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How to Craft Jungle Planks in Minecraft

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

Jungle Planks cost you 1 Jungle Log, put together at a Crafting Table. Each attempt hands back 4 Jungle Planks. It doubles as fuel at 300 ticks apiece, so 43 Jungle Planks will smelt 64 items.

Jungle Planks Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

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

Jungle 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 jungle log (chop jungle trees).

What A Stack Yields

Empty a stack of 64 jungle logs into this and 256 jungle planks come back. Craft 64 clears the box of jungle log.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Jungle Log1xChop jungle trees

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

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Jungle Log

  2. 2

    4x Jungle Planks

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

Tips & Notes

  • Because this one is shapeless, Jungle Log can go in any cells you like. The grid only checks that they are all present.
  • Line up 1x Jungle Log before you open the Crafting Table. Jungle Log: chop jungle trees.
  • Each craft yields 4 Jungle Planks, so a full stack of 64 takes 16 crafts.

Uses for Jungle Planks

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

What Jungle Planks Goes Into

8 other recipes list Jungle Planks as an ingredient.

Jungle DoorJungle DoorJungle DoorCrafting TableJungle SignJungle SignJungle SignCrafting TableJungle StairsCrafting TableJungle TrapdoorJungle TrapdoorJungle TrapdoorCrafting TableJungle BoatJungle BoatJungle BoatCrafting TableJungle FenceCrafting TableJungle SlabCrafting TableJungle Fence GateCrafting Table

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Jungle Planks in Minecraft?
To craft Jungle Planks you need 1 Jungle Log at a Crafting Table. The cells do not matter here, so drop it in anywhere, and one craft produces 4 Jungle Planks.
What can you make with Jungle Planks?
Jungle Planks is an ingredient in 8 other recipes on this site, including Jungle Door, Jungle Sign, Jungle Stairs and Jungle Trapdoor. The section above links to each of them.
Where do you find the materials for Jungle Planks?
Jungle Planks draws its parts from several different places. Jungle Log: chop jungle trees.
How many Jungle Planks do you get from one craft?
The Jungle Planks recipe makes 4 Jungle Planks in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Jungle Planks in Minecraft?
The Jungle Planks item ID is minecraft:jungle_planks, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write jungle_planks on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Jungle Planks?
The command for Jungle Planks is /give @p jungle_planks. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p jungle_planks 64 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.
Is the Jungle Planks recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Java and Bedrock agree on Jungle Planks: both want 1 Jungle Log at a Crafting Table in the layout above, and both give 4 at a time.
Does it matter where you put the ingredients for Jungle Planks?
No, Jungle Planks is a shapeless recipe, so 1 Jungle Log can go in any slots you like. Only the set of ingredients is checked, not their arrangement.
Which recipe uses the most Jungle Planks?
Of everything on this site, a Jungle Door swallows the most Jungle Planks: 6 Jungle Planks in one craft. That is worth knowing before you decide how many to make.
How do you unlock the Jungle Planks recipe in the recipe book?
The Jungle Planks recipe appears in your recipe book as soon as you pick up Jungle Log, Jungle Wood, Stripped Jungle Log or Stripped Jungle 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 Jungle Planks?
Jungle planks were there from Minecraft 1.12, the release in which recipes were first written down at all, which puts it older than the record itself. Nothing about it has changed since: the pattern above is today's.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Jungle Log in, 4 Jungle 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 Jungle Planks per craft against the stack size.

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