Deepslate Tile Slab — Minecraft block

Overview

Deepslate Tile Slab counts as a stone-family block in Minecraft 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Deepslate Tile Slab. 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.

You make it with Deepslate Tiles. You can also cut it from Cobbled Deepslate on a stonecutter. It is not used in any crafting recipe.

About the deepslate set

How long it takes to break

Deepslate Tile Slab has a hardness of 3.5. By hand that is 18 seconds per block; with the correct tool at netherite tier it is 0.6 seconds.

You are looking at 0.9 seconds on iron and 0.7 on diamond — the iron step is where the time actually falls.

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 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

With 6 blast resistance Deepslate Tile Slab usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal full stack. A pickaxe is the fastest choice here. A tool of the wrong class is no better than your fist — the speed bonus is tied to the block's own tool tag. As furnace fuel it burns for 7.5 seconds — 0.8 smelting operations.

Transparent: No
Required tool: Wooden Pickaxe
Fuel value: 7.5 s