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; in libraries, for example.

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, due to its abundance in trees.

Crafting


When crafted from Wood, Wooden Planks are colored according to the wood it came from, as seen on the right. Wood products other than Wooden Planks only have one color. Wood planks prior to 1.2.4 all had the same color regardless of the tree type the wood came from.

Uses
Wooden planks (of any color) 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 Gates, jukebox, bookshelf, Note Block, bed, slab, and Pistons.

Fuel
Planks can fuel a furnace to burn for 15 seconds, which can smelt 1 1/2 items.

Planks are the second most efficient wood-derived fuel after charcoal (smelts 8 items), and therefore the best choice for creating the first charcoal if no coal is available. They are also more efficient for smelting 4 or fewer items, since each wood block produces 4 planks which can be used individually whereas the rest of the charcoal would be wasted.

History
Wooden planks originally looked more like a brick block when they were first introduced into the game. 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, which can later be crafted into planks.

In Beta 1.9 pre5, the texture of Wooden Planks changed.

In 1.2.4, three new colors of Wooden Planks were added corresponding to and crafted from the four types of Wood; previously, there was only the medium shade which is now obtained from oak/apple wood and matches other wooden items such as stairs.

Trivia

 * Wooden planks always face north/south.
 * Birch wooden planks seem to have a brighter texture of the old, original wooden plank.

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