Planks

Planks

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	3
Hardness	2
Luminant	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	Overworld Planks: Yes (5) Nether Planks: No
Catches fire from lava	Overworld Planks: Yes Nether Planks: No

Planks are common blocks used in crafting recipes and are also the first thing that a player can craft in survival mode and adventure mode. Two categories of planks can be differenciated: flammable Overworld Planks made from tree logs, and nonflammable Nether Planks made from fungi stems.

Occurrence

Natural generation

Oak

Oak planks generate as part of:

• Mineshafts, where they are used as beams supported by oak fences and as a platform where air is beneath.
• 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

Spruce

Spruce planks generate as part of:

• The swamp biome where they are used as the primary building material for swamp huts.
• Taiga, Snowy tundra, and Snowy taiga‌^{[BE only]} villages, as a part of several buildings.
• Underwater ruins
• Shipwrecks

Birch

Birch planks generate as part of:

• Woodland mansions
• Shipwrecks
• Pillager outposts

Jungle

Jungle planks generate as part of:

• Shipwrecks

Acacia

Acacia planks generate as part of:

• Savanna villages
• Shipwrecks‌^{[BE only]}

Dark oak

Dark oak planks generate as part of:

• Mineshafts generated in badlands biomes
• Woodland mansions
• Underwater ruins
• Shipwrecks
• Pillager outposts

Obtaining

Loot

From block loot

Planks can be broken by hand, but using an axe speeds up the process.

Namespaced ID	Source	Drops
		Default
blocks/oak_planks	Oak Planks	1 (100%)
blocks/birch_planks	Birch Planks	1 (100%)
blocks/spruce_planks	Spruce Planks	1 (100%)
blocks/jungle_planks	Jungle Planks	1 (100%)
blocks/acacia_planks	Acacia Planks	1 (100%)
blocks/dark_oak_planks	Dark Oak Planks	1 (100%)
blocks/crimson_planks	Crimson Planks	1 (100%)
blocks/warped_planks	Warped Planks	1 (100%)

From chest loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Oak Planks	Bonus chest	Chest	1–12	70.5%
Bedrock Edition
Oak Planks	Bonus chest	Chest	1–12	100%

Recipes

From crafting

The saplings and fungi at the bottom grow into logs and stems that are in the center, which are crafted into wood planks at the top.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Matching Log or Matching Stripped Log or Matching Wood or Matching Stripped Wood	444444
Matching Stem or Matching Stripped Stem or Matching Hyphae or Matching Stripped Hyphae	44

Usage

Info

The different colors of wood planks. From left to right, there are: oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, crimson, and warped.

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

Breaking

Planks can be broken by hand, but using an axe speeds up the process.

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

Block loot

Planks drops itself when broken with the correct tool if any is assigned. Refer to § From block loot for more information.

Crafting ingredient

Planks are used in many crafting recipes. Doors, fences, fence gates, slabs, stairs, boats, trapdoors, pressure plates, and buttons must be crafted from planks of the same type, and the crafted result depends on the type used. For other products, planks of different types can be mixed freely and the wood types in the product is indeterminate.

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Barrel	Any Planks + Any wood Slab		‌[Java Edition only]
Bed	Matching Wool + Any Planks		Wool color must match. Planks do not need to match.
Beehive	Any Planks + Honeycomb
Boat	Matching Overworld Planks		‌[Java Edition only]
Boat	Matching Overworld Planks + Wooden Shovel		‌[Bedrock and Education editions only]
Bookshelf	Any Planks + Book
Bowl	Any Planks	4
Cartography Table	Paper + Any Planks
Chest	Any Planks
Crafting Table	Any Planks
Fletching Table	Flint + Any Planks
Grindstone	Stick + Stone Slab + Any Planks
Jukebox	Any Planks + Diamond
Loom	String + Any Planks
Note Block	Any Planks + Redstone Dust
Piston	Any Planks + Cobblestone + Iron Ingot + Redstone Dust
Shield	Any Planks + Iron Ingot
Sign	Matching Planks + Stick	33333333
Smithing Table	Iron Ingot + Any Planks
Stick	Any Planks	4
Tripwire Hook	Iron Ingot + Stick + Any Planks	2
Wood Fence Gate	Matching Planks + Stick
Wood Door	Matching Planks	33333333
Wood Fence	Matching Planks + Stick	3333333333
Wood Slab	Matching Planks	6666666666
Wood Stairs	Matching Planks	44444444
Wooden Button	Matching Planks
Wooden Pressure Plate	Matching Planks
Wooden Trapdoor	Matching Planks	2222222222
Wooden Axe	Any Planks + Stick		The axe's material can be placed either to the left or the right of the sticks.
Wooden Hoe	Any Planks + Stick
Wooden Pickaxe	Any Planks + Stick
Wooden Shovel	Any Planks + Stick
Wooden Sword	Any Planks + Stick

