Minecraft's Wooden Slab that's Actually Stone

For over 10 years, there has been a wooden slab in Minecraft that acts exactly like stone. So why does it exist? Let's find out, shall we?

[@GetLifty]

It's like real life. Using materials to date buildings. "this was made with alpha slabs so it must be pre 1.3"

[@phoenixfront]

@DIG MC yo what up dig

[@RedstoneMiner18]

@@phoenixfront he digs Minecraft. Without him it would be Craft

[@Herib104]

me : makes a home with alpha slabs then trolls people to make them think its 10 years old

[@boid9761]

Carbon dating in Minecraft

[@mikesmit7496]

Archaeology mechanic can be how the block is found. Because petrified wood is basically ancient wood similar to a fossil.

[@blazedfatass8465]

Pretty cool that they didn’t remove the OG wood slabs entirely and keep em as petrified wood.

[@zedlz]

yeah

[@bozolays2746]

yeah

[@SomeD00D01]

Yep

[@KekusMagnus]

they might make them craftable in the future as a form of fire treated wood

[@zedlz]

@@KekusMagnus yeah

[@battlefox7614]

makes sense that it's petrified, it's like 10 years old at this point

[@krypton7900]

actually the alternative definition of "petrified" is "(of organic matter) changed into a stony substance" but it's pretty funny if you use the other definition

[@Zmeeed01]

I like how they actually found a way to make it look and sound logical

[@staringcorgi6475]

Medusa cursed the slab

[@mr_earwig6477]

It'd be so cool if Petrified Slabs were included in Deepdark chests as EXTREMELY rare loot. It would tie in to the "petrified" aspect due to the location and the ancient nature of the setting.

[@AshPikachu9]

@@mr_earwig6477 well yes but then it would be obtainable

[@dushdj8947]

I love how finding an old build on 2b2t with the alpha slabs was like finding an archeological site.

[@VosovioYTC]

I know right? it really makes ya think

[@lucjanl1262]

And then he proceeded to mine a chunk out of it

[@alex.g7317]

@@lucjanl1262 classic historian

[@bowser3017]

I used to think that a wooden slab breaks with a pickaxe due to the fact that we squeezed two planks together and the slab became much durable

[@windywendi]

That's a way of thinking!

[@IdaeChop]

@e e Learn manners, Mr. Bob the Builder.

[@nogiogo3106]

@@IdaeChop lmfao Bob the Builder

[@notahuman7267]

@@IdaeChop engineer: X bob the builder: 👌

[@minimatt2338]

Black hole

[@zyansheep]

Now if only Mojang would implement putting different slabs in the same block...

[@3vorp]

And smooth stone stairs.

[@jerw7671]

There’s a mod for that I think, not sure if it’s updated though

[@NStripleseven]

Wouldn’t that be nice

[@SalC1]

OMG I ALWAYS WANTED THAT! Mojang, listen to your fans!!!

[@The_Horizon]

@@SalC1 I'm sure its a bit more complex than that

[@silokhawk]

Back in beta my friend got mad and tried burning my house with lava, but because my roof was done with slabs, very little got damaged.

[@sillyfegart5455]

Hi

[@GamerKiwi]

Hi

[@rblxmach]

Hi

[@Caschrono]

Destroying the chain before it spreads.

[@thedhruvshow1775]

@@Caschrono You are a saviour

[@Mart-E12]

"It stayed like this for a good chunk of minecraft's history" "1 year later it was changed"

[@thl3]

yea I mean, in 1 year Minecraft got an entirely new health and hunger system, a brand-new enchanting feature and suddenly the game had an actual end now, so 2011 was a pretty game-changing year, I guess

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

It's mind blowing how there's so much trivia about a single block

[@pancake8119]

Lol

[@3vorp]

That’s true of most blocks added before or during alpha

[@alectheamazing]

ikr

[@blushy2513]

I thought you were only interested in anime

[@timewarpdrive77]

'minecraft wiki intensifies'

[@michakrzyzanowski8554]

