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Oak Sign
Utility BlocksCraftable

Oak Sign

Oak Sign is a placeable sign crafted from oak planks and a stick. Players can write text on it, and it can be placed on the ground or a wall.

Stack Size

16

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

oak_sign

Oak Sign at a glance

Crafting gives you Oak Sign, a block filed under Utility Blocks. 16 Oak Sign fit in a slot, 144 across the hotbar, 864 in a double chest. It is worth 1 smelt in a furnace, 16 once a full stack burns.

The game rates Oak Sign at 1 hardness. Any axe will do on Oak Sign, from wood upward. There is no second figure for Oak Sign; explosions meet 1 too. It sits between Oak Sapling and Oak Slab in Utility Blocks, number 221 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
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StickStick
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How to obtain

  • Crafting

Fuel value

Oak Sign burns for 10 seconds (200 ticks), which is 1 item per Oak Sign

Notes

Crafts 3 signs from 6 planks and 1 stick.

Frequently asked questions about Oak Sign

  1. Oak Planks, Stick going into Oak Sign, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Oak Sign in Minecraft?

    Oak Sign is crafted from Oak Planks and Stick at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 3.

  2. Oak Sign beside a furnace, which is where its 10 seconds of burning go

    Can Oak Sign be used as fuel?

    Fuel, and a usable amount of it: Oak Sign burns 10 seconds apiece, or 1 item out of a single one. Since one craft turns Oak Planks and Stick into Oak Sign, a furnace fed that way runs on Oak Planks and Stick. Before it becomes Oak Sign, Oak Planks burns 15 seconds by itself.

  3. 16 Oak Sign drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Oak Sign can you stack?

    16 Oak Sign fills a slot, and that slot costs 36 Oak Planks and 6 Stick, since each one returns 3, which is 6 crafts at the crafting table.

  4. Oak Sign as a block, next to the axe its 1 hardness asks for

    How long does Oak Sign take to break?

    Hardness 1 is what the game stores for Oak Sign, next to blast resistance 1 on it. With both figures at 1, Oak Sign is not something you rely on for protection. Any axe will do on Oak Sign, from wood upward. Java 26.2 records Oak Sign with the numbers above, and it keeps them here.

  5. Oak Sign on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Oak Sign used for?

    Oak Sign is a placeable sign crafted from oak planks and a stick. Players can write text on it, and it can be placed on the ground or a wall.

Building with it

An Oak Sign is six planks and a stick for three signs, and it is the cheapest label in the game. Both sides can be written on and edited later, a dye colours the text, and glow ink makes it readable in the dark, which is what turns a storage room from a guessing game into a library.