Petrified Oak Slab

Petrified Oak Slab

Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	6
Hardness	2
Luminous	No
Transparent	Double slab: No Single slab: Partial (blocks light)‌ Yes‌
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

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A petrified oak slab, known as a wooden slab in Bedrock Edition, is a unique type of slab available through commands or by upgrading from legacy versions. Unlike all other slabs, they are unobtainable in vanilla Survival gameplay.

Obtaining

Petrified oak slabs are unobtainable in new Survival worlds. They can be obtained only by using commands such as /give or placed in the world using commands such as /setblock.

Breaking

Petrified oak slabs require a pickaxe to mine. When broken, they drop themselves in Java Edition or regular oak slabs in Bedrock Edition.

Block
Hardness	2
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	10
Wooden	1.5
Stone	0.75
Copper ​	0.6
Iron	0.5
Diamond	0.4
Netherite	0.35
Golden	0.25
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Crafting

Petrified oak slabs are uncraftable in current versions without the use of a data pack or behavior pack.

Upgrading

Petrified oak slabs are obtainable and craftable as one would expect in versions released before Java Edition 1.3.1 (snapshot 12w17a) or Pocket Edition v0.7.3 alpha, in which they are the only wooden slab type.

Usage

Petrified oak slabs are functionally like other slabs and share most of their placement, collision, and other block behaviors with them. They date back to the earliest releases when there was only one kind of wooden slab, which had the texture of oak planks but was implemented as a variant of the generic slab, all other variants of which were made of stone. It therefore had stone properties as well.

When other species of planks were introduced, true wooden slabs were added to the game with variants for each species and properties more appropriate for wood. From then on, all wooden slabs that were crafted or generated in structures were of the real wood type, but the stone variants can still exist in older worlds. These stonelike "wooden" slabs are noteworthy for how their behavior differs from what their name and appearance imply.

Differences from normal slabs

Unlike other wooden slabs:

• Petrified oak slabs make the sounds characteristic of stone.
• They require a pickaxe to mine. If broken without a pickaxe, they drop nothing.
• They are not flammable, nor are they set on fire by nearby lava.
• They cannot be used as fuel in a furnace.
• They have a greater blast resistance.
• Note blocks placed on top produce bass drum sounds, similarly to other stone-like blocks.

Unlike other slabs in general:

• They cannot be crafted or obtained normally in Survival.
• They do not have a direct full-block equivalent.
• In Bedrock Edition they do not drop themselves, but rather drop an oak slab.

Sounds

In Bedrock Edition, when a petrified oak slab is combined into a double slab, the block's use sound is played.^[1]

Java Edition:

v t e stone sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e stone sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.37	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	0.12	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	0.22	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
Petrified Oak Slab	petrified_oak_slab	Block & Item	slabs mineable/pickaxe	slabs	block.minecraft.petrified_oak_slab

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Wooden Double Slab	petrified_oak_double_slab	double_stone_block_slab / 2 double_stone_slab / 2	-903	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	petrified_oak_double_slab Alias ID: real_double_stone_slab / 2	tile.double_stone_slab.wood.name
Wooden Slab	petrified_oak_slab	stone_block_slab / 2 stone_slab / 2	-902	Block & Giveable Item[i 3]	petrified_oak_slab Alias ID: double_stone_slab / 2	tile.stone_slab.wood.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