Only veterans renember times when you were scared to enter your world after an update because of possible id changes

[@mariaanafidelis5689]

i play on bedrock, and bedrock developers love numbers, have the id, numeric id, namespaced, the server port made of numbers

[@equation1321]

I used to be scared to enter the nether portal

[@pocky_y]

Only veterans remember when no one said "Only veterans remember"

[@michakrzyzanowski8554]

@worm does content what lol

[@aligasser57]

@worm does content i’ve been playing minecraft for around 7 years as well and i’ve never even seen a stronghold not including youtube videos. i’ve just been too lazy to go

[@StrabbyStrabby]

The fucking “This, is a wooden slab. But, it's not. It's actually a stone slab. *but in disguise.* ”at the very beginning KILLS ME

[@BergOljelund]

same

[@StrabbyStrabby]

@@jamesmayle4712 holy fucking shit (It's a bot, y'all please don't blow up my notifs with an arguement it has happened before)

[@Jupiter__001_]

@@StrabbyStrabby An apparently heretical, Gnostic bot lmao

[@StrabbyStrabby]

@@Jupiter__001_ Well I took a glance at their recent comments, and it's all the same message. It's either someone trolling, or a bot /nm

[@theweirdwolf1877]

@@jamesmayle4712 replace "God" and "Jesus" with "ppsauce" and enjoy your one hour of laughter

[@yogummler]

I feel old for knowing this from experience. Can't believe it's been 10 years

[@kommstein5692]

cheers to that mate 🍻 im already feeling old from watching content creators digging up artifacts to show to post-microsoft era players

[@Crocksnap]

that's how old I am lol

[@Adamant_Adam]

I'm trying to remember... I think this game came out while I was in 2nd, 3rd grade? My dad got it right when it was first being released and talked about, so I grew up with it as long as I can remember. I'm 20 now... Feels whack. I used to get bullied for talking about this game so much haha Now it's so popular, I'm happy for this generation

[@iridium141]

Yeah, it's pretty bizarre

[@Pixelcraftian]

Never thought I'd be watching a video about a specific minecraft slab

[@note_456]

same

[@GodzillaGaming14]

Same

[@lotus6992]

same

[@user-qw4tq3jj9x]

I 𝐰𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐧 think of it either.

[@smthcrptc]

I, on the other hand, have lived with the knowledge all my life that one day I would watch a video about a specific minecraft slab

[@NathanTheMan]

In the early days they put wood and stone variants under the same ID, but later they made separate IDs for every color of shulker box for no reason at all.

[@ynntari2775]

don't shulker boxes need the data values to store information about the items inside of them? That's why tools don't use data values for different variants of tools, they need the data values for the damage of the tool.

[@synexiasaturnds727yearsago7]

@@ynntari2775 Why not just use NBTs?

[@Radkeyboard7984]

@@synexiasaturnds727yearsago7 NBT data is difficult to add

[@crayzk0]

The fact they kept them as "petrified" to signify them being so old is so amazing.

[@salam-peace5519]

1:50 Back then there also was only one type of wooden plank in the game (oak wood). Spruce logs and birch logs also just gave you oak planks (which were just named "wooden planks" back then). Different types of planks were added in full version 1.2 as far as I remember (the same update were jungle wood was added).

[@Tophuh]

i remember when they finally added different types of planks, but slabs and fences were still only oak. It drove me nuts!

[@skibee]

@@Tophuh Then they added different slabs but doors and fences remained oak only until 1.8 lmao

[@mrszmatan2727]

@@Tophuh damn, I didn't play Minecraft for so long that different doors and fences feel kind of unnatural to me in Minecraft

[@Malam_NightYoru]

@@skibee Man, the ol' days where the doors actually made sick underwater routes...

[@px6883]

Kinda late but they only added trap doors of different wood types in fucking 1.13

[@babungo6090]

I used to play on the 360 version and I felt so smart when I figured out that wooden slabs were mined with a pickaxe

[@xXTobias_Erin_RogersXx]

Same

[@1810jeff]

I remember learning about it from some minecraft tips and tricks app

[@LordDaret]

It’s caveman logic, but somehow it just works.

