Overview
Sandstone 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.
Sandstone Slab is a building block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Sandstone 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 Sandstone. You can also cut it from Sandstone on a stonecutter. It is not used in any crafting recipe.
About the sandstone set
How long it takes to break
Sandstone Slab has a hardness of 2. By hand that is 10 seconds per block; with the correct tool at netherite tier it is 0.35 seconds.
An iron tool takes 0.5 seconds and a diamond one 0.4, so the jump that actually matters for this block is the one to iron.
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.
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
Blast resistance on Sandstone Slab is 6, so an explosion nearby will usually take it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. 64 fit in a slot — a 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. As furnace fuel it burns for 7.5 seconds — 0.8 smelting operations.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Wooden Pickaxe
- Fuel value
- 7.5 s
How to get it
Crafting Table
Sandstone Slab ×6
Stonecutter
Sandstone Slab ×2
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Sandstone Slab drops itself.
Used to craft
Sandstone Slab is an ingredient in 1 recipes, producing Chiseled Sandstone.
Guides and tools that cover this
Frequently asked questions
How do you get Sandstone Slab in Minecraft?
Sandstone Slab is crafted from Sandstone.
What tool do you need to break Sandstone Slab?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Sandstone Slab blast resistant?
Sandstone Slab has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Sandstone Slab fit in one stack?
A stack is 64, and a double chest of them comes to 3,456.
How long does Sandstone 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
Sandstone Slab is one of 30 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
