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Everything you can build a house from: the hemp plank set with its signs, boats and shelf, Hemp Parquet, hemp bricks and hempcrete. This page says how each block is made, what it costs in stems, how it behaves, and what "fireproof" means for the plank set.

On this page: Where planks come from · The hemp plank set · Fireproof, like Crimson and Warped · Hemp Parquet · Hemp Shelf · Hemp bricks · Hempcrete · Block properties · A builder's palette

Where planks come from

Hemp is not a tree, so there are no hemp logs. Planks are pressed from hempcrete:

H H H
H H H

H = Hempcrete → 1 Block of Hemp Planks

Hempcrete is 4 Hemp Stems for 2 (Hemp Materials), so one plank costs 12 stems. Hemp wood is a material you grow into, not a first-night shelter.

A Block of Hemp Planks counts as planks everywhere vanilla asks for "any planks": crafting tables, chests, sticks (two planks make four), bowls, barrels, bookshelves, beds, wooden tools, shields — and the mod's Wooden Pipe. The Hemp Planks Slab counts as a wooden slab (composters, barrels, lecterns, daylight detectors, chiseled bookshelves). Those things come out as ordinary vanilla items: a chest made of hemp planks is a chest, and burns like one.

Tip: for more sticks out of hemp, skip the planks: two Hemp Stems stacked make a stick.

The hemp plank set

Every piece uses oak's crafting shape; the hanging sign and the shelf take planks where oak takes stripped logs. Stems per piece = planks per piece × 12.

Block	Recipe	Makes	Planks per piece
Hemp Planks Stairs	6 planks, stair shape	4	1½
Hemp Planks Slab	3 planks in a row	6	½
Hemp Fence	4 planks + 2 Sticks	3	1⅓
Hemp Fence Gate	2 planks + 4 Sticks	1	2
Hemp Door	6 planks, two wide and three high	3	2
Hemp Trapdoor	6 planks, two rows of three	2	3
Hemp Button	1 plank	1	1
Hemp Pressure Plate	2 planks side by side	1	2
Hemp Sign	6 planks over a Stick	3	2
Hemp Hanging Sign (not on 1.18.2 or 1.16.5)	6 planks under 2 chains (grid below)	6	1
Hemp Boat	5 planks, boat shape	1	5
Hemp Boat with Chest (not on 1.18.2 or 1.16.5)	Hemp Boat + Chest, any arrangement	1	5
Hemp Shelf (new in 2.1; 1.21.11 and 26.x only)	6 planks (below)	6	1
Hemp Parquet (new in 2.1)	2 Hemp Planks Slabs stacked (below)	1	1

The hanging sign, where vanilla uses stripped logs, takes planks — hemp has no log to strip:

C   C
P P P
P P P

C = Iron Chain (on Minecraft 1.21.1: Chain) · P = Block of Hemp Planks → 6 Hemp Hanging Sign

The set behaves like oak: the door and trapdoor open by hand and villagers use the door, the fence joins other wooden fences, the pressure plate is pressed by anything that lands on it, arrows press the button, and the signs and hanging signs take text and dye like any sign. The boats ride like any boat.

Changed in 2.1: the Hemp Button stays pressed for a second and a half, like an oak button. In 2.0 it gave a pulse of only 2 game ticks.

Fireproof, like Crimson and Warped

The whole hemp plank set is fireproof, exactly as Crimson and Warped wood are in vanilla. That means:

• Fire never spreads to it and never burns it away. A fire lit on top of it burns out, as it would on stone.
• Lava beside it does not set it alight.
• It is not furnace fuel. Planks, slabs, stairs, fences, gates, doors, trapdoors, buttons, pressure plates, signs, hanging signs, the shelf, the parquet set and both boats: none of them go in a furnace.

Also fireproof: hemp bricks and hempcrete, placed as blocks (below).

What does burn is the hemp cloth and loose plant: Hemp Wool, Hemp Carpet, the Hemp Bed, the Hemp Bale and the Block of Hemp Leaves — and hemp cloth catches more readily than sheep's wool. Numbers on Hemp Materials.

Watch out: the fireproofing belongs to the hemp blocks, not to what you craft from them. Sticks, chests, crafting tables and bookshelves made from hemp planks are ordinary vanilla items and burn like any wood.

For datapack and pack makers: the plank set is kept out of furnaces by vanilla's own #minecraft:non_flammable_wood item tag, the same one Crimson and Warped use (the two boats are simply not in #minecraft:boats), and catches no fire because it has no entry in the fire table.

Hemp Parquet

New in 2.1.

Hemp Parquet is hemp planks laid as a basket-weave floor — the plank set's decorative cut, the way bamboo mosaic is bamboo's.

S
S

S = Hemp Planks Slab → 1 Hemp Parquet

Block	Recipe	Makes
Hemp Parquet Stairs	6 Hemp Parquet, stair shape	4
Hemp Parquet Slab	3 Hemp Parquet in a row	6

Decoration only. Like bamboo mosaic, parquet does not count as planks or wooden slabs, so it makes no chests, sticks or crafting tables. It is as hard as the planks, mined with an axe, and fireproof like the rest of the set.

Hemp Shelf

New in 2.1.

Minecraft 1.21.11 and 26.x only. Vanilla has no shelves before 1.21.9, so the 1.21.1 downloads leave the Hemp Shelf out. A 1.21.1 world moved to 1.21.11 simply gains it.

