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How to Craft Dark Oak Sign in Minecraft

Dark Oak Sign in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Displaying text (up to 4 lines). The recipe first appears in the game's files in Minecraft 1.14.

Making Dark Oak Signs takes 6 Dark Oak Planks and 1 Stick at a Crafting Table. On the grid you want six Dark Oak Planks in a solid 2x3 block in the top and middle rows and a single Stick in the bottom-middle cell. You end up with 3 Dark Oak Signs each time. As fuel these are worth 200 ticks apiece: 64 of them clear a stack of 64.

Dark Oak Sign Item ID and Give Command

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

Give yourself one
/give @p dark_oak_sign
Give a full stack of 16
/give @p dark_oak_sign 16
Give it to a named player
/give Steve dark_oak_sign 1

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

Overview

Dark Oak Signs display up to 4 lines of text. They can be placed on walls or the ground and dyed with ink. Dark Oak Sign uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

This recipe first appears in the game's own data files in Minecraft 1.14, and not in the release before 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 6 is 10 crafts, times 3 is 30 dark oak signs. The recipe wants 10 sticks beside it. Left behind: 4 dark oak planks.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Dark Oak Planks6xCraft from dark oak logs
StickStickStick1xCraft from planks

Gather 6x Dark Oak Planks (craft from dark oak logs) and Stick (craft from planks), then take the lot to a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

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

  1. 1
    2StickStick4Stick
  2. 2
    28Dark Oak Planksrepeat 2x
  3. 3
    Dark Oak SignDark Oak SignDark Oak Signthis page

Gather this first

2Dark Oak Log2Planks

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    6x Dark Oak Planks

  2. 2

    StickStickStick

  3. 3

    3x Dark Oak Sign

Minecraft crafting recipe for Dark Oak Sign: 6 x Dark Oak Planks, 1 x Stick in a crafting table, making 3 Dark Oak Sign.

Tips & Notes

  • One craft costs 6x Dark Oak Planks and 1x Stick. Start with the Dark Oak Planks: craft from dark oak logs.
  • You get 3 Dark Oak Sign per craft, so divide whatever you need by 3 to know how many times to repeat it.

Uses for Dark Oak Sign

  • Displaying text (up to 4 lines)
  • Waterlogging to stop water flow
  • Decoration

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Dark Oak Sign in Minecraft?
The list for a Dark Oak Sign is short: 6 Dark Oak Planks and 1 Stick, worked at a Crafting Table. Lay them out exactly as the grid above shows, and one craft produces 3 Dark Oak Signs.
What do you need to make a Dark Oak Sign from scratch?
From raw materials only, a Dark Oak Sign comes down to 2 Dark Oak Logs and 2 Planks. The rest you make yourself, and it takes 3 crafts to get there.
Where do you find the materials for a Dark Oak Sign?
Here is where each part of a Dark Oak Sign comes from. Dark Oak Planks: craft from dark oak logs. Stick: craft from planks.
How many Dark Oak Signs do you get from one craft?
The Dark Oak Sign recipe makes 3 Dark Oak Signs in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Dark Oak Sign in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Dark Oak Sign goes by minecraft:dark_oak_sign; dark_oak_sign without the namespace does the same job in a command.
What is the give command for Dark Oak Sign?
/give @p dark_oak_sign gives you a Dark Oak Sign. Swap @p for a player name to hand it to someone else, and put 16 on the end for a whole stack.
What version of Minecraft added the Dark Oak Sign?
The dark oak sign first appears in Minecraft 1.14: that release ships the recipe file and the one before it does not, out of every Java version Mojang still publishes. That pattern above is still the one the game uses.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
6 Dark Oak Planks and 1 Stick in, 3 Dark Oak Signs out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
Java 1.14 is the first release that knows this recipe at all. 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 Signs per craft against the stack size.

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