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 | |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Crafting
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:
- Abandoned mineshafts where they are used as beams supported by oak wood fence posts and as floor when crossing air.
- 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
- Birch
Birch planks generate as part of:
- Spruce
Spruce planks generate as part of:
- The swamp biome where they are used as the primary building material for witch huts.
- Taiga villages, in place of oak planks.
- Ice plains village, in place of oak planks[Bedrock Edition only]
- Underwater ruins
- Shipwrecks
- 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:
- Abandoned mineshafts generated in badlands biomes.
- Woodland mansions
- Underwater ruins
- Shipwrecks
Usage
A shack made out of oak planks.
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 |
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| Bed | Matching Wool + Any Planks |
The wool color must match. The planks can be different. | |
| Beehive | Any Planks + Honeycomb |
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| Bookshelf | Any Planks + Book |
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| Bowl | Any Planks | ||
| Cartography Table | Paper + Any Planks |
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| Chest | Any Planks | ||
| Chiseled Bookshelf | Any Planks + Any wood Slab |
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| 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 |
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
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 | |||||
| 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
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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 | |||||
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| rd-160052 | File: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-161348 | File: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 | |||||
| 0.0.14a | File:Oak Planks Revision 3.png The texture was changed again. | ||||
| In Survival Test, wooden planks were obtained by destroying a wood block. | |||||
| indev | |||||
| 0.31 | 0.31 (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, 2010 | Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden hoes. | ||||
| February 23, 2010 | Destroying a wood block now obtains the wood block itself, which is now craftable into wooden planks. | ||||
| infdev | |||||
| June 7, 2010 | Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden doors. | ||||
| June 29, 2010 | Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden stairs. | ||||
| 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. | ||||
| beta | |||||
| 1.2 | Wooden planks are now used to craft note blocks. | ||||
| 1.3 | Wooden planks are now used to craft beds. | ||||
| 1.6 | ? | Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden trapdoors. | |||
| 1.7 | Wooden 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 | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5 | ||||
| 1.2.4 | |||||
| The original "wooden planks" are now called 'Oak Wood Planks', and each wood planks color is named with the wood it is taken from. | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w16a | Oak wood planks are now found in the new bonus chests. | |||
| 12w22a | Wood planks are now used to craft tripwire hooks. | ||||
| Inventory sprites for blocks were flipped from left to right, changing to . | |||||
| 12w25a | Birch, spruce and jungle wood planks now craft their respective wooden stairs and slabs. | ||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Wood planks are now used to craft wooden buttons, using 2 planks. | |||
| 12w34b | Wooden buttons now only require 1 plank. | ||||
| 1.7.2 | 1.7.1-pre | ||||
| 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 | More than doubled the average yield of planks from bonus chests. | ||||
| 1.10 | 16w20a | Dark 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. | |||
| 1.11 | 16w39a | Oak, birch and dark oak wood planks now generate in woodland mansions. | |||
| July 19, 2017 | Jeb tweets image of a new jungle wood planks, cauldron, and dandelion textures. | ||||
| July 22, 2017 | Jasper Boerstra tweets an image of new crafting table, wood planks, and wood textures. | ||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Name 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. | |||||
| 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 shipwreck. | ||||
| Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | Wood 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. | |||||
| 18w47a | File: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 | ||||
| 18w48a | Wood planks are now used to craft grindstones. | ||||
| 18w50a | File:Spruce Planks TextureUpdate.png Changed the texture of spruce planks again. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||
| 0.3.0 | Wooden planks are now used to craft oak wood stairs, slabs and fence gates, wooden doors, bowls and bookshelves. | ||||
| 0.4.0 | Wooden planks are now used to craft beds, chests and wooden hoes. | ||||
| 0.6.0 | Wooden planks are now used to craft signs. | ||||
| 0.8.0 | build 2 | ||||
| ? | Changed tooltip to "(wood type) Planks". | ||||
| 0.9.0 | build 1 | ||||
| Oak wood planks now naturally spawn in strongholds, abandoned mineshafts and villages. | |||||
| 0.10.0 | build 1 | Different types of wood planks now craft different types of fences and fence gates. | |||
| Above-ground mineshafts generate in mesa biomes, using dark oak planks. | |||||
| 0.11.0 | build 1 | Different 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. | ||||
| 0.13.0 | 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. | |||
| 0.14.0 | build 1 | Spruce wood plank generate in Witch Hut. | |||
| 0.15.0 | build 1 | Wood 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 | |||||
| 1.1 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Oak and dark oak wood planks now generate in woodland mansions. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.2 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Birch wood planks generate in woodland mansions, instead of oak. | |||
| 1.4 | 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. | ||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Wooden planks were added. | |
| TU9 | Spruce and birch wood planks were added. | ||||
| TU12 | Jungle wooden planks were added. | ||||
| TU27 | CU15 | 1.18 | Added acacia and dark oak planks to the creative inventory. | ||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added wood planks. | ||||
| pi Edition | |||||
| 0.5.0 | Added wood planks. | ||||
| Education Edition | |||||
| 1.0 | Added Planks With All Off It’s Wood Types | ||||
| 1.7 | Added stripped wood to the game, But Unobtainable | ||||
| 1.9 | stripped wood is now obtainable In The Creative Inventory | ||||
| 1.9 | Planks Now Generate In Woodland Mansions, Shipwrecks And Underwater Ruins. | ||||
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