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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 | |
- ↑ 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Smoker | Any Log or Stem or Any Stripped Log or Stem + Furnace |
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| 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 |
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| 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% |
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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
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:
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| 0x4 0x8 |
A two-bit field storing a value of 0 to 3 specifying the orientation of the wood:
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Block 162 (minecraft:log2)
| Bits | Values |
|---|---|
| 0x1 0x2 |
A two-bit field storing a value of 0 to 1 specifying the type of wood:
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| 0x4 0x8 |
A two-bit field storing a value of 0 to 3 specifying the orientation of the wood:
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Block state
Block 17 (minecraft:log)
Java Edition:
| Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| axis | y
| x | The log or stem is oriented east–west. |
y | The log or stem is oriented vertically. | ||
z | The log or stem is oriented north–south. |
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pillar_axis | 0x10x2 | y
| y | 0 | The log is oriented vertically. |
x | 1 | The log is oriented east–west. | |||
z | 2 | The 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 Wood | Punch a tree until a block of wood pops out. | Pick up a log from the ground. | 10G | Bronze | ||
| Renewable Energy | Smelt wood trunks using charcoal to make more charcoal. | Smelt a wooden log with charcoal as the fuel. | 10G | Bronze | ||
Advancements
Video
History
| classic | |||||
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| 0.0.14a_01 | |||||
| 0.24_06 | Breaking log now drops 3–5 wood planks. | ||||
| indev | |||||
| February 23, 2010 | Breaking log gives the block instead of planks. | ||||
| alpha | |||||
| 1.2.0 | Wood 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 | |||||
| 1.2 | File:Birch Wood pre-1.7.pngFile:Spruce Wood pre-1.7.pngAdded birch and spruce wood | ||||
| Wood can now be smelted into charcoal | |||||
| 1.4 | Wood 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. | ||||
| 1.5 | With 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 | |||||
| 1.2.1 | 12w03a | File:Jungle Wood pre-1.7.pngAdded jungle wood. | |||
| 1.2.4 | Different types of wood now produce different colors of planks when crafted. | ||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w16a | Oak wood is now found in the new bonus chests. | |||
| 12w30d | All types of blocks of wood are now rotatable, with the wood placed with the inner side facing the player (similarly to pistons). | ||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w38a | Wood 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. | |||||
| 1.6.1 | 13w24a | As a feature of resource packs, each log has its own top, meaning that log tops can now be colored separately. | |||
| 1.7.2 | 13w43a | File:Acacia Wood pre-1.7.pngFile:Dark Oak Wood pre-1.7.pngAdded two new types of wood: acacia and dark oak. | |||
| 1.7-pre | |||||
| Wood in bonus chests may also be acacia. | |||||
| 1.9 | 15w43a | Wood found in bonus chests now may be of any type, rather than just acacia or oak. | |||
| 15w44a | Bonus chests now have less wood. | ||||
| 1.11 | 16w39a | Oak and dark oak wood now generates in woodland mansions. | |||
| July 18, 2017 | Jeb tweets an image of new textures for iron blocks, obsidian, and birch logs. | ||||
| July 19, 2017 | Jeb replies with an image of all the new log textures. | ||||
| July 19, 2017 | Jasper Boerstra tweets an image of a less-blurry birch texture. | ||||
| July 22, 2017 | Jasper Boerstra tweets an image of new crafting table, wood planks, and wood textures. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||
| 0.3.0 | Wood can now be collected. | ||||
| 0.8.0 | ? | File:Jungle Wood pre-1.7.pngAdd jungle wood. | |||
| build 2 | All 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. | |||||
| 0.9.0 | build 1 | File:Acacia Wood pre-1.7.pngFile:Dark Oak Wood pre-1.7.pngAdded acacia wood and dark oak wood. | |||
| Jungle wood now generates naturally. | |||||
| 0.11.0 | Changed tooltip from [woodtype] Log to [woodtype] Wood. | ||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.1 | build 1 | Oak and dark oak wood now generates in woodland mansions. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | ||
| TU9 | Spruce wood and birch wooden can now be crafted into spruce and birch wood planks, stairs and slabs. | ||||
| TU12 | |||||
| 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. | |||||
| TU19 | CU7 | 1.12 | Updated the textures for birch and jungle wood. | ||
| TU27 | CU15 | 1.18 | |||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Acacia 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
- 1.7.2 Wood Planks.png
All variations of wooden plank, with each wood type crafting into the planks below it, and the corresponding saplings
- ↑ "Block of the Week: Oak Wood" – Minecraft.net, June 16, 2017


