How to make slab in minecraft

Stone brick slab is a block that can be used for the decoration of buildings. To make stone bricks slab you will need Cobblestone, Stone using Furnace and Stone Bricks. Please follow the following steps to make Stone Bricks Slab. 

Cobblestone 

In order to make stone brick slab, the basic item you will need is cobblestone. You will have to find and get at least 4 cobblestone blocks. 

Stone using Furnace 

Go to the furnace and add 4 cobblestone blocks at the top box and coal at the lower box in order to get 4 stones in the right-side box of the furnace. Bring these stones in your inventory. 

Stone Bricks 

Move to the crafting table and open up 3*3 crafting grid. Add 4 stones in adjacent cells of the first 2 columns of the grid to craft stone bricks. You will get stone bricks in the right-side box to the crafting table. Add these bricks into the inventory.   

Stone bricks slab 

Now you can craft stone brick slabs by using the crafting table. Add stone bricks in 3*3 crafting grid in the same way as shown in the image below to get stone bricks slab in the right-side box to the crafting table. Bring this slab into “ready to use” stock.  

This article is about slabs obtainable in normal gameplay. For the wooden slab which acts like stone, see Petrified Oak Slab. For the removed smooth stone-like slab, see Seamless Stone Slab. For the April Fools' joke, see Etho Slab. For the removed slab due to a bug, see Dirt Slab.

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Slabs are half-height versions of their respective blocks.

Obtaining[]

Breaking[]

Stone-type slabs require a pickaxe to mine. Cut copper slabs require at least a stone pickaxe. Wooden slabs can be mined with anything, but an axe is quickest.

Unlike stairs, many stone-type slabs have different hardness values (and thus, breaking time) compared to their full-block counterparts.[1]

1. ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Most slabs drop themselves when broken. However, in Bedrock Edition, petrified oak slabs drop normal oak slabs.

Double slabs drop 2 of their respective single slabs, even when mined with Silk Touch. In Java Edition, double slabs are completely unobtainable. In Bedrock Edition, they can be obtained through inventory editing.

Crafting[]

Stonecutting[]

Petrified oak slabs are the stone-type wooden slabs left from before Java Edition 1.3.1. They are now unobtainable in vanilla survival.

Natural generation[]

• Smooth stone slabs generate naturally in strongholds.
• Sandstone slabs generate naturally in desert wells, and desert pyramids.
• Spruce slabs generate naturally in igloo basements.
• Oak, birch, spruce, smooth stone and cobblestone slabs generate naturally in woodland mansions.
• Dark oak, cobblestone and mossy cobblestone slabs generate in pillager outpost.
• Oak, birch, spruce, jungle, acacia, and dark oak slabs can generate in shipwrecks.
• Blackstone and quartz slabs generate in bastion remnants.
• Purpur slabs generate naturally in end cities.
• Deepslate brick, deepslate tile, cobbled deepslate and polished deepslate slabs generate naturally in ancient cities.

• Smooth stone, oak and cobblestone slabs generate naturally in plains villages.
• Smooth sandstone and sandstone slabs generate naturally in desert villages.
• Smooth stone and acacia slabs generate naturally in savanna villages.
• Smooth stone and spruce slabs generate naturally in taiga and snowy taiga villages.

• Stone, stone brick, and mossy stone brick slabs generate in ruined portals in the overworld.
• Blackstone, polished blackstone, and polished blackstone brick slabs generate in ruined portals in the nether.

Usage[]

Placement[]

Slabs can occupy either the top half or the bottom half of a block, or both:

• Placing a slab on top of a block or on the side of a block in the lower half of the side surface creates a bottom slab
• Placing a slab on the underside of a block or on the top half of the side surface creates a top slab
• Placing a top and bottom slab of the same type in the same block creates a double slab block
• It is impossible to place two different kinds of slabs in the same block.

Slabs cannot be oriented vertically.

Crafting ingredient[]

Behavior[]

An example of how top slabs can make redstone travel compactly "up stairs".

Slabs do not block a vertical redstone connection as it is a transparent block.

In Bedrock Edition a single slab (top or bottom) is transparent to light, while a double slab is opaque. The empty half of a slab block is also transparent to mobs, unlike other transparent blocks such as fences and glass, which players can see through but mobs cannot.

A bottom placed on top of a hopper is transparent to items; the items fall through the bottom slab into the hopper. Without a hopper attached below, a bottom slab behaves as a solid surface.

