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Planks[Java and Legacy Console editions only] or wood planks[Bedrock Edition only] is a generic name for a common block used in many crafting recipes. Its texture resembles a neatly stacked pile of wooden planks hewn from one of the six different tree species.

Obtaining

Planks can be broken by hand, but using an axe will speed 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
  1. Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Crafting

Wood Species

The saplings at the bottom grow into the wood at top, which craft into the wood planks central

Ingredients Crafting recipe
Matching Log or
Matching Wood or
Matching Stripped Log or
Matching Stripped Wood

Natural generation

Oak
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%

Oak planks also generate as part of:

Birch

Birch planks generate as part of:

Spruce

Spruce planks generate as part of:

Jungle

Jungle planks generate as part of:

Acacia

Acacia planks generate as part of:

  • Savanna villages, in place of oak planks.
Dark oak

Dark oak planks generate as part of:

Usage

Wooden House

A shack made out of oak planks.

File:Woodchart.jpg

The different colors of wood planks. In order, these are Birch, Oak, Spruce, Dark Oak, Jungle, and Acacia.

Planks can be used for building structures, as crafting ingredients, and as fuel.

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 species and will match the species used. For other products, planks of different species can be mixed freely and the wood species in the product is indeterminate.

Name Ingredients Crafting recipe Description
Barrel Any Planks +
Any wood Slab

Bed Matching Wool +
Any Planks

The wool color must match. The planks can be different.
Beehive Any Planks +
Honeycomb

Bookshelf Any Planks +
Book

Bowl Any Planks
Cartography Table Paper +
Any Planks

Chest Any Planks

Chiseled Bookshelf Any Planks +
Any wood Slab

Crafting Table Any Planks

Fletching Table Flint +
Any Planks

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

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
Smithing Table Iron Ingot +
Any Planks

Stick Any Planks
Tripwire Hook Iron Ingot +
Stick +
Any Planks
Wood Fence Gate Matching Planks +
Stick

Wood Door Matching Planks
Wood Fence Matching Planks +
Stick
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

Wooden Hoe Any Planks +
Stick

Wooden Pickaxe Any Planks +
Stick

Wooden Shovel Any Planks +
Stick

Wooden Sword Any Planks +
Stick

Fuel

Planks can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per block.

Repairing

Wooden pickaxes, axes, shovels, hoes, swords, and shields can be repaired with planks in an anvil.

Data values

ID

Planks/ID

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, wood planks use the following data values:

DV Description
0 Oak Wood Planks
1 Spruce Wood Planks
2 Birch Wood Planks
3 Jungle Wood Planks
4 Acacia Wood Planks
5 Dark Oak Wood Planks

If a command is used to create planks with data value 6 or higher, these planks will have the name "Oak Wood Planks" but a missing texture. They can't be used to craft stairs, slabs, doors, fences or gates. If placed, they'll become actual oak planks.

Achievements

Icon Achievement In-game description Actual requirements (if different) Gamerscore earned Trophy type (PS4)
PS4 Other
LibrarianBuild some bookshelves to improve your enchantment table.Pick up a bookshelf from a crafting table output.20GBronze

