Planks[a] 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 fungi stems.
Obtaining
Breaking
Planks can be broken by hand, but using an axe speeds up the process.
| Block | Planks | |
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| 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.
Natural generation
- Oak
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
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
Birch planks generate as part of:
- Jungle
Jungle planks generate as part of:
- Acacia
Acacia planks generate as part of:
- Savanna villages
- Shipwrecks[BE only]
- Dark oak
Dark oak planks generate as part of:
- Mineshafts generated in badlands biomes
- Woodland mansions
- Underwater ruins
- Shipwrecks
- Pillager outposts
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% |
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 |
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| Matching Stem or Matching Stripped Stem or Matching Hyphae or Matching Stripped Hyphae |
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; you must 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 |
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| 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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| Boat | Matching Overworld Planks | ||
| 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
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:
Sounds
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block | subtitles | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
| None[sound 1] | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block | None[sound 1] | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
| Footsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blocks | Once the block has broken | dig | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Blocks | When the block is placed | dig | 1.0 | 0.8 | |
| Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit | 0.23 | 0.5 | |
| Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Walking on the block | step | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Jumping from the block | jump | 0.12 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Falling on the block without fall damage | land | 0.18 | 1.0 |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Block tags (JE) | Item tags (JE) | Translation key |
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| 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 | planksnon_flammable_wood | block.minecraft.crimson_planks |
| Warped Planks | warped_planks | Block & Item | planks non_flammable_wood mineable/axe | planksnon_flammable_wood | block.minecraft.warped_planks |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
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| Wooden Planks | planks | 5 | Block & Giveable Item[i 1] | tile.planks.oak.nametile.planks.spruce.nametile.planks.birch.nametile.planks.jungle.nametile.planks.acacia.nametile.planks.big_oak.name |
| Crimson Planks | crimson_planks | 497 | Block & Giveable Item[i 1] | tile.crimson_planks.name |
| Warped Planks | warped_planks | 498 | Block & Giveable Item[i 1] | tile.warped_planks.name |
Metadata
In Bedrock Edition, wood planks use the following data values:
| DV | Description | |
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| 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 |
Block states
In Bedrock Edition, wood planks use the following block states:
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
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| 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) | |
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| 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 |
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![]() | Minecraft | The heart and story of the game | — | Have a crafting table in your inventory. | story/root
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History
| Java Edition pre-Classic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 0.0.9a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST | Wooden planks are obtained by destroying wood. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.2.4 | release | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.8 | 14w10a | Planks with numerical metadata variants 6 through 15, which are inaccessible through normal gameplay, now have no model | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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:
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| 14w26a | Planks with metadata values 6 through 15 have now been completely removed from the game. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 22, 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The names of wood planks have now been changed from "<wood type> wood planks" to simply "<wood type> planks." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18w47a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birch and dark oak planks now generate as part of pillager outposts. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18w48a | Wood planks are now used to craft grindstones. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| October 16, 2021 | Mangrove planks are announced | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| v0.2.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ? | The tooltips have now been changed to "(wood type) Planks." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| v0.9.0 | build 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Oak and dark oak wood planks now generate in woodland mansions. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.16.20 | beta 1.16.20.50 | Crimson and warped planks now uses regular plank sounds instead of their stem variant sounds. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| TU27 | CU15 | 1.18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Acacia and dark oak planks are now obtainable in survival. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1.95 | Planks can now be crafted from wood. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 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 wood-type.
- 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.
Notes
- ↑ Known as Planks in Java Edition and Wood Planks in Bedrock Edition.
