| Renewable |
Yes |
|---|---|
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
| Tool | |
| Blast resistance |
3 |
| Hardness |
2 |
| Luminant |
No |
| Transparent |
No |
| Flammable |
Overworld Planks: Yes (5) |
| Catches fire from lava |
Overworld Planks: Yes |
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. Two categories of planks can be differentiated: flammable Overworld planks made from tree logs, and nonflammable Nether planks made from huge fungus stems.
Obtaining[]
Breaking[]
Planks can be broken by hand, but using an axe speeds up the process.
| Block | Planks | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 planks 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
Spruce planks generate as part of:
- Swamp huts, where they are used as a primary building material.
- Taiga, Snowy tundra, and Snowy taiga[BE only] villages, as a part of several buildings.
- Underwater ruins
- Shipwrecks
Birch planks generate as part of:
Jungle planks generate as part of Shipwrecks.
Acacia planks generate as part of:
- Savanna villages
- Shipwrecks[BE only]
Dark oak planks generate as part of:
- Mineshafts generated in badlands biomes
- Woodland mansions
- Underwater ruins
- Shipwrecks
- Pillager outposts
- Ancient cities
Chest loot[]
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Oak Planks | Bonus chest | Chest | 1–12 | 67.3% |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Oak Planks | Bonus chest | Chest | 1–12 | 100% |
Crafting[]
The saplings and fungi at the bottom grow into logs and stems that are in the center, which are crafted into wood planks at the top.
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Matching Log or Matching Stripped Log or Matching Wood or Matching Stripped Wood |
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| Matching Stem or Matching Stripped Stem or Matching Hyphae or Matching Stripped Hyphae |
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.
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrel | Any Planks + Any wood Slab |
[Java Edition only] | |
| Bed | Matching Wool + Any Planks |
The wool color must match. The planks can be different. | |
| Beehive | Any Planks + Honeycomb |
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| Boat | Matching Overworld Planks | [Java Edition only] | |
| Boat | Matching Overworld Planks + Wooden Shovel |
[Bedrock and Education editions only] | |
| Bookshelf | Any Planks + Book |
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| Bowl | Any Planks | ||
| Cartography Table | Paper + Any Planks |
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| Chest | Any Planks | ||
| Crafting Table | Any Planks | ||
| Fletching Table | Flint + Any Planks |
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| Grindstone | Stick + Stone Slab + Any Planks |
In Bedrock Edition, grindstone recipes built with crimson, warped, or mangrove planks can use a slab of almost any of the stone types including sandstone, quartz, and bricks. | |
| Jukebox | Any Planks + Diamond |
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| Loom | String + Any Planks |
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| Note Block | Any Planks + Redstone Dust |
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| Piston | Any Planks + Cobblestone + Iron Ingot + Redstone Dust |
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| Shield | Any Planks + Iron Ingot |
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| Sign | Matching Planks + Stick |
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| Smithing Table | Iron Ingot + Any Planks |
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| Stick | Any Planks | ||
| Tripwire Hook | Iron Ingot + Stick + Any Planks |
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| Wood Fence Gate | Matching Planks + Stick |
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| Wood Door | Matching Planks | ||
| Wood Fence | Matching Planks + Stick |
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| Wood Slab | Matching Planks | ||
| Wood Stairs | Matching Planks | ||
| Wooden Button | Matching Planks | ||
| Wooden Pressure Plate | Matching Planks | ||
| Wooden Trapdoor | Matching Planks | ||
| Wooden Axe | Any Planks + Stick |
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| Wooden Hoe | Any Planks + Stick |
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| Wooden Pickaxe | Any Planks + Stick |
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| Wooden Shovel | Any Planks + Stick |
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| Wooden Sword | Any Planks + Stick |