Falling block entities (like sand, gravel, and concrete powder) turn into their dropped form if they land on a bottom slab, as when they fall on a torch.

Mobs see a slab as a full block when pathfinding. They can spawn on top slabs and double slabs, but not on bottom slabs. This can be used to prevent mob spawning in certain areas, such as mob farms.

Generally, the top face of top slabs, the bottom face of bottom slabs, and all faces of double slabs are handled as solid blocks. Due to this, blocks that require a solid surface for placement can be placed on these faces.

Double slabs are handled as a single block instead of two different slabs; as such, breaking one destroys the whole block and drop two slabs, as opposed to breaking only one slab within the block. "Double slabs" that are not aligned to the grid (i.e. a bottom slab on top of a top slab) are handled as separate blocks and are broken individually.

Redstone dust placed on a top slab receives signals from redstone dust one block lower and adjacent, but cannot transmit signals down to that block.

In Bedrock Edition, mobs standing on bottom slabs with air or another bottom slab below fail to pathfind correctly. They often end up spinning around in a small circle when they try to move.

Due to the way blast rays propagate from an explosion, bottom slabs provide extremely effective absorption to explosions directly on top of them. In some cases, only the slab is destroyed from a TNT explosion directly on top of it. Explosions from end crystals and creepers are also weakened.

Sneaking reduces the player's hitbox height to 1.65 blocks in Bedrock Edition, and so does not allow the player to walk over a bottom slab with one block of air above it, which is 1.5 blocks of space. In Java Edition, however, a crouching player's hitbox is exactly 1.5 blocks, allowing the player to fit through such a gap. A player cannot walk from a block of soul sand directly up to a bottom slab without jumping – this applies not just to soul sand, but to any block 7⁄8 of a block high or shorter, because the maximum step height of the player is 0.6 of a block. The player can walk off a bottom slab while sneaking, because the sneaking prevents falling only when the distance is higher than one half block.

If a single slab is placed in a water source block, the empty half of that slab's block is waterlogged. If a slab is placed in flowing water, a pocket of air is created in the unfilled half of the block. If the player's head is in this pocket, the player can breathe and see as clearly as from an air block. If a single slab is placed in between two water sources or waterlogged blocks, the slab becomes waterlogged‌[Java Edition only]. This also happens when a water bucket or a bucket containing a fish is used on a single slab. Double slabs cannot be waterlogged.

A minecart on powered rails is not repelled by a slab, although it is repelled by a slab with a minecart on top.

Fuel[]

Overworld wooden slabs can be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 0.75 items per slab in Java Edition, and 1.5 items per slab in Bedrock Edition[3].

Therefore in Bedrock Edition, wooden slabs (12 items per log) are twice as fuel efficient as wood planks (6 items per log), even more so than charcoal (8 items per log), which needs to be smelted in the first place.

Note blocks[]

Wooden slabs can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass" sounds.

Stone slabs can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sounds.

Sounds[]

Copper[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:[more information needed]

Nether brick[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Wood[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Other[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Block states[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:
Stone slab and double stone slab:

Wood slab and double wood slab:

Stone slab 2 and double stone slab 2:

Stone slab 3 and double stone slab 3:

Stone slab 4 and double stone slab 4:

Other slabs and double slabs:

History[]

