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This article is about the tree trunk. For the block crafted from Wood, see Wood Planks.

Duncan Geere Mojang avatar

I'd estimate that about 95 percent of my Minecraft worlds begin with me collecting a single block of Oak Wood. It's the mother-block - the block from which everything else in the game develops. Without collecting wood, it's almost impossible to play Minecraft. Seriously, try playing Minecraft without wood. It'll be about as much fun as playing blindfolded, or with me screaming "USE WOOD YOU FOOL!" into your ear the entire time.

Duncan Geere[1]

Wood, or log (from the name ID), is a naturally occurring block found in trees, primarily used to create wood planks. It comes in six species: oak, birch, spruce, jungle, dark oak, and acacia.

Obtaining

Wood can be broken by hand, but using an axe will speed up the process.

Block Wood
Hardness 2
Tool
Breaking time[A]
Default 3
Wooden 1.5
Stone 0.75
Iron 0.5
Diamond 0.4
Netherite 0.35
Golden 0.25
  1. Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Natural generation

Oak wood blocks generate as part of houses in plains villages, acacia wood blocks in case of a savanna village and spruce wood blocks in case of a taiga village. Spruce wood blocks generate as supporting beams of witch huts. Oak and dark oak wood blocks generate as part of woodland mansions. Unknown item oak-wood-only.

Item Structure Container Quantity Chance

Unknown item oak-wood.

Item Structure Container Quantity Chance

Unknown item acacia-wood-only.

Item Structure Container Quantity Chance

Unknown item acacia-wood.

Item Structure Container Quantity Chance

Trees

Wood blocks of all six types generate naturally as part of trees. Trees can also be grown using saplings.

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Name Ingredients Crafting recipe
Campfire Stick +
Coal or
Charcoal +
Oak Log or
Spruce Log or
Birch Log or
Jungle Log or
Acacia Log or
Dark Oak Log or
Mangrove Log or
Cherry Log or
Any Stripped Log or Stem

Campfire Stick +
Coal or
Charcoal +
Oak Log or
Spruce Log or
Birch Log or
Jungle Log or
Acacia Log or
Dark Oak Log or
Mangrove Log or
Cherry Log or
Any Stripped Log or Stem

Oak Planks or
Spruce Planks or
Birch Planks or
Jungle Planks or
Acacia Planks or
Dark Oak Planks or
Mangrove Planks or
Cherry Planks
Matching Log or
Matching Stripped Log
Smoker Any Log or Stem or
Any Stripped Log or Stem +
Furnace

Soul Campfire Stick +
Soul Sand or
Soul Soil +
Oak Log or
Spruce Log or
Birch Log or
Jungle Log or
Acacia Log or
Dark Oak Log or
Mangrove Log or
Cherry Log or
Any Stripped Log or Stem

Stripped Wood Matching Stripped Log
Wood Matching Log

Further crafting

The following table presents the amount of wood needed to produce an even multiple of a given item with no waste left over, and the quantity produced:

Product Number of wood
blocks needed
Product
amount
Ratio
Boat 5 4 80%
Bowl 3 16 533.33%
Button 1 4 400%
Charcoal 0 crafted, 1 cooked[note 1] 1 100%
Chest 2 1 50%
Crafting Table 1 1 100%
Door 3 6 200%
Fence 5 12 240%
Fence Gate 1 1 100%
Ladder 7 24 342.86%
Sign 13 24 184.62%
Stick 1 8 800%
Torch 1 crafted, 8 cooked[note 1] 32 355.56%
Wood Planks 1 4 400%
Wooden Axe 2[note 2] 2 100%
Wooden Hoe 3 4 133.33%
Wooden Pickaxe 2[note 2] 2 100%
Wooden Pressure Plate 1 2 200%
Wooden Shovel 1 2 200%
Wooden Slab 3 24 800%
Wooden Stairs 3 8 266.67%
Wooden Sword 5 8 160%
Wooden Trapdoor 3 4 133.33%
  1. a b Requires the burning of wood into charcoal in a furnace. Thus, you will need 8 cobblestone and burning material. The cobblestone and fuel are ignored for the purpose of this conversion.
  2. a b Because one plank cannot be crafted into two sticks, this crafting recipe requires two wood for two units.

