Log

Log/Stem

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64) (same species only)
Tool
Blast resistance	2
Hardness	2
Luminant	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	Logs: Yes (5) Stems: No
Catches fire from lava	Logs: Yes Stems: No

A log or stem is a naturally occurring block found in trees or huge fungi, primarily used as a building block, and to create planks, a versatile crafting ingredient. It comes in nine types: oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, mangrove, crimson and warped.

A stripped log or stripped stem is a variant obtained by using an axe on a log or a stem respectively. Once stripped, it cannot be reversed.

Obtaining

Breaking

Logs and stems can be broken by hand, but using an axe speeds up the process. Logs and stems drop themselves when broken with any tool.

Chest loot

Natural generation

Trees

Logs generate naturally as part of trees. Especially, a jungle log generate for each jungle bush.

Huge fungi

Stems generate naturally as part of huge fungi.

Structures

Oak

• Oak logs generate as part of houses and at some meeting points in plains villages, and as supporting beams of swamp huts and normal mineshafts.
• Stripped oak logs generate in plains villages.

Spruce

• Spruce logs generate as part of houses in taiga and snowy plains villages.
• Stripped spruce logs generate in snowy plains villages.

Acacia

• Acacia logs and stripped acacia logs generate as part of houses in savanna villages.

Dark oak

• Dark oak logs can generate in pillager outposts as a pile of logs, and as part of watchtowers. They also generate as supporting beams badlands mineshafts.
• They are also generated in woodland mansions in the walls and borders and in ancient cities.

Mixed

• Oak, spruce, jungle and dark oak logs generate as masts in shipwrecks.‌^{[Java Edition only]}
• Stripped oak, spruce, jungle and dark oak logs also generate as masts in shipwrecks.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Post-generation

Logs and stems

Trees can also be grown using saplings and huge fungi can also be grown using small fungi.

Stripped logs and stems

Using an axe on a log or stem turns it into a stripped log or a stripped stem, which act the same as regular logs.

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Further crafting

The following table presents the amount of logs or stems needed to produce an even multiple of a given item with no waste left over, and the quantity produced (planks are assumed to be crafted from logs or stems rather than wood or hyphae blocks) (charcoal are assumed to be crafted from logs rather than wood blocks):

Smelting ingredient

Fuel

Logs, but not stems, can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per block.

Cocoa beans

Cocoa beans can be placed on the side of both jungle logs and stripped jungle logs to grow a new cocoa pod.

Note blocks

Logs and stems can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass" sounds.

Sounds

Log

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Stem

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

In Bedrock Edition, oak, spruce, birch, and jungle log and wood have the ID name minecraft:log and are further defined by their block data or block state. Acacia and dark oak log and wood blocks have the ID name minecraft:log2 and are further defined by their block data or block state.

Note that when a log or stem is placed, it changes its facing parameters, placing in the direction relative to the block it is placed on.

Logs and stems consider only the axis; a sideways log or stem placed while facing north does not have a top texture rotated 180 degrees from a log or stem placed south.^[1]

ID

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Block states

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition
Log:

Log2:

Stems, and all stripped logs:

Achievements

History

For a more in-depth breakdown of changes to textures and models, including a set of renders for each state combination, see /Asset history

