Crimson Planks

Overview

Crimson 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.

Crimson Planks is a Nether block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. Crimson Planks is made at a crafting table. Hardness 2 puts it in the middle of the pack for mining speed.

It drops as the same block you mined. It stacks to 64. You make it with Crimson Stem.

48 recipes call for it, including Barrel, Beehive, Black Bed and 45 more.

About the crimson set

Crimson is not wood at all — it is fungus, harvested from the huge crimson fungi that grow on nylium in the crimson forest — and that biology gives the whole set its defining property: crimson blocks are completely fireproof. They will not burn, fire will not spread across them, and lava will not set them alight, which makes crimson and warped the only sensible building materials anywhere near lava or in the Nether generally. The set covers planks, stairs, slabs, fences, gates, doors, trapdoors, signs, hanging signs, buttons and pressure plates, but there is no crimson boat, because a stem is not a log. Crimson stems strip with an axe like a log and the planks are a deep maroon-red found nowhere else. Bone meal on crimson nylium grows a new huge fungus instantly, so the set is fully renewable from one nylium block.

How long it takes to break

At a hardness of 2, Crimson Planks takes 3 seconds to punch out and 0.35 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.

An iron tool takes 0.5 seconds and a diamond one 0.4, so the jump that actually matters for this block is the one to iron.

Nothing here needs a minimum tier: whatever you swing, the block still drops, and the only difference is how long it takes.

Each Efficiency level adds level² + 1 to the tool's speed, so a level V tool clears this about 3.5 times faster than an unenchanted one.

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 Crimson 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. The fastest tool for it is an axe; any other kind of tool mines it no faster than a bare hand does, because the speed bonus only applies to the tool class the block is tagged for.

Transparent: No
Required tool: Any
Renewable: Yes

Crafting recipe

Crafting Table

Shapeless recipe

Crimson Planks ×4

Any crimson stem or hyphae — Crimson Stem, Stripped Crimson Stem, Crimson Hyphae, Stripped Crimson Hyphae

Drops

Mined with any, Crimson Planks drops itself.

Crimson Planks

Used to craft

Crimson Planks is an ingredient in 48 recipes, producing Barrel, Beehive, Black Bed, Blue Bed, Bookshelf, Bowl, Brown Bed, Cartography Table, Chest, Chiseled Bookshelf, Crafting Table, Crimson Button, Crimson Door, Crimson Fence, Crimson Fence Gate, Crimson Pressure Plate and 32 more.