Fuel

Overworld planks can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per block. Nether planks (crimson and warped planks) cannot be used as fuel.

Repairing

Planks are the repair items for the wood tier, and thus can be used to repair the following items in an anvil:

• Wooden sword
• Wooden pickaxe
• Wooden axe
• Wooden shovel
• Wooden hoe
• Shield

Sounds

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	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

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Block tags (JE)	Item tags (JE)	Translation key
Oak Planks	oak_planks	planks	planks	block.minecraft.oak_planks
Spruce Planks	spruce_planks	planks	planks	block.minecraft.spruce_planks
Birch Planks	birch_planks	planks	planks	block.minecraft.birch_planks
Jungle Planks	jungle_planks	planks	planks	block.minecraft.jungle_planks
Acacia Planks	acacia_planks	planks	planks	block.minecraft.acacia_planks
Dark Oak Planks	dark_oak_planks	planks	planks	block.minecraft.dark_oak_planks
Crimson Planks	crimson_planks	planks non_flammable_wood	planks non_flammable_wood	block.minecraft.crimson_planks
Warped Planks	warped_planks	planks non_flammable_wood	planks non_flammable_wood	block.minecraft.warped_planks

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Wooden Planks	planks	5	tile.planks.oak.name tile.planks.spruce.name tile.planks.birch.name tile.planks.jungle.name tile.planks.acacia.name tile.planks.big_oak.name
Crimson Planks	crimson_planks	497	tile.crimson_planks.name
Warped Planks	warped_planks	498	tile.warped_planks.name

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, wood planks use the following data values:

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

If a command is used to create planks with data value 6 or higher, the resulting planks have the data value 0 (oak planks).

Block states

See also: Block states

In Bedrock Edition, wood planks use the following block states:

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
wood_type	oak	oak	Oak Planks
		spruce	Spruce Planks
		birch	Birch Planks
		jungle	Jungle Planks
		acacia	Acacia Planks
		dark_oak	Dark Oak Planks

Achievements

Main article: Achievement

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
	Benchmaking	Craft a workbench with four blocks of wooden wood planks.	Pick up a crafting table from the inventory's crafting field output or a crafting table output.	10G	Bronze
	Librarian	Build some bookshelves to improve your enchantment table.	Pick up a bookshelf from a crafting table output.	20G	Bronze

Advancements

Main article: Advancement

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	Minecraft	The heart and story of the game	—	Have a crafting table in your inventory.	story/root