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Java Edition pre-Classic
May 16, 2009	Notch mentions wanting to add "half-height tiles for stairs".
Java Edition Classic
May 17, 2009	Slabs were suggested on the TIGSource forums.
October 22, 2009	Dirt slabs were shown in a blog post.
October 23, 2009	Notch says the new half block has nearly been finished and gives a video.
0.26 SURVIVAL TEST	Added stone slabs.
Stone slabs can be obtained by mining coal ore because of the lack of inventory and crafting.
Java Edition Indev
0.31	20100130	Slabs have now received a crafting recipe: 3 slabs from 3 cobblestone.
Slabs no longer drop from coal ore.
Java Edition Beta
1.3	Added sandstone, "wooden" (now called petrified oak), and cobblestone slabs.
The "wooden" slabs had to be mined with a pickaxe to collect, were not affected by fire, and had stronger blast resistance than planks, making them a useful building material.
Double slabs now yield 2 of their respective single slabs when broken, as opposed to 1. Destroying double slabs with TNT still yields only a single slab, however (when the slabs aren't simply destroyed by the explosion). It is not known when or if this was fixed.
Stone slabs are now made with stone instead of cobblestone, with the former recipe now being used for cobblestone slabs. The recipes for pressure plates were also changed to avoid conflicting with the new slab recipes.
1.7	The model of bottom slabs now uses the bottom half of the texture.
The texture of cobblestone slabs has been changed.
1.8	Pre-release	Added the stone brick and bricks slabs.
The sprinting feature has been added in this update. While stairs cancel the player's sprinting, slabs allow a player to continue sprinting.
Smooth stone slabs now generate in villages and strongholds.
Java Edition
1.0.0	Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5	The textures of bricks and planks have been changed, and by extension that of the slabs.
?	Slabs placed above other slabs no longer combine into a double slab unless the top slab is placed directly on the bottom slab.
1.2.1	1.2	All types of slabs are now able to be placed upside down and under blocks; these occupy the top half of their block space rather than the bottom half.
The crafting recipe has been changed, so that 6 slabs would be crafted rather than 3.
1.2.4	release	The texture of sandstone slabs has been changed, although it is only visible in the double and bottom variants.
?	Double slabs broken with Silk Touch now drop both slabs instead of one.
1.3.1	12w17a	New slabs have been added for the four different types of wood planks, replacing the functionality of the now-unobtainable petrified oak slab. These new slabs are vulnerable to fire, and can be collected faster with an axe than with a pickaxe. Petrified oak slabs already crafted or placed in the world remain as-is.
12w21a	Sandstone slabs now generate in desert temples.
12w22a	Upside down slabs can now be placed by generally looking at the top half of the side of a block, rather than strictly the underside of a block.
12w25a	Redstone (including repeaters, torches. levers and pressure plates) and rails can now be placed on slabs positioned upside down.
12w26a	Mobs can now spawn on upside down slabs.
?	Renamed the wooden slabs from "species-Wood Slab" to "species Wood Slab"
1.4.2	12w39a	Slabs now interact properly with lighting.
When slabs are placed upside down, they now accept light from light sources themselves, and no longer block light to surrounding blocks.
Slabs no longer cast the shadow of a full-sized block.[4]
1.4.6	November 28, 2012	Jeb tweeted a picture of himself crafting nether brick slabs.
12w49a	Added nether brick slabs.
1.5	13w01a	Wooden Slabs can now be used to craft daylight sensors.
13w02a	Added quartz slabs, featuring the top quartz texture on all six sides.
13w09c	Quartz slabs and double slabs now use the top, side and bottom textures of the block of quartz.
April 1, 2013	Added TNT slabs, called Etho Slabs, to the April Fools update, Minecraft 2.0. They exploded like TNT, producing a larger explosion that caused anvils to spawn over any player in the explosion's range.
1.7.2	1.7	Added acacia and dark oak slabs.
1.8	14w02a	Stone brick slabs can now be used to craft chiseled stone bricks.
Stone slabs can now be crafted using granite, diorite, andesite, or their polished counterparts.
14w32a	Added red sandstone slabs and double slabs.
Armor stands are now crafted using any slab.
14w32b	Armor stands can now be crafted only using stone slabs.
14w33a	Stone slabs can no longer be crafted using granite, diorite, andesite, or their polished counterparts.
1.9	June 22, 2015	Jeb reveals purpur slabs on Instagram, with the words "MINECON 2015 HYPE!"
15w31a	Added purpur slabs and double slabs.
15w43a	A spruce slab now acts as the middle of a table generated within igloo basements.
1.11	16w39a	Oak, birch, spruce, stone, and cobblestone slabs now generate in woodland mansions.
April 17, 2018	Dinnerbone confirms that Java Edition 1.14 contains many new stairs and slabs.
1.13	17w47a	Old non-flammable wooden slabs, which are now called "Petrified oak slabs", have been re-implemented into the creative inventory.
"Bricks slab" has been renamed to "Brick slab".
"Stone bricks slab" has been renamed to "Stone brick slab".
"<Wood type> wood slab" has been renamed to "<wood type> slab".
18w07a	Added slabs for prismarine, prismarine bricks, and dark prismarine.
18w10c	Water can now be placed on the same block as slabs.
18w20a	"Prismarine Bricks Slab" has been renamed to "Prismarine Brick Slab."
1.13.1	18w32a	Purpur slabs can now be crafted with purpur pillars.
October 10, 2018	Dinnerbone tweets that there are to be 14 new slabs.
October 10, 2018	Polished diorite slabs are tweeted out by LadyAgnes.
1.14	18w43a	Added stone, andesite, polished andesite, diorite, polished diorite, granite, polished granite, mossy stone brick, mossy cobblestone, smooth sandstone, smooth red sandstone, smooth quartz, red nether brick, end stone brick slabs.
The textures of all slabs have been changed.
"Stone Slab" has been renamed to "Smooth Stone Slab".
18w44a	The textures for stone, andesite, polished andesite, diorite, polished diorite, smooth sandstone slabs have been changed.
18w46a	Slabs now allow light to pass through certain faces.
18w47a	The textures for oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, stone bricks, mossy stone bricks, nether bricks, red sandstone, and smooth red sandstone slabs have been changed.
18w48a	Stone slabs are now used to craft grindstones.
Oak and cobblestone slabs now generate naturally in the updated plains villages.
18w49a	Acacia slabs now generate in the updated savanna villages.
18w50a	Sandstone and smooth sandstone slabs now generate in the updated desert villages.
Spruce slabs now generate in the updated taiga villages.
The textures for spruce, cobblestone, mossy cobblestone, sandstone, smooth sandstone, red sandstone, and smooth red sandstone slabs have been changed.
Wood slabs are now used to craft barrels.
19w02a	Wood slabs are now used to craft lecterns.
19w08a	The texture of diorite slabs has been changed.
Smooth quartz now use the bottom texture of normal quartz blocks, rather than the top texture.
19w12a	Added cut sandstone and cut red sandstone slabs.
19w13a	Slabs no longer block light, except at their full faces.
19w13b	The texture of quartz slabs has been changed.
1.16	20w06a	Added crimson and warped slabs.
20w15a	Added blackstone, polished blackstone, and polished blackstone brick slabs.
20w16a	Blackstone and quartz slabs now generate as part of bastion remnants.
Stone, mossy stone brick, stone brick, blackstone, polished blackstone brick and polished blackstone slabs can now generate as part of ruined portals.
