Overview
Bamboo Hanging Sign is one of the 12 variants of this shape in the game. What changes between them is the material, and with it the hardness, the drops, the durability and the recipe — so every figure on this page is this variant's own. Oak Hanging Sign is the same shape in a different material.
In Minecraft 1.21.4, Bamboo Hanging Sign is a functional block. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Bamboo Hanging Sign. Its hardness of 1 makes it a normal, unhurried block to mine.
You can break it by hand without losing the drop. It drops as the same block you mined. Light passes through it, so it will not darken the space behind it.
It offers almost no protection from explosions (1 blast resistance). One slot holds 16 at most. It is crafted from Chain and Block of Stripped Bamboo.
Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.
About the bamboo set
How long it takes to break
Bamboo Hanging Sign sits at hardness 1: 1.5 seconds per block with your fists, 0.2 with the correct netherite tool.
You are looking at 0.25 seconds on iron and 0.2 on diamond — the iron step is where the time actually falls.
No particular tool tier is required: any tool, or none at all, still yields the drop, so the table below is about speed rather than about whether you get anything.
Efficiency contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 4 times faster than the plain tool.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand | 1.5 s | 1.5 s | 1.5 s |
| Wooden | 0.75 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
| Stone | 0.4 s | 0.15 s | instant |
| Iron | 0.25 s | 0.1 s | instant |
| Diamond | 0.2 s | 0.1 s | instant |
| Netherite | 0.2 s | 0.1 s | instant |
| Golden | 0.15 s | 0.1 s | instant |
Properties
Bamboo Hanging Sign resists blasts at 1, which is not enough to survive anything explosive nearby. Light passes through it, and it emits none of its own. A single slot takes 16. Being renewable, it can be produced indefinitely in one world. An axe is the fastest choice here. A tool of the wrong class is no better than your fist — the speed bonus is tied to the block's own tool tag. As furnace fuel it burns for 15 seconds — one and a half smelting operations.
- Transparent
- Yes
- Required tool
- Any
- Renewable
- Yes
- Fuel value
- 15 s
Crafting recipe
Crafting Table
Bamboo Hanging Sign ×6
Drops
Mined with any, Bamboo Hanging Sign drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Bamboo Hanging Sign in Minecraft?
Bamboo Hanging Sign is crafted from Chain and Block of Stripped Bamboo.
What tool do you need to break Bamboo Hanging Sign?
No specific tool is required — Bamboo Hanging Sign can be broken by hand.
Is Bamboo Hanging Sign blast resistant?
Bamboo Hanging Sign has a blast resistance of 1, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Bamboo Hanging Sign fit in one stack?
Bamboo Hanging Sign stacks to 16, so a single double chest holds 864 of them.
Is Bamboo Hanging Sign renewable?
Renewable: one world will supply Bamboo Hanging Sign indefinitely.
How long does Bamboo Hanging Sign take to break?
About 0.2 seconds if you bring the correct netherite tool; 1.5 seconds with your fists.
The rest of the set
Bamboo Hanging Sign is one of 12 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
