Slabs, sometimes erroneously referred to as half-slabs, are half-height versions of their respective blocks.

Obtaining [ edit ]

Breaking [ edit ]

Stone-type slabs and smooth blocks require a pickaxe to mine. Wooden slabs can be mined with anything, but an axe is quickest.

Block End Stone Brick Blackstone

Polished Blackstone

Polished Blackstone Brick

Brick

(Mossy) Cobblestone

(Red) Nether Brick

Petrified Oak

Purpur

(Smooth) Quartz

(Cut/Smooth) Sandstone

(Cut/Smooth) Red Sandstone

(Smooth) Stone

Stone Brick Andesite

Polished Andesite

(Polished) Diorite

(Polished) Granite

Mossy Stone Brick

Prismarine (and variants) Wooden Hardness 3 2 1.5 2 Tool Breaking time[note 1] Default 15 10 7.5 3 Wooden 2.25 1.5 1.15 1.5 Stone 1.15 0.75 0.6 0.75 Iron 0.75 0.5 0.4 0.5 Diamond 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.4 Netherite 0.5 0.35 0.25 0.35 Golden 0.4 0.25 0.25 0.25

↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed

Most slabs drop themselves when broken. The exception is petrified oak slabs, which drop normal oak slabs.‌[Bedrock Edition only]

Double slabs drop 2 of their respective single slabs, even when mined with Silk Touch. In Java Edition, double slabs are completely unobtainable.In Bedrock Edition, they can be obtained through inventory editing.

Crafting [ edit ]

Stonecutting [ edit ]

Petrified Oak Slabs are the stone-type wooden slabs left from before Java Edition 1.3.1. They are now unobtainable in vanilla survival.

Natural generation [ edit ]

Smooth stone slabs generate naturally in strongholds.

Smooth stone slabs generate naturally in strongholds. Sandstone slabs generate naturally in desert wells, and desert pyramids.

Sandstone slabs generate naturally in desert wells, and desert pyramids. Spruce slabs generate naturally in igloo basements.

Spruce slabs generate naturally in igloo basements. Oak, birch, spruce, smooth stone and cobblestone slabs generate naturally in woodland mansions.

Oak, birch, spruce, smooth stone and cobblestone slabs generate naturally in woodland mansions. Dark oak, cobblestone and mossy cobblestone slabs generate in pillager outpost.

Dark oak, cobblestone and mossy cobblestone slabs generate in pillager outpost. Oak, birch, spruce, jungle, acacia, and dark oak slabs can generate in shipwrecks.

Oak, birch, spruce, jungle, acacia, and dark oak slabs can generate in shipwrecks. Blackstone and Quartz slabs generate in bastion remnants.

Blackstone and Quartz slabs generate in bastion remnants. Purpur slabs generate naturally in end cities.

Villages

Smooth stone, oak and cobblestone slabs generate naturally in plains villages.

Smooth stone, oak and cobblestone slabs generate naturally in plains villages. Smooth sandstone and sandstone slabs generate naturally in desert villages.

Smooth sandstone and sandstone slabs generate naturally in desert villages. Smooth stone and acacia slabs generate naturally in savanna villages.

Smooth stone and acacia slabs generate naturally in savanna villages. Smooth stone and spruce slabs generate naturally in taiga and snowy taiga villages.

Ruined Portal

Stone, stone brick, and mossy stone brick slabs generate in ruined portals in the overworld.

Stone, stone brick, and mossy stone brick slabs generate in ruined portals in the overworld. Blackstone, polished blackstone, and polished blackstone brick slabs generate in ruined portals in the nether .‌ [ Java Edition only ]

Blackstone, polished blackstone, and polished blackstone brick slabs generate in ruined portals in the nether .‌ Nether brick slabs generate in ruined portals in the nether.‌[ Bedrock Edition only ]

Usage [ edit ]

Placement [ edit ]

Slabs can occupy either the top half or the bottom half of a block, or both:

Placing a slab on top of a block or on the side of a block in the lower half of the side surface creates a bottom slab

Placing a slab on the underside of a block or on the top half of the side surface creates a top slab

Placing a top and bottom slab of the same type in the same block creates a double slab block

It's impossible to place two different kinds of slabs in the same block.

Slabs cannot be oriented vertically.

Crafting ingredient [ edit ]

Behavior [ edit ]

An example of how top slabs can make redstone travel compactly "up stairs".

Slabs do not block a vertical redstone connection as it is a transparent block.

A top slab or bottom slab is transparent to light in Bedrock Edition. A double slab is opaque.

A bottom placed on top of a hopper is transparent to items; the items fall through the bottom slab into the hopper. Without a hopper attached below, a bottom slab behaves as a solid surface.

