Planks

Planks

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

Planks‌^{[Java and Legacy Console editions only]} or wood planks‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} is a generic name for a common block used in many crafting recipes. Its texture resembles a neatly stacked pile of wooden planks hewn from one of the six different tree species.

Obtaining

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

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

Crafting

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 or Matching Stripped Log or Matching Stripped Wood	4 4 4 4 4 4

Natural generation

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:

• Woodland mansions
• Shipwrecks

Spruce

Spruce planks generate as part of:

• The swamp biome where they are used as the primary building material for witch huts.
• Taiga villages, in place of oak planks.
• Ice plains village, in place of oak planks‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
• Underwater ruins
• Shipwrecks

Jungle

Jungle planks generate as part of:

• Shipwrecks

Acacia

Acacia planks generate as part of:

• Savanna villages, in place of oak planks.

Dark oak

Dark oak planks generate as part of:

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

Usage

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

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
Bed	Matching Wool + Any Planks		Wool color must match. Wood planks do not need to match.
Boat	Matching Planks		‌[Java Edition only]
Boat	Matching Planks + Wooden Shovel		‌[Bedrock and Legacy Console editions only] Shovel represents an oar.
Bookshelf	Any Planks + Book
Bowl	Any Planks	4
Chest	Any Planks
Crafting Table	Any Planks
Fence Gate	Stick + Matching Planks
Grindstone (1.14)	Stick + Stone Slab + Any Planks		‌[Java Edition only]
Jukebox	Any Planks + Diamond
Loom	String + Any Planks
Note Block	Any Planks + Redstone Dust
Oak Sign	Any Planks + Stick	3	[until 1.14] [until BE 1.9]
Oak Sign or Spruce Sign or Birch Sign or Jungle Sign or Acacia Sign or Dark Oak Sign	Matching Planks + Stick	3 3 3 3 3 3	‌[upcoming BE 1.9 & 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	3 3 3 3 3 3
Wood Fence	Matching Planks + Stick	3 3 3 3 3 3
Wood Slab	Matching Planks	6 6 6 6 6 6
Wood Stairs	Matching Planks	4 4 4 4 4 4
Wooden Button	Matching Planks
Wooden Pressure Plate	Matching Planks
Wooden Trapdoor	Matching Planks	2 2 2 2 2 2
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

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

Repairing

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

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Block	ID Name
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	ID Name	Numeral ID
Wood Planks	planks	5

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, these planks will have the name "Oak Wood Planks" but a missing texture. They can't be used to craft stairs, slabs, doors, fences or gates. If placed, they'll become actual oak planks.

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Availability				Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
				Xbox	PS	Bedrock	Nintendo
	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

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

History

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.
					In Survival Test, wooden planks were obtained by destroying a wood block.
Java Edition Indev
0.31			0.31 (January 30, 2010)		Wooden planks are now used to craft crafting tables, sticks, signs, bookshelves, chests and wooden swords, axes, pickaxes and shovels.
			0.31 (January 30, 2010)		Wooden planks are now used to craft bowls.
February 6, 2010					Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden hoes.
February 23, 2010					Destroying a wood block now obtains the wood block itself, which is now craftable into wooden planks.
Java Edition Infdev
June 7, 2010					Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden doors.
June 29, 2010					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			?		Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden trapdoors.
1.7					Wooden planks are now used to craft pistons.
1.8			?		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 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.
					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.
					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.
			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.
			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.
					Changed texture of planks.
			18w47a		Changed the textures of planks again
			18w48a		Wood planks are now used to craft grindstones.
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.
					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 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 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.
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

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

Trivia

• Many items crafted using wood planks or sticks have textures that most resemble oak wood, regardless of the species used to craft them. Item frames, on the other hand, resemble birch wood.

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