History

Java Edition pre-Classic
rd-160052					Added wooden planks.
Java Edition Classic
0.0.9a					The texture of planks has now been changed.
0.0.14a					The texture of planks has now been changed again.
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST					Wooden planks are obtained by destroying wood.
Java Edition Indev
0.31		20100129			Wooden planks are now used to craft crafting tables, sticks, signs, bookshelves, chests and wooden swords, axes, pickaxes and shovels.
		20100130			Wooden planks are now used to craft bowls.
20100206					Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden hoes.
20100223					Destroying a wood block now obtains the wood block itself, which is now craftable into wooden planks.
Java Edition Infdev
20100607					Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden doors.
20100629					Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden stairs.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.1					Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden pressure plates.
v1.0.6					Wooden planks are now used to craft boats.
v1.0.14					Wooden planks are now used to craft jukeboxes.
Java Edition Beta
1.2					Wooden planks are now used to craft note blocks.
1.3					Wooden planks are now used to craft beds.
1.6		Test Build 3			Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden trapdoors.[is this the correct version?]
1.7					Wooden planks are now used to craft pistons.
1.8		Pre-release			Wooden planks can now be found in villages and mineshafts.
					Wooden planks are now used to craft fence gates.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5			The texture of wooden planks has now been slightly changed.
1.2.4		release			Spruce, birch and jungle wood planks are now available, which are crafted from their corresponding wood. The color of wood planks available to this point is now obtainable only 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			Spruce, birch, 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 require only 1 plank.
1.7.2		1.7.1			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			The average yield of planks from bonus chests has now more than doubled.
1.10		16w20a			Dark oak planks can now be found as a part of abandoned mineshafts in mesa biomes.
					Spruce and acacia 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.
July 19, 2017					Jeb tweets an image of 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			The names of wood planks have now been changed from "<wood type> wood planks" to simply "<wood type> planks".
					The different block states for the planks ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
					Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 5.
		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.
		18w11a			Wood planks now generate in shipwreck.
1.14		18w43a			Wood planks are now used to craft a loom.
					The textures of planks have now been changed.
		18w47a			The textures of planks have now been changed, again.
		18w48a			Wood planks are now used to craft grindstones.
		18w50a			The texture of spruce planks have now been changed, once again.
					Planks are now used to craft barrels.
		19w02a			Planks are now use to craft a cartography table.
		19w03a			Planks are now used to craft composters.
1.15		19w34a			Planks are now used to craft beehives.
1.16		20w06a			Added crimson and warped planks, along with crimson and warped variants of all wooden blocks and items, except boats.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.1.0					Added wooden planks.
					Only oak wooden planks currently exist.
0.2.0					The texture of oak planks has now been changed.
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			Added spruce, birch, and jungle wood planks.
?					The tooltips have now been changed to "(wood type) Planks".
0.9.0		build 1			Added acacia and dark oak wood planks.
					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 now 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 planks now generate as a bridge in plains and savanna villages.
?					The tooltips have now been changed to "(wood type) Wood Planks" for consistency with the Java.
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 planks now generate in witch huts.
0.15.0		build 1			Wood planks are now used to craft pistons.
					Spruce wood planks now generate in taiga and snowy tundra villages.
					Acacia wood planks now replace the position of oak wood planks in savanna villages.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Oak and dark oak wood planks now generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Birch wood planks now generate in woodland mansions, instead of oak.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.13.8			Added stripped logs variants, which can be used to craft wooden planks.
		beta 1.2.14.2			Wood planks now generate in shipwrecks.
		beta 1.2.20.1			Spruce and dark oak planks now generate in some underwater ruins.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Wood planks can now be crafted from wood.
					Planks can now be used to craft looms, grindstones, and shields.
					Birch and dark oak planks now generate in pillager outposts.
					The textures of planks have now been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Planks can now be used to craft cartography tables.
1.14.0		beta 1.14.0.1			Planks are now used to craft beehives.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.51			Added crimson and warped planks, along with crimson and warped variants of all wooden blocks and items, except boats.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added wooden planks.
TU3					The texture of oak planks has been changed.
TU9					Added spruce and birch wood planks.
TU12					Added jungle wooden planks.
TU27	CU15	1.18			Added acacia and dark oak planks to the creative inventory.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Acacia and dark oak planks are now obtainable in survival.
		1.90			The textures of planks have now been changed.
		1.95			Planks can now be crafted from wood.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added wood planks.

Issues

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

Trivia

• Many items crafted using planks or sticks have textures that most resemble oak planks, regardless of the species used to craft them. On the other hand, item frames and fletching tables resemble birch planks, cartography tables resemble dark oak planks, barrels resemble spruce planks, while smithing tables resemble crimson planks.
• Crimson Planks and Warped Planks do not naturally generate, and are only available if crafted by a player.

Notes

Blocks

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