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How to Craft Birch Door in Minecraft

Birch Door in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Entry and exit for buildings. Minecraft has used the name Birch Door since 1.8.

At a Crafting Table, Birch Doors ask for 6 Birch Planks. The pattern to copy is six Birch Planks in a solid 3x2 block in the left and middle columns. A single craft gives you 3 Birch Doors. It doubles as fuel at 200 ticks apiece, so 64 Birch Doors will smelt 64 items.

Birch Door Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Birch Door is minecraft:birch_door. In commands the namespace may be left off, so birch_door works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p birch_door
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p birch_door 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve birch_door 1

Cheats have to be on for Birch Door to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Birch Doors open and close when right-clicked or powered by redstone. Villagers can open wooden doors. Birch Door uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

Minecraft has used the name Birch Door since 1.8, the oldest release whose language file lists it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with birch planks (craft from birch logs).

The Yield Per Stack

64 birch planks is 10 crafts here, or 30 birch doors once the grid stops. That leaves 4 birch planks with no partner.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Birch Planks6xCraft from birch logs

To make Birch Door you will gather 6x Birch Planks (craft from birch logs), and craft them at a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

2 Birch Log makes 8 Birch Planks, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 2 Birch Log.

  1. 1
    28Birch Planksrepeat 2x
  2. 2
    Birch DoorBirch DoorBirch Doorthis page

Gather this first

2Birch Log

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    6x Birch Planks

  2. 2

    3x Birch Door

Minecraft crafting recipe for Birch Door: 6 x Birch Planks in a crafting table, making 3 Birch Door.

Tips & Notes

  • Line up 6x Birch Planks before you open the Crafting Table. Birch Planks: craft from birch logs.
  • Each craft yields 3 Birch Door, so a full stack of 64 takes 22 crafts.

Uses for Birch Door

  • Entry and exit for buildings
  • Villager pathfinding
  • Decoration

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Birch Door on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Birch Door in Minecraft?
a Birch Door asks for 6 Birch Planks, and the work happens at a Crafting Table. The pattern above is exact, so match it square by square, and one craft produces 3 Birch Doors.
What do you need to make a Birch Door from scratch?
Starting with nothing, a Birch Door costs 2 Birch Logs. Everything else in the recipe is something you craft on the way there, over 2 crafts in total.
Where do you find the materials for a Birch Door?
The parts of a Birch Door do not all come from one place. Birch Planks: craft from birch logs.
How many Birch Doors do you get from one craft?
The Birch Door recipe makes 3 Birch Doors in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Birch Door in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Birch Door goes by minecraft:birch_door; birch_door without the namespace does the same job in a command.
What is the give command for Birch Door?
/give @p birch_door gives you a Birch Door. Swap @p for a player name to hand it to someone else, and put 64 on the end for a whole stack.
Is the Birch Door recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Java and Bedrock agree on a Birch Door: both want 6 Birch Planks at a Crafting Table in the layout above, and both give 3 at a time.
What version of Minecraft added the Birch Door?
Minecraft 1.8 is the oldest release that calls the birch door by that name. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. Nothing about it has changed since: the pattern above is today's.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
6 Birch Planks in, 3 Birch Doors out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
The name appears in Minecraft Java 1.8 and in nothing older. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
Stack size, burn time
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 3 Birch Doors per craft against the stack size.

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