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Spruce Planks

Spruce Planks are a dark reddish-brown building block crafted from spruce logs. Used to craft spruce stairs, slabs, doors, fences, and other spruce items.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

1.2

Item ID

spruce_planks

Spruce Planks at a glance

Utility Blocks hold Spruce Planks: blocks out of crafting and chest loot. Stack Spruce Planks 64 high: 576 across a hotbar, 1728 in a shulker box, and 3456 in a double chest. As fuel Spruce Planks are worth 1.5 smelts, so a stack of 64 smelts 96 items.

Hardness 2 is what Spruce Planks are worth in the block data. For explosions the number that counts is 3. Spruce Planks are tagged for an axe, and nothing is said about which one. They sits between Spruce Log and Spruce Sapling in Utility Blocks, number 300 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Spruce LogSpruce Log
Spruce PlanksSpruce Planks4

How to obtain

  • Crafting
  • Chest loot

Fuel value

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

Notes

Crafts 4 planks from one log.

Frequently asked questions about Spruce Planks

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

    How do you get Spruce Planks in Minecraft?

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

  2. Spruce Planks beside a furnace, which is where its 15 seconds of burning go

    Can Spruce Planks be used as fuel?

    Spruce Planks burn for 15 seconds, so a single one in a furnace smelts 1.5 items. One Spruce Log burns 15 seconds whole, and cut into Spruce Planks it gives 60, so splitting first is the longer burn.

  3. Spruce Planks as a block, next to the axe its 2 hardness asks for

    How long does Spruce Planks take to break?

    The two numbers behind Spruce Planks are 2 for mining and 3 against explosions. They are not equally easy both ways, since the two figures on them pull apart. They are tagged for an axe, and nothing is said about which one. Java 26.2 defines Spruce Planks here, so no timing of our own went into them.

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

    What is Spruce Planks used for?

    Spruce Planks are a dark reddish-brown building block crafted from spruce logs. Used to craft spruce stairs, slabs, doors, fences, and other spruce items.

  5. 64 Spruce Planks drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Spruce Planks can you stack?

    64 Spruce Planks fills a slot, and that slot costs 16 Spruce Log, since each one returns 4, which is 16 crafts at the crafting table.

Building with it

Spruce Planks are the dark, warm-grained boards of the taiga, and they are the wood most builders reach for when a house should look heavy rather than light. Spruce trees also come in a giant two-by-two form, which yields more logs per trip than any other temperate tree.