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Cherry Planks

Cherry Planks are a soft pink building block crafted from cherry logs. Used to craft cherry stairs, slabs, doors, fences, and other cherry items.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

1.20

Item ID

cherry_planks

Cherry Planks at a glance

Minecraft file Cherry Planks under Utility Blocks: blocks you get from crafting and chest loot. Stack Cherry Planks 64 high: 576 across a hotbar, 1728 in a shulker box, and 3456 in a double chest. They double as furnace fuel, good for 1.5 smelts each and 96 from a full stack.

On the hardness scale Cherry Planks sit at 2. Blast resistance sits at 3. Reach for an axe if you want Cherry Planks fast; the wooden one already drops them. They sits between Chain and Cherry Sapling in Utility Blocks, number 78 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
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How to obtain

  • Crafting
  • Chest loot

Fuel value

Cherry Planks burn for 15 seconds (300 ticks), which is 1.5 items per Cherry Planks

Notes

Crafts 4 planks from one log.

Frequently asked questions about Cherry Planks

  1. Cherry Log going into Cherry Planks, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Cherry Planks in Minecraft?

    Cherry Planks is crafted from Cherry Log at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 4. They also comes from chest loot, not just the recipe above.

  2. 64 Cherry Planks drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Cherry Planks can you stack?

    16 Cherry Log is what 64 Cherry Planks costs, since each one returns 4, so filling a single slot is 16 crafts. A double chest of Cherry Planks comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

  3. Cherry Planks beside a furnace, which is where its 15 seconds of burning go

    Can Cherry Planks be used as fuel?

    Fuel, and a usable amount of it: Cherry Planks burn 15 seconds apiece, or 1.5 items out of a single one. Set against its recipe, Cherry Planks carry the heat that Cherry Log would have given.

  4. Cherry Planks as a block, next to the axe its 2 hardness asks for

    How long does Cherry Planks take to break?

    Cherry Planks have hardness 2, and they have blast resistance 3. The two numbers on Cherry Planks are not the same, so mining and blowing them up are separate jobs. Reach for an axe if you want Cherry Planks fast; the wooden one already drops them. Java 26.2 is the release Cherry Planks were read from, figure by figure on them.

  5. Cherry Planks on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Cherry Planks used for?

    Cherry Planks are a soft pink building block crafted from cherry logs. Used to craft cherry stairs, slabs, doors, fences, and other cherry items.

Building with it

Cherry Planks are the pink wood of the cherry grove, and they are the only boards in the game that read as a pastel rather than a timber. That makes them a decorating wood: interiors, garden fences, and anything meant to look soft. The trees themselves are short and drop petals as they grow.