Potato Slab
This article documents an April Fools' Day joke.
This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.
Potato Slab
| Renewable |
Yes |
|---|---|
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
| Tool |
|
| Blast resistance |
3 |
| Hardness |
2 |
| Luminous |
No |
| Transparent |
Double slab: No |
| Flammable |
Yes (5) |
| Catches fire from lava |
Yes |
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A potato slab is a potato variant of a wooden slab, crafted from its corresponding potato planks, added in 24w14potato.
Obtaining
Breaking
A potato slab can be broken using anything, but axes are the fastest.
| Block | 
| |
|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 2 | |
| Tool | 
| |
| Breaking time (sec)[A] | ||
| Default | 3 | |
 Wooden
|
1.5 | |
 Stone
|
0.75 | |
 Copper |
0.6 | |
 Iron
|
0.5 | |
 Diamond
|
0.4 | |
 Netherite
|
0.35 | |
 Golden
|
0.25 | |
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
- ↑ These durations ignore other influential factors (e.g. Mining Fatigue), and are measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Note: No version exists with both copper tools and this block, but the breaking time can be calculated from the block's hardness.
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Potato Planks |  6 |
Usage
For information about the placement mechanics of all slabs, see Slab § Usage.
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Composter |  | |
| Barrel | Potato Planks + |
 |
| Chiseled Bookshelf | Potato Planks + |
 |
| Daylight Detector | Glass + Nether Quartz + |
   |
| Lectern | + Bookshelf |
  |
Note blocks
Potato slabs can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass" sounds.
Sounds
 nether_wood sound type | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.72 | 16 | |
| Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.72 | 16 | |
| Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block | subtitles | 0.25 | 0.45 | 16 | |
| Something falls on a block | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block | subtitles | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
| Footsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 | |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Block tags | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potato Slab | potato_slab | slabsmineable/axewooden_slabs | block |
Block states
See also: Block states
| Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| type | bottom
| bottomtop | Where the slab is within its block. |
double | The block is a double slab. | ||
| waterlogged | false | falsetrue | Whether or not there's water in the same place as this slab. |
Issues
Issues relating to "Potato Slab" are not maintained on the bug tracker because it is an April Fools' joke, and is therefore not in the newest stable version or snapshot. Issues reported there are closed as "Invalid".
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