Polished Deepslate Wall — Minecraft block

Overview

Minecraft classifies Polished Deepslate Wall as a stone-family block. Polished Deepslate Wall has a crafting recipe, so it is renewable as long as you can source its ingredients. At hardness 3.5 this is one of the tougher blocks in the game.

It needs at least a wooden pickaxe to drop anything; a weaker tool destroys it for nothing. Mining it returns the block itself, so it is safe to relocate. A full stack holds 64.

It is crafted from Polished Deepslate. The stonecutter is the cheaper route: one Cobbled Deepslate gives one of these. No recipe takes it as an ingredient.

How long it takes to break

Hardness 3.5 puts Polished Deepslate Wall at 18 seconds a block bare-handed, or 0.6 seconds with the right tool at netherite tier.

Iron takes 0.9 seconds against diamond's 0.7, so the upgrade worth making for this block is the one to iron.

It will break below wooden, and you will get nothing for it. That combination of time spent and drop lost is the classic mining mistake.

The Efficiency formula is level² + 1 added to tool speed — at V that is about 4 times the unenchanted rate.

* 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

Blast resistance on Polished Deepslate Wall is 6, so an explosion nearby will usually take it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. A single slot takes 64, the usual 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