Overview
Dark Oak 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 Sign is the same shape in a different material.
Dark Oak Sign is a functional block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Dark Oak 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 Dark Oak Planks and Stick.
Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.
About the dark oak set
How long it takes to break
Dark Oak Sign has a hardness of 1. By hand that is 1.5 seconds per block; with the correct tool at netherite tier it is 0.2 seconds.
Iron manages 0.25 seconds and diamond 0.2, which makes iron the tier that changes how this block feels.
There is no tier requirement to worry about. Any tool, or none, returns the drop; the numbers below just say how fast.
Efficiency adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed, so Efficiency V is about 4 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.
| 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
Dark Oak 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. Stack size is 16. 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
- Yes
- Required tool
- Any
- Fuel value
- 15 s
Crafting recipe
Crafting Table
Dark Oak Sign ×3
Drops
Mined with any, Dark Oak Sign drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Dark Oak Sign in Minecraft?
Dark Oak Sign is crafted from Dark Oak Planks and Stick.
What tool do you need to break Dark Oak Sign?
No specific tool is required — Dark Oak Sign can be broken by hand.
Is Dark Oak Sign blast resistant?
Dark Oak Sign has a blast resistance of 1, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Dark Oak Sign fit in one stack?
Dark Oak Sign stacks to 16, so a single double chest holds 864 of them.
How long does Dark Oak Sign take to break?
With the correct tool at netherite tier it takes 0.2 seconds; by hand it takes 1.5 seconds.
The rest of the set
Dark Oak Sign is one of 12 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
