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How to Craft Cherry Planks in Minecraft

Cherry Planks in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Building material. The recipe first appears in the game's files in Minecraft 1.20.

The recipe wants 1 Cherry Log, and a Crafting Table to run it on. That comes out as 4 Cherry Planks. Short on coal? 300 ticks each means 43 Cherry Planks smelt 64 items.

Cherry Planks Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

Cherry Planks are crafted from Cherry Logs. They are one of the most versatile building blocks used in many recipes. Cherry Planks uses a shapeless recipe, so the ingredients can go in any cells of the grid as long as all of them are present.

This recipe first appears in the game's own data files in Minecraft 1.20, and not in the release before it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with cherry log (chop cherry trees).

Per Stack

64 crafts drain a stack: 64 cherry logs become 256 cherry planks. Craft 64 clears the box of cherry log.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Cherry Log1xChop cherry trees

To make Cherry Planks you will gather Cherry Log (chop cherry trees), and craft them at a Crafting Table.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Cherry Log

  2. 2

    4x Cherry Planks

Minecraft crafting recipe for Cherry Planks: 1 x Cherry Log in a crafting table, making 4 Cherry Planks.

Tips & Notes

  • Because this one is shapeless, Cherry Log can go in any cells you like. The grid only checks that they are all present.
  • Line up 1x Cherry Log before you open the Crafting Table. Cherry Log: chop cherry trees.
  • You get 4 Cherry Planks per craft, so divide whatever you need by 4 to know how many times to repeat it.

Uses for Cherry Planks

  • Building material
  • Crafting sticks, tools, fences and other wooden items

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Cherry Planks on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Cherry Planks in Minecraft?
1 Cherry Log at a Crafting Table: that is the whole shopping list for Cherry Planks. Place it in the grid in any arrangement, and one craft produces 4 Cherry Planks.
Where do you find the materials for Cherry Planks?
Here is where each part of Cherry Planks comes from. Cherry Log: chop cherry trees.
How many Cherry Planks do you get from one craft?
The Cherry Planks recipe makes 4 Cherry Planks in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Cherry Planks in Minecraft?
The Cherry Planks item ID is minecraft:cherry_planks, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write cherry_planks on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Cherry Planks?
Use /give @p cherry_planks to put Cherry Planks in your own inventory, or /give @p cherry_planks 64 for a full stack of 64. Cheats have to be on.
Is the Cherry Planks recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
No difference to worry about: Cherry Planks takes 1 Cherry Log at a Crafting Table on Java and on Bedrock alike, 4 at a time.
Does it matter where you put the ingredients for Cherry Planks?
No, Cherry Planks is a shapeless recipe, so 1 Cherry Log can go in any slots you like. Only the set of ingredients is checked, not their arrangement.
How do you unlock the Cherry Planks recipe in the recipe book?
The Cherry Planks recipe appears in your recipe book as soon as you pick up Cherry Log, Cherry Wood, Stripped Cherry Log or Stripped Cherry Wood in Java Edition, whichever you come across first. The book lists only what you have triggered, so the craft works before that if you already know the grid.
What version of Minecraft added Cherry Planks?
For cherry planks the answer is Minecraft 1.20, and it is not a guess: that release carries the recipe, the one before it does not. What you see in the grid above is how it works in the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Cherry Log in, 4 Cherry Planks out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Present in Minecraft Java 1.20, missing from the release immediately before. 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: 4 Cherry Planks per craft against the stack size.

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