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How to Craft Dark Oak Door in Minecraft

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

Feed a Crafting Table 6 Dark Oak Planks and Dark Oak Doors come back. Copy this shape: six Dark Oak Planks in a solid 3x2 block in the left and middle columns. One go makes 3 Dark Oak Doors. Short on coal? 200 ticks each means 64 Dark Oak Doors smelt 64 items.

Dark Oak Door Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

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

Minecraft has used the name Dark Oak 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 dark oak planks (craft from dark oak logs).

The Stack Arithmetic

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

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Dark Oak Planks6xCraft from dark oak logs

A Crafting Table and 6x Dark Oak Planks (craft from dark oak logs): that is everything Dark Oak Door asks for.

The Full Chain

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

  1. 1
    28Dark Oak Planksrepeat 2x
  2. 2
    Dark Oak DoorDark Oak DoorDark Oak Doorthis page

Gather this first

2Dark Oak Log

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    6x Dark Oak Planks

  2. 2

    3x Dark Oak Door

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

Tips & Notes

  • One craft costs 6x Dark Oak Planks. Start with the Dark Oak Planks: craft from dark oak logs.
  • Each craft yields 3 Dark Oak Door, so a full stack of 64 takes 22 crafts.

Uses for Dark Oak Door

  • Entry and exit for buildings
  • Villager pathfinding
  • Decoration

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Dark Oak Door in Minecraft?
The list for a Dark Oak Door is short: 6 Dark Oak Planks, worked at a Crafting Table. The pattern above is exact, so match it square by square, and one craft produces 3 Dark Oak Doors.
What do you need to make a Dark Oak Door from scratch?
Starting with nothing, a Dark Oak Door costs 2 Dark Oak Logs. Everything else in the recipe is something you craft on the way there, over 2 crafts in total.
How many Dark Oak Doors do you get from one craft?
The Dark Oak Door recipe makes 3 Dark Oak Doors in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Dark Oak Door in Minecraft?
The Dark Oak Door item ID is minecraft:dark_oak_door, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write dark_oak_door on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Dark Oak Door?
The command for Dark Oak Door is /give @p dark_oak_door. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p dark_oak_door 64 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.
Is the Dark Oak Door recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Yes, the Dark Oak Door recipe is the same in both editions. Java and Bedrock both build a Dark Oak Door from 6 Dark Oak Planks at a Crafting Table, in the same layout, 3 at a time.
What version of Minecraft added the Dark Oak Door?
Minecraft 1.8 is the oldest release that calls the dark oak door by that name. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. What you see in the grid above is how it works in the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
6 Dark Oak Planks in, 3 Dark Oak Doors out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Minecraft Java 1.8 uses this name and the release before it does not. 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 Dark Oak Doors per craft against the stack size.

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