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Planks[a] are a common block used in many crafting recipes.

Occurrence

Natural generation

Oak

Oak planks also generate as part of:

Spruce

Spruce planks generate as part of:

Birch

Birch planks generate as part of:

Jungle

Jungle planks generate as part of:

Acacia

Acacia planks generate as part of:

Dark Oak

Dark Oak planks generate as part of:

File:Planks Chart.png

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
  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

Chest loot

Name Ingredients Crafting recipe
Planks Matching Log or
Matching Stripped Log or
Matching Wood or
Matching Stripped Wood
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.

Barrel Any Planks +
Any wood Slab


Bed Matching Wool +
Any Planks


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


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.

Sounds

Sound Subtitle Namespaced ID Subtitle ID Source Pitch Volume Attenuation distance
Block breaking block.wood.hit subtitles.block.generic.hit Blocks 0.5 0.25 16
Block broken block.wood.break subtitles.block.generic.break Blocks 0.8 1.0 16
Block placed block.wood.place subtitles.block.generic.place Blocks 0.8 1.0 16
Footsteps block.wood.step subtitles.block.generic.footsteps Blocks 1.0 0.15 16
No subtitle block.wood.fall (Plays when fallen on from a height) Blocks 0.75 0.5 16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Block Namespaced ID
Oak Planks oak_planks
Spruce Planks spruce_planks
Birch Planks birch_planks
Jungle Planks jungle_planks
Acacia Planks acacia_planks
Dark Oak Planks dark_oak_planks

Bedrock Edition:

Block Namespaced ID Numeric ID
Wood Planks planks 5

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, 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

See also: Block states

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

Bedrock Edition:

NameMetadata Bits Default value Allowed valuesValues for
Metadata Bits
Description
wood_type0x1
0x2
0x4
oak oak0Oak Wood Planks
spruce1Spruce Wood Planks
birch2Birch Wood Planks
jungle3Jungle Wood Planks
acacia4Acacia Wood Planks
dark_oak5Dark Oak Wood Planks

Achievements

Icon Achievement In-game description Actual requirements (if different) Gamerscore earned Trophy type (PS4)
PS4 Other
BenchmakingCraft 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.10GBronze
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

History

pre-classic
rd-160052File: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-161348File:Oak Planks Revision 2.png The texture of planks is recolored.
classic
0.0.14aFile: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
0.3120100129Wooden planks are now used to craft crafting tables, sticks, signs, bookshelves, chests and wooden swords, axes, pickaxes and shovels.
20100130Wooden planks are now used to craft bowls.
20100206Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden hoes.
20100223Destroying a wood block now obtains the wood block itself, which is now craftable into wooden planks.
infdev
20100607Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden doors.
20100629Wooden 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.
1.6Test Build 3Wooden planks are now used to craft wooden trapdoors.[needs testing]
1.7Wooden planks are now used to craft pistons.
1.8Pre-releaseWooden 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 5File:Oak Planks Revision 4.png The texture was slightly changed.
1.2.4File: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.
1.3.112w16aOak 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 File:Oak Planks Revision 4.pngFile:Spruce Planks Revision 1.pngFile:Birch Planks Revision 1.pngFile:Jungle Planks Revision 1.png.
12w25aSpruce, birch, 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-preFile: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.
1.814w32bDifferent 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.
Spruce and acacia 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 an image of 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.
1.1418w43aWood 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.
18w47aFile: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.
18w48aWood planks are now used to craft grindstones.
18w50aFile:Spruce Planks Revision 4.png Changed the texture of spruce planks again.
Planks are now used to craft barrels.
19w02aPlanks are now use to craft a cartography table.
19w03aPlanks are now used to craft composters.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.1519w34aPlanks are now used to craft beehives.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.1.0File:Oak Planks Revision 4.png 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 2File: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".
0.9.0build 1File: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.
0.10.0build 1Different 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.
0.11.0build 1Different 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.
0.13.0build 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 planks now generate in witch huts.
0.15.0build 1Wood 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
1.1.0alpha 1.1.0.0Oak and dark oak wood planks now generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0beta 1.2.0.2Birch wood planks now generate in woodland mansions, instead of oak.
1.4.0beta 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.
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3Wood 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.
1.11.0beta 1.11.0.1Planks can now be used to craft cartography tables.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.14.0beta 1.14.0.1Planks are now used to craft beehives.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1CU1 1.0 Patch 1Wooden planks were added. Which texture they used in TU1 is unknown.
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.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90File: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.
1.95Planks can now be crafted from wood.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0File: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

Notes

  1. Known as Planks in Java and Legacy Console editions and Wood Planks in Bedrock Edition.
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