[@DWal32]

pick *axe*

[@joekyu2517]

"haha u fools! u dont even know that wooden slabs are broken with picks?! amatures!" < me when i found this out as a kid and told friends lol

[@0ne_Hundred]

First 6 seconds without context are like a fever dream

[@cachorrocareca3233]

pack in the mail its gone

[@N8-Feds]

Some body once

[@laughmouth]

@@akshaj7011 the world is gonna

[@daithi8306]

@@laughmouth roll me i ain’t the

[@satgurs]

@@daithi8306 lalala

[@The_D_ray]

I remember using two Wooden Slabs in Pocket Edition to make a Super Wooden Block, which was basically a Stone Block with the Wooden Block textures.

[@Snowifawn]

2:16 the nostalgia that hit me when hearing the old creeper boom...

[@The_Horizon]

when the wooden slab is sus

[@zyansheep]

Among us memes will never die xD

[@themysterious5429]

hello

[@skydivertyler]

amogus

[@delictivo]

lol

[@lennyface2586]

sus!

[@eric-jt4ij]

"Wooden slabs were actually stone slabs" ah i see this floor is made of ceiling

[@xxizcrilexlxx1505]

can append

[@COLMECTIGAMINGANDMORE]

In a double story house

[@ily3390]

@@COLMECTIGAMINGANDMORE genius

[@Valtremors]

Man, I remember the old ID system was pain. I barely understood it but I remember it made modding a pain. And there also was limited amount of ID's, so mods had to take that into account.

[@lartts7483]

They literally needed a mod just to solve id limit problem 😭

[@tinysalad]

Ah, what a nice nostalgia trip, haven't been too much in creative lately or played on any old worlds, so it's nice to see that the old "wood" slabs still live on as petrified wood.

[@NinF37]

holy cow, I feel super old that this is "trivia" now

[@bigprojects2560]

For reals I remember when they just added being able to chop them properly with an axe

[@AlchemizedGold]

ouch

[@krajsyboys]

Same. I was just thinking: "Isn't this common knowledge about minecraft?"

[@supra107]

Hell, I actually started playing in Beta 1.3_01, the exact same version shown in the video. I still have my very first Minecraft world in multiple copies saved on my drive, along with many old mods and other junk files.

[@ClownOwO]

I love watching videos like these because it gives me a petty sense of superiority. Like “yeah I knew that, isn’t it common knowledge?” Even though it’s totally reasonable people might not know it with how the game keeps growing

[@Wilker_uwu]

another thing to note: the ID for slabs was 126 and very far apart from stone slabs (44) because the IDs were chosen in order of implementation. that means that you can pretty much tell the history of which blocks had shown up over time based on their old IDs (which implies that grass was added before dirt for instance, which is in fact the case in the earliest builds of the game)

[@carking0138]

The ID for wooden slabs is now 126, it was originally 44:2 which was basically a variant of stone/smooth stone slabs which were and still are ID 44.

[@problemtiger]

@@carking0138 the ID for wooden slabs is now "minecraft:oak_slab". it used to be 126 before numeric IDs were removed

[@TheBabaloga]

Damn, I remember finding it odd that they were mined with a pickaxe, but I always thought the devs just fixed that at some point.

[@Reel-zu8ld]

I can’t believe I’m old enough to remember playing the game with the original wood slabs and living through the transition to the ones we have now...

[@DariusMedine]

I remember back in the day when Birch and Roses were a horded resource because they only were gainable in generated chunks. You couldn't grow them at all. And thus people would strip the world for them so they could sell them for other resources.

[@windywendi]

Was it between Beta 1.2 and 1.4? Cuz birch became renewable in Beta 1.5 and rose from bone meal in Beta 1.6.6

[@pigslayer275]

If you ever feel bad about having to write an essay for school, Just remember that Sal here makes Video essays on stupid shit like Alpha slabs for a living. Thanks, Sal.

