Cracked Deepslate Tiles — Minecraft block

Overview

In Minecraft 1.21.4, Cracked Deepslate Tiles is a stone-family block. A hardness of 3.5 makes it slow going without the right tool. Anything below a wooden pickaxe breaks it without leaving a drop.

It drops as the same block you mined. It stacks to 64. A furnace turns Deepslate Tiles into it.

No recipe takes it as an ingredient.

How long it takes to break

Cracked Deepslate Tiles sits at hardness 3.5: 18 seconds per block with your fists, 0.6 with the correct netherite tool.

Iron manages 0.9 seconds and diamond 0.7, which makes iron the tier that changes how this block feels.

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.

Efficiency adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed, so Efficiency V is about 4 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.

* 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

Cracked Deepslate Tiles resists blasts at 6, which usually is not enough when something explodes nearby. Light does not pass through it, and it emits none of its own. 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