Planks

Planks are a common block used in many crafting recipes.

Obtaining
Planks can be broken by hand, but using an axe speeds up the process.

Natural generation

 * Oak

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 planks generate as part of:
 * Birch
 * Woodland mansions
 * Shipwrecks
 * Pillager outposts

Spruce planks generate as part of:
 * Spruce
 * 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.
 * Underwater ruins
 * Shipwrecks

Jungle planks generate as part of:
 * Jungle
 * Shipwrecks

Acacia planks generate as part of:
 * Acacia
 * Savanna villages.
 * Shipwrecks

Dark oak planks generate as part of:
 * Dark oak
 * Abandoned mineshafts generated in badlands biomes.
 * Woodland mansions
 * Underwater ruins
 * Shipwrecks
 * Pillager outposts

Usage


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 the crafted result depends on the species used. For other products, planks of different species can be mixed freely and the wood species in the product is indeterminate.

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.

Block data
In Bedrock Edition, wood planks use the following data values:

If a command is used to create planks with data value 6 or higher, the resulting planks have the name "Oak Wood Planks" but don't have a texture. They can't be used to craft stairs, slabs, doors, fences or gates. If placed, they become actual oak planks.

Trivia

 * Many items crafted using planks or sticks have textures that most resemble oak planks, regardless of the species used to craft them. On the other hand, item frames and fletching tables, resemble birch planks, cartography tables resemble dark oak planks, barrels resemble spruce planks, while smithing tables do not resemble any planks.