Overview
Pale Oak Sapling is one of the 9 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 Sapling is the same shape in a different material.
Pale Oak Sapling counts as a plant block in Minecraft 1.21.4. There is no way to craft it; you have to find it and mine it. It breaks almost instantly, with a hardness of just 0.
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 (0 blast resistance). A full stack holds 64. It is not used in any crafting recipe.
About the pale oak set
How long it takes to break
At a hardness of 0, Pale Oak Sapling takes 0 seconds to punch out and 0 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.
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 contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, and on something this soft that reaches instant mining almost at once.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand | instant | instant | instant |
| Wooden | instant | instant | instant |
| Stone | instant | instant | instant |
| Iron | instant | instant | instant |
| Diamond | instant | instant | instant |
| Netherite | instant | instant | instant |
| Golden | instant | instant | instant |
Properties
Pale Oak Sapling resists blasts at 0, which is not enough to survive anything explosive nearby. Light passes through it, and it emits none of its own. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal full stack. It is renewable, so a single world can supply an unlimited amount of it. Flammable, at encouragement 60 and burn 100: build with it away from lava, and do not use it as a wall you care about. 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 5 seconds — half of what a single smelting operation needs.
- Transparent
- Yes
- Required tool
- Any
- Flammable
- Yes (60/100)
- Renewable
- Yes
- Fuel value
- 5 s
Drops
Mined with any, Pale Oak Sapling drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Pale Oak Sapling in Minecraft?
Mine Pale Oak Sapling with any and it drops itself.
What tool do you need to break Pale Oak Sapling?
No specific tool is required — Pale Oak Sapling can be broken by hand.
Is Pale Oak Sapling blast resistant?
Pale Oak Sapling has a blast resistance of 0, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Pale Oak Sapling fit in one stack?
Pale Oak Sapling stacks to 64, which puts 3,456 of them in a double chest.
Is Pale Oak Sapling renewable?
Yes. Pale Oak Sapling can be obtained again and again in one world, so building with it does not exhaust the supply.
How long does Pale Oak Sapling take to break?
0 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the right class, or 0 seconds bare-handed.
The rest of the set
Pale Oak Sapling is one of 9 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