The Hemp Shelf is the shelf every vanilla wood got in 1.21.9, in hemp. It is vanilla's own shelf — it holds three items on its face and swaps them with your hotbar exactly like an oak one — and, unlike an oak shelf, it is fireproof and not fuel.

P P P

P P P

P = Block of Hemp Planks, middle row empty → 6 Hemp Shelf

Vanilla's shelves take six stripped logs; hemp has no log, so its shelf takes planks, as its hanging sign does.

Hemp bricks

Hemp bricks are pressed from hempcrete in the crafting grid: 4 Hempcrete make a Hemp Brick, and 9 Hemp Bricks (3×3) make a Block of Hemp Bricks. That is 72 stems a block — the dearest building block in the mod, and the one its two ovens are built from.

Block	Recipe	Makes
Block of Hemp Bricks	9 Hemp Bricks, 3×3	1
Hemp Bricks Stairs	6 blocks, stair shape	4
Hemp Bricks Slab	3 blocks in a row	6
Hemp Bricks Wall	6 blocks, two rows of three	6

Despite the name these are plant bricks: they sound like wood and an axe mines them fastest. The Block of Hemp Bricks shrugs off explosions better than stone. They are fireproof.

Blocks of Hemp Bricks also build the Decarboxylator (seven around a copper ingot — Cannabutter) and the Hemp Press (eight around a piston — Hash and Concentrates); loose Hemp Bricks make the Grow Pot (Indoor Growing) and a vanilla Flower Pot.

Hempcrete

Real hempcrete is hemp hurd set in lime; the game's version sets in water, like concrete.

1. Craft 9 Hempcrete (3×3) into 4 Block of Hempcrete Powder.
2. Place the powder. It falls like sand, and as soon as it touches water it sets into a Block of Hempcrete — exactly as concrete powder becomes concrete.

At 4½ stems a block, hempcrete is the cheapest solid hemp block by far. It has stone's sound, a pickaxe mines it fastest (any tool drops it), and it does not burn. It is no fortress, though: it resists explosions far less than stone, and a creeper goes through it.

Blocks of Hempcrete build the Infuser (eight around a cauldron — Cannabutter).

Tip: concrete without sand or gravel. 8 Hempcrete and 1 dye, in any arrangement, make 4 of vanilla's Concrete Powder in that dye's colour — all sixteen colours. It sets in water into ordinary vanilla concrete.

Changed in 2.1: loose Hempcrete burns in a furnace like the stems it is made of, a quarter of an item each, and the Block of Hempcrete Powder is no fuel at all, as vanilla's concrete powder is not. In 2.0 the powder block burned for nine items. Neither block catches fire in the world.

Block properties

None of these blocks needs a particular tool to drop; the right one is only faster.

Block	Mine fastest with	Hardness	Blast resistance	Catches fire	Furnace fuel
Block of Hemp Planks	Axe	2	3	No	No
Hemp Parquet, its stairs and slab; Hemp Shelf	Axe	2	3	No	No
Hemp Planks Stairs and Slab, Fence, Fence Gate	Axe	2	3	No	No
Hemp Door, Hemp Trapdoor	Axe	3	3	No	No
Hemp Button, Hemp Pressure Plate	Axe	0.5	0.5	No	No
Hemp Sign, Hemp Hanging Sign	Axe	1	1	No	No
Block of Hemp Bricks	Axe	2	10	No	No
Hemp Bricks Stairs, Slab, Wall	Axe	2	10	No	No
Block of Hempcrete	Pickaxe	1.8	1.8	No	No
Block of Hempcrete Powder	Shovel	0.5	0.5	No	No

(For comparison: stone is 1.5 / 6, oak planks 2 / 3. Each piece of the hemp plank set matches its oak counterpart, and the brick stairs, slab and wall match their block, as vanilla's do.)

The soft blocks — Hemp Wool, Hemp Carpet, the Hemp Bale and the Block of Hemp Leaves — are on Hemp Materials.

A builder's palette

The hemp blocks share one muted family of colours, which makes them easy to combine:

Block	Looks like
Block of Hemp Planks, Hemp Parquet	pale khaki-olive boards; the parquet in a basket weave
Block of Hemp Bricks	the same khaki in small bricks with grey mortar
Block of Hempcrete	a flat, even sand colour — a plaster wall
Block of Hempcrete Powder	the same sand, speckled
Hemp Wool, Hemp Carpet	undyed oatmeal cloth
Hemp Bale	green-gold stalks, bound

A few combinations that work:

• Half-timbering: a frame of Block of Hemp Planks or Hemp Fence posts, filled with Block of Hempcrete, reads as a plastered cottage — and the whole wall is fireproof.
• Floors: Hemp Parquet indoors, with Hemp Carpet for rugs; Hemp Bricks Slabs for a hearth or a terrace.
• Foundations and chimneys in Block of Hemp Bricks, which also suits the mod's two brick ovens.
• Next to vanilla: the khaki sits well beside birch, bamboo, sandstone, mud bricks and moss.
• Fire-safe builds — Nether bases, lava lighting, a fireplace: the plank set, hemp bricks and hempcrete will not burn. Keep the cloth, the bale, the leaf block and the Hemp Bed away from the flames.

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See also: Hemp Materials · Furniture and Decoration · Items and Blocks · Design Notes