Minecraft:Petrified Oak Slab

Template:Distinguish Template:Infobox block A petrified oak slab, known generically as a wooden slab Template:In, is a unique type of Minecraft:slab available through commands or by upgrading from legacy versions. Unlike all other slabs, they are unobtainable in vanilla Minecraft:Survival gameplay.

Obtaining

Petrified oak slabs are unobtainable in new Minecraft:Survival worlds. They can be obtained only by using Minecraft:commands such as Template:Cmd or placed in the world using commands such as Template:Cmd.

Breaking

Petrified oak slabs require a Minecraft:pickaxe to mine. When broken, they drop themselves Template:In or regular Minecraft:oak slabs Template:In.

Crafting

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

Upgrading

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

Usage

Template:Main 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 plank variants 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 Minecraft: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 Minecraft:lava.
• They cannot be used as fuel in a Minecraft:furnace.
• They have a greater blast resistance.
• Minecraft: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.
• Template:IN they do not drop themselves, but rather drop an Minecraft:oak slab.

Sounds

Template:IN, when a petrified oak slab is combined into a double slab, the block's use sound is played.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Data values

ID

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Block states

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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 Minecraft:invalid data value leaves are often referred as "alpha leaves" even through other leaves types were added in Beta 1.2.

Gallery

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