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How to Make Mossy Stone Brick Slab in Minecraft

Mossy Stone Brick Slab — Minecraft block

Mossy Stone Brick Slab

Mossy Stone Brick Slab is a half-height building block (half a cube tall) crafted from mossy stone bricks for weathered floors, paths, and aged stonework.

Block ID minecraft:mossy_stone_brick_slab
Mod Vanilla
Game versions
1.21

Description

Mossy Stone Brick Slab is a half-height slab cut from mossy stone bricks, a weathered building stone that also generates naturally in ruined portals in the Overworld. A crafting table turns three mossy stone bricks placed in one row into six Mossy Stone Brick Slabs, and a stonecutter cuts a single mossy stone brick into two slabs. Harvesting requires a pickaxe — a bare hand or the wrong tool leaves no drop at all. Mossy Stone Brick Slab has a hardness of 1.5, a blast resistance of 6, and stacks to 64.

Builders reach for Mossy Stone Brick Slab whenever fresh stone brickwork needs to look aged: the moss-streaked surface suits ruined-portal restorations, fortress-style walls, and overgrown garden paths. Each slab fills the top or the bottom half of a block space, and two matching slabs placed in one space merge into a double slab with the height of a full block. Mossy Stone Brick Slab can also be waterlogged, with water filling the slab's empty half of the block, so pools and canals keep an even floor. Hostile mobs cannot spawn on bottom-half slabs, a quirk redstone builders exploit in mob farms.

Block properties

Item ID minecraft:mossy_stone_brick_slab
/give command /give @p minecraft:mossy_stone_brick_slab
Stackable Yes (64)
Best tool Pickaxe
Renewable Yes
Hardness 1.5
Blast resistance 6
Java Edition 1.14
Bedrock Edition 1.9.0

Guide

How to Get Mossy Stone Brick Slab in Minecraft

  1. 1

    Loot a ruined portal

    Explore the Overworld until you find a ruined portal. Mossy stone brick slabs generate as part of the ruined portal structure, and any pickaxe mines them on the spot.

  2. 2

    Craft from mossy stone bricks

    Place three mossy stone bricks in one horizontal row on the crafting grid to craft six mossy stone brick slabs.

  3. 3

    Cut bricks on a stonecutter

    Put a single mossy stone brick into a stonecutter to cut two mossy stone brick slabs — a one-brick option for small repairs.

  4. 4

    Merge two slabs into a full block

    Place one mossy stone brick slab in the bottom half of a block space and a second slab in the top half; the pair combines into a double slab the size of a full block.

Bring a pickaxe

Mossy Stone Brick Slab drops nothing when mined without a pickaxe, and a wooden pickaxe already breaks a slab in 1.15 seconds.

How to craft this block

Ingredients: Mossy Stone Bricks Mossy Stone Bricks x3
Crafting
Mossy Stone Bricks Mossy Stone Bricks Mossy Stone Bricks
Mossy Stone Brick Slab
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Mossy Stone Brick Slab

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Frequently asked questions

Which pickaxe breaks a mossy stone brick slab fastest?

A golden pickaxe breaks a mossy stone brick slab in 0.2 seconds, the quickest time on the tool list, while a stone pickaxe needs 0.6 seconds.

When was the mossy stone brick slab added to Minecraft?

Java Edition added mossy stone brick slabs in 1.14, and Bedrock Edition added the slabs in 1.9.0. Ruined portal generation followed in the 1.16 updates of both editions.

Is the mossy stone brick slab renewable?

Yes — mossy stone brick slab counts as a renewable resource (a material you can restock endlessly through crafting).

Do mossy stone brick slabs burn or get destroyed by lava?

No. Mossy stone brick slabs are not flammable, and lava does not destroy them.