Deepslate

Obtaining

Mining deepslate with a pickaxe enchanted with Silk Touch drops the block itself. Without Silk Touch it drops cobbled deepslate, while a different tool drops nothing; its breaking time is twice that of stone.

Loot tableDeepslateDetailed drops are not published yet.

Data: Obtaining

Silk Touch	Drops deepslate
Without Silk Touch	Drops cobbled deepslate
Other tool	No drop
Tool	PickaxeTool

• Silk Touch
• Cobbled DeepslateBlock
• Diamond PickaxeItem

Breaking

Data: Breaking

Hardness	◈3
Blast resistance	6
Tool	PickaxeTool
Correct tool required	Yes

Smelting

Ingredients

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Result

Deepslate

Process: smelting

Ingredients match the published snapshot.

Usage

The block occupies a standard full volume and is shown with an isometric preview.

Deepslate is a building material for polished, brick, tiled, slab, stair and wall variants. A stonecutter turns one source block into many of these shapes, and deepslate can be placed along three axes like logs. Silverfish can also hide inside it as infested deepslate.

• Chiseled DeepslateBlock
• Polished DeepslateBlock
• Deepslate BricksBlock
• Deepslate TilesBlock
• Cobbled DeepslateBlock
• Infested DeepslateBlock
• StonecutterBlock

Sounds

Deepslate uses the deepslate sound family for its block interactions and the base-drum note instrument when played as a note block.

Behavior

Data values

The Java identifier is `minecraft:deepslate`. It is mineable with a pickaxe, belongs to the base-stone and deepslate replacement tags, and keeps the same 64-item stack limit as the block family.

Data: Data values

Identifier	minecraft:deepslate
Version	Minecraft 26.2
Blockstate	assets/minecraft/blockstates/deepslate.json
Loot table	DeepslateLoot table
Stack size	64
Mineable with	Pickaxe
Replacement tags	base_stone_overworld, deepslate_ore_replaceables
Axis state	x, y, or z
Hardness	◈3.0
Blast resistance	6.0
Block registration	net/minecraft/world/level/block/Blocks.java

History

Deepslate was introduced with the deep underground generation in 1.17. The early name was grimstone; the final block gained a darker texture, axis placement, cobbled drops without Silk Touch and a smelting path from cobbled deepslate during the 1.17 development cycle.

1. 26.2Block facts were published from the verified snapshot.Provenance: 918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5

Trivia

The name describes both the block's slate-like appearance and its location deep below the surface. Its texture orientation changes with coordinates, which helps large underground surfaces avoid looking perfectly tiled.

Gallery

See also

• Block catalogue
• Recipe
• StoneBlock
• Cobbled DeepslateBlock
• Deep DarkBiome
• Polished DeepslateBlock
• Deepslate BricksBlock
• Deepslate TilesBlock

References

This page combines the local `data/minecraft/loot_table/blocks/deepslate.json` and `data/minecraft/recipe/deepslate.json` with the `deepslate_ore_replaceables` tag and the `Blocks.java` registration. The generation, ancient-city furnace, stonecutting, axis, and infested behaviour is kept as a separate readable summary.

Smelting

Cobbled deepslate smelts back into deepslate and gives 0.1 experience. This is the local source recipe for restoring the smooth block after mining.

• Cobbled DeepslateBlock

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