Overview
Cherry 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.
Cherry Slab is a building block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Cherry Slab. Its hardness of 2 makes it a normal, unhurried block to mine.
Mining it returns the block itself, so it is safe to relocate. A full stack holds 64. It is crafted from Cherry Planks.
Its main value is as a crafting ingredient: 5 recipes need it, Barrel, Chiseled Bookshelf, Composter and 2 more among them.
About the cherry set
How long it takes to break
Cherry Slab sits at hardness 2: 3 seconds per block with your fists, 0.35 with the correct netherite tool.
Iron manages 0.5 seconds and diamond 0.4, which makes iron the tier that changes how this block feels.
No particular tool tier is required: any tool, or none at all, still yields the drop, so the table below is about speed rather than about whether you get anything.
The Efficiency formula is level² + 1 added to tool speed — at V that is about 3.5 times the unenchanted rate.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand | 3 s | 3 s | 3 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 3 blast resistance Cherry Slab usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. 64 fit in a slot — a full stack. Fire takes to it quickly — encouragement 5, burn 20 — which makes it a poor neighbour for lava or a lit campfire. The block is tagged for axes, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate. As furnace fuel it burns for 7.5 seconds — 0.8 smelting operations.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Any
- Flammable
- Yes (5/20)
- Fuel value
- 7.5 s
Crafting recipe
Crafting Table
Cherry Slab ×6
Drops
Mined with any, Cherry Slab drops itself.
Used to craft
Cherry Slab is an ingredient in 5 recipes, producing Barrel, Chiseled Bookshelf, Composter, Daylight Detector, and Lectern.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Cherry Slab in Minecraft?
Cherry Slab is crafted from Cherry Planks.
What tool do you need to break Cherry Slab?
No specific tool is required — Cherry Slab can be broken by hand.
Is Cherry Slab blast resistant?
Cherry Slab has a blast resistance of 3, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Cherry Slab fit in one stack?
64 per stack, so a double chest holds 3,456 Cherry Slab.
How long does Cherry Slab take to break?
0.35 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the right class, or 3 seconds bare-handed.
The rest of the set
Cherry Slab is one of 30 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
