Overview
Cut 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. Sandstone Slab is the same shape in a different material.
In Minecraft 1.21.4, Cut Sandstone Slab is a building block. Cut Sandstone Slab is made at a crafting table. Hardness 2 puts it in the middle of the pack for mining speed.
Mine it with a wooden pickaxe or better, or you get no drop at all. Broken correctly, it drops itself. Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot.
The recipe calls for Cut Sandstone. A stonecutter can cut it straight from Cut Sandstone, with nothing wasted. Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.
How long it takes to break
At a hardness of 2, Cut Sandstone Slab takes 10 seconds to punch out and 0.35 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.
Iron takes 0.5 seconds against diamond's 0.4, so the upgrade worth making for this block is the one to iron.
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.
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 * | 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
Cut Sandstone Slab has a blast resistance of 6, so a nearby explosion will usually destroy it. It blocks light completely and emits no light of its own. 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 Sandstone Slab ×6
Stonecutter
Cut Sandstone Slab ×2
Stonecutter
Cut Sandstone Slab ×2
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Cut Sandstone Slab drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Cut Sandstone Slab in Minecraft?
Cut Sandstone Slab is crafted from Cut Sandstone.
What tool do you need to break Cut Sandstone Slab?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Cut Sandstone Slab blast resistant?
Cut Sandstone Slab has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Cut Sandstone Slab fit in one stack?
64 per stack, so a double chest holds 3,456 Cut Sandstone Slab.
How long does Cut 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 Sandstone Slab is one of 3 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
