Birch Slab

Obtaining and breaking Birch Slab

• Axe is the recorded preferred tool for Birch Slab; other tools may be slower or affect what is collected.
• Its recorded hardness is 2. Compare this with the blast resistance value when deciding whether the concern is mining time or explosion survival.
• Break Birch Slab with an appropriate tool to obtain its normal drop; the exact result can depend on tool tier and enchantments.

What to use Birch Slab for

Birch Slab has no current recipe relationship in the tracked registry. Collection, placement or world interaction is therefore more relevant than a crafting grid on this page.

• One full inventory stack holds 64 Birch Slab blocks; 27 full stacks fill a single chest or shulker-box-sized inventory with 1728 blocks.

Block properties

Rendering

Opaque

Collision shape

block

Light filtering

0

Emitted light

0

Build and technical notes

• Birch Slab is a half-height building piece. It is useful for gradual elevation changes, compact detailing and spawn-conscious surfaces; two matching slabs can share one full block space.
• The recorded collision shape is “block”. Collision is a gameplay property, so do not infer it only from the block's visible model.
• Birch Slab is recorded as opaque. Its emitted light is 0 and its light-filter value is 0.
• Birch Slab has 1 recorded Java block-state combination, so its base state is comparatively simple.
• Its recorded blast resistance is 3; this is separate from hardness and should be used for explosion-risk comparisons.

Java and Bedrock differences

• Birch Slab is present in the tracked Bedrock registry only. Do not reuse its identifier in the other edition without checking that edition's current release.

Command and version data

/give @p minecraft:birch_double_slab 64

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