May 21, 2009					Notch shows interest in adding wood.
Java Edition Classic
0.0.14a					Added wood.
					Oak wood is currently one of the first blocks in Minecraft.
0.0.15a					The texture of wood has been changed.
August 25, 2009					Showed that breaking wood now drops 3–5 wooden planks.
0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST					The above changed of breaking wood dropping 3-5 wooden planks has been implemented.[needs testing]
Java Edition Indev
20100223					Breaking wood now gives the block instead of wooden planks.
Java Edition Alpha
?					Wood can now be destroyed only by fire if it had several sides simultaneously burning. If only one side was burning, the fire and wood block lasts forever.
Java Edition Beta
1.2					Added spruce and birch wood.
					Wood can now be smelted into charcoal.
1.3					Wood and wooden planks now burn and are destroyed if any one of the sides are lit on fire.
1.5					With the addition of birch and spruce saplings, their respective wood types have now become renewable resources.
					Added "Getting Wood" achievement for picking up a wood item.
1.8		Pre-release			Oak wood now generates in villages.
Java Edition
1.2.1		12w03a			Added jungle wood.
1.2.4					Different types of wood now produce different colors of planks when crafted.
1.3.1		12w16a			Oak wood is now found in bonus chests.
		12w18a			Each type of wood now has a unique name.
		12w30d			All types of blocks of wood are now rotatable, with the wood placed with the inner side facing the player (similarly to pistons).
1.3.2		pre			Large oak trees now generate with horizontal wood blocks.
1.4.2		12w38a			Wood blocks have new sounds for being walked on and broken.
					The orientation of placed wood blocks is now determined by which face of another block they are placed against, similarly to levers.
		12w40a			Oak wood now generates as part of witch huts.
1.6.1		13w24a			As a feature of resource packs, each wood block has its own top, meaning that wood tops can now be colored separately.
1.7.2		13w43a			Added acacia and roofed oak wood.
		1.7			"Roofed Oak" has been renamed to "Dark Oak Wood".
					The textures of acacia and dark oak wood have been changed.
					The top texture of all blocks of wood now have unique textures, rather than sharing it with oak.
					Wood in bonus chests may now also be acacia.
1.9		15w43a			Wood found in bonus chests can now be of any type, rather than just oak or acacia.
		15w44a			Bonus chests now have less wood.
1.10		16w20a			Added taiga villages, which generate with spruce wood.
					Savanna villages now generate with acacia wood.
1.11		16w39a			Oak and dark oak wood now generate in woodland mansions.
1.13		17w47a			"Wood" has been renamed to "Log".
		18w07a			Added stripped logs.
		18w11a			Logs now generate as part of the newly added shipwrecks.
		pre1			The side texture for stripped jungle logs has been changed.
July 18, 2017					Jeb tweets an image of new textures for iron blocks, obsidian and birch logs.
July 19, 2017					Jeb reppears with an image of all the new log textures.
July 19, 2017					JAPPA tweets an image of a less-blurry birch texture.
July 22, 2017					JAPPA tweets an image of new crafting table, wood planks and wood textures.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of logs has been changed.
		18w47a			The textures of logs has been changed again.
					Dark oak logs now generate as part of the new pillager outposts.
		18w47b			The top textures of logs has been changed.
					The top textures of stripped logs has been changed.
		18w48a			Stripped oak logs and wood now generate in the updated plains villages.
		18w49a			Stripped spruce logs and wood now generate in the new snowy tundra villages.
					Stripped logs now generate in the updated savanna villages.
		18w50a			The top textures of normal and stripped jungle logs have been changed, once again.
					Spruce logs can now be found in chests in taiga village houses.
					Logs can now be used to craft a smoker.
		19w02a			Stripped logs and logs can now be used to craft campfires.
September 28, 2019					Crimson and Warped logs were shown as part of crimson forest and warped forest biome.
1.16		20w06a			Added regular and stripped crimson and warped stems.
		20w09a			The top textures of stripped crimson and warped stems have been changed.
					Duplicate and unused textures for stripped warped stems have been removed.
1.17		21w07a			Oak log can now generate in the mineshafts instead of oak wood.
October 16, 2021					Mangrove Logs were shown on Minecraft Live 2021.
1.18		Pre-release 5			Changed crimson and warped stems textures to match Bedrock Edition.
					The top texture of dark oak log has been changed.
					The side textures of stripped dark oak log has been changed, to match the color of its top texture.
		Pre-release 7			Textures of stripped dark oak log has been changed again.
1.19		22w11a			Added regular and stripped mangrove logs.
		22w13a			Dark oak logs now generate in ancient cities.
		22w14a			Due to the addition of the mangrove tree and mangrove swamp, mangrove logs and stripped mangrove logs are now obtainable and renewable.
		22w15a			Mangrove logs now generate in bonus chests.
1.20 (Experimental)		22w42a			Stripped logs are now used to craft hanging signs.
Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release					Added oak, spruce and birch wood. Spruce and birch wood are not available in the inventory.
v0.2.0					Added spruce and birch wood to the inventory.
					Removed oak wood from the inventory.
v0.2.1					Oak trees now generate with spruce wood instead of oak wood.
v0.4.0					Re-added oak wood to the creative inventory.
					Oak trees once again generate with oak wood, making it obtainable in Survival mode.
v0.8.0		build 1			Added jungle wood to the creative inventory.
					All types of blocks of wood are now rotatable, with the wood placed with the inner side facing the player (similarly to pistons).
v0.9.0		build 1			Added acacia and dark oak wood.
					The texture of wood tops have been their own unique texture for each type of wood.
					Jungle wood now generates naturally.
					Oak wood now generates naturally in plains and savanna villages.
					The tooltip has been changed from [woodtype] Wood to [woodtype] Log.
v0.11.0		build 1			The tooltip has been changed from [woodtype] Log to [woodtype] Wood.
v0.14.0		build 1			Spruce wood now generates in witch huts.
v0.15.0		build 1			Savanna villages now generate using acacia wood, which previously used oak wood.
					Spruce wood now generates in taiga and ice plains villages.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Oak and dark oak wood now generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Wood can now be found inside bonus chests.
					Woodland mansions now have birch wood instead of oak wood.
1.4.0		beta 1.2.13.8			Added stripped logs as part of Experimental Gameplay.
		beta 1.2.14.2			Stripped logs have been fully implemented.
					As an exclusive feature, oak, spruce and dark oak stripped logs now generate as part of shipwrecks.
		beta 1.2.20.1			The side textures for stripped jungle wood has been changed.
		release			The top textures of stripped spruce and stripped dark oak logs have been changed.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of logs have been changed.
					The top textures of stripped logs have been changed.
					"Wood" and "Stripped Wood" have been renamed to "Log" and "Stripped Log".
					Logs are now used to craft wood, campfires, and smokers.
					Stripped spruce, oak, and acacia logs now generate in new villages.
					Dark oak logs now generate in pillager outpost watchtowers and as a pile of logs.
					Dark oak logs can now be found in pillager outpost chests.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Spruce logs can now be found in taiga and snowy taiga village house chests.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.51			Added regular and stripped crimson and warped stems.
1.19.0		beta 1.19.0.20			Added regular and stripped mangrove logs.
1.20.0 (Experimental)		beta 1.19.50.21			Stripped logs are now used to craft hanging signs.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added oak, spruce, and birch wood.
TU9					Spruce wood and birch wood can now be crafted into spruce and birch wood planks, stairs and slabs.
TU12					Added jungle wood.
TU14		1.04			All types of blocks of wood are now rotatable, with the wood placed with the inner side facing the player (similarly to pistons).
					Prior to this update, in PlayStation 3 Edition, wood with special data values looked like it is in Java Edition only in the inventory or when held, and when placed looked completely different.
					Prior to this version, in Xbox 360 Edition, higher data values of wood would result in blocks that had the inside texture facing along the expected axis, but the bark textures not rotated. These data values would function like their own blocks and would not change orientation depending on the targeted block face.
TU19	CU7	1.12			The textures of birch and jungle wood have been changed.
TU25	CU14	1.17			Added acacia and dark oak wood. It can only be obtained by modding the game.
TU27	CU15	1.18			Acacia and dark oak wood is now obtainable through the creative inventory.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Acacia and dark oak wood is now obtainable in survival.
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added stripped logs.
		1.90			"Wood" has been renamed to "Log".
					The textures of logs have been changed.
					The top textures of stripped logs have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added wood.