Smelting ingredient

Name Ingredients Smelting recipe
Charcoal Any Wood +
Any fuel


Fuel

Wood logs can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per block. It is far more efficient to craft each wood block into four wood planks: each plank will burn as long as the log would have, for a total of 6 items.

Smelting wood into charcoal is slightly better: each charcoal will smelt 8 items, but the charcoal itself needs to be smelted. The net items smelted therefore is 7. Also, the increased need to load and unload items will usually result in some loss of smelting time.

Data values

The wood blocks are defined by block IDs and block data. They also have block states which may replace block data in the future.

Note that when a wood block is placed, it changes its facing parameters, placing in the direction relative to the block it is placed on.

ID

Log/ID

Block data

See also: Data values

The block data for wood blocks consists of two facing bits (high-order) and two wood type bits (low-order).

Block 17 (minecraft:log)

Bits Values
0x1
0x2
A two-bit field storing a value of 0 to 3 specifying the type of wood:
  • 0: Oak Wood
  • 1: Spruce Wood
  • 2: Birch Wood
  • 3: Jungle Wood
0x4
0x8
A two-bit field storing a value of 0 to 3 specifying the orientation of the wood:
  • 0: Facing Up/Down
  • 1: Facing East/West
  • 2: Facing North/South
  • 3: Only bark

Block 162 (minecraft:log2)

Bits Values
0x1
0x2
A two-bit field storing a value of 0 to 1 specifying the type of wood:
  • 0: Acacia Wood
  • 1: Dark Oak Wood
0x4
0x8
A two-bit field storing a value of 0 to 3 specifying the orientation of the wood:
  • 0: Facing Up/Down
  • 1: Facing East/West
  • 2: Facing North/South
  • 3: Only bark

Block state

See also: Block states

Block 17 (minecraft:log) Java Edition:

Name Default value Allowed values Description
axisy xThe log or stem is oriented east–west.
yThe log or stem is oriented vertically.
zThe log or stem is oriented north–south.

Bedrock Edition:

NameMetadata Bits Default value Allowed valuesValues for
Metadata Bits
Description
pillar_axis0x1
0x2
y y0The log is oriented vertically.
x1The log is oriented east–west.
z2The log is oriented north–south.

Block 162 (minecraft:log2) Log/BS2

Achievements

Icon Achievement In-game description Actual requirements (if different) Gamerscore earned Trophy type (PS4)
PS4 Other
Getting WoodPunch a tree until a block of wood pops out.Pick up a log from the ground.10GBronze
Renewable EnergySmelt wood trunks using charcoal to make more charcoal.Smelt a wooden log with charcoal as the fuel.10GBronze

