Log

Log

Transparency	No
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	?
Tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64), same species only
Flammable	Yes
Experience	Smelted: 0.15
Drops	Itself
Data values	See Data values
Name	See Data values

This article is about the tree trunk. For the block crafted from wood, see Planks. For the block that has wood's "bark" texture on all 6 sides, see Wood.

	“	I'd estimate that about 95 percent of my Minecraft worlds begin with me collecting a single block of Oak Wood. It's the mother-block - the block from which everything else in the game develops. Without collecting wood, it's almost impossible to play Minecraft. Seriously, try playing Minecraft without wood. It'll be about as much fun as playing blindfolded, or with me screaming "USE WOOD YOU FOOL!" into your ear the entire time.	„
		— Duncan Geere

Log^{[Java Edition only]} or wood^{[Bedrock and Legacy Console editions only]} is a naturally occurring block found in trees, primarily used to create planks. It comes in six species: oak, birch, spruce, jungle, dark oak, and acacia.

Stripped log ^{[Java Edition only]} or stripped wood ^{[Bedrock and Legacy Console editions only]} is a variant obtained by right-clicking a log with any axe.

Obtaining

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

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

Natural generation

Oak wood blocks generate as part of houses in plains villages, acacia wood blocks in case of a savanna village and spruce wood blocks in case of a taiga village. Oak wood blocks generate as supporting beams of witch huts. Oak and dark oak wood blocks generate as part of woodland mansions.

Oak logs can be found in 28.0% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–3.

In Bedrock Edition they can be found in 25.0% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–3.

Spruce logs can be found in 28.0% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–3.

In Bedrock Edition they can be found in 25.0% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–3.

Birch logs can be found in 28.0% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–3.

In Bedrock Edition they can be found in 25.0% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–3.

Jungle logs can be found in 28.0% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–3.

In Bedrock Edition they can be found in 25.0% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–3.

Acacia logs can be found in 28.0% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–3.

In Bedrock Edition they can be found in 50.0% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–3.

Dark oak logs can be found in 28.0% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–3.

In Bedrock Edition they can be found in 50.0% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–3.

Oak, spruce, and dark oak logs generate as masts in shipwrecks.

Trees

Wood blocks of all six types generate naturally as part of trees. Trees can also be grown using saplings.

Stripped logs

Using an axe on wood will turn it into a stripped log.^{[Bedrock and Java editions only]}

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Bark	Matching Log	3 3 3 3 3 3
Planks	Matching Log or Matching Stripped Log	4 4 4 4 4 4

Further crafting

The following table presents the amount of wood needed to produce an even multiple of a given item with no waste left over, and the quantity produced:

Product	Number of wood blocks needed	Product amount	Ratio
Boat	5	4	80%
Bowl	3	16	533.33%
Button	1	4	400%
Charcoal	0 crafted, 1 cooked	1	100%
Chest	2	1	50%
Crafting Table	1	1	100%
Door	3	6	200%
Fence	5	12	240%
Fence Gate	1	1	100%
Ladder	7	24	342.86%
Sign	13	24	184.62%
Stick	1	8	800%
Torch	1 crafted, 8 cooked	32	355.56%
Planks	1	4	400%
Wooden Axe	2	2	100%
Wooden Hoe	3	4	133.33%
Wooden Pickaxe	2	2	100%
Wooden Pressure Plate	1	2	200%
Wooden Shovel	1	2	200%
Wooden Slab	3	24	800%
Wooden Stairs	3	8	266.67%
Wooden Sword	5	8	160%
Wooden Trapdoor	3	4	133.33%

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Charcoal	Any Log or Any Stripped Log + Any fuel

Fuel

Wood logs can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per block. It is far more efficient to craft each wood block into four wood planks: each plank will burn as long as the log would have, for a total of 6 items.

Smelting wood into charcoal is slightly better: each charcoal will smelt 8 items, but the charcoal itself needs to be smelted. The net items smelted therefore is 7. Also, the increased need to load and unload items will usually result in some loss of smelting time.