[@yeppiidev]

yes, and he should make a story on creepers.

[@UCmDBecUtbSafffpMEN3iscA]

@@yeppiidev What kind of story? Story on how it was developed or from the Minecraft Lore?

[@RedstoneMiner18]

Too bad he doesnt make them on the incursion of Rome :/

[@Why72833]

but Hes good at them all my essays are all too short cause I sum down entire books into one sentence or word

[@yeppiidev]

@@UCmDBecUtbSafffpMEN3iscA the story on how notch made a mistake

[@jonojono763]

"This is a wooden slab, but its not" Top 10 anime betrayals

[@lonesome3958]

"This is a wooden slab, but its not" *Vsauce theme starts playing

[@keirgordon8646]

"The cliff that refuses to be a cliff"

[@tallywally162]

So does that mean the cliff is made of wood that looks like stone? We gotta get Tom Scott to investigate

[@yolkdaddy]

I still remember watching a Stampy video back in the day, and I remember him mentioning how it was weird that you needed a pickaxe to break wooden slabs. Crazy to see that it had relevance, and isnt just a bug

[@electrobuzzgamer2087]

terraria moment

[@mikehall3976]

I vaguely recall seeing that video and opening up pocket edition and trying that. I can't remember the outcome of my test, but I definitely remember seeing him remark on it!

[@Norbert011]

@ccc310 bruh, if its slow to break you're using the wrong tool, I figured it out in like 5 seconds lmao

[@chris_aka_CP]

Huge respect to the devs for keeping something like this. They didnt need to do it, but still did it

[@LesabreSuper]

Welp, now I know why those wooden slabs on my old base didn't like axes

[@Master-Lens]

Petrified wood should be a re-added feature ngl

[@NStripleseven]

Get it by leaving a regular slab outside for a reeeeeeeeeeeally long time

[@fizzrpg9961]

@@NStripleseven yes!

[@Goldv0]

Hello villager

[@wishivme3252]

@@NStripleseven hello everybody its guga foods here and today we will be dry aging wooden slabs

[@BarbusCraft]

@@NStripleseven Or by maybe waxing a wooden slab with a honey comb will get you impregnated wood.

[@SeizureSalad]

minecraft block facts taking notes on this video: *i n t e r e s t i n g*

[@damgaronfire]

This dude is a bit cringe with his thumbnail. That's why I don't watch him.

[@mklolqna1144]

Salc1 or block facts?

[@pocky_y]

Well duh

[@4rkain3]

I remember the update that fixed wooden slabs being stone slabs. I had never even noticed up to that point because I didn’t use wooden slabs much.

[@moritz584]

Every time I'm amazed by how much you can talk abou something so simple and even keep it interesting throughout the whole video.

[@zyqie]

always wondered as a kid why i needed a pickaxe to mine wooden slabs

[@JessiBear]

I love using alpha slabs for my roofs on 2B because they don't burn from lighting

[@SalC1]

That's exactly what I do too

[@tankunicorn134]

I’ve never had a problem with lightning, am i just lucky?

[@JessiBear]

@@tankunicorn134 very lucky or not online enough.

[@tankunicorn134]

@@JessiBear it’s a realm, and I’m on every day for a few hours :0 so I’m lucky I guess! Cool!

[@fapdosDev]

I remember when I downloaded maps made for old versions of Minecraft and every slab transformed into the petrified one. This is most likely an error handler, and a very creative one indeed

[@egon3705]

actually i think petrified slabs were just mojang throwing the pre-1.3 players a bone; "alpha leaves" (obtained by silk touching player-placed spruce, birch, or jungle leaves prior to 1.4.6) simply turned into oak leaves in 1.13

[@carterdavis2822]

I remember this, I actually got into the habit of mining the slabs and got confused after it got patched

[@iDeactivateMC]

Very interesting video!

