Wooden Door Recipe

How to Craft Wooden Door

Doors are interactive blocks that can be opened and closed to control access.

Crafting

Step-by-step Instructions

Open a Crafting Table to access the 3×3 grid.
Place ingredients exactly as shown in the grid (shape matters unless marked shapeless) then move the resulting Oak Door to your inventory.
Use, place, or craft further with your new item.

Ingredients Needed

6x Oak Planks

Ingredient Tips

Oak Planks: Crafted from any logs in a 2×2; great starter material found in all forest biomes.

Technical Stats

Stack Size: 64
Renewable: Yes

Variants & Interactions

Key Interactions:

Activates with buttons, levers, pressure plates or redstone
Villagers pathfind through; zombies can break on Hard (Java) for wooden doors

Uses for Wooden Door

Creating entrances to buildings
Keeping mobs out of your base
Controlling water flow
Creating redstone-controlled entrances

Additional Uses

Base entrances
Villager houses
Hidden redstone entrances

Fun Fact

Doors were one of the first interactive blocks added to Minecraft, and originally only came in wooden varieties. Now there are many types including iron, which can only be opened with redstone.