Cracked Deepslate Tiles are made by smelting one Deepslate Tiles block in a furnace, producing one cracked block. Minecraft added the dark decorative block with the deepslate family in version 1.17. Cracked Deepslate Tiles have 3.5 hardness and 6 blast resistance, require a pickaxe to drop themselves, do not burn, and cannot be crafted back into the uncracked form. The uneven fractures break up the regular square grid while preserving the nearly black deepslate palette.

Cracked Deepslate Tiles work best as controlled damage within floors, fortress walls, ruined corridors, ancient vaults, and abandoned industrial builds. Mix roughly one cracked block among four or five regular Deepslate Tiles so the wear looks irregular rather than tiled in a repeating pattern. Cracked Deepslate Tiles have no stair, slab, or wall variants of their own, so builders can combine the full blocks with regular Deepslate Tile Stairs, Slabs, and Walls to keep the same material family across edges and corners.