Data history

Java Edition
1.8		14w10a			minecraft:log2 blocks with numerical metadata variants 2-3, 6-7, 10-11 and 14-15, which are inaccessible through normal gameplay, now have no model rather than appearing identical to either acacia or dark oak wood.
		14w25a			Logs are now defined via block states rather than by numerical metadata. Prior to this version, the numerical metadata variants of minecraft:log were as follows: DV Description 0 Oak Log (up-down) 1 Spruce Log (up-down) 2 Birch Log (up-down) 3 Jungle Log (up-down) 4 Oak Log (east-west) 5 Spruce Log (east-west) 6 Birch Log (east-west) 7 Jungle Log (east-west) 8 Oak Log (north-south) 9 Spruce Log (north-south) 10 Birch Log (north-south) 11 Jungle Log (north-south) 12 Oak Wood (up-down) 13 Spruce Wood (up-down) 14 Birch Wood (up-down) 15 Jungle Wood (up-down) The data values for minecraft:log2 were as follows: DV Description 0 Acacia Log (up-down) 1 Dark Oak Log (up-down) 2-3 Inaccessible "boring" log blocks 4 Acacia Log (east-west) 5 Dark Oak Log (east-west) 6-7 Inaccessible "boring" log blocks 8 Acacia Log (north-south) 9 Dark Oak Log (north-south) 10-11 Inaccessible "boring" log blocks 12 Acacia Wood (up-down) 13 Dark Oak Wood (up-down) 14-15 Inaccessible "boring" wood blocks
		14w26a			minecraft:log2 with metadata values 2-3, 6-7, 10-11 and 14-15 have now been completely removed from the game.
1.13		17w47a			The different variant block states and the axis=none block state for both the log and log2 IDs have been split up into their own IDs.
					Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 17 and 162.
1.17		21w05a			azalea_log_replaceable Azalea log tag added.
		21w10a			azalea_log_replaceable Azalea log tag removed.

Issues

Issues relating to "Log", "Stripped log", "Stem", or "Stripped stem" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• In Bedrock Edition, dark oak and acacia logs share a block ID separate from the old logs, called log2, because all the other data values on the previous log block were occupied by rotated variants (red sandstone slabs suffered a similar fate). There are still 8 remaining data values on the block that cannot be obtained. This was also the case in Java Edition prior to 1.13.
• Even if stems or their plank variants cannot be used as fuel or made into charcoal, the player can bypass this by crafting them into crafting tables or sticks, which can be used as a fuel.
• Crimson and Warped stems are the only logs that have an animation.

Gallery

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  Rotated logs.

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  Oak, birch, jungle, spruce, acacia, and dark oak trees.

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  All log types crafting into the planks below it, and the corresponding saplings.

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  All the facings and types of wood logs with the bark blocks. From left to right: dark oak, acacia, jungle, spruce, birch, oak.

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  All rotated logs compared to oak wood.

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  Oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, and dark oak stripped logs rotated.

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  All variants of logs, bark, and stripped logs, excluding alternate rotations.

References