Polished Blackstone Slab

Obtaining and breaking Polished Blackstone Slab

• Pickaxe is the recorded preferred tool for Polished Blackstone Slab, and the registry marks a suitable tool as required for the intended drop.
• Its recorded hardness is 2. Compare this with the blast resistance value when deciding whether the concern is mining time or explosion survival.
• Craft or process Polished Blackstone Slab using Crafting Table or Stonecutter.

What to use Polished Blackstone Slab for

2 current recipe relationships are recorded for Polished Blackstone Slab. These links include recipes that produce the block and recipes that consume it as an ingredient.

• Ingredient for Chiseled Polished Blackstone.
• Polished Blackstone Slab has 1 recorded output recipe; open the linked recipe to compare edition, station, layout and yield before crafting a batch.
• Polished Blackstone Slab is used by 1 recorded recipe, including Chiseled Polished Blackstone.
• One full inventory stack holds 64 Polished Blackstone Slab blocks; 27 full stacks fill a single chest or shulker-box-sized inventory with 1728 blocks.

• Chiseled Polished Blackstone Recipe has 4 current variants.
• Polished Blackstone Slab Recipe has 4 current variants.

Build and technical notes

• Polished Blackstone 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.
• Java data contains 6 block-state combinations for Polished Blackstone Slab. Commands that need one exact orientation or state must specify properties separately from the base ID.
• Its recorded blast resistance is 6; this is separate from hardness and should be used for explosion-risk comparisons.

Java and Bedrock differences

• Polished Blackstone Slab exists in both tracked editions. Java uses minecraft:polished_blackstone_slab; Bedrock uses minecraft:polished_blackstone_slab.
• The available hardness, blast-resistance and preferred-tool records do not show a cross-edition conflict for this block.

Command and version data

/give @p minecraft:polished_blackstone_slab 64

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