Planks

Planks are common blocks used in crafting recipes and are also the first thing that a player can craft in survival mode and adventure mode.

Natural generation
Oak planks generate as part of:
 * Mineshafts, where they are used as beams supported by oak wood fence posts and as the 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

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.
 * Underwater ruins
 * Shipwrecks

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

Jungle planks generate as part of:
 * Shipwrecks

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

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

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

Info


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

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

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

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

Repairing
Planks are the repair items for the wood tier, and thus can be used to repair the following items in an anvil:

ID




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 data value 0 (oak planks).

Block states
In Bedrock Edition, wood planks use the following block states:

History
{{History||0.0.14a| The texture of planks has now been changed again. {{History||0.24 SURVIVAL TEST|Wooden planks are obtained by destroying wood.}} {{History|indev}} {{History||0.31|snap=20100129|Wooden planks are now used to craft crafting tables, sticks, signs, bookshelves, chests and wooden swords, axes, pickaxes and shovels.}} {{History|||snap=20100130|Wooden planks are now used to craft bowls.}} {{History||20100206|Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden hoes.}} {{History||20100223|Destroying a wood block now obtains the wood block itself, which is now craftable into wooden planks.}} {{History|infdev}} {{History||20100607|Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden doors.}} {{History||20100629|Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden stairs.}} {{History|alpha}} {{History||v1.0.1|Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden pressure plates.}} {{History||v1.0.6|Wooden planks are now used to craft boats.}} {{History||v1.0.14|Wooden planks are now used to craft jukeboxes.}} {{History|beta}} {{History||1.2|Wooden planks are now used to craft note blocks.}} {{History||1.3|Wooden planks are now used to craft beds.}} {{History||1.6|snap=Test Build 3|Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden trapdoors.{{check version|this is when trapdoors were added, but is it when the recipe was as well?}}}} {{History||1.7|Wooden planks are now used to craft pistons.}} {{History||1.8|snap=Pre-release|Wooden planks can now be found in villages and mineshafts. {{History|java}} {{History||1.0.0|snap=Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5| The texture of wooden planks has now been slightly changed.}} {{History||1.2.4|slink=none|  Spruce, birch and jungle wood planks are now available, which are crafted from their corresponding wood. The color of wood planks available to this point is now obtainable only from oak wood. {{History||1.3.1|snap=12w16a|Oak wood planks are now found in the new bonus chests.}} {{History|||snap=12w22a|Wood planks are now used to craft tripwire hooks. {{History|||snap=12w25a|Spruce, birch, and jungle wood planks now craft their respective wooden stairs and slabs.}} {{History||1.4.2|snap=12w34a|Wood planks are now used to craft wooden buttons, using 2 planks.}} {{History|||snap=12w34b|Wooden buttons now require only 1 plank.}} {{History||1.7.2|snap=1.7.1| Acacia and dark oak wood planks are now available, crafted from their corresponding wood.}} {{History||1.8|snap=14w32b|Different types of wood planks now craft different types of fences and fence gates; the fence recipe now requires planks.}} {{History|||snap=14w32d|Different types of wood planks now craft different types of doors.}} {{History||1.9|snap=15w33c|Wood planks are now used to craft shields.}} {{History|||snap=15w43a|Planks found in bonus chests now may be of any type, rather than just oak.}} {{History|||snap=15w44a|The average yield of planks from bonus chests has now more than doubled.}} {{History||1.10|snap=16w20a|Dark oak planks can now be found as a part of abandoned mineshafts in mesa biomes. {{History||1.11|snap=16w39a|Oak, birch, and dark oak wood planks now generate in woodland mansions.}} {{History||July 19, 2017|link=https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/887599625045250048|Jeb tweets an image of new jungle wood planks, cauldron, and dandelion textures.}} {{History||July 22, 2017|link={{tweet|JasperBoerstra|888484852525404162}}|Jasper Boerstra tweets an image of new crafting table, wood planks, and wood textures.}} {{History||1.13|snap=17w47a|The names of wood planks have now been changed from " wood planks" to simply " planks". {{History|||snap=18w07a|Added stripped logs, a variant of logs, which can be used to craft wood planks.}} {{History|||snap=18w09a|Spruce and dark oak planks now generate in some underwater ruins.}} {{History|||snap=18w11a|Wood planks now generate in shipwreck.}} {{History||1.14|snap=18w43a|Wood planks are now used to craft a loom. {{History|||snap=18w47a|     The textures of planks have now been changed, again.}} {{History|||snap=18w48a|Wood planks are now used to craft grindstones.}} {{History|||snap=18w50a| The texture of spruce planks have now been changed, once again. {{History|||snap=19w02a|Planks are now use to craft a cartography table.}} {{History|||snap=19w03a|Planks are now used to craft composters.}} {{History||1.15|snap=19w34a|Planks are now used to craft beehives.}} {{History|upcoming java}} {{History||1.16|snap=20w06a| Added crimson and warped planks, along with crimson and warped variants of all wooden blocks and items, except boats.}}
 * Wooden planks are now used to craft fence gates.}}
 * The original "wooden planks" are now called 'Oak Wood Planks' and each wood planks color is named with the wood it is taken from.}}
 * Inventory sprites for blocks have now been flipped from left to right, changing {{InvSprite|Oak Planks Pre-Flip}} {{InvSprite|Spruce Planks Pre-Flip}} {{InvSprite|Birch Planks Pre-Flip}} {{InvSprite|Jungle Planks Pre-Flip}} to Oak Planks JE4 BE1.png Spruce Planks JE1 BE1.png Birch Planks JE1 BE1.png Jungle Planks JE1 BE1.png.}}
 * Spruce and acacia planks can now be found as a part of savanna/taiga villages respectively.}}
 * The different block states for the  ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
 * Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 5.}}
 * Oak Planks JE5.png Spruce Planks JE2.png Birch Planks JE2.png Jungle Planks JE2.png Acacia Planks JE2.png Dark Oak Planks JE2.png The textures of planks have now been changed.}}
 * Planks are now used to craft barrels.}}