[@-JackFrost-]

Hey

[@-JackFrost-]

@@RPRC-HK hi

[@cloudzh2o]

Third :sunglasses:

[@cloudzh2o]

@@daveroll6463 clown

[@cloudzh2o]

@@daveroll6463 Not funny I didn't laugh. Your joke is so bad I would have preferred the joke went over my head and you gave up re-telling me the joke. To be honest this is a horrid attempt at trying to get a laugh out of me. Not a chuckle, not a hehe, not even a subtle burst of air out of my esophagus. Science says before you laugh your brain preps your face muscles but I didn't even feel the slightest twitch. 0/10 this joke is so bad I cannot believe anyone legally allowed you to be creative at all. The amount of brain power you must have put into that joke has the potential to power every house on Earth. Get a personality and learn how to make jokes, read a book. I'm not saying this to be funny I genuinely mean it on how this is just bottom barrel embarrassment at comedy. You've single handedly killed humor and every comedic act on the planet. I'm so disappointed that society has failed as a whole in being able to teach you how to be funny. Honestly if I put in all my power and time to try and make your joke funny it would require Einstein himself to build a device to strap me into so I can be connected to the energy of a billion stars to do it, and even then all that joke would get from people is a subtle scuff. You're lucky I still have the slightest of empathy for you after telling that joke otherwise I would have committed every war crime in the book just to prevent you from attempting any humor ever again. We should put that joke in text books so future generations can be wary of becoming such an absolute comedic failure. Im disappointed, hurt, and outright offended that my precious time has been wasted in my brain understanding that joke. In the time that took I was planning on helping kids who have been orphaned, but because of that you've waisted my time explaining the obscene integrity of your terrible attempt at comedy. Now those kids are suffering without meals and there's nobody to blame but you. I hope you're happy with what you have done and I truly hope you can move on and learn from this piss poor attempt

[@Anthok29]

I remember when enchants worked on each material and did not care about the tool we were using, I was breaking it with an efficiency IV shovel 😂

[@SFSAtlas]

I remember enchanting dirt for no reason

[@ramennudes4704]

@@SFSAtlas you cant enchant dirt tho so wtf do you mean lop

[@ramennudes4704]

@@SFSAtlas lol

[@SFSAtlas]

@@ramennudes4704 anvil

[@txe1nd]

@@SFSAtlas lol

[@keelancase]

I haven't really messed around with creative mode since 1.12, so I had no idea petrified wood was even a thing. I just assumed they fixed the wood slab "glitch" and called it a day. I think it's really neat that this relic of classic minecraft can still be found in the game.

[@grantmiller8268]

This explains why I always forget if axes or pickaxes break wooden slabs

[@harmonb]

i remember being so confused back in the day trying to break it with an axe, took me a long time to figure it out

[@ashiqkibria]

Next up on 2b2t: Using petrified oak to crash the server

[@3vorp]

This is a 1.13 block unfortunately.

[@VexedSteak]

@@3vorp They're same block

[@Darthvader-oc5tp]

I love the guild wars music you put in these videos. Gives me a ton of nostalgia from playing non stop when I was younger.

[@mrunicellular2592]

sometimes i still try to use pickaxe to mine wood slabs, because im used to the old petrified wood slab

[@NotASpyReally]

"Wait, so the petrified wooden slab was there from _before_ the normal wooden slab?" "Always has been"

[@Oxydeologist]

'You are as beautiful as the day I lost you' -Minecraft Veterans on petrified slabs, 1.13 update

[@fakuxd9286]

Bro the misteriuos mountain was a great step in the future, that's why i came on your channel and luckily your year it became reality to build a house on top of that mountain, keep it up!!!

[@dasmalon5217]

1:43 i liked that you used the pack. png seed and build the Hous on top of the mountain :D

[@CounterfeitDiamond]

"This is a wooden slab" Yes, yes it is a wooden slab. nvm

[@Fryphe]

Didn't even notice that this was JUST posted.

[@yourfellowhumanbeing2323]

Lmao same

[@packofgrass]

This was an amazing video, I watched it all the way through to the end and left a like. Who thought someone could make the history of a slab in Minecraft so interesting!

