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Smooth Stone Slab in Minecraft | MinecraftBible
Smooth Stone Slab is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4 that requires Wooden Pickaxe or better to mine, dropping Smooth Stone Slab.
What is Smooth Stone Slab?
Smooth Stone Slab is a Minecraft block classified under the mineable/pickaxe material group. It has a hardness of 2 and a blast resistance of 6. It stacks up to 64 per inventory slot. It is a solid, opaque block. Smooth Stone Slab does not emit light. Smooth Stone Slab filters 0 levels of light passing through it, which is why it blocks skylight below it.
Namespaced identifier: minecraft:smooth_stone_slab. Command: /give @p minecraft:smooth_stone_slab 1.
How to mine Smooth Stone Slab
Smooth Stone Slab requires one of the following tools to drop its item — mining with a lower tier or by hand destroys it:
Break times (unenchanted, no Haste or Mining Fatigue):
- With the correct tool: approximately 3 seconds
- By hand (no tool): approximately 10 seconds
Using an Efficiency-enchanted tool, Haste beacons, or a Diamond/Netherite tier drastically reduces these times. Water and being airborne slow mining by 5×.
Smooth Stone Slab drops
When broken, Smooth Stone Slab drops:
Silk Touch preserves the block itself; Fortune increases quantity of ore-style drops but has no effect on ordinary blocks.
What Smooth Stone Slab is used to craft
Smooth Stone Slab appears as an ingredient in 1 known Minecraft recipes:
Block tags & properties
- Opaque
- Requires Tool
- Craftable
- Crafting Material
Smooth Stone Slab technical properties
- Waterloggable: Yes
- Flammable: No
- Burns from lava: No
- Renewable: Yes
- Emits light: No (luminance 0)
Values sourced from Minecraft Wiki: Smooth Stone Slab (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Verified for Java Edition 1.21.4.
Smooth Stone Slab natural generation
- Generates in biomes / dimensions: Overworld
Technical properties
- Namespaced ID: minecraft:smooth_stone_slab
- Material family: mineable/pickaxe
- Hardness: 2
- Blast resistance: 6
- Stack size: 64
- Transparent: No
- Blocks light: 0
- Emits light: 0
- Diggable: Yes
- Craftable: Yes
- /give command: /give @p minecraft:smooth_stone_slab 1
Overview
Smooth Stone Slab is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4. This page covers mining requirements, real drop data, and crafting relevance.
Prerequisites and materials
- Bring the correct tool tier before mining - breaking Smooth Stone Slab with the wrong tool will destroy it without dropping anything.
- Expect to collect Smooth Stone Slab once it breaks.
Step-by-step walkthrough
- Bring the correct tool tier before mining - breaking Smooth Stone Slab with the wrong tool will destroy it without dropping anything.
- Expect to collect Smooth Stone Slab once it breaks.
- With the correct tool this takes about 3s to break (unenchanted); by hand it's roughly 10s.
Pro tips
- Use /give @p minecraft:smooth_stone_slab 1 in creative mode to prototype builds before committing resources.
- Carry a spare tool of the correct tier - breaking with the wrong one wastes the drop.
Difficulty and time commitment
- Difficulty: Easy
- Estimated time per run: 1-5 min
Frequently Asked Questions
What tool do I need to mine Smooth Stone Slab?
You need one of: Wooden Pickaxe, Stone Pickaxe, Golden Pickaxe, Iron Pickaxe, Diamond Pickaxe, Netherite Pickaxe. Mining with a lower tier tool (or by hand) will break the block without dropping its item.
What does Smooth Stone Slab drop when mined?
Breaking Smooth Stone Slab drops Smooth Stone Slab.
How hard is Smooth Stone Slab to mine?
Smooth Stone Slab has a hardness value of 2. That works out to roughly 3s with the correct tool or 10s by hand (unenchanted, no Haste/Mining Fatigue).
Can I craft Smooth Stone Slab?
Yes - this page lists 1 known crafting recipe for Smooth Stone Slab.
What is Smooth Stone Slab used to craft?
Smooth Stone Slab is used as an ingredient in 1 other recipe.
What is the internal Minecraft ID for Smooth Stone Slab?
The namespaced ID is minecraft:smooth_stone_slab, usable with /setblock, /fill, and /give.