Mentioned features/Colored Planks

Colored Planks were a briefly considered dyed version of planks. They have not been implemented, and stained terracotta was added instead.

Nathan Adams briefly thought about implementing colored wood planks, releasing a test image on his Twitter page on April 24, 2013. This however never got implemented, as can be seen from the following quotes. The idea was eventually replaced with stained terracotta.

Taking a small break from launcherstuffs to doodle around with funstuffs. Would this be of use to anybody? http://dinnerbone.com/media/uploads/2013-04/screenshots/Minecraft_13w16b_2013-04-24_19-54-57.png