Overview
Cut Red Sandstone Slab is one of the 3 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. Red Sandstone Slab is the same shape in a different material.
Minecraft classifies Cut Red Sandstone Slab as a building block. Cut Red Sandstone 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 Cut Red Sandstone. The stonecutter is the cheaper route: one Cut Red Sandstone gives one of these. No recipe takes it as an ingredient.
How long it takes to break
Cut Red Sandstone Slab has a hardness of 2. By hand that is 10 seconds per block; with the correct tool at netherite tier it is 0.35 seconds.
Iron manages 0.5 seconds and diamond 0.4, which makes iron the tier that changes how this block feels.
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 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
Blast resistance on Cut Red Sandstone Slab is 6, so an explosion nearby will usually take it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. A single slot takes 64, the usual 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
Cut Red Sandstone Slab ×6
Stonecutter
Cut Red Sandstone Slab ×2
Stonecutter
Cut Red Sandstone Slab ×2
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Cut Red Sandstone Slab drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Cut Red Sandstone Slab in Minecraft?
Cut Red Sandstone Slab is crafted from Cut Red Sandstone.
What tool do you need to break Cut Red Sandstone Slab?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Cut Red Sandstone Slab blast resistant?
Cut Red Sandstone Slab has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Cut Red Sandstone Slab fit in one stack?
64 per stack, so a double chest holds 3,456 Cut Red Sandstone Slab.
How long does Cut Red Sandstone Slab take to break?
The correct netherite tool clears it in 0.35 seconds. Bare hands take 10.
The rest of the set
Cut Red Sandstone Slab is one of 3 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
