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Spruce Slab

Spruce Slab is a half-height block crafted from spruce 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

1.3

Item ID

spruce_slab

Spruce Slab at a glance

Spruce Slab, a block out of crafting, sits under Utility Blocks. A slot of Spruce Slab holds 64, nine slots hold 576, and 1728 fill a chest. It burns in a furnace, but a single smelt eats 2, so a stack of 64 covers 32 items.

The game rates Spruce Slab at 2 hardness. Reach for an axe if you want Spruce Slab fast; the wooden one already drops it. Blast resistance sits at 3. Spruce Slab sits between Spruce Sign and Spruce Stairs in Utility Blocks, number 303 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Spruce PlanksSpruce Planks
Spruce PlanksSpruce Planks
Spruce PlanksSpruce Planks
Spruce SlabSpruce Slab6

How to obtain

  • Crafting

Fuel value

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

Notes

Crafts 6 slabs from 3 planks.

Frequently asked questions about Spruce Slab

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

    How do you get Spruce Slab in Minecraft?

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

  2. How long does Spruce Slab take to break?

    Spruce Slab carries a hardness value of 2, and it stands up to explosions at 3. The two numbers on Spruce Slab are not the same, so mining and blowing it up are separate jobs. Reach for an axe if you want Spruce Slab fast; the wooden one already drops it. Java 26.2 stores Spruce Slab with those figures unchanged, so it reads the same here.

  3. 64 Spruce Slab drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Spruce Slab can you stack?

    33 Spruce Planks is what 64 Spruce Slab costs, since each one returns 6, so filling a single slot is 11 crafts. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once.

  4. Spruce Slab beside a furnace, which is where its 7.5 seconds of burning go

    Can Spruce Slab be used as fuel?

    Spruce Slab is a small fuel: 7.5 seconds apiece, against the 10 seconds a furnace spends on one item, so 2 of them cover a single smelt. Leftover time is not lost, so 2 Spruce Slab really do add up to one full smelt.

  5. Spruce Slab on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Spruce Slab used for?

    Spruce Slab is a half-height block crafted from spruce 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.

Building with it

A Spruce Slab is the dark half-block of the taiga set, and it is the one builders use for tables, benches and roof edges. Three spruce planks give six slabs, and the tone is close enough to dark oak that the two mix well in a single build.