Overview
Nether Brick Slab is one of the 30 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. Oak Slab is the same shape in a different material.
Nether Brick Slab is a Nether block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Nether Brick Slab. Its hardness of 2 makes it a normal, unhurried block to mine.
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 Nether Bricks. You can also cut it from Nether Bricks on a stonecutter. Its only crafting use is Chiseled Nether Bricks.
About the nether brick set
How long it takes to break
At a hardness of 2, Nether Brick Slab takes 10 seconds to punch out and 0.35 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.
You are looking at 0.5 seconds on iron and 0.4 on diamond — the iron step is where the time actually falls.
Below wooden the block breaks and simply vanishes. Bring the right tier or leave it in the ground.
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
With 6 blast resistance Nether Brick Slab usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. A single slot takes 64, the usual 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
How to get it
Crafting Table
Nether Brick Slab ×6
Stonecutter
Nether Brick Slab ×2
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Nether Brick Slab drops itself.
Used to craft
Nether Brick Slab is an ingredient in 1 recipes, producing Chiseled Nether Bricks.
Guides and tools that cover this
Frequently asked questions
How do you get Nether Brick Slab in Minecraft?
Nether Brick Slab is crafted from Nether Bricks.
What tool do you need to break Nether Brick Slab?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Nether Brick Slab blast resistant?
Nether Brick Slab has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Nether Brick Slab fit in one stack?
A stack is 64, and a double chest of them comes to 3,456.
How long does Nether Brick Slab take to break?
With the correct tool at netherite tier it takes 0.35 seconds; by hand it takes 10 seconds.
The rest of the set
Nether Brick Slab is one of 30 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
