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How to Craft Spruce Slab in Minecraft

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

Making Spruce Slabs takes 3 Spruce Planks at a Crafting Table. The grid takes three Spruce Planks in a row. That comes out as 6 Spruce Slabs. Short on coal? 150 ticks each means 86 Spruce Slabs smelt 64 items.

Spruce Slab Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

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

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

Per Stack

Work a stack down, 64 spruce planks, and you land on 126 spruce slabs. Left over: just 1 spruce planks.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Spruce Planks3xCraft from spruce logs

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

The Full Chain

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

  1. 1
    4Spruce Planks
  2. 2
    Spruce Slabthis page

Gather this first

Spruce Log

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    3x Spruce Planks

  2. 2

    6x Spruce Slab

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

Tips & Notes

  • Line up 3x Spruce Planks before you open the Crafting Table. Spruce Planks: craft from spruce logs.
  • The recipe returns 6 Spruce Slab at a time.

Uses for Spruce Slab

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

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Spruce Slab in Minecraft?
3 Spruce Planks at a Crafting Table: that is the whole shopping list for a Spruce Slab. Arrange them in the exact grid pattern shown above, and one craft produces 6 Spruce Slabs.
What do you need to make a Spruce Slab from scratch?
Gather 1 Spruce Log and you have everything a Spruce Slab needs. The in-between items are all crafted, 2 crafts from start to finish.
Can you craft a Spruce Slab without a crafting table?
The inventory grid is too small for a Spruce Slab, so you need a table. It is laid out as three Spruce Planks in a row, and that takes 3 columns, more than the 2x2 grid in your inventory can hold.
Where do you find the materials for a Spruce Slab?
Here is where each part of a Spruce Slab comes from. Spruce Planks: craft from spruce logs.
How many Spruce Slabs do you get from one craft?
The Spruce Slab recipe makes 6 Spruce Slabs in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Spruce Slab in Minecraft?
Spruce Slab is registered as minecraft:spruce_slab. Commands accept the short form spruce_slab as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Spruce Slab?
The command for Spruce Slab is /give @p spruce_slab. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p spruce_slab 64 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.
Is the Spruce Slab recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Java and Bedrock agree on a Spruce Slab: both want 3 Spruce Planks at a Crafting Table in the layout above, and both give 6 at a time.
What version of Minecraft added the Spruce Slab?
The spruce 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 current release still makes a Spruce Slab exactly that way.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
3 Spruce Planks in, 6 Spruce Slabs out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
The trail stops at Minecraft Java 1.13, where hundreds of items were renamed at once. Older releases call this something else entirely. 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 Spruce Slabs per craft against the stack size.

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