Advancements

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

Video

Planks/video

History

Issues

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

Trivia

  • Many items crafted using wood planks or sticks have textures that most resemble oak wood, regardless of the species used to craft them. Item frames, on the other hand, resemble birch wood.
pre-classic
rd-160052File:Oak Planks Revision 2.png Wooden planks were added. When first introduced into the game, wooden planks had a reddish tinge somewhat resembling the current jungle planks.
rd-161348File:Oak Planks Revision 1.png The texture was changed to have somewhat brick-like markings, which still exist on the wood planks texture today but are hard to see.
classic
0.0.14aFile:Oak Planks Revision 3.png The texture was changed again.
In Survival Test, wooden planks were obtained by destroying a wood block.
indev
0.310.31 (January 30, 2010)Wooden planks are now used to craft crafting tables, sticks, signs, bookshelves, chests and wooden swords, axes, pickaxes and shovels.
0.31 (January 30, 2010)Wooden planks are now used to craft bowls.
February 6, 2010Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden hoes.
February 23, 2010Destroying a wood block now obtains the wood block itself, which is now craftable into wooden planks.
infdev
June 7, 2010Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden doors.
June 29, 2010Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden stairs.
alpha
v1.0.1Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden pressure plates.
v1.0.6Wooden planks are now used to craft boats.
v1.0.14Wooden planks are now used to craft jukeboxes.
beta
1.2Wooden planks are now used to craft note blocks.
1.3Wooden planks are now used to craft beds.
1.6?Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden trapdoors.
1.7Wooden planks are now used to craft pistons.
1.8?Wooden planks can now be found in villages and mineshafts.
Wooden planks are now used to craft fence gates.
Java Edition
1.0.0Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5Oak Planks The texture was slightly changed.
1.2.4Birch PlanksSpruce PlanksJungle Planks Spruce, birch and jungle wood planks are now available, crafted from their corresponding wood. The color of wood planks available to this point is now only obtainable from oak wood.
The original "wooden planks" are now called 'Oak Wood Planks', and each wood planks color is named with the wood it is taken from.
1.3.112w16aOak wood planks are now found in the new bonus chests.
12w22aWood planks are now used to craft tripwire hooks.
Inventory sprites for blocks were flipped from left to right, changing to .
12w25aBirch, spruce and jungle wood planks now craft their respective wooden stairs and slabs.
1.4.212w34aWood planks are now used to craft wooden buttons, using 2 planks.
12w34bWooden buttons now only require 1 plank.
1.7.21.7.1-preAcacia PlanksDark Oak Planks Acacia and dark oak wood planks are now available, crafted from their corresponding wood.
1.814w32bDifferent types of wood planks now craft different types of fences and fence gates; the fence recipe now requires planks.
14w32dDifferent types of wood planks now craft different types of doors.
1.915w33cWood planks are now used to craft shields.
15w43aPlanks found in bonus chests now may be of any type, rather than just oak.
15w44aMore than doubled the average yield of planks from bonus chests.
1.1016w20aDark oak planks can now be found as a part of abandoned mineshafts in Mesa biomes.
Acacia and Spruce planks can now be found as a part of Savanna/Taiga villages respectively.
1.1116w39aOak, birch and dark oak wood planks now generate in woodland mansions.
July 19, 2017Jeb tweets image of a new jungle wood planks, cauldron, and dandelion textures.
July 22, 2017Jasper Boerstra tweets an image of new crafting table, wood planks, and wood textures.
1.1317w47aName changed from <wood type> wood planks to simply <wood type> planks.
The different block states for the planks ID have been split up into their own IDs.
Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 5.
18w07aAdded stripped logs, a variant of logs, which can be used to craft wood planks.
18w09aSpruce and dark oak planks now generate in some underwater ruins.
18w11aWood planks now generate in shipwreck.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.1418w43aWood planks are now used to craft a loom.
File:Oak Planks TextureUpdate Revision 1.pngFile:Spruce Planks TextureUpdate Revision 1.pngFile:Birch Planks TextureUpdate Revision 1.pngFile:Jungle Planks TextureUpdate Revision 1.pngFile:Acacia Planks TextureUpdate Revision 1.pngFile:Dark Oak Planks TextureUpdate Revision 1.png Changed texture of planks.
18w47aFile:Oak Planks TextureUpdate.pngFile:Spruce Planks TextureUpdate Revision 2.pngFile:Birch Planks TextureUpdate.pngFile:Jungle Planks TextureUpdate.pngFile:Acacia Planks TextureUpdate.pngFile:Dark Oak Planks TextureUpdate.png Changed the textures of planks again
18w48aWood planks are now used to craft grindstones.
18w50aFile:Spruce Planks TextureUpdate.png Changed the texture of spruce planks again.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.1.0Oak Planks Wooden planks were added. Only oak existed.
0.3.0Wooden planks are now used to craft oak wood stairs, slabs and fence gates, wooden doors, bowls and bookshelves.
0.4.0Wooden planks are now used to craft beds, chests and wooden hoes.
0.6.0Wooden planks are now used to craft signs.
0.8.0build 2Birch PlanksSpruce PlanksJungle Planks Birch, spruce and jungle wood planks were added.
?Changed tooltip to "(wood type) Planks".
0.9.0build 1Acacia PlanksDark Oak Planks Acacia and dark oak wood planks were added.
Oak wood planks now naturally spawn in strongholds, abandoned mineshafts and villages.
0.10.0build 1Different types of wood planks now craft different types of fences and fence gates.
Above-ground mineshafts generate in mesa biomes, using dark oak planks.
0.11.0build 1Different types of wood planks can now be crafted into different types of boats.
oak wood plank generate as a bridge in plains and savanna village.
?Changed tooltip to "(wood type) Wood Planks" for consistency with the Java Edition.
0.13.0build 1Wood planks are now used to craft tripwire hooks, note blocks, wooden pressure plates, wooden buttons, and spruce, birch, jungle, acacia and dark oak doors.
0.14.0build 1Spruce wood plank generate in Witch Hut.
0.15.0build 1Wood planks are now used to craft pistons.
Acacia wood planks will now replace the position of oak wood planks in savanna villages.
Spruce wood planks now generate in taiga and snowy tundra villages.
Pocket Edition
1.1alpha 1.1.0.0Oak and dark oak wood planks now generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.2beta 1.2.0.2Birch wood planks generate in woodland mansions, instead of oak.
1.4beta 1.2.13.8Added stripped logs variants which can be used to craft wooden planks.
beta 1.2.14.2Wood planks now generate in shipwrecks.
beta 1.2.20.1Spruce and dark oak planks now generate in some underwater ruins.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1CU1 1.0 Patch 1Wooden planks were added.
TU9Spruce and birch wood planks were added.
TU12Jungle wooden planks were added.
TU27CU15 1.18 Added acacia and dark oak planks to the creative inventory.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0Added wood planks.
pi Edition
0.5.0Added wood planks.
Education Edition
1.0Added Planks With All Off It’s Wood Types
1.7Added stripped wood to the game, But Unobtainable
1.9stripped wood is now obtainable In The Creative Inventory
1.9Planks Now Generate In Woodland Mansions, Shipwrecks And Underwater Ruins.
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