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Utility BlocksCraftable

Sign

A block that displays editable text on its front and, since 1.20, on both sides. Crafted from wooden planks and a stick.

Stack Size

16

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

sign

Sign at a glance

Crafting gives you Sign, a block filed under Utility Blocks. Stack Sign 16 high: 144 across a hotbar, 432 in a shulker box, and 864 in a double chest.

On the hardness scale Sign sits at 1. It holds up against explosions exactly as well as it does against a pickaxe, and no better. An axe is the right tool for Sign, and any tier of it collects the block. It sits between Seagrass and Slime Block in Utility Blocks, number 282 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
StickStick
SignSign3
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting

How to obtain

  • Crafting

Notes

One variant per wood type. Text can be dyed and glowed with a glow ink sac, and signs can be waxed with honeycomb to lock them.

Frequently asked questions about Sign

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

    How do you get Sign in Minecraft?

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

  2. 16 Sign drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Sign can you stack?

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

  3. How long does Sign take to break?

    Sign has hardness 1, and it has blast resistance 1. Matching numbers put Sign in the ordinary group, the group creepers get through, and it is no exception. An axe is the right tool for Sign, and any tier of it collects the block. Java 26.2 holds Sign at exactly those figures, timing on it aside.

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

    What is Sign used for?

    A block that displays editable text on its front and, since 1.20, on both sides. Crafted from wooden planks and a stick.

  5. Sign coming forward out of the past, in the game since Alpha

    When was Sign added to Minecraft?

    Sign was added in the early Alpha development period.

Building with it

Signs hold four lines of text, take dye to colour the letters, and glow ink to make them readable at night. Six planks and a stick give three, and hanging signs from a chain give the same text in a shape that swings under a beam.