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How to Craft Oak Slab in Minecraft

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

The recipe wants 3 Oak Planks, and a Crafting Table to run it on. On the grid you want three Oak Planks in a row. You end up with 6 Oak Slabs each time. As fuel these are worth 150 ticks apiece: 86 of them clear a stack of 64.

Oak Slab Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

Oak Slabs are half-height blocks. Mobs cannot spawn on top slabs, making them useful for mob-proofing. Oak 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 oak slab was one of them, so the trail stops there.

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

One Stack, Counted

One stack is 21 goes at 3 oak planks each, which totals 126 oak slabs. The box keeps 1 oak planks.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Oak Planks3xCraft from oak logs

Gather 3x Oak Planks (craft from oak logs), then take the lot to a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

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

  1. 1
    4Oak Planks
  2. 2
    Oak Slabthis page

Gather this first

Oak Log

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    3x Oak Planks

  2. 2

    6x Oak Slab

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

Tips & Notes

  • Shopping list: 3x Oak Planks. Plan the Oak Planks first: craft from oak logs.
  • Each craft yields 6 Oak Slab, so a full stack of 64 takes 11 crafts.

Uses for Oak Slab

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

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft an Oak Slab in Minecraft?
Bring 3 Oak Planks to a Crafting Table and you can make an Oak Slab. Lay them out exactly as the grid above shows, and one craft produces 6 Oak Slabs.
What do you need to make an Oak Slab from scratch?
From raw materials only, an Oak Slab comes down to 1 Oak Log. The rest you make yourself, and it takes 2 crafts to get there.
Can you craft an Oak Slab without a crafting table?
You need a table for an Oak Slab. It is laid out as three Oak Planks in a row, and that takes 3 columns, more than the 2x2 grid in your inventory can hold.
How many Oak Slabs do you get from one craft?
The Oak Slab recipe makes 6 Oak Slabs in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Oak Slab in Minecraft?
The Oak Slab item ID is minecraft:oak_slab, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write oak_slab on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Oak Slab?
Use /give @p oak_slab to put an Oak Slab in your own inventory, or /give @p oak_slab 64 for a full stack of 64. Cheats have to be on.
Is the Oak Slab recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Java and Bedrock agree on an Oak Slab: both want 3 Oak Planks at a Crafting Table in the layout above, and both give 6 at a time.
What version of Minecraft added the Oak Slab?
The oak 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. The Oak Slab recipe above matches the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
3 Oak Planks in, 6 Oak Slabs out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Minecraft Java 1.13 renamed it, so anything before that is the same thing under another name and cannot be tied 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 Oak Slabs per craft against the stack size.

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