Overview
Red Nether Brick Slab is one of the 30 variants of Oak Slab: same recipe, same hardness, same drops — only the look differs. The full write-up for the set is on the Oak Slab page.
Red Nether Brick Slab counts as a Nether block in Minecraft 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Red 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 Red Nether Bricks. You can also cut it from Red Nether Bricks on a stonecutter. It is not used in any crafting recipe.
About the red set
How long it takes to break
Red Nether Brick Slab sits at hardness 2: 10 seconds per block with your fists, 0.35 with the correct netherite tool.
Iron manages 0.5 seconds and diamond 0.4, which makes iron the tier that changes how this block feels.
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 contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 3.5 times faster than the plain tool.
| 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
Red Nether Brick Slab resists blasts at 6, which usually is not enough when something explodes nearby. Light does not pass through it, and it emits none of its own. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal full stack. A pickaxe is fastest here; any other class mines it at bare-hand speed, because the bonus only applies to the class the block is tagged for.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Wooden Pickaxe
How to get it
Crafting Table
Red Nether Brick Slab ×6
Stonecutter
Red Nether Brick Slab ×2
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Red Nether Brick Slab drops itself.
Guides and tools that cover this
Frequently asked questions
How do you get Red Nether Brick Slab in Minecraft?
Red Nether Brick Slab is crafted from Red Nether Bricks.
What tool do you need to break Red Nether Brick Slab?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Red Nether Brick Slab blast resistant?
Red Nether Brick Slab has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Red Nether Brick Slab fit in one stack?
A stack is 64, and a double chest of them comes to 3,456.
How long does Red Nether Brick Slab take to break?
0.35 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the right class, or 10 seconds bare-handed.
The rest of the set
Red Nether Brick Slab is one of 30 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