1.16.2	20w28a	Blackstone, polished blackstone and polished blackstone brick slabs are now renewable as piglins have an 8.71% chance to trade 8-16 blackstone during bartering.
October 3, 2020	Copper slabs are revealed at Minecraft Live 2020.
1.17	20w45a	Added cut copper slabs and waxed cut copper slabs.
20w46a	The texture of cut copper slab has been changed.
20w48a	Crafting cut copper slabs now outputs 6 slabs instead of 4.[5]
21w07a	Added grimstone, polished grimstone, grimstone brick, and grimstone tile slabs.
Changed textures of blackstone and polished blackstone bricks slabs.
21w08a	All Grimstone Slabs have been renamed to their "Deepslate" equivalents.
The textures of deepslate, polished deepslate, deepslate brick, and deepslate tile slabs have been changed.
The texture of blackstone slab has been changed.
21w10a	Updated texture of Cobbled deepslate slab.
21w14a	Added waxed oxidized cut copper slab.
1.18	21w40a	A block of copper can now be converted into 8 cut copper slabs when using stonecutter.
October 16, 2021	File:Mangrove Slab (pre-release).png Mangrove slabs are shown at Minecraft Live 2021.
1.19	Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1	Deepslate brick slab and deepslate tile slab now generate as part of ancient city.
22w11a	Added mangrove and mud brick slab.
22w12a	Mud brick slab now drop item when break by hand.[6]
Mud brick slab now take faster to break.[7]
Mud brick slab now use mud sound instead of stone sound.[8]
22w13a	Cobbled deepslate slab and polished deepslate slab now generate as part of ancient city.
22w14a	Due to the addition of the mangrove tree and mangrove swamp, make mangrove slab obtainable and renewable.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.1.0	Added stone, wood, cobblestone, and sandstone slabs. Wood, cobblestone, and sandstone slabs are currently unobtainable.
v0.2.0	The textures of wooden planks and cobblestone have been changed, and by extension that of the slabs.
v0.3.0	Added brick slabs to Creative mode. Even though they have a crafting recipe, they are not obtainable in Survival mode due to infinite stacks only counting as one of a material.
Survival players no longer start out with an infinite amount of stone slabs.
Wood and cobblestone slabs are now obtainable via crafting in Survival mode.
Wood slabs are now available in the creative inventory.
v0.3.2	Cobblestone slabs are now available in the creative inventory.
Bricks are no longer in an infinite stack and now be gathered, making brick slabs obtainable in Survival mode.
v0.4.0	The model of bottom slabs now uses the bottom half of the full block's texture.
v0.6.0	Added stone brick slabs.
Sandstone slabs are now available in both Survival and Creative mode.
Slabs can now be placed on the top half of blocks.
The recipes for crafting slabs now give 6 slabs, instead of 3 slabs.
v0.7.3	Added quartz slabs.
Wooden slabs can now be crafted during and after this update are now flammable. Existing wooden slabs (which have stone properties) are now tagged "Fake Wood Slab" and drop real wooden slabs.
v0.8.0	build 2	Added birch, spruce and jungle wood slabs.
The texture of sandstone slabs has been changed, although it is only visible in the double and bottom variants.
v0.9.0	build 1	Added acacia and dark oak wood slabs.
Stone slabs now generate naturally in villages.
build 11	Added crafting recipe for jungle wood slabs.
?	The wooden slab names have been changed from "[woodtype] Wooden Slab" to "[woodtype] Wood Slab".
v0.12.1	build 1	Added nether brick slabs.
v0.13.0	build 1	Wooden slabs are now used to craft daylight sensors.
Sandstone slabs now generate in desert temples.
v0.14.0	build 1	Added red sandstone slabs.
v0.14.2	The nether brick slab texture has been brightened.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0	alpha 0.17.0.1	Added purpur slabs.
A spruce slab nows act as the middle of a table generated within igloo basements.
1.1.0	alpha 1.1.0.0	Oak, birch, spruce, stone, and cobblestone slabs now generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0	beta 1.2.0.2	Stone slabs are now used to craft armor stands.
1.4.0	beta 1.2.13.8	Added slabs for prismarine, prismarine brick and dark prismarine as part of Experimental Gameplay.
beta 1.2.14.2	The slabs for prismarine, prismarine brick, and dark prismarine have been fully implemented.
1.9.0	beta 1.9.0.0	Added stone, andesite, polished andesite, diorite, polished diorite, granite, polished granite, mossy stone brick, mossy cobblestone, smooth sandstone, cut sandstone, smooth red sandstone, cut red sandstone, smooth quartz, red nether brick, and end stone brick slabs.
The textures of all slabs have been changed.
"Stone Slab" has been renamed to "Smooth Stone Slab".
Sandstone and red sandstone slabs can now be crafted only using regular sandstone.
Smooth stone slabs now require smooth stone to craft them.
1.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3	The textures of slabs have been changed.
Cobblestone, mossy cobblestone, and dark oak slabs now generate in pillager outposts.
Smooth sandstone slabs now generate in new desert villages.
Wood slabs can now be used to craft composters, barrels and lecterns.
Stone slabs can now be used to craft grindstone.
1.12.0	beta 1.12.0.2	Single slabs now only block sky light.
1.16.0	beta 1.16.0.51	Added crimson and warped slabs.
beta 1.16.0.57	Added blackstone, polished blackstone, and polished blackstone brick slabs.
Quartz slabs now generate as part of bastion remnants.
Stone, mossy stone brick, stone brick, blackstone, nether brick slabs can now generate as part of ruined portals.
Added new sounds to the nether brick slab variants.
beta 1.16.0.63	The texture of nether brick slabs now matches Java Edition's again.
1.16.20	beta 1.16.20.50	Crimson and warped slabs now uses regular plank sounds instead of their stem variant sounds.
Caves & Cliffs (experimental)	beta 1.16.210.57	Added cut copper slabs and waxed cut copper slabs.
1.17.0	beta 1.16.230.52	Added cobbled deepslate, polished deepslate, deepslate brick, and deepslate tile slabs.
Added waxed oxidized cut copper slabs.
beta 1.17.0.50	Updated blackstone slab texture.
beta 1.17.0.52	The slabs for copper and deepslate variants are no longer available only through Experimental Gameplay.
1.19.0	beta 1.19.0.20	Added mangrove and mud brick slab.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added stone, wood (original oak), sandstone and cobblestone slabs.
TU3	Changed the textures of stone, wood, sandstone and cobblestone slabs.
TU5	Added stone brick and brick slabs.
TU9	Added birch wood, spruce wood and nether brick slabs.
Wooden slabs crafted during and after this update are now flammable and are broken with an axe instead of a pickaxe. Existing slabs (which have stone properties) are not stackable with the new slabs.
TU12	Added jungle wood slabs.
Slabs can now be placed upside down.
Items can now be placed directly on upside down slabs.
TU14	1.04	Added quartz slabs.
The placement of half blocks and other blocks on half blocks has been changed.
The placement of upside down slabs has been changed.
TU27	CU15	1.18	Added acacia and dark oak wood slabs to the creative inventory.
TU46	CU36	1.38	Patch 15	Added purpur slabs.
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added slabs for prismarine, prismarine bricks and dark prismarine.
	1.88		The textures of all slabs has been changed.
Added andesite, polished andesite, diorite, polished diorite, granite, polished granite, mossy stone brick slab, mossy cobblestone, smooth sandstone, smooth red sandstone, smooth quartz, red nether brick, end stone brick slabs.
"Stone Slab" has been renamed to "Smooth Stone Slab".
1.90	The textures of slabs have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0	Added slabs.
1.7.10	Added purpur slabs.