Falling block entities (like sand, gravel, and concrete powder) turn into their dropped form if they land on a bottom slab, as when they fall on a torch.

Mobs see a slab as a full block. Mobs can spawn on top slabs and double slabs, but not on bottom slabs.

Generally, the top face of top slabs, the bottom face of bottom slabs, and all faces of double slabs are handled as solid blocks. Due to this, transparent blocks that need to placed on an opaque surface can be placed on these faces.

Double slabs are handled as a single block instead of two different slabs; as such, breaking one destroys the whole block and drop two slabs, as opposed to breaking only one slab within the block. "Double slabs" that are not aligned to the grid (i.e. a bottom slab on top of a top slab) are handled as separate blocks and are broken individually.

Redstone dust placed on a top slab receives signals from redstone dust one block lower and adjacent, but cannot transmit signals down to that block.

In Bedrock Edition, mobs standing on bottom slabs with air or another bottom slab below fail to pathfind correctly. They often end up spinning around in a small circle when they try to move.

Due to the way blast rays propagate from an explosion, bottom slabs provide extremely effective absorption to explosions directly on top of them.

Sneaking reduces the player's hitbox height to 1.65 blocks in Bedrock Edition, and so does not allow the player to walk over a bottom slab with one block of air above it, which is 1.5 blocks of space. In Java Edition, however, a crouching player's hitbox is exactly 1.5 blocks, allowing the player to fit through such a gap. A player cannot walk from a block of soul sand directly up to a bottom slab without jumping – this applies not just to soul sand, but to any block 7⁄ 8 of a block high or shorter, because the maximum step height of the player is 0.6 of a block. The player can walk off a bottom slab while sneaking, because the sneaking prevents falling only when the distance is higher than one half block.

If a single slab is placed in a water source block, the empty half of that slab's block is waterlogged. If a slab is placed in flowing water, a pocket of air is created in the unfilled half of the block. If the player's head is in this pocket, the player can breathe and see as clearly as from an air block. If a single slab is placed in between two water sources or waterlogged blocks, the slab becomes waterlogged. This also happens when a water bucket or a bucket containing a fish is used on a single slab. Double slabs cannot be waterlogged.

A minecart on powered rails is not repelled by a slab, although it is repelled by a slab with a minecart on top.

Fuel [ edit ]

Wooden slabs can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 0.75 items per slab in Java Edition, and smelting 1.5 items per slab in Bedrock Edition.

Sounds [ edit ]

Java Edition:

Data values [ edit ]

ID [ edit ]

Java Edition:

Name Namespaced ID Block tags (JE) Item tags (JE) Translation key Oak Slab oak_slab slabs

wooden_slabs slabs

wooden_slabs block.minecraft.oak_slab Spruce Slab spruce_slab slabs

wooden_slabs slabs

wooden_slabs block.minecraft.spruce_slab Birch Slab birch_slab slabs

wooden_slabs slabs

wooden_slabs block.minecraft.birch_slab Jungle Slab jungle_slab slabs

wooden_slabs slabs

wooden_slabs block.minecraft.jungle_slab Acacia Slab acacia_slab slabs

wooden_slabs slabs

wooden_slabs block.minecraft.acacia_slab Dark Oak Slab dark_oak_slab slabs

wooden_slabs slabs

wooden_slabs block.minecraft.dark_oak_slab Crimson Slab crimson_slab non_flammable_wood

slabs

wooden_slabs non_flammable_wood

slabs

wooden_slabs block.minecraft.crimson_slab Warped Slab warped_slab non_flammable_wood

