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How to Craft Dark Oak Fence in Minecraft

Dark Oak Fence in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Animal pens. Minecraft has used the name Dark Oak Fence since 1.8.

The recipe wants 4 Dark Oak Planks and 2 Sticks, and a Crafting Table to run it on. On the grid you want four Dark Oak Planks in the left and right columns and two Sticks filling the middle column. You end up with 3 Dark Oak Fences each time. Burn it instead and one gives 300 ticks, which means 43 Dark Oak Fences take a stack of 64 all the way through a furnace.

Dark Oak Fence Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

Dark Oak Fences act as 1.5-block-tall barriers. Mobs cannot jump over them. Used for animal pens and property boundaries. Dark Oak Fence uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

Minecraft has used the name Dark Oak Fence 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) and stick (craft from planks).

One Stack, Counted

Stack sum: 64 over 4 is 16 crafts, times 3 is 48 dark oak fences. On top of that: 32 sticks. Nothing is wasted: craft 16 takes the rest.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Dark Oak Planks4xCraft from dark oak logs
StickStickStick2xCraft from planks

For Dark Oak Fence: 4x Dark Oak Planks (craft from dark oak logs) and 2x Stick (craft from planks), brought to a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

Stick, then Dark Oak Planks, then the Dark Oak Fence. All in: 1 Dark Oak Log and 2 Planks.

  1. 1
    2StickStick4Stick
  2. 2
    4Dark Oak Planks
  3. 3
    Dark Oak Fencethis page

Gather this first

Dark Oak Log2Planks

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    4x Dark Oak Planks

  2. 2

    StickStick2x Stick

  3. 3

    3x Dark Oak Fence

Minecraft crafting recipe for Dark Oak Fence: 4 x Dark Oak Planks, 2 x Stick in a crafting table, making 3 Dark Oak Fence.

Tips & Notes

  • Shopping list: 4x Dark Oak Planks and 2x Stick. Plan the Dark Oak Planks first: craft from dark oak logs.
  • You get 3 Dark Oak Fence per craft, so divide whatever you need by 3 to know how many times to repeat it.

Uses for Dark Oak Fence

  • Animal pens
  • Mob barriers (1.5 blocks tall)
  • Decoration

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Dark Oak Fence in Minecraft?
Bring 4 Dark Oak Planks and 2 Sticks to a Crafting Table and you can make a Dark Oak Fence. Lay them out exactly as the grid above shows, and one craft produces 3 Dark Oak Fences.
What do you need to make a Dark Oak Fence from scratch?
From raw materials only, a Dark Oak Fence comes down to 1 Dark Oak Log and 2 Planks. The rest you make yourself, and it takes 3 crafts to get there.
How many Dark Oak Fences do you get from one craft?
The Dark Oak Fence recipe makes 3 Dark Oak Fences in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Dark Oak Fence in Minecraft?
The Dark Oak Fence item ID is minecraft:dark_oak_fence, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write dark_oak_fence on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Dark Oak Fence?
The command for Dark Oak Fence is /give @p dark_oak_fence. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p dark_oak_fence 64 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.
Is the Dark Oak Fence recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Yes, the Dark Oak Fence recipe is the same in both editions. Java and Bedrock both build a Dark Oak Fence from 4 Dark Oak Planks and 2 Sticks at a Crafting Table, in the same layout, 3 at a time.
What version of Minecraft added the Dark Oak Fence?
As far back as the language files go, the dark oak fence appears under this name in Minecraft 1.8 and not before. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. Today the game builds it from 4 Dark Oak Planks and 2 Sticks, as shown above.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
4 Dark Oak Planks and 2 Sticks in, 3 Dark Oak Fences out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
Java 1.8 is the earliest release that calls it this. 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 Fences per craft against the stack size.

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