Pale Oak Planks — Minecraft block

Overview

Pale Oak 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.

Pale Oak Planks is a wooden block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. Pale Oak 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 Pale Oak Log.

It is an ingredient in 49 recipes, among them Barrel, Beehive, Black Bed and 46 more.

About the pale oak set

How long it takes to break

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

Iron manages 0.5 seconds and diamond 0.4, which makes iron the tier that changes how this block feels.

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.

The Efficiency formula is level² + 1 added to tool speed — at V that is about 3.5 times the unenchanted rate.

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

Blast resistance on Pale Oak Planks is 3, so an explosion nearby will usually take it out. It stops light entirely and gives off 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 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. 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

Pale Oak Planks ×4

Any pale oak log or wood — Pale Oak Log, Pale Oak Wood, Stripped Pale Oak Log, Stripped Pale Oak Wood

Drops

Mined with any, Pale Oak Planks drops itself.

Pale Oak Planks

Used to craft

Pale Oak Planks is an ingredient in 49 recipes, producing Barrel, Beehive, Black Bed, Blue Bed, Bookshelf, Bowl, Brown Bed, Cartography Table, Chest, Chiseled Bookshelf, Crafting Table, Cyan Bed, Fletching Table, Gray Bed, Green Bed, Grindstone and 33 more.