Data values

Oak, spruce, birch, and jungle wood and bark blocks have the ID name minecraft:log and are further defined by their block data or block state.^{[Bedrock and Legacy Console editions only]} Acacia and dark oak wood and bark blocks have the ID name minecraft:log2 and are further defined by their block data or block state.^{[Bedrock and Legacy Console editions only]}

Note that when a wood block is placed, it changes its facing parameters, placing in the direction relative to the block it is placed on.

Logs only consider the axis; a sideways log placed while facing north will not have a top texture rotated 180 degrees from a log placed south.

ID

Java Edition:

Name	ID name
Oak Log	oak_log
Spruce Log	spruce_log
Birch Log	birch_log
Jungle Log	jungle_log
Acacia Log	acacia_log
Dark Oak Log	dark_oak_log
Stripped Oak Log	stripped_oak_log
Stripped Spruce Log	stripped_spruce_log
Stripped Birch Log	stripped_birch_log
Stripped Jungle Log	stripped_jungle_log
Stripped Acacia Log	stripped_acacia_log
Stripped Dark Oak Log	stripped_dark_oak_log

Bedrock Edition:

Name	ID name	Numeral ID
Wood (oak to jungle)	log	17
Wood (acacia to dark oak)	log2	162
Stripped Oak Wood	stripped_oak_log	?
Stripped Spruce Wood	stripped_spruce_log	?
Stripped Birch Wood	stripped_birch_log	?
Stripped Jungle Wood	stripped_jungle_log	?
Stripped Acacia Wood	stripped_acacia_log	?
Stripped Dark Oak Wood	stripped_dark_oak_log	?

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, wood uses the following data values:

Log

Bits	Values
0x1 0x2	A two-bit field storing a value of 0 to 3 specifying the type of wood: 0: Oak Wood 1: Spruce Wood 2: Birch Wood 3: Jungle Wood
0x4 0x8	A two-bit field storing a value of 0 to 3 specifying the orientation of the wood: 0: Facing Up/Down 1: Facing East/West 2: Facing North/South 3: Only bark

Log 2

Bits	Values
0x1 0x2	A two-bit field storing a value of 0 to 1 specifying the type of wood: 0: Acacia Wood 1: Dark Oak Wood
0x4 0x8	A two-bit field storing a value of 0 to 3 specifying the orientation of the wood: 0: Facing Up/Down 1: Facing East/West 2: Facing North/South 3: Only bark

Stripped Log

	DV	Description
	0	Facing up/down
	1	Facing east/west
	2	Facing north/south
	3	All side

Block state

See also: Block states

Name	Value	Description
axis	x	The log is oriented east–west.
	y	The log is oriented vertically.
	z	The log is oriented north–south.

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	Getting Wood	Attack a tree until a block of wood pops out	Pick up wood from the ground.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	10G	Bronze
	Renewable Energy	Smelt wood trunks using charcoal to make more charcoal.		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	10G	Bronze

