Planks

Planks are common blocks used as building blocks and in crafting recipes. They are one of the first things that a player can craft in Survival and Adventure modes. There are eleven variants of planks, which can be differentiated into three categories: Overworld planks made from tree logs, bamboo planks made from blocks of bamboo, and nonflammable Nether planks made from huge fungus stems.

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

Natural generation
generate as part of:
 * Mineshafts, where they are used as beams supported by oak fences and as a platform where air is beneath.
 * 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

generate as part of:
 * Swamp huts, where they are used as a primary building material.
 * Taiga, snowy tundra, and snowy taiga villages, as a part of several buildings.
 * Ocean ruins
 * Shipwrecks

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

generate as part of shipwrecks.

generate as part of:
 * Savanna villages
 * Shipwrecks

generate as part of:
 * Mineshafts generated in badlands biomes
 * Woodland mansions
 * Underwater ruins
 * Shipwrecks
 * Pillager outposts
 * Ancient cities

Entity loot
Boat and boat with chest drop 3 planks of the corresponding type‌ when falling for exactly 12, 13, 49, 51, 111, 114, 198, 202, 310, or 315 blocks.

Usage
Planks can be used for building structures, as crafting ingredients, and as fuel. Crimson planks and warped planks, however, cannot be used as fuel; the player have to convert them into tools, sticks, or other things.

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. Crimson and warped planks cannot be used to make boats.

Fuel
Overworld planks can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per block. Nether planks (crimson and warped planks) cannot be used as fuel.

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

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Block states
$$, wood planks use the following block states:

Trivia

 * To craft each recipe once, a player would need 152 planks, including 10 for the recipes that require sticks, and 6 for wooden slabs.
 * To craft all the other 10 wood variants of all recipes, the player would need an extra 384 planks, plus another 36 planks for the 72 sticks needed to make the fence, fence gate, and sign variants, adding up to a total of 572 planks.