Data history[]

Java Edition
1.2.1	1.2	The prior restriction for crafting was likely due to the fact that the slab types were differentiated by their damage values instead of by different data values, similar to wood, coal or charcoal, and colored wool.
1.5	January 22, 2013	Jeb states that the "smooth stone full half-slab" is to be re-implemented with a data value of 43:8. Other slabs with data values of 43:9-43:15 are also to use the top texture on all sides, resulting in a "smooth sandstone block" with a data value of 43:9. He also stated that they may be obtained legitimately later.[9]
13w04a	The smooth stone double slab has been re-implemented with a data value of 43:8.
The smooth sandstone double slab has been added, with a data value of 43:9.
Seamless data values of 43:10-43:15 have been added, but are unused and appear identical to their normal counterparts.
13w09c	The quartz slab's seamless counterpart, with a data value of 43:15, retains the top texture on all 6 sides.
1.8	14w32a	Added smooth red sandstone double slabs.
1.13	17w47a	The different variant block states for stone_slab, stone_slab2, wooden_slab, purpur_slab, double_stone_slab, double_stone_slab2, double_wooden_slab and purpur_double_slab IDs have been split up and merged into their own IDs depending on variant.
Smooth double slabs, now smooth blocks, have added to the creative inventory.
Smooth blocks now drop themselves, instead of slabs when mined.
Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 43, 44, 125, 126, 181, 182, 204 and 205.
Pocket Edition
?	Stone slabs are added with ids of "stone_slab", however their item forms' ids are incorrectly registried as "double_stone_slab".
The direct item forms of double stone slabs have IDs of "real_double_stone_slab".
Bedrock Edition
1.19.0	beta 1.19.0.26	The IDs of stone slabs and double stone slabs are changed.
For backward compatibility, their IDs are now changed to "stone_block_slab" and "double_stone_block_slab" respectively, and their original IDs are registried as their alias IDs

