How to Craft Cypress Planks and Vertical Cypress Planks
Cypress Planks are the base building material for everything else in the Cypress set. You get them by processing Cypress Logs or Cypress Wood.
From Log to Planks
Place a Cypress Log or Cypress Wood into a sawing recipe to produce Cypress Planks. The same sawing route also yields Vertical Cypress Planks, which are a separate block used for vertical wall textures and for crafting Cypress Vertical Slabs. If you do not have a saw, the standard crafting grid also accepts Cypress Logs to make Cypress Planks.
Stripped Variants
Stripping a Cypress Log with an axe gives you a Stripped Cypress Log. Stripping Cypress Wood gives Stripped Cypress Wood. These stripped blocks can be sawed into Stripped Cypress Posts and are used wherever you want a smoother, bark-free look. Keep a stack of plain Cypress Planks on hand — most of the furniture and shape blocks in the set consume them.
What Planks Unlock
Once you have Cypress Planks you can craft Cypress Stairs, Cypress Slabs, Cypress Vertical Slabs, Cypress Fences, Cypress Fence Gates, Cypress Doors, Cypress Trapdoors, Cypress Buttons, Cypress Pressure Plates, Cypress Signs, Cypress Ladders, Cypress Posts, Cypress Bookshelves, Cypress Chests, and Cypress Trapped Chests. Plan your log harvest around how many of these you intend to build.