Overview
Tuff 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.
In Minecraft 1.21.4, Tuff Slab is a stone-family block. Tuff Slab is made at a crafting table. Hardness 1.5 puts it in the middle of the pack for mining speed.
Mine it with a wooden pickaxe or better, or you get no drop at all. Broken correctly, it drops itself. Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot.
The recipe calls for Tuff. A stonecutter can cut it straight from Tuff, with nothing wasted. It goes into exactly one recipe: Chiseled Tuff.
About the tuff set
How long it takes to break
At a hardness of 1.5, Tuff Slab takes 7.5 seconds to punch out and 0.25 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.
You are looking at 0.4 seconds on iron and 0.3 on diamond — the diamond step is where the time actually falls.
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.
Efficiency contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 2.5 times faster than the plain tool.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand * | 7.5 s | 7.5 s | 7.5 s |
| Wooden | 1.2 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Stone | 0.6 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Iron | 0.4 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
| Diamond | 0.3 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
| Netherite | 0.25 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
| Golden | 0.2 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
Properties
Blast resistance on Tuff 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
How to get it
Crafting Table
Tuff Slab ×6
Stonecutter
Tuff Slab ×2
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Tuff Slab drops itself.
Used to craft
Tuff Slab is an ingredient in 1 recipes, producing Chiseled Tuff.
Guides and tools that cover this
Frequently asked questions
How do you get Tuff Slab in Minecraft?
Tuff Slab is crafted from Tuff.
What tool do you need to break Tuff Slab?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Tuff Slab blast resistant?
Tuff Slab has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Tuff Slab fit in one stack?
A stack is 64, and a double chest of them comes to 3,456.
How long does Tuff Slab take to break?
The correct netherite tool clears it in 0.25 seconds. Bare hands take 7.5.
The rest of the set
Tuff Slab is one of 30 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
