Planks

Planks

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	3
Hardness	2
Luminant	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	Overworld Planks: Yes (5) Nether Planks: No
Catches fire from lava	Overworld Planks: Yes Nether Planks: No

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
Default	3
Wooden	1.5
Stone	0.75
Iron	0.5
Diamond	0.4
Netherite	0.35
Golden	0.25

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:

• Woodland mansions
• Shipwrecks
• Pillager outposts

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
• Ancienct cities

Chest loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Oak Planks	Bonus chest	Chest	1–12	70.5%
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	4444444
Matching Stem or Matching Stripped Stem or Matching Hyphae or Matching Stripped Hyphae	44

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
Boat	Matching Overworld Planks		‌[Java Edition only]
Boat	Matching Overworld Planks + Wooden Shovel		‌[Bedrock and Education editions only]
Bookshelf	Any Planks + Book
Bowl	Any Planks	4
Cartography Table	Paper + Any Planks
Chest	Any Planks
Crafting Table	Any Planks
Fletching Table	Flint + Any Planks
Grindstone	Stick + Stone Slab + Any Planks
Jukebox	Any Planks + Diamond
Loom	String + Any Planks
Note Block	Any Planks + Redstone Dust
Piston	Any Planks + Cobblestone + Iron Ingot + Redstone Dust
Shield	Any Planks + Iron Ingot
Sign	Matching Planks + Stick	333333333
Smithing Table	Iron Ingot + Any Planks
Stick	Any Planks	4
Tripwire Hook	Iron Ingot + Stick + Any Planks	2
Wood Fence Gate	Matching Planks + Stick
Wood Door	Matching Planks	333333333
Wood Fence	Matching Planks + Stick	33333333333
Wood Slab	Matching Planks	666666666
Wood Stairs	Matching Planks	444444444
Wooden Button	Matching Planks
Wooden Pressure Plate	Matching Planks
Wooden Trapdoor	Matching Planks	22222222222
Wooden Axe	Any Planks + Stick
Wooden Hoe	Any Planks + Stick
Wooden Pickaxe	Any Planks + Stick
Wooden Shovel	Any Planks + Stick
Wooden Sword	Any Planks + Stick

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:

• Wooden sword
• Wooden pickaxe
• Wooden axe
• Wooden shovel
• Wooden hoe
• Shield

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wood.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wood.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wood.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.wood.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
?	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.wood	1.0	0.8
?	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.wood	0.4	1.0
?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.wood	0.23	0.5
?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.wood	0.12	1.0
?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.wood	0.18	1.0
?	Blocks	Walking on the block	step.wood	0.3	1.0
?	Blocks	When the block is placed	use.wood	1.0	0.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
Oak Planks	oak_planks	Block & Item	planks mineable/axe	planks	block.minecraft.oak_planks
Spruce Planks	spruce_planks	Block & Item	planks mineable/axe	planks	block.minecraft.spruce_planks
Birch Planks	birch_planks	Block & Item	planks mineable/axe	planks	block.minecraft.birch_planks
Jungle Planks	jungle_planks	Block & Item	planks mineable/axe	planks	block.minecraft.jungle_planks
Acacia Planks	acacia_planks	Block & Item	planks mineable/axe	planks	block.minecraft.acacia_planks
Dark Oak Planks	dark_oak_planks	Block & Item	planks mineable/axe	planks	block.minecraft.dark_oak_planks
Crimson Planks	crimson_planks	Block & Item	planks non_flammable_wood mineable/axe	planks non_flammable_wood	block.minecraft.crimson_planks
Warped Planks	warped_planks	Block & Item	planks non_flammable_wood mineable/axe	planks non_flammable_wood	block.minecraft.warped_planks

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	Translation key
Wooden Planks	planks	5	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.planks.oak.name tile.planks.spruce.name tile.planks.birch.name tile.planks.jungle.name tile.planks.acacia.name tile.planks.big_oak.name
Crimson Planks	crimson_planks	497	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.crimson_planks.name
Warped Planks	warped_planks	498	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.warped_planks.name

Block states

See also: Block states

in Bedrock Edition, wood planks use the following block states: Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
wood_type	0x1 0x2 0x4	oak	oak	0	Oak Wood Planks
			spruce	1	Spruce Wood Planks
			birch	2	Birch Wood Planks
			jungle	3	Jungle Wood Planks
			acacia	4	Acacia Wood Planks
			dark_oak	5	Dark Oak Wood Planks

