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Dark Oak Slab

Dark Oak Slab is a half-height block crafted from dark oak planks. Two slabs can be combined to form a full block, and they can be placed on the top or bottom of a block's space.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

1.7

Item ID

dark_oak_slab

Dark Oak Slab at a glance

Dark Oak Slab comes from crafting, and Utility Blocks is where it sits as a block. A slot of Dark Oak Slab holds 64, nine slots hold 576, and 1728 fill a chest. Burning Dark Oak Slab works, at 2 a smelt, so keep it for emergencies: a full stack smelts 32.

On the hardness scale Dark Oak Slab sits at 2. Speed on Dark Oak Slab comes from an axe, but the drop comes either way. Blast resistance sits at 3. Dark Oak Slab sits between Dark Oak Sign and Dark Oak Stairs in Utility Blocks, number 113 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Dark Oak PlanksDark Oak Planks
Dark Oak PlanksDark Oak Planks
Dark Oak PlanksDark Oak Planks
Dark Oak SlabDark Oak Slab6

How to obtain

  • Crafting

Fuel value

Dark Oak Slab burns for 7.5 seconds (150 ticks), so 2 Dark Oak Slab smelt one item

Notes

Crafts 6 slabs from 3 planks.

Frequently asked questions about Dark Oak Slab

  1. Dark Oak Planks going into Dark Oak Slab, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Dark Oak Slab in Minecraft?

    Dark Oak Slab is crafted from Dark Oak Planks at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 6.

  2. Dark Oak Slab beside a furnace, which is where its 7.5 seconds of burning go

    Can Dark Oak Slab be used as fuel?

    It burns, but thinly: 7.5 seconds per Dark Oak Slab against the 10 a furnace needs, so 2 Dark Oak Slab go into one smelted item. Leftover time is not lost, so 2 Dark Oak Slab really do add up to one full smelt.

  3. Dark Oak Slab on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Dark Oak Slab used for?

    Dark Oak Slab is a half-height block crafted from dark oak planks. Two slabs can be combined to form a full block, and they can be placed on the top or bottom of a block's space.

  4. How long does Dark Oak Slab take to break?

    Dark Oak Slab has hardness 2, and it has blast resistance 3. The two numbers on Dark Oak Slab are not the same, so mining and blowing it up are separate jobs. Speed on Dark Oak Slab comes from an axe, but the drop comes either way. Java 26.2 is the release Dark Oak Slab was read from, figure by figure on it.

  5. 64 Dark Oak Slab drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Dark Oak Slab can you stack?

    64 Dark Oak Slab fill one slot, and filling it costs 33 Dark Oak Planks, since each one returns 6: 11 crafts. A double chest of Dark Oak Slab comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

Building with it

A Dark Oak Slab is the darkest wooden half-block, which makes it the go-to for roof edges and for the underside of a balcony. Three dark oak planks give six slabs, and two stacked slabs return a full block, so nothing is wasted when a design changes.