slabs

wooden_slabs non_flammable_wood

slabs

wooden_slabs block.minecraft.warped_slab Stone Slab stone_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.stone_slab Smooth Stone Slab smooth_stone_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.smooth_stone_slab Granite Slab granite_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.granite_slab Polished Granite Slab polished_granite_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.polished_granite_slab Diorite Slab diorite_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.diorite_slab Polished Diorite Slab polished_diorite_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.polished_diorite_slab Andesite Slab andesite_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.andesite_slab Polished Andesite Slab polished_andesite_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.polished_andesite_slab Cobblestone Slab cobblestone_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.cobblestone_slab Mossy Cobblestone Slab mossy_cobblestone_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.mossy_cobblestone_slab Stone Brick Slab stone_brick_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.stone_brick_slab Mossy Stone Brick Slab mossy_stone_brick_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.mossy_stone_brick_slab Brick Slab brick_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.brick_slab End Stone Brick Slab end_stone_brick_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.end_stone_brick_slab Nether Brick Slab nether_brick_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.nether_brick_slab Red Nether Brick Slab red_nether_brick_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.red_nether_brick_slab Sandstone Slab sandstone_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.sandstone_slab Cut Sandstone Slab cut_sandstone_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.cut_sandstone_slab Smooth Sandstone Slab smooth_sandstone_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.smooth_sandstone_slab Red Sandstone Slab red_sandstone_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.red_sandstone_slab Cut Red Sandstone Slab cut_red_sandstone_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.cut_red_sandstone_slab Smooth Red Sandstone Slab smooth_red_sandstone_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.smooth_red_sandstone_slab Quartz Slab quartz_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.quartz_slab Smooth Quartz Slab smooth_quartz_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.smooth_quartz_slab Purpur Slab purpur_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.purpur_slab Prismarine Slab prismarine_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.prismarine_slab Prismarine Brick Slab prismarine_brick_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.prismarine_brick_slab Dark Prismarine Slab dark_prismarine_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.dark_prismarine_slab Petrified Oak Slab petrified_oak_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.petrified_oak_slab Blackstone Slab blackstone_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.blackstone_slab Polished Blackstone Slab polished_blackstone_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.polished_blackstone_slab Polished Blackstone Brick Slab polished_blackstone_brick_slab slabs slabs block.minecraft.polished_blackstone_brick_slab

Bedrock Edition:

Name Namespaced ID Numeric ID Translation key Double Wooden Slabs double_wooden_slab 157 tile.double_wooden_slab.name Wooden Slabs wooden_slab 158 tile.wooden_slab.oak.name

tile.wooden_slab.spruce.name

tile.wooden_slab.birch.name

tile.wooden_slab.jungle.name

tile.wooden_slab.acacia.name

tile.wooden_slab.big_oak.name Double Crimson Slab crimson_double_slab 521 tile.crimson_double_slab.name Crimson Slab crimson_slab 519 tile.crimson_slab.name Double Warped Slab warped_double_slab 522 tile.warped_double_slab.name Warped Slab warped_slab 520 tile.warped_slab.name Double Stone Slabs (1) double_stone_slab 43 tile.double_stone_slab.stone.name[ verify ] Stone Slabs (1) stone_slab 44 tile.stone_slab.stone.name

tile.stone_slab.sand.name

tile.stone_slab.cobble.name

tile.stone_slab.wood.name

tile.stone_slab.brick.name

tile.stone_slab.smoothStoneBrick.name

tile.stone_slab.quartz.name

tile.stone_slab.nether_brick.name Double Stone Slabs (2) double_stone_slab2 181 tile.double_stone_slab2.red_sandstone.name Stone Slabs (2) stone_slab2 182 tile.stone_slab2.red_sandstone.name

tile.stone_slab2.purpur.name

tile.stone_slab2.prismarine.rough.name

tile.stone_slab2.prismarine.dark.name

tile.stone_slab2.prismarine.bricks.name

tile.stone_slab2.mossy_cobblestone.name

tile.stone_slab2.sandstone.smooth.name

tile.stone_slab2.red_nether_brick.name Double Stone Slabs (3) double_stone_slab3 422 tile.double_stone_slab3.name Stone Slabs (3) stone_slab3 417 tile.stone_slab3.end_brick.name

tile.stone_slab3.red_sandstone.smooth.name

tile.stone_slab3.andesite.smooth.name

tile.stone_slab3.andesite.name

tile.stone_slab3.diorite.smooth.name

tile.stone_slab3.diorite.name

tile.stone_slab3.granite.smooth.name

tile.stone_slab3.granite.name Double Stone Slabs (4) double_stone_slab4 423 tile.double_stone_slab4.name Stone Slabs (4) stone_slab4 421 tile.stone_slab4.mossy_stone_brick.name

tile.stone_slab4.smooth_quartz.name

tile.stone_slab4.stone.name

tile.stone_slab4.cut_sandstone.name

tile.stone_slab4.cut_red_sandstone.name Double Blackstone Slab blackstone_double_slab 538 tile.blackstone_double_slab.name Blackstone Slab blackstone_slab 537 tile.blackstone_slab.name Double Polished Blackstone Slab polished_blackstone_double_slab 549 tile.polished_blackstone_double_slab.name Polished Blackstone Slab polished_blackstone_slab 548 tile.polished_blackstone_slab.name Double Polished Blackstone Brick Slab polished_blackstone_brick_double_slab 540 tile.polished_blackstone_brick_double_slab.name Polished Blackstone Brick Slab polished_blackstone_brick_slab 539 tile.polished_blackstone_brick_slab.name

Block data [ edit ]

In Bedrock Edition, slabs use the following data values:

