Polished Andesite Slab — Minecraft block

Overview

Minecraft classifies Polished Andesite Slab as a stone-family block. Polished Andesite Slab is made at a crafting table. Hardness 1.5 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 Polished Andesite. A stonecutter can cut it straight from Andesite, with nothing wasted. Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.

How long it takes to break

Polished Andesite Slab sits at hardness 1.5: 7.5 seconds per block with your fists, 0.25 with the correct netherite tool.

Iron takes 0.4 seconds against diamond's 0.3, so the upgrade worth making for this block is the one to diamond.

Below wooden the block breaks and simply vanishes. Bring the right tier or leave it in the ground.

Efficiency adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed, so Efficiency V is about 2.5 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand *	7.5 s	7.5 s	7.5 s
Wooden	1.2 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Stone	0.6 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Iron	0.4 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Diamond	0.3 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Netherite	0.25 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Golden	0.2 s	0.15 s	0.1 s

Properties

With 6 blast resistance Polished Andesite Slab usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. 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. As furnace fuel it burns for 7.5 seconds — 0.8 smelting operations.

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