Smooth Sandstone Slab

Overview

Smooth 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. Sandstone Slab is the same shape in a different material.

Minecraft classifies Smooth Sandstone Slab as a building block. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Smooth 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 Sandstone. You can also cut it from Smooth Sandstone on a stonecutter. It is not used in any crafting recipe.

How long it takes to break

At a hardness of 2, Smooth Sandstone Slab takes 10 seconds to punch out and 0.35 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.

Iron manages 0.5 seconds and diamond 0.4, 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.

Each Efficiency level adds level² + 1 to the tool's speed, so a level V tool clears this about 3.5 times faster than an unenchanted one.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
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 Smooth Sandstone Slab is 6, so an explosion nearby will usually take it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. 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. As furnace fuel it burns for 7.5 seconds — 0.8 smelting operations.

Transparent: No
Required tool: Wooden Pickaxe
Fuel value: 7.5 s