Wood & plants
Birch Wood
Birch Wood is a wood & plants block identified as minecraft:birch_wood. Its material, collision, light and recipe relationships below are the useful details for building, survival collection and commands.
Birch Wood- Edition
- Java & Bedrock
- Java ID
- minecraft:birch_wood
- Bedrock ID
- minecraft:birch_wood
- Java numeric ID
- 73
- Bedrock numeric ID
- 73
- State combinations
- 3
- Stack size
- 64
Obtaining and breaking Birch Wood
- Axe is the recorded preferred tool for Birch Wood; other tools may be slower or affect what is collected.
- Its recorded hardness is 2. Compare this with the blast resistance value when deciding whether the concern is mining time or explosion survival.
- Craft or process Birch Wood using Crafting Table.
What to use Birch Wood for
4 current recipe relationships are recorded for Birch Wood. These links include recipes that produce the block and recipes that consume it as an ingredient.
- Ingredient for Campfire.
- Ingredient for Smoker.
- Ingredient for Soul Campfire.
- Birch Wood has 1 recorded output recipe; open the linked recipe to compare edition, station, layout and yield before crafting a batch.
- Birch Wood is used by 3 recorded recipes, including Campfire, Smoker, Soul Campfire.
- One full inventory stack holds 64 Birch Wood blocks; 27 full stacks fill a single chest or shulker-box-sized inventory with 1728 blocks.
- Birch Wood Recipe has 1 current variant.
- Campfire Recipe has 71 current variants.
- Smoker Recipe has 60 current variants.
- Soul Campfire Recipe has 78 current variants.
Build and technical notes
- Birch Wood is a wood & plants block identified as minecraft:birch_wood. Its material, collision, light and recipe relationships below are the useful details for building, survival collection and commands.
- The recorded collision shape is “block”. Collision is a gameplay property, so do not infer it only from the block's visible model.
- Java data contains 3 block-state combinations for Birch Wood. Commands that need one exact orientation or state must specify properties separately from the base ID.
- Its recorded blast resistance is 2; this is separate from hardness and should be used for explosion-risk comparisons.
Java and Bedrock differences
- Birch Wood exists in both tracked editions. Java uses minecraft:birch_wood; Bedrock uses minecraft:birch_wood.
- The available hardness, blast-resistance and preferred-tool records do not show a cross-edition conflict for this block.
Command and version data
/give @p minecraft:birch_wood 64/give- Gives a block item to the selected target.
@p- The nearest player to where the command runs.
minecraft:birch_wood- The namespaced identifier for Birch Wood.
64- The number of block items to give.
Numeric IDs and states can differ between versions and editions. The related links preserve each available current source record.