Polished Deepslate — Minecraft block

Overview

Polished Deepslate is one of the 4 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. Deepslate is the same shape in a different material.

In Minecraft 1.21.4, Polished Deepslate is a stone-family block. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Polished Deepslate. 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 Cobbled Deepslate. You can also cut it from Cobbled Deepslate on a stonecutter. It is an ingredient in 11 recipes, among them Deepslate Bricks, Polished Deepslate Slab, Polished Deepslate Stairs and 8 more.

About the deepslate set

How long it takes to break

Polished Deepslate sits at hardness 3.5: 18 seconds per block with your fists, 0.6 with the correct netherite tool.

Iron manages 0.9 seconds and diamond 0.7, which makes iron the tier that changes how this block feels.

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 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

Polished Deepslate 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. Stack size is 64 — the standard 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.

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Required tool: Wooden Pickaxe

How to get it

Crafting Table

Polished Deepslate ×4

Stonecutter

Cobbled Deepslate

Polished Deepslate

Drops

Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Polished Deepslate drops itself.

Polished Deepslate

Used to craft

Polished Deepslate is an ingredient in 11 recipes, producing Deepslate Bricks, Polished Deepslate Slab, Polished Deepslate Stairs, Polished Deepslate Wall, Deepslate Brick Slab, Deepslate Brick Stairs, Deepslate Brick Wall, Deepslate Tile Slab, Deepslate Tile Stairs, Deepslate Tile Wall, and Deepslate Tiles.