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Slab in Minecraft

Slabs are a half-height version of their respective full blocks. They are highly blast-resistant blocks. They can be crafted or cut into shape, but they are also generated naturally in the world as parts of generated structures.


A variety of slabs (via screenshot)


How to get slabs?


Slabs have multiple variants which are based on the material they are made of. All slabs can be picked up when broken with a pickaxe except slabs made from wooden materials. In total there are 33 different materials that come in slab form:


  1. Sandstone
  2. Smooth Sandstone
  3. Cut Sandstone
  4. Red Sandstone
  5. Smooth Red Sandstone
  6. Red Cur Sandstone
  7. Cobblestone
  8. Oak
  9. Stone
  10. Smooth Stone
  11. Brick
  12. Stone Brick
  13. Mossy Stone Brick
  14. Quartz
  15. Smooth Quartz
  16. Nether Brick
  17. Red Nether Brick
  18. Purpur Block
  19. Granite
  20. Polished Granite
  21. Diorite
  22. Polished Diorite
  23. Andesite
  24. Polished Andesite
  25. End Stone Brick
  26. Mossy Cobblestone
  27. Prismarine
  28. Dark Prismarine
  29. Prismarine Brick
  30. Blackstone
  31. Polished Blackstone
  32. Cut Copper
  33. Deepslate


Making stone slabs (via screenshot)


A lot of these variants generate naturally in structures such as villages, strongholds, etc.


Naturally Generated

  1. Smooth Stone slabs in strongholds.
  2. Sandstone slabs in desert wells and desert pyramids.
  3. Spruce slabs in igloo basements.
  4. Oak, birch, spruce, smooth stone, and cobblestone slabs in woodland mansions.
  5. Dark oak, mossy cobblestone, and cobblestone in pillager outposts.
  6. Oak, birch, spruce, jungle, acacia, and dark oak slabs in shipwrecks.
  7. Blackstone and quartz slabs in bastion remnants.
  8. Purpur slabs in end cities.
  9. Deepslate brick, deepslate tile, cobbled deepslate, and polished deepslate in ancient cities.


Villages

  1. Smooth Stone, oak, and cobblestone slabs in plains villages.
  2. Smooth sandstone and sandstone slab in desert villages.
  3. Smooth stone and acacia slabs in savanna villages.
  4. Smooth stone and spruce slabs in taiga and snowy taiga villages.


What is the use of slabs?


Slabs can be stacked on top of one another to make a block of regular height. When two slabs of the same material are stacked on top of one another, some will appear as if they are a full-sized block, but other varieties will appear unmistakably as individual slabs.


Slabs have a unique ability to not allow mobs from spawning on top of them. This allows players to deny mobs from spawning in a specific area. For this to work, the slab must be at half block height, otherwise mobs will be able to spawn.


Using slabs to make a barrel (via screenshot)


Conclusion


Slabs are versatile blocks that are half-block height versions of their full-block counterparts. They are used quite extensively for the construction of builds as they have some unique properties, such as denying the spawning of mobs. They can be found quite easily in the world as they generate in tons of structures such as villages, temples, strongholds, etc.


FAQs


Q. How do you make a slab?

A. To craft a slab, you must place three of the same type of block in a row on a crafting table, which will create 3 slabs.


Q. How many types of slabs are there?

A. There are a total of 33 different variations of slabs in Minecraft.


Q. Are slabs an efficient fuel?

A. Wooden slabs are by far the best and most efficient fuel in Minecraft for the simple reason that you can make a lot of them out of just a few logs.


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