Double stone slab

DV Description 0 Double Stone Slab 1 Double Sandstone Slab 2 Double Wooden Slab 3 Double Cobblestone Slab 4 Double Bricks Slab 5 Double Stone Bricks Slab 6 Double Quartz Slab 7 Double Nether Brick Slab 8 Double Upper Stone Slab 9 Double Upper Sandstone Slab 10 Double Upper Wooden Slab 11 Double Upper Cobblestone Slab 12 Double Upper Bricks Slab 13 Double Upper Stone Bricks Slab 14 Double Upper Quartz Slab 15 Double Upper Nether Brick Slab

Double stone slab 2

DV Description 0 Double Red Sandstone Slab 1 Double Purpur Slab 2 Double Prismarine Slab 3 Double Prismarine Bricks Slab 4 Double Dark Prismarine Slab 5 Double Mossy cobblestone Slab 6 Double Smooth Sandstone Slab 7 Double Red Nether Brick Slab 8 Double Upper Red Sandstone Slab 9 Double Upper Purpur Slab 10 Double Upper Prismarine Slab 11 Double Upper Prismarine Bricks Slab 12 Double Upper Dark Prismarine Slab 13 Double Upper Mossy cobblestone Slab 14 Double Upper Smooth Sandstone Slab 15 Double Upper Red Nether Brick Slab

Double stone slab 3

DV Description 0 Double End Stone Brick Slab 1 Double Smooth Red Sandstone Slab 2 Double Polished Andesite Slab 3 Double Andesite Slab 4 Double Diorite Slab 5 Double Polished Diorite Slab 6 Double Granite Slab 7 Double Polished Granite Slab 8 Double Upper End Stone Brick Slab 9 Double Upper Smooth Red Sandstone Slab 10 Double Upper Polished Andesite Slab 11 Double Upper Andesite Slab 12 Double Upper Diorite Slab 13 Double Upper Polished Diorite Slab 14 Double Upper Granite Slab 15 Double Upper Polished Granite Slab

Double stone slab 4

DV Description 0 Double Mossy Stone Brick Slab 1 Double Smooth Quartz Slab 2 Double Stone Slab 3 Double Cut Sandstone Slab 4 Double Cut Red Sandstone Slab 8 Double Upper Mossy Stone Brick Slab 9 Double Upper Smooth Quartz Slab 10 Double Upper Stone Slab 11 Double Upper Cut Sandstone Slab 12 Double Upper Cut Red Sandstone Slab

Stone slab

DV Description 0 Smooth Stone Slab 1 Sandstone Slab 2 Wooden Slab 3 Cobblestone Slab 4 Bricks Slab 5 Stone Bricks Slab 6 Quartz Slab 7 Nether Brick Slab 8 Upper Smooth Stone Slab 9 Upper Sandstone Slab 10 Upper Wooden Slab 11 Upper Cobblestone Slab 12 Upper Bricks Slab 13 Upper Stone Bricks Slab 14 Upper Quartz Slab 15 Upper Nether Brick Slab

Stone slab 2

DV Description 0 Red Sandstone Slab 1 Purpur Slab 2 Prismarine Slab 3 Dark Prismarine Slab 4 Prismarine Bricks Slab 5 Mossy cobblestone Slab 6 Smooth Sandstone Slab 7 Red Nether Brick Slab 8 Upper Red Sandstone Slab 9 Upper Purpur Slab 10 Upper Prismarine Slab 11 Upper Dark Prismarine Slab 12 Upper Prismarine Bricks Slab 13 Upper Mossy cobblestone Slab 14 Upper Smooth Sandstone Slab 15 Upper Red Nether Brick Slab

Stone slab 3

DV Description 0 End Stone Brick Slab 1 Smooth Red Sandstone Slab 2 Polished Andesite Slab 3 Andesite Slab 4 Diorite Slab 5 Polished Diorite Slab 6 Granite Slab 7 Polished Granite Slab 8 Upper End Stone Brick Slab 9 Upper Smooth Red Sandstone Slab 10 Upper Polished Andesite Slab 11 Upper Andesite Slab 12 Upper Diorite Slab 13 Upper Polished Diorite Slab 14 Upper Granite Slab 15 Upper Polished Granite Slab

Stone slab 4

DV Description 0 Mossy Stone Brick Slab 1 Smooth Quartz Slab 2 Stone Slab 3 Cut Sandstone Slab 4 Cut Red Sandstone Slab 8 Upper Mossy Stone Brick Slab 9 Upper Smooth Quartz Slab 10 Upper Stone Slab 11 Upper Cut Sandstone Slab 12 Upper Cut Red Sandstone Slab