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other platforms
		Benchmaking	Craft a Crafting Table with four blocks of wooden planks.	Pick up a crafting table from the inventory's crafting field output or a crafting table output.	10G	Bronze
		Librarian	Build some bookshelves to improve your enchantment table.	Pick up a bookshelf from a crafting table output.	20G	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Minecraft	The heart and story of the game	—	Have a crafting table in your inventory.	story/root

History

Java Edition pre-Classic
rd-20090515					Added wooden planks.
Java Edition Classic
0.0.9a					The texture of wooden planks has been changed.
0.0.14a					The texture of wooden planks has been changed.
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST					Wooden planks are obtained by destroying wood.
Java Edition Indev
0.31		20100129			Wooden planks are now used to craft crafting tables, sticks, signs, bookshelves, chests and wooden swords, axes, pickaxes and shovels.
		20100130			Wooden planks are now used to craft bowls.
20100206					Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden hoes.
20100223					Destroying a wood block now obtains the wood block itself, which is now craftable into wooden planks.
Java Edition Infdev
20100607					Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden doors.
20100629					Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden stairs.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.1					Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden pressure plates.
v1.0.6					Wooden planks are now used to craft boats.
v1.0.14					Wooden planks are now used to craft jukeboxes.
Java Edition Beta
1.2					Wooden planks are now used to craft note blocks.
1.3					Wooden planks are now used to craft beds and wooden slabs.
1.6		Test Build 3			Wooden planks are now used to craft trapdoors.
1.7					Wooden planks are now used to craft pistons.
1.8		Pre-release			Wooden planks can now be found in villages, mineshafts and strongholds.
					Wooden planks are now used to craft fence gates.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5			The texture of wooden planks has been changed.
1.2.4		release			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.
1.3.1		12w16a			Oak wood planks are now found in the new bonus chests.
		12w17a			Spruce, birch, and jungle wood planks now craft their respective wooden slabs.
		12w18a			The original "wooden planks" are now called 'Oak Wood Planks' and each wood planks color is named with the wood it is taken from.
		12w22a			Wood planks are now used to craft tripwire hooks.
		12w25a			Spruce, birch, and jungle wood planks now craft their respective wooden stairs.
1.4.2		12w34a			Wood planks are now used to craft wooden buttons, using 2 planks.
		12w34b			Wooden buttons now require only 1 plank.
		12w40a			Spruce planks now generate as part of swamp huts.
1.7.2		1.7.1			Acacia and dark oak wood planks are now available, crafted from their corresponding wood.
1.8		14w32b			Different types of wood planks now craft different types of fences and fence gates; the fence recipe now requires planks.
		14w32d			Different types of wood planks now craft different types of doors.
1.9		15w33c			Wood planks are now used to craft shields.
		15w43a			Planks found in bonus chests now may be of any type, rather than just oak.
		15w44a			The average yield of planks from bonus chests has now more than doubled.
1.10		16w20a			Dark oak planks can now be found as a part of mineshafts in mesa biomes.
					Acacia and spruce planks can now be found as a part of savanna and taiga villages respectively.
1.11		16w39a			Oak, birch, and dark oak wood planks now generate in woodland mansions.
July 19, 2017					Jeb tweets an image of new jungle wood planks texture.
July 22, 2017					Jasper Boerstra tweets an image of new wood planks textures.
1.13		17w47a			The names of wood planks have now been changed from "<wood type> wood planks" to simply "<wood type> planks."
					Different types of planks now craft different types of buttons, trapdoors and pressure plates.
		18w07a			Added stripped logs, a variant of logs, which can be used to craft wood planks.
		18w09a			Spruce and dark oak planks now generate in some underwater ruins.
		18w11a			Wood planks now generate in shipwrecks.
1.14		18w43a			Wood planks are now used to craft a loom.
					Different types of planks now craft into different types of signs.
					The textures of planks have now been changed.
		18w47a			The textures of planks have now been changed, again.
					Birch and dark oak planks now generate as part of pillager outposts.
		18w48a			Wood planks are now used to craft grindstones.
		18w50a			The texture of spruce planks have now been changed, once again.
					Planks are now used to craft barrels.
		19w02a			Planks are now use to craft a cartography table.
		19w03a			Planks are now used to craft composters.
1.15		19w34a			Planks are now used to craft beehives.
		19w45a			Planks are no longer used to craft composters.
1.16		20w06a			Added crimson and warped planks, along with crimson and warped variants of all wooden blocks and items, except boats.
October 16, 2021					Mangrove Planks were shown on Minecraft Live 2021.
1.18		Pre-release 5			Changed one miscolored pixel on spruce planks texture .
Upcoming Java Edition
1.19		22w11a			Added mangrove planks.
		22w13a			Dark oak planks now generate in ancient cities.
Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release					Added wooden planks.
v0.2.0					The texture of wooden planks has been changed.
v0.3.0					Wooden planks are now used to craft oak wood stairs, slabs and fence gates, wooden doors, bowls and bookshelves.
					Survival players no longer start out with an infinite amount of wooden planks in the inventory.
v0.4.0					Wooden planks are now used to craft beds, chests and wooden hoes.
v0.6.0					Wooden planks are now used to craft signs.
v0.8.0		build 2			Added spruce, birch, and jungle wood planks.
?					The tooltips have now been changed to "(wood type) Planks."
v0.9.0		build 1			Added acacia and dark oak wood planks.
					Oak wood planks now naturally spawn in strongholds, mineshafts and villages.
v0.10.0		build 1			Different types of wood planks now craft different types of fences and fence gates.
					Above-ground mineshafts now generate in mesa biomes, using dark oak planks.
v0.11.0		build 1			Different types of wood planks can now be crafted into different types of boats.
					Oak wood planks now generate as a bridge in plains and savanna villages.
?					The tooltips have now been changed to "(wood type) Wood Planks" for consistency with Java Edition.
v0.13.0		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.
v0.14.0		build 1			Spruce wood planks now generate in witch huts.
v0.15.0		build 1			Wood planks are now used to craft pistons.
					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.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Oak and dark oak wood planks now generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Birch wood planks now generate in woodland mansions, instead of oak.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.13.8			Added stripped logs variants, which can be used to craft wooden planks.
		beta 1.2.14.2			Wood planks now generate in shipwrecks.
		beta 1.2.20.1			Spruce and dark oak planks now generate in some underwater ruins.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Wood planks can now be crafted from wood.
					Planks can now be used to craft looms, grindstones, and shields.
					Birch and dark oak planks now generate in pillager outposts.
					The textures of planks have now been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Planks can now be used to craft cartography tables.
1.14.0		beta 1.14.0.1			Planks are now used to craft beehives.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.51			Added crimson and warped planks, along with crimson and warped variants of all wooden blocks and items, except boats.
1.16.20		beta 1.16.20.50			Crimson and warped planks now uses regular plank sounds instead of their stem variant sounds.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.19.0		beta 1.19.0.20			Added mangrove planks.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added wooden planks.
TU3					The texture of oak planks has been changed.
TU9					Added spruce and birch wood planks.
TU12					Added jungle wooden planks.
TU27	CU15	1.18			Added acacia and dark oak planks to the creative inventory.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Acacia and dark oak planks are now obtainable in survival.
		1.90			The textures of planks have now been changed.
		1.95			Planks can now be crafted from wood.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added wood planks.