History

Java Edition Beta
1.3							Added petrified oak slabs.
							Petrified oak slabs were the "usual" wood slab in this version, as they were craftable from planks like all other slabs were, and accordingly named "Wooden Slab" in item form.
							Their behavior was due to sharing a block ID with all other slabs at the time, distinguished only by metadata, which could not define other block properties such as material and hardness.
Java Edition
1.2.1			1.2				Wooden slabs can be placed in the top half of blocks.
1.3.1			12w17a				A separate block ID has been added for wooden slabs, to account for the addition of slabs with new wood types. This new ID also has the characteristics of normal wood blocks. As of this version, the petrified oak slab, still called "Wooden Slab", is now unobtainable, and can only be obtained by having them present in the world from previous versions (placed or as items).
1.13			17w47a				"Wooden Slab" has been renamed to "Petrified Oak Slab".
							Petrified oak slabs have been made available in the Creative inventory.
1.19.3			22w42a				Petrified oak slabs are no longer in the Creative inventory.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.1.0							Added wooden slabs, which are currently unobtainable.
v0.2.0							The texture of wooden slabs has been changed to match that of planks.
v0.3.0							Wooden slabs can now obtained via crafting in Survival mode.
							Wooden slabs are now available in the Creative inventory.
v0.4.0							The model of bottom wooden slabs now uses the bottom half of the full block's texture.
v0.7.3							Wooden slabs have been renamed to "Fake Wood Slab" and are no longer obtainable except by using inventory editors. This was done to make way for the new wooden slabs with wood-like properties and multiple species.
							Fake wood slabs now drop the new wooden slabs.
v0.11.0			build 1				"Fake Wood Slab" has been renamed to "Wooden Slab".
Bedrock Edition
1.21.0			Preview 1.21.0.23				Removed wooden slabs. Existing wooden slab blocks and items in old worlds are converted into oak slabs.
							Double wooden slabs still exist.
			Preview 1.21.0.25				Re-added wooden slabs.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU0		1.00	1.00	1.00			Added petrified oak slabs.
TU9							Petrified oak slabs are no longer obtainable in Survival.
							However, they still exist in the Creative inventory as the only type of oak slab there.
TU14		1.04					Petrified oak slabs are no longer available in the Creative inventory.

Appearance changes

Block

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Java Edition Beta
1.3							Added petrified oak slabs.
1.7							The UV of many non-full blocks has changed, changing the petrified oak slab's appearance.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5				The oak planks texture has changed, changing the petrified oak slab's appearance.
1.2.1			1.2				This is how petrified oak top slabs looked.
1.14			18w43a				The oak planks texture has changed, changing the petrified oak slab's appearance.
			18w47a				The oak planks texture has changed, changing the petrified oak slab's appearance.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.1.0							Added petrified oak slabs.
v0.2.0							The oak planks texture has changed, changing the petrified oak slab's appearance.
v0.4.0							The UV of many non-full blocks has changed, changing the petrified oak slab's appearance.

Item

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Java Edition Beta
1.3							Item damage is now used to track block variants. Stone slabs with 2 damage are now petrified oak slabs.
1.6			Test Build 3				All 3D items now appear much brighter and are rotated 90 degrees clockwise from their previous positions.
1.7							The UV of slabs now uses the bottom half of the texture for the side.
1.8			Pre-release				All 3D items now appear even brighter than previously, with almost no shading.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5				The oak planks texture has changed, changing the petrified oak slab's appearance.
			RC2				All 3D items are now shaded more reasonably.
1.3.1			12w22a				All 3D items in the inventory have been rotated 90 degrees anti-clockwise.
1.4.2			12w34a				Items appeared slightly darker in the player's inventory than in chests prior to this version.
1.8			14w25a				Petrified oak slab items no longer have a model.
1.9			15w31a				The missing model has changed, modifying the petrified oak slab's appearance.
1.13			17w43a				The missing model has changed, modifying the petrified oak slab's appearance.
			17w47a				Petrified oak slabs now have an item model again.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.1.0							Wooden slabs do not currently have an associated icon in gui_blocks.png, resulting in inconsistent inventory icon behavior.
v0.3.0							Wooden slabs are now assigned an inventory icon.

Data history

Nomenclature

Petrified oak slabs are often referred as "alpha slabs" even through petrified oak slab were added in Beta 1.3. In a similar case invalid data value leaves are often referred as "alpha leaves" even through other leaves types were added in Beta 1.2.

Issues

Issues relating to "Petrified Oak Slab" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

• 
  A petrified oak slab house with a netherrack fireplace.
• 
  A fake wood slab in a player's inventory.

References

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