Overview
Dark Oak Door is one of the 14 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 Door is the same shape in a different material.
In Minecraft 1.21.4, Dark Oak Door is a functional block. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Dark Oak Door. Its hardness of 3 makes it a normal, unhurried block to mine.
Mining it returns the block itself, so it is safe to relocate. It is transparent, which matters when you are managing light levels. It stacks to 64.
You make it with Dark Oak Planks. No recipe takes it as an ingredient.
About the dark oak set
How long it takes to break
Dark Oak Door sits at hardness 3: 4.5 seconds per block with your fists, 0.5 with the correct netherite tool.
You are looking at 0.75 seconds on iron and 0.6 on diamond — the iron step is where the time actually falls.
Nothing here needs a minimum tier: whatever you swing, the block still drops, and the only difference is how long it takes.
The Efficiency formula is level² + 1 added to tool speed — at V that is about 3.3 times the unenchanted rate.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand | 4.5 s | 4.5 s | 4.5 s |
| Wooden | 2.3 s | 0.4 s | 0.2 s |
| Stone | 1.2 s | 0.35 s | 0.15 s |
| Iron | 0.75 s | 0.3 s | 0.15 s |
| Diamond | 0.6 s | 0.25 s | 0.15 s |
| Netherite | 0.5 s | 0.25 s | 0.15 s |
| Golden | 0.4 s | 0.25 s | 0.15 s |
Properties
With 3 blast resistance Dark Oak Door usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is transparent to light and produces no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard full stack. An axe is fastest here; any other class mines it at bare-hand speed, because the bonus only applies to the class the block is tagged for. As furnace fuel it burns for 15 seconds — one and a half smelting operations.
- Transparent
- Yes
- Required tool
- Any
- Fuel value
- 15 s
Crafting recipe
Crafting Table
Dark Oak Door ×3
Drops
Mined with any, Dark Oak Door drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Dark Oak Door in Minecraft?
Dark Oak Door is crafted from Dark Oak Planks.
What tool do you need to break Dark Oak Door?
No specific tool is required — Dark Oak Door can be broken by hand.
Is Dark Oak Door blast resistant?
Dark Oak Door has a blast resistance of 3, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Dark Oak Door fit in one stack?
64 per stack, so a double chest holds 3,456 Dark Oak Door.
How long does Dark Oak Door take to break?
0.5 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the right class, or 4.5 seconds bare-handed.
The rest of the set
Dark Oak Door is one of 14 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
