Overview
Smooth Red Sandstone Slab is one of the 3 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. Red Sandstone Slab is the same shape in a different material.
Minecraft classifies Smooth Red Sandstone Slab as a building block. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Smooth Red 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 Smooth Red Sandstone. You can also cut it from Smooth Red Sandstone on a stonecutter. It is not used in any crafting recipe.
How long it takes to break
Smooth Red Sandstone Slab sits at hardness 2: 10 seconds per block with your fists, 0.35 with the correct netherite tool.
Iron takes 0.5 seconds against diamond's 0.4, so the upgrade worth making for this block is the one to iron.
The block still breaks with a weaker tool, but below wooden it yields nothing at all — the time is spent and the drop is lost, which is the single most common way players waste a vein.
Efficiency adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed, so Efficiency V is about 3.5 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.
| 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
Smooth Red Sandstone Slab 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. A single slot takes 64, the usual full stack. The fastest tool for it is a pickaxe; any other kind of tool mines it no faster than a bare hand does, because the speed bonus only applies to the tool class the block is tagged for. 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
Smooth Red Sandstone Slab ×6
Stonecutter
Smooth Red Sandstone Slab ×2
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Smooth Red Sandstone Slab drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Smooth Red Sandstone Slab in Minecraft?
Smooth Red Sandstone Slab is crafted from Smooth Red Sandstone.
What tool do you need to break Smooth Red Sandstone Slab?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Smooth Red Sandstone Slab blast resistant?
Smooth Red Sandstone Slab has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Smooth Red Sandstone Slab fit in one stack?
64 per stack, so a double chest holds 3,456 Smooth Red Sandstone Slab.
How long does Smooth Red Sandstone Slab take to break?
The correct netherite tool clears it in 0.35 seconds. Bare hands take 10.
The rest of the set
Smooth Red Sandstone Slab is one of 3 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