{{History|pocket alpha}} {{History||0.1.0|{{verify}} Added wooden planks. {{History||0.3.0|Wooden planks are now used to craft oak wood stairs, slabs and fence gates, wooden doors, bowls and bookshelves.}} {{History||0.4.0|Wooden planks are now used to craft beds, chests and wooden hoes.}} {{History||0.6.0|Wooden planks are now used to craft signs.}} {{History||0.8.0|snap=build 2|  Added spruce, birch, and jungle wood planks.}} {{History||unknown|The tooltips have now been changed to "(wood type) Planks".}} {{History||0.9.0|snap=build 1| Added acacia and dark oak wood planks. {{History||0.10.0|snap=build 1|Different types of wood planks now craft different types of fences and fence gates. {{History||0.11.0|snap=build 1|Different types of wood planks can now be crafted into different types of boats. {{History||unknown|The tooltips have now been changed to "(wood type) Wood Planks" for consistency with the Java.}} {{History||0.13.0|snap=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.}} {{History||0.14.0|snap=build 1|Spruce wood planks now generate in witch huts.}} {{History||0.15.0|snap=build 1|Wood planks are now used to craft pistons. {{History|pocket}} {{History||1.1.0|snap=alpha 1.1.0.0|Oak and dark oak wood planks now generate in woodland mansions.}} {{History|bedrock}} {{History||1.2.0|snap=beta 1.2.0.2|Birch wood planks now generate in woodland mansions, instead of oak.}} {{History||1.4.0|snap=beta 1.2.13.8|Added stripped logs variants, which can be used to craft wooden planks.}} {{History|||snap=beta 1.2.14.2|Wood planks now generate in shipwrecks.}} {{History|||snap=beta 1.2.20.1|Spruce and dark oak planks now generate in some underwater ruins.}} {{History||1.10.0|snap=beta 1.10.0.3|Wood planks can now be crafted from wood. {{History||1.11.0|snap=beta 1.11.0.1|Planks can now be used to craft cartography tables.}} {{History||1.14.0|snap=beta 1.14.0.1|Planks are now used to craft beehives.}} {{History|upcoming bedrock}} {{History||1.16.0|snap=beta 1.16.0.51| Added crimson and warped planks, along with crimson and warped variants of all wooden blocks and items, except boats.}}
 * Only oak wooden planks currently exist.}}
 * Oak wood planks now naturally spawn in strongholds, abandoned mineshafts and villages.}}
 * Above-ground mineshafts now generate in mesa biomes, using dark oak planks.}}
 * Oak wood planks now generate as a bridge in plains and savanna villages.}}
 * Spruce wood planks now generate in taiga and snowy tundra villages.
 * Acacia wood planks now replace the position of oak wood planks in savanna villages.}}
 * Planks can now be used to craft looms, grindstones, and shields.
 * Birch and dark oak planks now generate in pillager outposts.
 * Oak Planks JE6 BE2.png Spruce Planks JE4 BE2.png Birch Planks JE3 BE2.png Jungle Planks JE3 BE2.png Acacia Planks JE3 BE2.png Dark Oak Planks JE3 BE2.png The textures of planks have now been changed.}}

{{History|console}} {{History||xbox=TU1|xbone=CU1|ps=1.0|wiiu=Patch 1| Added wooden planks.}} {{History||xbox=TU9| Added spruce and birch wood planks.}} {{History||xbox=TU12| Added jungle wooden planks.}} {{History||xbox=TU27|xbone=CU15|ps=1.18| Added acacia and dark oak planks to the creative inventory.}} {{History||xbox=none|xbone=none|ps=1.90|wiiu=none|switch=none|     The textures of planks have now been changed.}} {{History||xbox=none|xbone=none|ps=1.95|wiiu=none|switch=none|Planks can now be crafted from wood.}}

{{History|new 3ds}} {{History||0.1.0|     Added wood planks.}} {{History|foot}}

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 resemble crimson planks.
 * Crimson Planks and Warped Planks do not naturally generate, and are only available if crafted by a player.