Double slab "items"[]

Appearances[]

Smooth Stone Double Slab[]

Java Edition
?	This appearance is used.

Names[]

This section is missing information about

• Does it crash beta 1.9?
• did they ever share the single slabs' names?. 

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Item names did not exist prior to Beta 1.0.

• Beta 1.0 - Beta 1.2_02: Stone Slab
• Beta 1.3 - ?: [Has no defined name, rendering a minimum-length text box if highlighted]

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Slab" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

• Any light directed through a slab does not affect any block's light values north of the source.
• Whereas 1×1 dents in a flat floor using slabs are darkened as one would expect, 1×1 dents created using 2×1 or 2×2 stairs darken less, due to having fewer surrounding solid blocks.[11]
• When water or lava are on top of an upside-down slab, the water dripping particles appear in midair below the slab instead of from the slab itself, this was fixed in Java Edition 1.13-pre7,[12] but will not be fixed in Bedrock Edition.[13]
• Notch has said he regrets the introducing slabs to the game, due to half-blocks unnecessarily "doubling the resolution" of the game by adding detail outside of the game's otherwise cubic constraints.[14]

Gallery[]

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  Double smooth stone slab (left) compared to smooth stone.

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  Slabs used to create the impression of half-aligned full blocks.

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  All eight types of wooden slabs.

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  Example of slab shelving by placing slabs below other slabs.

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  Cut sandstone (left) compared to Smooth stone (right).

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  Slabs can carry redstone signal.

References[]

Redstone