Overview
Brick Slab is one of the 30 variants of this shape in the game. What changes between them is the material, and with it the hardness, the drops, the durability and the recipe — so every figure on this page is this variant's own. Oak Slab is the same shape in a different material.
Brick Slab counts as a building block in Minecraft 1.21.4. Brick Slab has a crafting recipe, so it is renewable as long as you can source its ingredients. At a hardness of 2 it takes a moment to break but never slows a build down.
It needs at least a wooden pickaxe to drop anything; a weaker tool destroys it for nothing. Mining it returns the block itself, so it is safe to relocate. A full stack holds 64.
It is crafted from Bricks. The stonecutter is the cheaper route: one Bricks gives one of these. No recipe takes it as an ingredient.
How long it takes to break
Brick Slab sits at hardness 2: 10 seconds per block with your fists, 0.35 with the correct netherite tool.
You are looking at 0.5 seconds on iron and 0.4 on diamond — the iron step is where the time actually falls.
A weaker tool still breaks it, but anything under wooden returns nothing — you spend the time and lose the drop, which is how most veins get wasted.
Efficiency contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 3.5 times faster than the plain tool.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand * | 10 s | 10 s | 10 s |
| Wooden | 1.5 s | 0.25 s | 0.15 s |
| Stone | 0.75 s | 0.25 s | 0.1 s |
| Iron | 0.5 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Diamond | 0.4 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Netherite | 0.35 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Golden | 0.25 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
Properties
With 6 blast resistance Brick Slab usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard full stack. A pickaxe is fastest here; any other class mines it at bare-hand speed, because the bonus only applies to the class the block is tagged for. As furnace fuel it burns for 7.5 seconds — 0.8 smelting operations.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Wooden Pickaxe
- Fuel value
- 7.5 s
How to get it
Crafting Table
Brick Slab ×6
Stonecutter
Brick Slab ×2
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Brick Slab drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Brick Slab in Minecraft?
Brick Slab is crafted from Bricks.
What tool do you need to break Brick Slab?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Brick Slab blast resistant?
Brick Slab has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Brick Slab fit in one stack?
Brick Slab stacks to 64, which puts 3,456 of them in a double chest.
How long does Brick Slab take to break?
About 0.35 seconds if you bring the correct netherite tool; 10 seconds with your fists.
The rest of the set
Brick Slab is one of 30 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
