Cracked Deepslate Bricks — Minecraft block

Overview

Minecraft classifies Cracked Deepslate Bricks as a stone-family block. At hardness 3.5 this is one of the tougher blocks in the game. 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 smelted from Deepslate Bricks.

Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.

How long it takes to break

Hardness 3.5 puts Cracked Deepslate Bricks at 18 seconds a block bare-handed, or 0.6 seconds with the right tool at netherite tier.

An iron tool takes 0.9 seconds and a diamond one 0.7, so the jump that actually matters for this block is the one to iron.

The block still breaks with a weaker tool, but below wooden it yields nothing at all — the time is spent and the drop is lost, which is the single most common way players waste a vein.

Each Efficiency level adds level² + 1 to the tool's speed, so a level V tool clears this about 4 times faster than an unenchanted one.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand *	18 s	18 s	18 s
Wooden	2.7 s	0.45 s	0.2 s
Stone	1.4 s	0.4 s	0.2 s
Iron	0.9 s	0.35 s	0.2 s
Diamond	0.7 s	0.3 s	0.2 s
Netherite	0.6 s	0.3 s	0.15 s
Golden	0.45 s	0.25 s	0.15 s

Properties

Blast resistance on Cracked Deepslate Bricks is 6, so an explosion nearby will usually take it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. 64 fit in a slot — a full stack. The block is tagged for pickaxes, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate.

Transparent: No
Required tool: Wooden Pickaxe