Advancements

Video

Wood/video
Acacia Wood/video
Dark Oak Wood/video

History

classic
0.0.14a_01Oak WoodCalled log when first introduced, oak wood was one of the first blocks in Minecraft.
0.24_06Breaking log now drops 3–5 wood planks.
indev
February 23, 2010Breaking log gives the block instead of planks.
alpha
1.2.0Wood would now only be destroyed by fire if it had several sides simultaneously burning. If only one side was burning, the fire and wood block would last forever.
beta
1.2File:Birch Wood pre-1.7.pngFile:Spruce Wood pre-1.7.pngAdded birch and spruce wood
Wood can now be smelted into charcoal
1.4Wood and wood planks will now burn and be destroyed if any one of the sides are lit on fire. This can happen in 1.6.6 again but may not happen to all wood.
1.5With the addition of birch and spruce saplings, their respective wood types become renewable resources.
Added "Getting Wood" achievement for chopping then pick up wood.
release
1.2.112w03aFile:Jungle Wood pre-1.7.pngAdded jungle wood.
1.2.4Different types of wood now produce different colors of planks when crafted.
1.3.112w16aOak wood is now found in the new bonus chests.
12w30dAll types of blocks of wood are now rotatable, with the wood placed with the inner side facing the player (similarly to pistons).
1.4.212w38aWood blocks now have new sounds when being walked on and broken.
Orientation of placed wood blocks is now determined by which face of another block they are placed against, similarly to levers.
1.6.113w24aAs a feature of resource packs, each log has its own top, meaning that log tops can now be colored separately.
1.7.213w43aFile:Acacia Wood pre-1.7.pngFile:Dark Oak Wood pre-1.7.pngAdded two new types of wood: acacia and dark oak.
1.7-preBirch WoodSpruce WoodJungle WoodAcacia WoodDark Oak WoodThe top texture of all logs now have unique textures, rather than sharing it with oak.
Wood in bonus chests may also be acacia.
1.915w43aWood found in bonus chests now may be of any type, rather than just acacia or oak.
15w44aBonus chests now have less wood.
1.1116w39aOak and dark oak wood now generates in woodland mansions.
July 18, 2017Jeb tweets an image of new textures for iron blocks, obsidian, and birch logs.
July 19, 2017Jeb replies with an image of all the new log textures.
July 19, 2017Jasper Boerstra tweets an image of a less-blurry birch texture.
July 22, 2017Jasper Boerstra tweets an image of new crafting table, wood planks, and wood textures.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.1.0Oak WoodFile:Birch Wood pre-1.7.pngFile:Spruce Wood pre-1.7.pngAdded oak, birch and spruce wood.
0.3.0Wood can now be collected.
0.8.0?File:Jungle Wood pre-1.7.pngAdd jungle wood.
build 2All types of blocks of wood are now rotatable, with the wood placed with the inner side facing the player.
Jungle wood was added to the creative inventory.
0.9.0build 1File:Acacia Wood pre-1.7.pngFile:Dark Oak Wood pre-1.7.pngAdded acacia wood and dark oak wood.
Jungle wood now generates naturally.
Birch WoodSpruce WoodJungle WoodAcacia WoodDark Oak WoodGave the texture of wood tops its own unique texture for each type of wood.
0.11.0Changed tooltip from [woodtype] Log to [woodtype] Wood.
Pocket Edition
1.1build 1Oak and dark oak wood now generates in woodland mansions.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1CU1 1.0 Patch 1Oak WoodBirch WoodSpruce WoodAdded oak, birch and spruce wood.
TU9Spruce wood and birch wooden can now be crafted into spruce and birch wood planks, stairs and slabs.
TU12Jungle WoodAdded jungle wood, which can be crafted into jungle wood planks.
TU14 1.04 All types of blocks of wood are now rotatable, with the wood placed with the inner side facing the player (similarly to pistons).
Prior to this update, in PlayStation 3 Edition wood with special data values only looked like it is in PC in inventory or when held, and when placed looked completely different.
TU19CU7 1.12 Updated the textures for birch and jungle wood.
TU27CU15 1.18 Acacia WoodDark Oak WoodAdded acacia and dark oak wood to the creative inventory.
TU31CU19 1.22 Patch 3Acacia and dark oak wood is now obtainable in survival.

Issues

Issues relating to "Log" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

  • Dark oak and acacia logs share a new block ID separate from the old logs, called log2, because all the other data values on the previous log block were occupied by rotated variants (red sandstone slabs suffered a similar fate). There are still 8 remaining data values on the block that cannot be obtained. The next two trees, if more are added, will likely use these values.
  • Rotated logs in the inventory will be placed like normal logs, even if the item is an all bark block.

Gallery

  1. "Block of the Week: Oak Wood" – Minecraft.net, June 16, 2017
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