[@SunflowerAspenPlays]

Tfw you and Minecraft go back so far you remember always breaking slabs with pickaxes. It was revolutionary when I went to break a slab one day after an update and realized I had to use an axe now.

[@LaSneky]

Wtf I was literaly thinking about that slab early this morning

[@Raxy279]

Trippy

[@shadowdestroyer93yt48]

It’s 04:19 for me

[@lukasr1166]

No you weren't.

[@Soda_Bobinski]

@@lukasr1166 please go back to reddit where you probably have roughly 2.5 million karma from telling people "No you weren't." and posting it on r/thathappened whenever they say something that isnt as boring as your comments

[@matthiasb.p.8834]

2B2T updated to every major version Also 2B2T : is stuck before the biggest updates

[@KSCuberOfficial]

Since I started MC late I've always wondered what the history of these was, great video!

[@voltsu]

Hey I remember that! In the old pocket edition, I remember figuring out that wood slabs had to be mined with a pick and not an axe.

[@Supertimegamingify]

Even though I already knew that this existed and why, I still found this video very enjoyable. Your presentation style is just so good!

[@collable1]

when u realise a slab in a block game has a history

[@teathomas]

Soon as I heard what it was in the beginning I knew!! I figured they were so once updated to the real slabs our worlds wouldn’t lose our old ones. What a throwback!

[@cowmann3555]

Finally, just noticed this 1 month ago and it drives me crazy! Thank you

[@sleeeeeeeeepy]

man i have 2 essays due in 3 days and im watching a man explain the lore behind a block in minecraft. the internet has already completely destroyed me

[@mahxylim7983]

I hope you finish your essays :D

[@ynntari2775]

use the internet to finish next essays

[@Ethan-lx1vv]

It might be helpful to force yourself to play single-player games when you would otherwise go to youtube. The idea is that, while you can go to youtube in an instant and get quick gratification, games take a little more of a time investment. As a result, you cannot as easily justify quickly jumping on when you have something else to do. Cannot say from experience that this is helpful though, I literally just thought of this on the spot and I am also just as bad as you.

[@sleeeeeeeeepy]

@@Ethan-lx1vv thank you very much for the advice but this was 3 months ago, i ended up acing the first essay and straight up just not doing the second one because it had twice the word count and was twice as hard to write about lmaoo didn't seem to matter though i got into the next year

[@Ethan-lx1vv]

@@sleeeeeeeeepy Well that's good. I realized that I was late, but I thought that it might still be helpful for the future. It's better late then never.

[@nvagn]

I knew that they weren't flammable in older versions (I still remember a tutorial on how to make a wooden house with a fireplace that used these petrified slabs), but not that they were still around after the flammable slabs were introduced, thanks for telling :0

[@M-A-Khaki]

I made my survival world in 1.1. The roof of my main house is entirely made of petrified slabs. I had known that slabs had changed from stone to wood, but never realized that the ones already placed stayed that way until i decided to change the redstone in my ceiling. When i mined the block out and got petrified wood i was so delighted

[@satsumagt5284]

I noticed that way back when it was the only type of wood slab, it would make a stone block-placing sound

[@V_SABITRON]

its such a shame that alpha leaves werent given a new name in 1.13. Dead Oak Leaves would have been a perfect name for them

[@cadenbirchard4983]

Man I hopped off the hub for this dawg

[@somewhereupthere7]

i would do the same

[@thefatalmicah1596]

the hub D:

[@grahamsteele7907]

Of course, this is referring to Logitech G Hub, Logitech’s device management software.

[@cadenbirchard4983]

@@grahamsteele7907 yes of course, what did yall think i was doing?

[@RustyShackleford556]

I never even knew these petrified slabs existed, and I've played since 1.4.1

[@5usp3c7]

I remember having no internet and being forced to play title update 9 on the 360. You could craft the wooden slabs, but the alpha slabs were the only ones you could grab right out of the creative menu.

