Wood

Wood

Type	Solid Block
Requirements	None
Physics	No
Transparency	No
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	10
Tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64), same type only
Flammable	Yes
Availability	?
First appearances	Classic 0.0.14a Beta 1.2 12w03a
Data value	dec: 17 hex: 11 bin: 00010001

Wood is a naturally occurring block fundamental to the crafting of many blocks and tools in the game. They have a skin resembling bark on the four side faces, and a crosscut face on top and bottom. Wood is greatly abundant in naturally-generated maps, as it is used as the foundation for trees. Wood is also flammable.

There are currently four varieties of wood. One is the normal wood (Oak); another is Birch, which is a lighter color and has dark spots over it; a third type, Spruce, resembles Oak but is dark in color; the fourth type, Jungle, resembles Oak wood with bark aligned horizontally.

Wood from different types of trees will produce different colors of wood planks when crafted and will not stack in the inventory. Birch trees have slightly duller colored leaves than regular trees, pine trees have pine needles, and jungle leaves are leafy with fruit-like shapes.

[edit] Obtaining

Wood can be chopped by hand, but using an axe consumes less time.

[edit] Naturally generated

Wood blocks of all four types generate naturally as part of trees, even above layer 128. The types of trees generated depend on the biome:

• Oak trees generate in forests, swamps, jungles, ice plains, and extreme hills.
• Spruce trees generate only in taigas.
• Birch trees generate only in forests. Birch is the rarest of the four wood types.
• Jungle trees generate only in jungles. Jungle trees can occur in 2×2 dimensions instead of the normal 1×1.

Besides forming trees, oak wood blocks can also be found in plains villages where they form the edges of farms and are also used in the corners and roofs of a few small huts.

[edit] From saplings

If there is enough space and light, a sapling will grow into a tree after a certain time. This, combined with the fact that saplings have a chance to drop from destroyed leaves, makes wood a renewable resource. Saplings will even grow in the Nether or the End.

[edit] Usage

Wood blocks are often crafted into planks for building or further crafting. In addition, wood can be smelted in a furnace to make charcoal as a substitute for coal.

[edit] As a crafting ingredient

Ingredients	Input » Output
Wood	4

[edit] Further crafting

The following table presents the amount of wood needed to produce an even multiple of a given item with no waste left over, and the quantity produced:

1. ↑ ^{a b}
   Requires the burning of wood into charcoal in a furnace. Thus, you will need 8 cobblestone and burning material. The cobblestone and fuel are ignored for the purpose of this conversion.
2. ↑ ^{a b}
   Because one plank cannot be crafted into two sticks, this crafting recipe requires two wood for two units.

[edit] As a smelting ingredient

Ingredients	Smelting
Wood

[edit] As a fuel

Wood can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per block.

It is advisable to use wood planks as fuel instead of wood, as they share the same burn time. However, it is advisable, if you do have wood, to smelt the wood and use charcoal as fuel.

[edit] Data values

The data value for wood blocks consists of two facing bits (high-order) and two wood type bits (low-order).

	Data value			description
	Dec	Hex	Binary
	0	0	0000	Oak wood facing up/down
	1	1	0001	Spruce wood facing up/down
	2	2	0010	Birch wood facing up/down
	3	3	0011	Jungle wood facing up/down
	4	4	0100	Oak wood facing East/West
	5	5	0101	Spruce wood facing East/West
	6	6	0110	Birch wood facing East/West
	7	7	0111	Jungle wood facing East/West
	8	8	1000	Oak wood facing North/South
	9	9	1001	Spruce wood facing North/South
	10	A	1010	Birch wood facing North/South
	11	B	1011	Jungle wood facing North/South
	12	C	1100	Oak wood with only bark
	13	D	1101	Spruce wood with only bark
	14	E	1110	Birch wood with only bark
	15	F	1111	Jungle wood with only bark

Note that when a wood block is placed, it changes its facing bits, placing in the direction relative to the block it is placed on.

[edit] Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Prerequisites	Actual requirements (if different)	Version restriction	Xbox points earned
	Getting Wood	Attack a tree until a block of wood pops out	Taking Inventory	Pick up Wood from the ground.	None	10G

[edit] History

[edit] Issues

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[edit] Trivia

• In real life, the number of rings on the inside of a tree counts the age of the tree. If one counts the rings of a wood block, the sum is four years.
• Some oak trees and birch trees have the same structure: 5 or 6 wood blocks and a pattern of leaves that stays the same for both regular oak and regular birch trees.
• Although wood is usually considered renewable, there is the chance for a tree grown from a sapling to drop 0 saplings, so if you begin with a set number of trees, it is potentially possible that all of them and their planted saplings will drop 0 saplings, depleting the resource; in practice, this is almost impossible because the probability of a tree dropping 0 saplings is astronomically low but still possible.
• When a world that has a jungle biome in it is opened in 1.1 instead of 1.2.1 or further, the wood and leaf types will be changed into oak wood and leaves.
• Birch and Spruce trees in Pocket Edition don't have a different color. If one was to craft wooden planks out of Birch or Spruce wood, they would be the same color as Oak wooden planks.

[edit] Gallery

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  Rotated wood.

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  Oak, birch, pine, and jungle trees.

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  All variations of Wooden Plank, with each wood type crafting into the planks below it.

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  All the facings and type of wood block. Includes those with the side texture on each side.