Planks

Transparent	No
Luminance	0
Blast resistance	15
Tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	Yes
Drops	Itself
Data value	dec: 05 hex: 5 bin: 101
Name	See § Data values

Planks^{[n 1]} are a common block used in many crafting recipes.

Obtaining[edit]

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

Block	Planks
Hardness	2
Tool
Breaking time^{[note 1]}
Hand	3
Wooden	1.5
Stone	0.75
Iron	0.5
Diamond	0.4
Golden	0.25

↑ Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds.

Crafting[edit]

The saplings at the bottom grow into the wood at top, which craft into the wood planks central

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Matching Log or Matching Wood ‌^{[upcoming: BE 1.10]} or Matching Stripped Log or Matching Stripped Wood‌^{[upcoming: BE 1.10]}	444444

Natural generation[edit]

Oak

Oak planks can be found in 70.5% of bonus chests in stacks of 1–12.

In Bedrock Edition, they can be found in all bonus chests in stacks of 1–12.

Oak planks also generate as part of:

Abandoned mineshafts where they are used as beams supported by oak wood fence posts and as floor when crossing air.
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

Birch

Birch planks generate as part of:

Spruce

Spruce planks generate as part of:

The swamp biome where they are used as the primary building material for swamp huts.
Taiga villages.
Snowy tundra and Snowy taiga village, in some house building.‌^{[Bedrock and Legacy Console editions only]}‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.14]}
Underwater ruins
Shipwrecks

Jungle

Jungle planks generate as part of:

Shipwrecks

Acacia

Acacia planks generate as part of:

Savanna villages.
Shipwrecks

Dark oak

Dark oak planks generate as part of:

Abandoned mineshafts generated in badlands biomes.
Woodland mansions
Underwater ruins
Shipwrecks
Pillager outposts

Usage[edit]

A shack made out of oak planks.

The different colors of wood planks. In order, these are Birch, Oak, Spruce, Dark Oak, Jungle, and Acacia.

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

Crafting ingredient[edit]

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 species and will match the species used. For other products, planks of different species can be mixed freely and the wood species 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.
Boat	Matching Planks + Wooden Shovel		‌^{[Bedrock and Legacy Console editions only]} Shovel represents an oar.
Boat	Matching Planks		‌^{[Java Edition only]}
Bookshelf	Any Planks + Book
Bowl	Any Planks	4
Cartography Table	Paper + Any Planks		‌^{[Java Edition only]}
Chest	Any Planks
Composter	Any wood Fence + Any Planks		‌^{[Java Edition only]}
Crafting Table	Any Planks
Fence Gate	Stick + Matching Planks
Grindstone (1.14 Bedrock Edition 1.10)	Stick + Stone Slab + Any Planks
Jukebox	Any Planks + Diamond
Loom	String + Any Planks
Note Block	Any Planks + Redstone Dust
Oak Sign	Any Planks + Stick	3	‌^{[Java and Legacy Console editions only]}^{[until JE 1.14]}
Oak Sign or Spruce Sign or Birch Sign or Jungle Sign or Acacia Sign or Dark Oak Sign	Matching Planks + Stick	333333	‌^{[Java and Bedrock editions only]}‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.14]}
Piston	Any Planks + Cobblestone + Iron Ingot + Redstone Dust
Shield	Any Planks + Iron Ingot
Stick	Any Planks	4
Tripwire Hook	Iron Ingot + Stick + Any Planks	2
Wood Door	Matching Planks	333333
Wood Fence	Matching Planks + Stick	333333
Wood Slab	Matching Planks	666666
Wood Stairs	Matching Planks	444444
Wooden Button	Matching Planks
Wooden Pressure Plate	Matching Planks
Wooden Trapdoor	Matching Planks	222222
Wooden Axe	Any Planks + Stick
Wooden Hoe	Any Planks + Stick
Wooden Pickaxe	Any Planks + Stick
Wooden Shovel	Any Planks + Stick
Wooden Sword	Any Planks + Stick

Fuel[edit]

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

Repairing[edit]

Wooden pickaxes, axes, shovels, hoes, swords, and shields can be repaired with planks in an anvil.

