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How to Craft Dark Oak Planks in Minecraft

Dark Oak Planks in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Building material.

Stand at a Crafting Table with 1 Dark Oak Log and you can make Dark Oak Planks. You end up with 4 Dark Oak Planks each time. Burn it instead and one gives 300 ticks, which means 43 Dark Oak Planks take a stack of 64 all the way through a furnace.

Dark Oak Planks Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

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

Dark oak planks were already in the game in Minecraft 1.12, the release that first filed recipes as data, so this recipe is at least that old.

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

One Stack, Counted

Stack sum: 64 over 1 is 64 crafts, times 4 is 256 dark oak planks. It divides evenly, no dark oak log left over.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Dark Oak Log1xChop dark oak trees

Dark Oak Planks needs Dark Oak Log (chop dark oak trees), worked together at a Crafting Table.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Dark Oak Log

  2. 2

    4x Dark Oak Planks

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

Tips & Notes

  • Cell positions do not matter here: drop Dark Oak Log anywhere in the grid and Dark Oak Planks appears.
  • One craft costs 1x Dark Oak Log. Start with the Dark Oak Log: chop dark oak trees.
  • You get 4 Dark Oak Planks per craft, so divide whatever you need by 4 to know how many times to repeat it.

Uses for Dark Oak Planks

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

What Dark Oak Planks Goes Into

8 other recipes list Dark Oak Planks as an ingredient.

Dark Oak DoorDark Oak DoorDark Oak DoorCrafting TableDark Oak SignDark Oak SignDark Oak SignCrafting TableDark Oak StairsCrafting TableDark Oak TrapdoorCrafting TableDark Oak BoatDark Oak BoatDark Oak BoatCrafting TableDark Oak FenceCrafting TableDark Oak SlabCrafting TableDark Oak Fence GateCrafting Table

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Dark Oak Planks in Minecraft?
Dark Oak Planks asks for 1 Dark Oak Log, and the work happens at a Crafting Table. Any arrangement works as long as all of it are in the grid, and one craft produces 4 Dark Oak Planks.
What can you make with Dark Oak Planks?
Dark Oak Planks is an ingredient in 8 other recipes on this site, including Dark Oak Door, Dark Oak Sign, Dark Oak Stairs and Dark Oak Trapdoor. The section above links to each of them.
Where do you find the materials for Dark Oak Planks?
Each ingredient in Dark Oak Planks has its own source. Dark Oak Log: chop dark oak trees.
How many Dark Oak Planks do you get from one craft?
The Dark Oak Planks recipe makes 4 Dark Oak Planks in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Dark Oak Planks in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Dark Oak Planks goes by minecraft:dark_oak_planks; dark_oak_planks without the namespace does the same job in a command.
What is the give command for Dark Oak Planks?
The command for Dark Oak Planks is /give @p dark_oak_planks. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p dark_oak_planks 64 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.
Is the Dark Oak Planks recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Yes, the Dark Oak Planks recipe is the same in both editions. Java and Bedrock both build Dark Oak Planks from 1 Dark Oak Log at a Crafting Table, in the same layout, 4 at a time.
Which recipe uses the most Dark Oak Planks?
Of everything on this site, a Dark Oak Door swallows the most Dark Oak Planks: 6 Dark Oak Planks in one craft. That is worth knowing before you decide how many to make.
How do you unlock the Dark Oak Planks recipe in the recipe book?
The Dark Oak Planks recipe appears in your recipe book as soon as you pick up Dark Oak Log, Dark Oak Wood, Stripped Dark Oak Log or Stripped Dark Oak 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 Dark Oak Planks?
Dark oak planks were in Minecraft 1.12, the first release to store recipes as data, so this one predates anything the game wrote down. Today the game builds it from 1 Dark Oak Log, as shown above.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Dark Oak Log in, 4 Dark Oak 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 1.12, the oldest release whose recipes exist to check. 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 Dark Oak Planks per craft against the stack size.

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