Overview
Cobblestone 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.
Cobblestone Slab counts as a stone-family block in Minecraft 1.21.4. Cobblestone 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 Cobblestone. The stonecutter is the cheaper route: one Cobblestone gives one of these. No recipe takes it as an ingredient.
About the cobblestone set
How long it takes to break
Cobblestone Slab sits at hardness 2: 10 seconds per block with your fists, 0.35 with the correct netherite tool.
Iron takes 0.5 seconds against diamond's 0.4, so the upgrade worth making for this block is the one to iron.
Below wooden the block breaks and simply vanishes. Bring the right tier or leave it in the ground.
Efficiency adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed, so Efficiency V is about 3.5 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.
| 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 Cobblestone Slab usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. 64 fit in a slot — a full stack. The fastest tool for it is a pickaxe; any other kind of tool mines it no faster than a bare hand does, because the speed bonus only applies to the tool 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
Cobblestone Slab ×6
Stonecutter
Cobblestone Slab ×2
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Cobblestone Slab drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Cobblestone Slab in Minecraft?
Cobblestone Slab is crafted from Cobblestone.
What tool do you need to break Cobblestone Slab?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Cobblestone Slab blast resistant?
Cobblestone Slab has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Cobblestone Slab fit in one stack?
Cobblestone Slab stacks to 64, so a single double chest holds 3,456 of them.
How long does Cobblestone 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
Cobblestone Slab is one of 30 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
