Wood is a block that has the log's bark texture on six sides. It comes in 6 species: oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, and dark oak.
Stripped wood is a variant obtained when any axe is used on wood.
Obtaining
Wood can be broken by hand, but using an axe will speed up the process.
| Block | Wood Stripped Wood | |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
Stripped wood
Using an axe on wood will turn it into stripped wood.
Natural Generation
Stripped Oak Wood generate as lamp post in Plains Villages.
Stripped Acacia Wood generate in Savanna villages.
Stripped Spruce Wood generate in Snowy Tundra villages.
Crafting
Wood can be crafted out of four matching logs, yielding three wood as a result.
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Matching Log |
Usage
Wood can be used as a decorative block in place of normal logs.
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Campfire | Stick + Coal or Charcoal + Any Wood or Hyphae or Stripped Birch Wood or Stripped Jungle Wood or Stripped Acacia Wood or Stripped Dark Oak Wood or Stripped Mangrove Wood or Stripped Cherry Wood |
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| Campfire | Stick + Coal or Charcoal + Any Wood or Hyphae or Stripped Birch Wood or Stripped Jungle Wood or Stripped Acacia Wood or Stripped Dark Oak Wood or Stripped Mangrove Wood or Stripped Cherry Wood |
|
| Oak Planks or Spruce Planks or Birch Planks or Jungle Planks or Acacia Planks or Dark Oak Planks or Mangrove Planks or Cherry Planks |
Matching Wood or Matching Stripped Wood |
|
| Smoker | Any Wood or Hyphae or Any Stripped Wood or Hyphae + Furnace |
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| Soul Campfire | Stick + Soul Sand or Soul Soil + Any Wood or Hyphae or Stripped Birch Wood or Stripped Jungle Wood or Stripped Acacia Wood or Stripped Dark Oak Wood or Stripped Mangrove Wood or Stripped Cherry Wood |
Smelting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Charcoal | Any Wood or Any Stripped Wood + Any fuel |
Fuel
Wood and stripped wood can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per block.
Data values
ID
Wood/ID
Block data
In Bedrock Edition, wood uses the following data values:
| DV | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Oak Wood | |
| 1 | Spruce Wood | |
| 2 | Birch Wood | |
| 3 | Jungle Wood | |
| 4 | Acacia Wood | |
| 5 | Dark Oak Wood | |
| 8 | Stripped Oak Wood | |
| 9 | Stripped Spruce Wood | |
| 10 | Stripped Birch Wood | |
| 11 | Stripped Jungle Wood | |
| 12 | Stripped Acacia Wood | |
| 13 | Stripped Dark Oak Wood |
Block states
| Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| axis | y
| x | The wood or hyphae is oriented east–west. |
y | The wood or hyphae is oriented vertically. | ||
z | The wood or hyphae is oriented north–south. |
Wood
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pillar_axis | Not Supported | y
| x | Unsupported | The wood is oriented east–west. |
y | Unsupported | The wood is oriented vertically. | |||
z | Unsupported | The wood is oriented north–south. | |||
| stripped_bit | 0x8 | false | falsetrue | 01 | Whether the wood is stripped or not. |
| wood_type | 0x10x20x4 | oak
| acacia | 4 | Acacia Wood |
birch | 2 | Birch Wood | |||
dark_oak | 5 | Dark Oak Wood | |||
jungle | 3 | Jungle Wood | |||
oak | 0 | Oak Wood | |||
spruce | 1 | Spruce Wood |
Warped Hyphae, Stripped Crimson Hyphae, Stripped Warped Hyphae
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pillar_axis | 0x10x2 | y
| x | 1 | The hyphae is oriented east–west. |
y | 0 | The hyphae is oriented vertically. | |||
z | 2 | The hyphae is oriented north–south. |
Crimson Hyphae
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pillar_axis | Not Supported | y
| x | Unsupported | The hyphae is oriented east–west. |
y | Unsupported | The hyphae is oriented vertically. | |||
z | Unsupported | The hyphae is oriented north–south. |
History
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.3.1 | 12w30d | ||||
| It has an item form, but only obtainable through commands or external tools. When placed, it acts like a normal log. | |||||
| 1.7.2 | 13w43a | File:Acacia Wood Revision 1.png | |||
| 1.7-pre | |||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The different variant block states and the axis=none block state for both the log and log2 IDs have been split up into their own IDs.
| |||
| Readded the item form for wood blocks. They can now be obtained in the inventory. | |||||
| Changed the name from wood to bark. | |||||
| Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 17 and 162. | |||||
| 17w47b | Added the crafting recipe for bark. | ||||
| 18w22b | File:Oak Wood X.pngFile:Oak Wood Z.pngFile:Birch Wood X.pngFile:Birch Wood Z.pngFile:Spruce Wood X.pngFile:Spruce Wood Z.pngFile:Jungle Wood X.pngFile:Jungle Wood Z.pngFile:Acacia Wood X.pngFile:Acacia Wood Z.pngFile:Dark Oak Wood X.pngFile:Dark Oak Wood Z.png Bark blocks can now be rotated. | ||||
| pre1 | File:Oak Wood Revision 1.pngFile:Oak Wood Revision 1 X.pngFile:Oak Wood Revision 1 Z.pngFile:Birch Wood Revision 1.pngFile:Birch Wood Revision 1 X.pngFile:Birch Wood Revision 1 Z.pngFile:Spruce Wood Revision 1.pngFile:Spruce Wood Revision 1 X.pngFile:Spruce Wood Revision 1 Z.pngFile:Jungle Wood Revision 1.pngFile:Jungle Wood Revision 1 X.pngFile:Jungle Wood Revision 1 Z.pngFile:Acacia Wood Revision 2.pngFile:Acacia Wood Revision 2 X.pngFile:Acacia Wood Revision 2 Z.pngFile:Dark Oak Wood Revision 1.pngFile:Dark Oak Wood Revision 1 X.pngFile:Dark Oak Wood Revision 1 Z.png Changed the bark block top texture. | ||||
| pre2 | |||||
| pre5 | Bark blocks changed back to <type> Wood. | ||||
Bark IDs changed to <type>_wood. | |||||
| 1.14 | 19w02a | Wood and stripped wood can now be used to craft campfires. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.8.0 | build 2 | Added Bark blocks, where at this time can only be obtained using world editing. | |||
| 0.9.0 | build 1 | Added Jungle, Acacia, and Dark Oak variants for Bark blocks. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Due to the addition of commands, bark blocks can now be placed using /setblock ~ ~ ~ log 12, without the need for an inventory editor. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.13.8 | /setblock ~ ~ ~ stripped_<type>_log 3. | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Bark is now called "<type> Wood" and "Stripped <type> Wood". | |||
| Now exist as a separate block; previously placed wood will look the same but still drop logs instead of wood. | |||||
| Added crafting recipe. | |||||
| Wood blocks and stripped wood are added to the creative inventory. | |||||
| Wood and stripped wood now generates in new villages. | |||||
| Wood and stripped wood is now used to craft campfires and smokers. | |||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU14 | CU1 | 1.04 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | |
| TU69 | CU57 | 1.76 | Patch 38 | ||
| PlayStation 4 Edition | |||||
| 1.90 | Added the item form for wood and stripped wood. They can now be obtained in the Creative inventory or through crafting. | ||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Wood" or "Stripped Wood" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery
The top face of wood blocks in 1.13-pre1.