Double wood slab

DV Description 0 Double Oak Wood Slab 1 Double Spruce Wood Slab 2 Double Birch Wood Slab 3 Double Jungle Wood Slab 4 Double Acacia Wood Slab 5 Double Dark Oak Wood Slab 8 Double Upper Oak Wood Slab 9 Double Upper Spruce Wood Slab 10 Double Upper Birch Wood Slab 11 Double Upper Jungle Wood Slab 12 Double Upper Acacia Wood Slab 13 Double Upper Dark Oak Wood Slab

Wood slab

DV Description 0 Oak Wood Slab 1 Spruce Wood Slab 2 Birch Wood Slab 3 Jungle Wood Slab 4 Acacia Wood Slab 5 Dark Oak Wood Slab 8 Upper Oak Wood Slab 9 Upper Spruce Wood Slab 10 Upper Birch Wood Slab 11 Upper Jungle Wood Slab 12 Upper Acacia Wood Slab 13 Upper Dark Oak Wood Slab

Crimson, warped, blackstone, polished blackstone and polished blackstone brick slab

DV Description 0 Bottom slab 1 Top slab

Block states [ edit ]

Java Edition:

Name Default value Allowed values Description type bottom bottom

top Where the slab is within its block. double The block is a double slab. waterlogged false false

true Whether or not there's water in the same place as this slab.

Bedrock Edition:

Stone slab and double stone slab

Name Default value Allowed values Description stone_slab_type smooth_stone brick

cobblestone

nether_brick

quartz

sandstone

smooth_stone

stone_brick

wood The type of slab this is. top_slot_bit false false

true If this slab is an upper slab.

Wood slab and double wood slab

Name Default value Allowed values Description top_slot_bit false false

true If this slab is an upper slab. wood_type oak acacia

birch

dark_oak

jungle

oak

spruce The type of slab this is.

Stone slab 2 and double stone slab 2

Name Default value Allowed values Description stone_slab_type_2 red_sandstone mossy_cobblestone

prismarine_brick

prismarine_dark

prismarine_rough

purpur

red_nether_brick

red_sandstone

smooth_sandstone The type of slab this is. top_slot_bit false false

true If this slab is an upper slab.

Stone slab 3 and double stone slab 3

Name Default value Allowed values Description stone_slab_type_3 end_stone_brick andesite

diorite

end_stone_brick

granite

polished_andesite

polished_diorite

polished_granite

smooth_red_sandstone The type of slab this is. top_slot_bit false false

true If this slab is an upper slab.

Stone slab 4 and double stone slab 4

Name Default value Allowed values Description stone_slab_type_4 mossy_stone_brick cut_red_sandstone

cut_sandstone

mossy_stone_brick

smooth_quartz

stone The type of slab this is. top_slot_bit false false

true If this slab is an upper slab.

Crimson, warped, blackstone, polished blackstone and polished blackstone brick slab

Name Default value Allowed values Description top_slot_bit false false

true If this slab is an upper slab.

History [ edit ]

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The specific problem is: Bedrock/Legacy Console: 1.9.0/1.88 added new slabs, 1.10.0/1.90 added the new textures; some old textures are mixed with the new ones and some don't exist at all. Please help the Minecraft Wiki clean up this page if you can.The specific problem is: Bedrock/Legacy Console: 1.9.0/1.88 added new slabs, 1.10.0/1.90 added the new textures; some old textures are mixed with the new ones and some don't exist at all.

Issues [ edit ]

Issues relating to "Slab" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia [ edit ]

Any light directed through a slab does not affect any block's light values north of the source.

Whereas 1×1 dents in a flat floor using slabs are darkened as one would expect, 1×1 dents created using 2×1 or 2×2 stairs darken less, due to having fewer surrounding solid blocks. [3]

When water or lava are on top of an upside-down slab, the water dripping particles appear in midair below the slab instead of from the slab itself, this was fixed in Java Edition 1.13-pre7, [4] but is an intentional feature in Bedrock Edition. [5]

1.13-pre7, but is an intentional feature in Bedrock Edition. When a TNT placed on a slab explodes, its blast radius is greatly reduced. ( In some cases, only the slab is destroyed. )

As with the previous trivia, End Crystals and Creeper explosions will also be weakened if the explosion happens on the slab.

Slabs are the most efficient way to produce renewable charcoal fuel in Bedrock Edition. 3 wood blocks → 12 planks → 24 slabs for smelting 36 wood blocks into charcoal, which in turn can smelt 288 items. In Java Edition, the most efficient way to produce charcoal is to use planks as fuel to smelt wood blocks without crafting the planks into slabs.

Gallery [ edit ]