What do you need to make a fence in Minecraft?

Four planks of the same wood type and two sticks. The sticks fill the middle column of the crafting table's top two rows, with planks on either side, and the recipe yields three fences.

Can mobs jump over fences in Minecraft?

No. A fence is one block tall visually but has a collision height of 1.5 blocks, so neither players nor mobs can jump over it. Spiders are the exception because they climb.

How do you make a Nether brick fence?

Use four Nether brick blocks in place of the planks and two Nether brick items in place of the sticks, in the same pattern. Note that Nether brick fences do not connect to wooden fences.

Which fences don't burn in Minecraft?

Crimson, warped and Nether brick fences never catch fire, because all three come from Nether materials.

How to Make a Fence in Minecraft

Solid walls block your view, glass looks out of place, and slabs are too low to keep anything in. Fences solve all of that. They let you see through the gaps, they connect neatly to each other, and even though a fence looks one block tall, it behaves like a block and a half — nothing can jump over it. That is why every good animal pen, crop field and village build in Minecraft ends up ringed with them.

What You Need to Make a Fence

For a batch of three wooden fences you need:

4 planks of a single wood type
2 sticks

Planks come from putting logs or stems in a crafting grid, and sticks come from placing two planks vertically on top of each other. The sticks do not have to match the planks, but all four planks must be the same type of wood.

The Fence Crafting Recipe

Open a crafting table.
Place one stick in the centre cell and one in the cell directly above it, so the middle column is filled with sticks.
Put a plank in each of the four remaining cells of the top two rows, on either side of the sticks.
Collect your three fences from the result slot.

Fence Types and How They Differ

There is a wooden fence for every wood type in the game — oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, mangrove, crimson, warped and more — and wooden fences of different types still connect to each other, so you can mix colours in one run. The two Nether woods, crimson and warped, come with a bonus: like everything from the Nether, their fences never catch fire.

The odd one out is the Nether brick fence. Its recipe swaps the planks for four Nether brick blocks and the sticks for two individual Nether brick items (the ones you get by smelting netherrack). Nether brick fences do not connect to wooden fences, so use them in their own runs — they suit fortresses and Nether-themed builds perfectly.

Where Fences Generate Naturally

If you would rather scavenge than craft, fences turn up all over the world: supporting mineshaft tunnels, around village pens and wells, in strongholds, woodland mansions, shipwrecks, swamp huts, ancient cities and Nether fortresses. You can break and take any of them, though crafting your own is usually faster.

Using Fences Well

Add a fence gate wherever you need to walk through — a fence line is a wall to you too.
Leash animals to a fence post by using a lead on the animal, then right-clicking the fence to tie it off.
Stack fences two high for pens holding jumpy mobs or for decorative railings you can lean over safely.
Remember the 1.5-block rule: mobs pathfind over fences as if they were solid, and nothing jumps them — but spiders can still climb over, so roof important pens.

Four planks and two sticks is a tiny price for the most useful barrier block in the game. Once you start fencing in your world, you will wonder how you managed without it.