[@maxifisch3230]

I remember playing a tutorial world on the xbox 360 and I teared down a pre build castle on the world and noticing this wooden slab that sounded like stone and could be only mined with a pickaxe. I was really confused but now I know why. Thank you!

[@jswagpsn2285]

I always wondered why wood slabs needed a pickaxe to break efficiently. That was back in 2012 or so. Sometimes I still try to use my pickaxe before I remember it was changed.

[@casesater]

same

[@ThevenimX]

I remember hearing way back when to build your house out of slabs because they dont burn but one day that stopped working and I never knew why

[@chromosoze]

thank for telling me why my oak slab took 5 hours to break with an axe and didn't even drop anything when playing in an old version of minecraft

[@Rilesjean]

I remember learning about the wood slabs being stone in a little skit from uberhaxornova, part of his series where like, something minor would happen/be in the game and he'd just have a total breakdown over it (ah, 2013) and I remember the slabs video where he got so angry about having to mine the wood slab with a pickaxe and he went on an angry rant about it

[@WoolyCow]

Next up: *The iron ore that drops diamond*

[@Whising]

xD

[@coolbasedgigachad6820]

114 subscribers

[@Whising]

@@coolbasedgigachad6820 lol

[@coolbasedgigachad6820]

@@Whising why said lol?

[@Whising]

@@coolbasedgigachad6820 idk i am wierd?

[@gwerneckpaiva]

I gotta admit, I loved this video, I've been playing Minecraft for years, so at this point learning something new AND interesting about the game is a pretty rare, every time I watch videos such as "things you did not know about Minecraft", I already know everything. But this video, made me learn about something really interesting that I had no idea about in Minecraft.

[@miamesa8652]

I surprised myself but how much I remembered about this, even the fact it got changed in 1.3, what a trip down memory lane

[@bjvx]

I remember in Minecraft Console Edition I would build houses made of wooden slabs because it wouldn't burn.

[@serchforvideos]

I would say this is a "step up" from previous videos. :v

[@trashdragon6289]

Finally a video of this genre that’s actually helpful and not pumped with ads and promos. Stellar channel, my guy!

[@minoxs]

old check: I remember the update when different wooden slabs were added.... In my head, it still feels like it wasn't that long ago

[@NoFallToggled]

The fact that SalC1 still interacts with his comments at almost 600k subs means the world to me

[@Minecraft101ToonLink]

Ahh, I remember the days when it was strange to mine wooden slabs using a pickaxe and not an axe.

[@damienffb4852]

Beautiful. Enough to make a young lad shed a tear.

[@1manApocalypse_CP]

I used to play Minecraft a lot but I don't really keep up with it much anymore, so I knew about the half slabs not being flammable but didn't know about the petrified slab.

[@MouthJaw]

Mojang: Let's remove the alpha slabs People: *riots* Mojang: *adds it back* People: *happy*

[@MouthJaw]

@@alexanderzerka8477 not really racist because it doesn't go towards racism but I see your point of this *Strong* word

[@BlackPalladino]

The real stone slab were the friends we made along the way

[@purplehaze2358]

I feel like Mojang just adding a different block and making the original unobtainable was just an example of developmental laziness more than anything else.

[@madac_]

its so cool that mojang didn't just remove the block and keep it as a easter egg

[@bengoodwin2141]

Wow, I didn't know these were still in the game. How have I never seen it?

[@casesater]

no longer craftable

[@iaminyourwalls.]

I remember seeing them in creative mode and being very confused to hearing the breaking sound It still exists I think (only in creative)

[@Agustin77423]

The more you know *Iconic music*

[@nickkennedy9034]

I find it interesting that people are learning "the history of minecraft" as it were when people like me were the people writing the wikis and stuff when the game first came on the scene. Like I remember when 1.3.1 was "the new big update" and the removal of the flying squids.

[@DerpRob]

As soon as I saw you scroll to the item in your creative inventory, I immediately hopped on Minecraft to check it out for myself. It was sitting there the entire time, and I never knew it was a thing; that's so cool!