History

Classic
May 21, 2009					Notch shows interest in adding wood.
0.0.14a					Called log when first introduced, oak wood was one of the first blocks in Minecraft.
0.24 (August 25, 2009)					Breaking log now drops 3–5 wood planks.
Indev
February 23, 2010					Breaking log gives the block instead of planks.
Alpha
v1.2.0			?		Wood would now only be destroyed by fire if it had several sides simultaneously burning. If only one side was burning, the fire and wood block would last forever.
Beta
1.2					Added birch and spruce wood.
					Wood can now be smelted into charcoal.
1.4					Wood and wood planks will now burn and be destroyed if any one of the sides are lit on fire. This can happen in 1.6.6 again but may not happen to all wood.
1.5					With the addition of birch and spruce saplings, their respective wood types become renewable resources.
					Added "Getting Wood" achievement for chopping then pick up wood.
Official release
1.2.1			12w03a		Added jungle wood.
1.2.4					Different types of wood now produce different colors of planks when crafted.
1.3.1			12w16a		Oak wood is now found in the new bonus chests.
			12w22a		Inventory sprites for blocks were flipped from left to right, changing to .
			12w30d		All types of blocks of wood are now rotatable, with the wood placed with the inner side facing the player (similarly to pistons).
1.4.2			12w38a		Wood blocks now have new sounds when being walked on and broken.
					Orientation of placed wood blocks is now determined by which face of another block they are placed against, similarly to levers.
1.6.1			13w24a		As a feature of resource packs, each log has its own top, meaning that log tops can now be colored separately.
1.7.2			13w43a		Added two new types of wood: acacia and "oak roof".
			1.7-pre		The top texture of all logs now have unique textures, rather than sharing it with oak.
					Drastically changed acacia log's texture.
					Renamed oak roof wood and gave it a unique texture.
					Wood in bonus chests may also be acacia.
1.9			15w43a		Wood found in bonus chests now may be of any type, rather than just acacia or oak.
			15w44a		Bonus chests now have less wood.
1.11			16w39a		Oak and dark oak wood now generates in woodland mansions.
1.13			17w47a		Wood renamed to log.
					The different variant block states and the axis=none block state for both the log and log2 IDs have been split up into their own IDs.
					Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 17 and 162.
			18w07a		Added stripped logs.
			pre1		Changed the side texture for stripped jungle logs.
Texture Update			July 18, 2017		Jeb tweets an image of new textures for iron blocks, obsidian, and birch logs.
			July 19, 2017		Jeb replies with an image of all the new log textures.
			July 19, 2017		Jasper Boerstra tweets an image of a less-blurry birch texture.
			July 22, 2017		Jasper Boerstra tweets an image of new crafting table, wood planks, and wood textures.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.1.0					Added oak, spruce and birch wood.
0.3.0					Wood can now be collected.
0.8.0			?		Added jungle wood.
			build 2		All types of blocks of wood are now rotatable, with the wood placed with the inner side facing the player.
					Jungle wood was added to the creative inventory.
0.9.0			build 1		Added acacia wood and dark oak wood.
					Jungle wood now generates naturally.
					Gave the texture of wood tops its own unique texture for each type of wood.
					Oak wood now generates naturally in plains and savanna villages.
0.11.0			?		Changed tooltip from [woodtype] Log to [woodtype] Wood.
0.14.0			build 1		Spruce wood now generates in witch huts.
0.15.0			build 1		Savanna villages now generate using acacia wood, which previously used oak wood.
					Spruce wood now generates in Taiga villages and Ice Plains villages.
Pocket Edition
1.1			alpha 1.1.0.0		Oak and dark oak wood now generates in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.2			beta 1.2.0.2		Wood can now be found inside bonus chests.
1.4			beta 1.2.13.8		Added Stripped logs as part of Experimental Gameplay.
			beta 1.2.14.2		Fully implemented stripped logs.
					As an exclusive feature, oak, spruce and dark oak stripped logs now generate as part of shipwrecks.
			beta 1.2.20.1		Changed the side texture for stripped jungle wood.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added oak, spruce and birch wood, with unique top textures despite being released before 1.7.
TU9					Spruce wood and birch wood can now be crafted into spruce and birch wood planks, stairs and slabs.
TU12					Added jungle wood, which can be crafted into jungle wood planks.
TU14		1.04			All types of blocks of wood are now rotatable, with the wood placed with the inner side facing the player (similarly to pistons).
					Prior to this update, in PlayStation 3 Edition wood with special data values only looked like it is in PC in inventory or when held, and when placed looked completely different.
TU19	CU7	1.12			Updated the textures for birch and jungle wood.
TU27	CU15	1.18			Added acacia and dark oak wood to the creative inventory.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Acacia and dark oak wood is now obtainable in survival.

Issues

Issues relating to "Wood", "Log", or "Stripped log" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Dark oak and acacia logs share a new block ID separate from the old logs, called log2, because all the other data values on the previous log block were occupied by rotated variants (red sandstone slabs suffered a similar fate). There are still 8 remaining data values on the block that cannot be obtained. The next two trees, if more are added, will likely use these values.^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Gallery

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  Rotated logs.

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  Oak, birch, jungle, spruce, acacia, and dark oak trees.

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  All log types crafting into the planks below it, and the corresponding saplings.

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  All the facings and types of wood logs with the bark blocks. From left to right: dark oak, acacia, jungle, spruce, birch, oak.

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  Oak wood vs log

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  Oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, and dark oak stripped logs rotated.

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  All variants of logs, bark, and stripped logs, excluding alternate rotations.

References

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