Planks

Wooden Planks are a block that is crafted by the player from wood. It appears as a series of interconnected planks. It is good for creating a support style for your buildings and also making huts and shacks. Wooden Planks are a renewable resource. Wood is easy to obtain in biomes where trees can be found.

Occurrence
Wooden planks can be found in Abandoned Mine Shafts where they form reverse U-shaped supports at regular intervals. They also appear in NPC villages where they form various structures including walls, roofs, and floors of many buildings. Wooden planks can also be found in some rooms of strongholds, for an example, in libraries.

Building
The value of building with wooden planks is disputed in Beta. Structures built of planks can be burned down easily, either by accident or by griefers. It is often used, regardless of the dangers, for its abundance in trees and for certain sorts of buildings, such as Inns.



Crafting
Wooden planks are used in many crafting recipes: wooden axe, pickaxe, sword, shovel, and hoe; pressure plate, crafting table, chest, bowl, sign, door, boat, stick, stairs, fence, jukebox, bookshelf, note block, bed, and slab.

Fuel
Planks can be used in a furnace to achieve burning for 15 seconds, which can smelt 1 1/2 items, although it is more efficient to turn the wood blocks into charcoal by cooking them in the furnace. Planks are a good substitute before coal/charcoal is found. It takes 43 planks to smelt a full stack of 64 items.

History
Wooden planks originally looked more like a brick block when they were first made. In survival mode Wooden planks were obtained by destroying a Wood block, but were later changed so that when destroying a Wood block you will get the block, that can later be crafted into planks.

As of Beta 1.9 pre5, Wooden Planks' texture changed from (previous version.png|30px) to (new version.png|30px).

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