Data values[edit]

ID[edit]

Java Edition:

Block	Name ID
Oak Planks	`oak_planks`
Spruce Planks	`spruce_planks`
Birch Planks	`birch_planks`
Jungle Planks	`jungle_planks`
Acacia Planks	`acacia_planks`
Dark Oak Planks	`dark_oak_planks`

Bedrock Edition:

Block	Name ID	Numeric ID
Wood Planks	`planks`	5

Block data[edit]

Achievements[edit]

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo	Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
	Librarian	Build some bookshelves to improve your enchantment table	Pick up a bookshelf from a crafting table output.	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	20G	Bronze

Advancements[edit]

Main article: Advancements

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

Video[edit]

History[edit]

Java Edition Pre-classic
rd-160052				Wooden planks were added. When first introduced into the game, wooden planks had a reddish tinge somewhat resembling the current jungle planks.
rd-161348				The texture was changed to have somewhat brick-like markings, which still exist on the wood planks texture today but are hard to see.
Java Edition Classic
0.0.14a				The texture was changed again.
0.0.14a				In Survival Test, wooden planks were obtained by destroying a wood block.
Java Edition Indev
0.31			2010-01-29	Wooden planks are now used to craft crafting tables, sticks, signs, bookshelves, chests and wooden swords, axes, pickaxes and shovels.
0.31			2010-01-30	Wooden planks are now used to craft bowls.
Indev			2010-02-06	Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden hoes.
Indev			2010-02-23	Destroying a wood block now obtains the wood block itself, which is now craftable into wooden planks.
Java Edition Infdev
Infdev			2010-06-07	Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden doors.
Infdev			2010-06-29	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.^{[needs testing]}
1.7				Wooden planks are now used to craft pistons.
1.8			Pre-release	Wooden planks can now be found in villages and mineshafts.
1.8			?	Wooden planks are now used to craft fence gates.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5	The texture was slightly changed.
1.2.4				Spruce, birch and jungle wood planks are now available, crafted from their corresponding wood. The color of wood planks available to this point is now only obtainable from oak wood.
1.2.4				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.
			12w22a	Inventory sprites for blocks were flipped from left to right, changing to .
			12w25a	Birch, spruce 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.
1.4.2			12w34b	Wooden buttons now only require 1 plank.
1.7.2			1.7.1-pre	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.
1.8			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	More than doubled the average yield of planks from bonus chests.
1.10			16w20a	Dark oak planks can now be found as a part of abandoned mineshafts in Mesa biomes. Acacia and Spruce 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 image of a 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	Name changed from <wood type> wood planks to simply <wood type> planks.
				The different block states for the `planks` ID have 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.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.14			18w43a	Wood planks are now used to craft a loom.
			18w43a	Changed texture of planks.
			18w47a	Changed the textures of planks again.
			18w48a	Wood planks are now used to craft grindstones.
			18w50a	Changed the texture of spruce planks again.
			18w50a	Wood planks are now used to craft barrels.
			19w02a	Wood planks are now use to craft a cartography table.
			19w03a	Wood planks are now used to craft composters.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.1.0				Wooden planks were added. Only oak existed.
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	Birch, spruce and jungle wood planks were added.
?				Changed tooltip to "(wood type) Planks".
0.9.0			build 1	Acacia and dark oak wood planks were added.
0.9.0			build 1	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.
0.10.0			build 1	Above-ground mineshafts 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.
0.11.0			build 1	oak wood plank generate as a bridge in plains and savanna village.
?				Changed tooltip to "(wood type) Wood Planks" for consistency with the Java Edition.
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 plank generate in Witch Hut.
0.15.0			build 1	Wood planks are now used to craft pistons.
				Acacia wood planks will now replace the position of oak wood planks in savanna villages.
				Spruce wood planks now generate in taiga and snowy tundra villages.
Pocket Edition
1.1			alpha 1.1.0.0	Oak and dark oak wood planks now generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.2			beta 1.2.0.2	Birch wood planks generate in woodland mansions, instead of oak.
1.4			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.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.10			beta 1.10.0.3	Wood planks can now be crafted from wood.
				Planks can be used to craft loom, grindstone, and shield.
				Birch and dark oak planks now generate in pillager outpost.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	Wooden planks were added.
TU9				Spruce and birch wood planks were added.
TU12				Jungle wooden planks were added.
TU27	CU15	1.18		Added acacia and dark oak planks to the creative inventory.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0				Added wood planks.

Issues[edit]

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

Trivia[edit]

Many items crafted using planks or sticks have textures that most resemble oak wood, regardless of the species used to craft them. On the other hand, Item frames and fletching table, resemble birch wood, cartography table resemble dark oak planks, while barrel resemble spruce.

Notes[edit]

↑ Known as Planks in Java and Legacy Console editions and Wood Planks in Bedrock and New Nintendo 3DS editions.

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[breakingtimenote-2] Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds.

[1] Known as Planks in Java and Legacy Console editions and Wood Planks in Bedrock and New Nintendo 3DS editions.

[n 1]

[note 1]

Planks

Contents

Obtaining[edit]

Crafting[edit]

Natural generation[edit]

Usage[edit]

Crafting ingredient[edit]

Fuel[edit]

Repairing[edit]

Data values[edit]

ID[edit]

Block data[edit]

Achievements[edit]

Advancements[edit]

Video[edit]

History[edit]

Issues[edit]

Trivia[edit]

Notes[edit]

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