Wood

Wood

Transparency	No
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	10
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 Wood Planks.

	“	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

Wood, or log (from the name ID), is a naturally occurring block found in trees, primarily used to create wood planks. It comes in six species: oak, birch, spruce, jungle, dark oak, and acacia.

Obtaining

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

Block	Wood
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. Spruce wood blocks generate as supporting beams of witch huts. Oak and dark oak wood blocks generate as part of woodland mansions.

Oak, spruce, birch or jungle wood can be found in 68.4% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–3.

Acacia or dark oak wood can be found in 68.4% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–3.

Trees

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

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Wood Planks	Matching Wood	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%
Wood 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 Wood + 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

The wood blocks are defined by block IDs and block data. They also have block states which may replace block data in the future.

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.

ID

Name	ID name	Block ID
Wood (oak to jungle)	minecraft:log	17
Wood (acacia to dark oak)	minecraft:log2	162

Block data

See also: Data values

The block data for wood blocks consists of two facing bits (high-order) and two wood type bits (low-order).

Block 17 (minecraft: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

Block 162 (minecraft:log2)

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

Block state

See also: Block states

Block 17 (minecraft:log)

Name	Value	Description
axis	none	The block lacks a "top" texture (all sides have the bark texture).
	x	The log is oriented east–west.
	y	The log is oriented vertically.
	z	The log is oriented north–south.
variant	oak	Oak
	spruce	Spruce
	birch	Birch
	jungle	Jungle

Block 162 (minecraft:log2)

Name	Value	Description
axis	none	The block lacks a "top" texture (all sides have the bark texture).
	x	The log is oriented east–west.
	y	The log is oriented vertically.
	z	The log is oriented north–south.
variant	acacia	Acacia
	dark_oak	Dark Oak

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Pocket	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
0.0.14a_01					Called log when first introduced, oak wood was one of the first blocks in Minecraft.
0.24_06					Breaking log now drops 3–5 wood planks.
Indev
February 23, 2010					Breaking log gives the block instead of planks.
Alpha
1.2.0					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.
			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 dark oak.
			1.7-pre		The top texture of all logs now have unique textures, rather than sharing it with oak.
					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.
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, birch and spruce wood.
0.3.0					Wood can now be collected.
0.8.0			?		Add 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.
0.11.0					Changed tooltip from [woodtype] Log to [woodtype] Wood.
Pocket Edition
1.1			build 1		Oak and dark oak wood now generates in woodland mansions.
Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added oak, birch and spruce wood.
TU9					Spruce wood and birch wooden 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” are maintained on the issue 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 2 remaining data values on the block that cannot be obtained. The next two trees, if more are added, will likely use these values.
• Rotated logs in the inventory will be placed like normal logs, even if the item is an all bark block.

Gallery

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  Rotated wood

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

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  All variations of wooden plank, with each wood type crafting into the planks below it, and the corresponding saplings

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  All the facings and type of wood logs. Also includes the bark-only blocks. From left to right: dark oak, acacia, jungle, spruce, birch, oak

Blocks

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