Overview
Bamboo Planks 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 Planks is the same shape in a different material.
Minecraft classifies Bamboo Planks as a wooden block. Bamboo Planks has a crafting recipe, so it is renewable as long as you can source its ingredients. At a hardness of 2 it takes a moment to break but never slows a build down.
Broken correctly, it drops itself. Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot. The recipe calls for Block of Bamboo.
It is an ingredient in 49 recipes, among them Bamboo Button, Bamboo Door, Bamboo Fence and 46 more.
About the bamboo set
How long it takes to break
At a hardness of 2, Bamboo Planks takes 3 seconds to punch out and 0.35 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.
Iron takes 0.5 seconds against diamond's 0.4, so the upgrade worth making for this block is the one to iron.
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 adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed, so Efficiency V is about 3.5 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand | 3 s | 3 s | 3 s |
| Wooden | 1.5 s | 0.25 s | 0.15 s |
| Stone | 0.75 s | 0.25 s | 0.1 s |
| Iron | 0.5 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Diamond | 0.4 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Netherite | 0.35 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Golden | 0.25 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
Properties
With 3 blast resistance Bamboo Planks usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard full stack. It renews, so a single world will never run out. It catches easily (encouragement 5, burn 20), so keep lava and open flame well away from it and from anything next to it. The block is tagged for axes, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate. As furnace fuel it burns for 15 seconds — one and a half smelting operations.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Any
- Flammable
- Yes (5/20)
- Renewable
- Yes
- Fuel value
- 15 s
Crafting recipe
Crafting Table
Shapeless recipe
Bamboo Planks ×2
Drops
Mined with any, Bamboo Planks drops itself.
Used to craft
Bamboo Planks is an ingredient in 49 recipes, producing Bamboo Button, Bamboo Door, Bamboo Fence, Bamboo Fence Gate, Bamboo Pressure Plate, Bamboo Raft, Bamboo Sign, Bamboo Slab, Bamboo Stairs, Bamboo Trapdoor, Barrel, Beehive, Black Bed, Blue Bed, Bookshelf, Bowl and 33 more.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Bamboo Planks in Minecraft?
Bamboo Planks is crafted from Block of Bamboo.
What tool do you need to break Bamboo Planks?
No specific tool is required — Bamboo Planks can be broken by hand.
Is Bamboo Planks blast resistant?
Bamboo Planks has a blast resistance of 3, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Bamboo Planks fit in one stack?
Bamboo Planks stacks to 64, so a single double chest holds 3,456 of them.
Is Bamboo Planks renewable?
Yes — you can keep producing Bamboo Planks in one world, so building with it will not exhaust the supply.
How long does Bamboo Planks take to break?
The correct netherite tool clears it in 0.35 seconds. Bare hands take 3.
The rest of the set
Bamboo Planks is one of 12 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
