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How to Craft Spruce Planks in Minecraft

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

The recipe wants 1 Spruce Log, and a Crafting Table to run it on. The grid returns 4 Spruce Planks. Fuel value is 300 ticks, putting 43 Spruce Planks behind a full stack of 64.

Spruce Planks Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

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

Spruce 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 spruce log (chop spruce trees).

The Full Stack Sum

A full stack of 64 spruce logs gives 256 spruce planks, across 64 crafts at 1 for 4. Craft 64 empties the box exactly.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Spruce Log1xChop spruce trees

Gather Spruce Log (chop spruce trees), then take the lot to a Crafting Table.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Spruce Log

  2. 2

    4x Spruce Planks

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

Tips & Notes

  • Cell positions do not matter here: drop Spruce Log anywhere in the grid and Spruce Planks appears.
  • Line up 1x Spruce Log before you open the Crafting Table. Spruce Log: chop spruce trees.
  • Each craft yields 4 Spruce Planks, so a full stack of 64 takes 16 crafts.

Uses for Spruce Planks

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

What Spruce Planks Goes Into

8 other recipes list Spruce Planks as an ingredient.

Spruce DoorSpruce DoorSpruce DoorCrafting TableSpruce SignSpruce SignSpruce SignCrafting TableSpruce StairsCrafting TableSpruce TrapdoorCrafting TableSpruce BoatSpruce BoatSpruce BoatCrafting TableSpruce FenceCrafting TableSpruce SlabCrafting TableSpruce Fence GateCrafting Table

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Spruce Planks in Minecraft?
The list for Spruce Planks is short: 1 Spruce Log, worked at a Crafting Table. Any arrangement works as long as all of it are in the grid, and one craft produces 4 Spruce Planks.
What can you make with Spruce Planks?
Spruce Planks is an ingredient in 8 other recipes on this site, including Spruce Door, Spruce Sign, Spruce Stairs and Spruce Trapdoor. The section above links to each of them.
Where do you find the materials for Spruce Planks?
Spruce Planks draws its parts from several different places. Spruce Log: chop spruce trees.
How many Spruce Planks do you get from one craft?
The Spruce Planks recipe makes 4 Spruce Planks in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Spruce Planks in Minecraft?
The Spruce Planks item ID is minecraft:spruce_planks, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write spruce_planks on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Spruce Planks?
/give @p spruce_planks gives you Spruce Planks. Swap @p for a player name to hand it to someone else, and put 64 on the end for a whole stack.
Is the Spruce Planks recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
It is the same recipe on both: 1 Spruce Log at a Crafting Table gives you Spruce Planks, in the layout shown above, 4 at a time.
Does it matter where you put the ingredients for Spruce Planks?
No, Spruce Planks is a shapeless recipe, so 1 Spruce Log can go in any slots you like. Only the set of ingredients is checked, not their arrangement.
Which recipe uses the most Spruce Planks?
Of everything on this site, a Spruce Door swallows the most Spruce Planks: 6 Spruce Planks in one craft. That is worth knowing before you decide how many to make.
How do you unlock the Spruce Planks recipe in the recipe book?
The Spruce Planks recipe appears in your recipe book as soon as you pick up Spruce Log, Spruce Wood, Stripped Spruce Log or Stripped Spruce 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 Spruce Planks?
Spruce 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. The Spruce Planks recipe above matches the current release.

Sources

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

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