Data history

Java Edition
1.8		14w10a			Planks with numerical metadata variants 6 through 15, which are inaccessible through normal gameplay, now have no model rather than appearing identical to oak planks.
		14w25a			Planks are now defined via block states rather than by numerical metadata. Prior to this version, the numerical metadata variants of planks were as follows: DV Description 0 Oak Planks 1 Spruce Planks 2 Birch Planks 3 Jungle Planks 4 Acacia Planks 5 Dark Oak Planks 6-15 Inaccessible "boring" variants of planks
		14w26a			Planks with metadata values 6 through 15 have now been completely removed from the game.
1.13		17w47a			The different block states for the planks ID have now been split up into their own IDs.
					Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 5.

Issues

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

Trivia

• Many items and blocks crafted using planks or sticks have textures that most resemble oak, regardless of the wood type used to craft them. On the other hand, item frames and fletching tables resemble birch, cartography tables and grindstones resemble dark oak, and barrels resemble spruce, while smithing tables, composters, chests, trapped chests, jukeboxes, note blocks, stonecutters, and the backs of paintings don't resemble any one type of wood.
• Jungle, acacia, crimson, and warped are the only wood-types that don't have a utility block based on them.
• Crimson planks and warped planks do not naturally generate, and are available only if crafted by a player.
• Crafting an Overworld log into planks is more efficient of a fuel source than simply burning a log, as one log burns only 1.5 items, but four planks burn 6.