name tile.birchFence.name tile.jungleFence.name tile.acaciaFence.name tile.darkOakFence.name
Nether Brick Fence	nether_brick_fence	113	tile.nether_brick_fence.name
Crimson Fence	crimson_fence	511	tile.crimson_fence.name
Warped Fence	warped_fence	512	tile.warped_fence.name

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.

Bedrock Edition:
Wooden fence:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
wood_type	oak	acacia birch dark_oak jungle oak spruce	The type of wood this fence is made of.

History

Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.17					Added fences.
					Nothing can be placed on top of fences.
					Fences do not connect to solid blocks.
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		Test Build 3			Fences are now flammable and the visibility of them has now been improved.[more information needed]
1.7					The application of textures to the fence model has been changed slightly.
					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.
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 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 planks was slightly changed, resulting in fences also changing appearence.
		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6			Fences no longer prevent farmland from decaying when placed below farmland.
					Axes now break fences faster.
1.4.2		12w36a			It is now possible to place pressure plates on top of nether brick fences.
1.4.4		1.4.3			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		13w06a			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.
		1.6			Fences now display a useless hand animation when right clicked.
1.8		14w32b			Fences now have a new crafting recipe using 4 planks 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".
1.9		15w44b			Fences now show glitchy elongated textures when connecting to other fences. These may be GPU dependent.
		15w45a			Fences now no longer show a bugged texture, however they appear different to how they did prior to 15w44b.
1.10		pre1			The correct fence wood types now generate in villages.
1.11		16w39a			Oak, birch and dark oak wood fences now generate in woodland mansions.
1.12		17w15a			Fences 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 changed.
					Nether brick fence recipe has now been changed to avoid conflict with the nether brick wall recipe. Old Recipe 6
		18w47a			The textures of fences have now been changed.
		18w50a			The texture of spruce fences has now been changed.
		19w03a			Wood fences can now be used to craft composters.
1.16		20w06a			Added crimson and warped fences.
		20w13a			Crimson and warped fences now connect to other types of fences.
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 of nether brick fences 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 changed.
					Dark oak fence gates now generate in pillager outposts.
					Due to architecture changes, oak fences no longer generate in desert villages.
					Jungle fences now generate in desert village armorers.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.51			Added crimson and warped fences.
		beta 1.16.0.63			The texture of nether brick fences now matches Java Edition's again.
1.16.20		beta 1.16.20.50			Crimson and warped fences now uses regular plank sounds instead of their stem variant sounds.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	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. When they were actually added to the game is unknown.
TU54	CU44	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Fences now connect to the solid back sides of stairs.
		1.90			The textures of fences have now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added fences.

• 

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

• 

  Brightly lit version.

• 

  Underwater buildings with walls composed of stacked fences, before waterlogging.

• 

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

• 

  First screenshot of new types of fences in Pocket Edition

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 cannot (except rabbits).
• Getting hit by someone else (or shooting yourself with a Punch enchanted bow while sprinting forward) while in midair can cause the knockback to propel you over a fence you would not be able to jump over normally.
• 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 get stuck in the collision box of the fence and remain there if shot from upward.

Gallery

• 

  Pressure plates on fences, which used to create tables.

• 

  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.

• 

  Not all fence types.

See also

• Fence Gate
• Cobblestone Wall

References

Blocks

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