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How to Craft Birch Slab in Minecraft

Birch Slab in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Half-height building block.

Gather 3 Birch Planks, then work it on a Crafting Table. The pattern to copy is three Birch Planks in a row. A single craft gives you 6 Birch Slabs. Short on coal? 150 ticks each means 86 Birch Slabs smelt 64 items.

Birch Slab Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Birch Slab is minecraft:birch_slab. In commands the namespace may be left off, so birch_slab works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p birch_slab
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p birch_slab 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve birch_slab 1

Cheats have to be on for Birch Slab to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Birch Slabs are half-height blocks. Mobs cannot spawn on top slabs, making them useful for mob-proofing. Birch Slab uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

How far back this one goes cannot be read out of the files: Minecraft 1.13 renamed hundreds of items and every recipe file with them, and the birch slab was one of them, so the trail stops there.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with birch planks (craft from birch logs).

The Yield Per Stack

3 birch planks for 6 birch slabs scales to 126 out of a 64 stack. Left over: just 1 birch planks.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Birch Planks3xCraft from birch logs

Collect 3x Birch Planks (craft from birch logs) first; the Crafting Table does the rest.

The Full Chain

1 Birch Log makes 4 Birch Planks, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 1 Birch Log.

  1. 1
    4Birch Planks
  2. 2
    Birch Slabthis page

Gather this first

Birch Log

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    3x Birch Planks

  2. 2

    6x Birch Slab

Minecraft crafting recipe for Birch Slab: 3 x Birch Planks in a crafting table, making 6 Birch Slab.

Tips & Notes

  • Line up 3x Birch Planks before you open the Crafting Table. Birch Planks: craft from birch logs.
  • You get 6 Birch Slab per craft, so divide whatever you need by 6 to know how many times to repeat it.

Uses for Birch Slab

  • Half-height building block
  • Floor detailing
  • Mob-proofing surfaces

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Birch Slab on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Birch Slab in Minecraft?
3 Birch Planks at a Crafting Table: that is the whole shopping list for a Birch Slab. The pattern above is exact, so match it square by square, and one craft produces 6 Birch Slabs.
What do you need to make a Birch Slab from scratch?
Starting with nothing, a Birch Slab costs 1 Birch Log. Everything else in the recipe is something you craft on the way there, over 2 crafts in total.
Can you craft a Birch Slab without a crafting table?
Not this one: a Birch Slab will not fit the inventory grid. It is laid out as three Birch Planks in a row, and that takes 3 columns, more than the 2x2 grid in your inventory can hold.
How many Birch Slabs do you get from one craft?
The Birch Slab recipe makes 6 Birch Slabs in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Birch Slab in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Birch Slab goes by minecraft:birch_slab; birch_slab without the namespace does the same job in a command.
What is the give command for Birch Slab?
/give @p birch_slab gives you a Birch Slab. Swap @p for a player name to hand it to someone else, and put 64 on the end for a whole stack.
Is the Birch Slab recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Yes, the Birch Slab recipe is the same in both editions. Java and Bedrock both build a Birch Slab from 3 Birch Planks at a Crafting Table, in the same layout, 6 at a time.
What version of Minecraft added the Birch Slab?
The birch slab has carried this name since Minecraft 1.13, the release that renamed hundreds of items at once, and the files cannot say how much older than that it is: anything earlier is the same thing filed under a different name. What you see in the grid above is how it works in the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
3 Birch Planks in, 6 Birch Slabs out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Present from Minecraft Java 1.13, the release that renamed it. Anything earlier carries a different name and cannot be matched to this page. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
Stack size, burn time
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 6 Birch Slabs per craft against the stack size.

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