Planks[a] are a common block used in many crafting recipes.
Occurrence
Natural generation
- Oak
Oak planks also generate as part of:
- 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
- Spruce
Spruce planks generate as part of:
- The swamp biome where they are used as the primary building material for swamp huts.
- Taiga villages.
- Snowy tundra and Snowy taiga village, in some house building.
- Underwater ruins
- Shipwrecks
- Birch
Birch planks generate as part of:
- Jungle
Jungle planks generate as part of:
- Acacia
Acacia planks generate as part of:
- Savanna villages.
- Shipwrecks
- Dark Oak
Dark Oak planks generate as part of:
- mineshafts generated in badlands biomes.
- Woodland mansions
- Underwater ruins
- Shipwrecks
- Pillager outposts
The different colors of wood planks. In order, these are Birch, Oak, Spruce, Dark Oak, Jungle, and Acacia.
Obtaining
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.
Crafting
The saplings at the bottom grow into the wood at top, which craft into the wood planks central
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% |
Usage
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 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.
| 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.
Sounds
| Sound | Subtitle | Namespaced ID | Subtitle ID | Source | Pitch | Volume | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Block breaking | block.wood.hit
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subtitles.block.generic.hit
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Blocks | 0.5 | 0.25 | 16 | |
| Block broken | block.wood.break
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subtitles.block.generic.break
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Blocks | 0.8 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Block placed | block.wood.place
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subtitles.block.generic.place
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Blocks | 0.8 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Footsteps | block.wood.step
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subtitles.block.generic.footsteps
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Blocks | 1.0 | 0.15 | 16 | |
| No subtitle | block.wood.fall
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(Plays when fallen on from a height) | Blocks | 0.75 | 0.5 | 16 |
Data values
ID
| Block | Namespaced ID |
|---|---|
| Oak Planks | oak_planks
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| Spruce Planks | spruce_planks
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| Birch Planks | birch_planks
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| Jungle Planks | jungle_planks
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| Acacia Planks | acacia_planks
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| Dark Oak Planks | dark_oak_planks
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| Block | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID |
|---|---|---|
| Wood Planks | planks
|
5 |
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, the resulting planks have the name "Oak Wood Planks" but don't have a texture. They can't be used to craft stairs, slabs, doors, fences or gates. If placed, they become actual oak planks.
Block states
In Bedrock Edition, wood planks use the following block states:
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wood_type | 0x10x20x4 | 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 | |||||
| Benchmaking | Craft a workbench 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
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Video
History
| pre-classic | |||||
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| rd-160052 | File:Oak Planks Revision 1.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 2.png The texture of planks is recolored. | ||||
| classic | |||||
| 0.0.14a | File:Oak Planks (0.0.14a through Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4).png The texture was changed again. | ||||
| In Survival Test, wooden planks were obtained by destroying wood. | |||||
| 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. | ||||
| infdev | |||||
| 20100607 | Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden doors. | ||||
| 20100629 | 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 | Test Build 3 | Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden trapdoors.[needs testing] | |||
| 1.7 | Wooden planks are now used to craft pistons. | ||||
| 1.8 | Pre-release | 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 | File:Oak Planks Revision 4.png The texture was slightly changed. | |||
| 1.2.4 | File:Spruce Planks Revision 1.pngFile:Birch Planks Revision 1.pngFile:Jungle Planks Revision 1.png 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. | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 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 File:Oak Planks Revision 4.pngFile:Spruce Planks Revision 1.pngFile:Birch Planks Revision 1.pngFile:Jungle Planks Revision 1.png. | |||||
| 12w25a | Spruce, birch, 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 | File:Acacia Planks Revision 1.pngFile:Dark Oak Planks Revision 1.png 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 | 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. Spruce and acacia 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 an image of 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. | ||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | Wood planks are now used to craft a loom. | |||
| File:Oak Planks Revision 5.pngFile:Spruce Planks Revision 2.pngFile:Birch Planks Revision 2.pngFile:Jungle Planks Revision 2.pngFile:Acacia Planks Revision 2.pngFile:Dark Oak Planks Revision 2.png Changed texture of planks. | |||||
| 18w47a | File:Oak Planks Revision 6.pngFile:Spruce Planks Revision 3.pngFile:Birch Planks Revision 3.pngFile:Jungle Planks Revision 3.pngFile:Acacia Planks Revision 3.pngFile:Dark Oak Planks Revision 3.png Changed the textures of planks again. | ||||
| 18w48a | Wood planks are now used to craft grindstones. | ||||
| 18w50a | File:Spruce Planks Revision 4.png Changed the texture of spruce planks 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. | ||||
| Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
| 1.15 | 19w34a | Planks are now used to craft beehives. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.1.0 | File:Oak Planks Revision 4.png Wooden planks were added. Only oak existed. | ||||
| 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 | File:Spruce Planks Revision 1.pngFile:Birch Planks Revision 1.pngFile:Jungle Planks Revision 1.png Spruce, birch, and jungle wood planks were added. | |||
| ? | Changed tooltip to "(wood type) Planks". | ||||
| 0.9.0 | build 1 | File:Acacia Planks Revision 1.pngFile:Dark Oak Planks Revision 1.png Acacia and dark oak wood planks were added. | |||
| 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 now 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 planks now generate as a bridge in plains and savanna villages. | |||||
| ? | 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 planks now generate in witch huts. | |||
| 0.15.0 | 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. | |||||
| File:Oak Planks Revision 6.pngFile:Spruce Planks Revision 4.pngFile:Birch Planks Revision 3.pngFile:Jungle Planks Revision 3.pngFile:Acacia Planks Revision 3.pngFile:Dark Oak Planks Revision 3.png Changed the textures of planks. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Planks can now be used to craft cartography tables. | |||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.14.0 | beta 1.14.0.1 | Planks are now used to craft beehives. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Wooden planks were added. Which texture they used in TU1 is unknown. | |
| 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. | ||
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.90 | File:Oak Planks Revision 6.pngFile:Spruce Planks Revision 4.pngFile:Birch Planks Revision 3.pngFile:Jungle Planks Revision 3.pngFile:Acacia Planks Revision 3.pngFile:Dark Oak Planks Revision 3.png Changed the textures of planks. | ||||
| 1.95 | Planks can now be crafted from wood. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | File:Oak Planks Revision 4.pngFile:Spruce Planks Revision 1.pngFile:Birch Planks Revision 1.pngFile:Jungle Planks Revision 1.pngFile:Acacia Planks Revision 1.pngFile:Dark Oak Planks Revision 1.png Added wood planks. | ||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Planks" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- Many items crafted using planks or sticks have textures that most resemble oak planks, regardless of the species used to craft them. On the other hand, item frames and fletching tables resemble birch planks, cartography tables resemble dark oak planks, barrels resemble spruce planks, while smithing tables do not resemble any planks.
Notes
- ↑ Known as Planks in Java and Legacy Console editions and Wood Planks in Bedrock Edition.
