Full tutorial on How To Build A Deepslate Mine in your Minecraft Bedrock Edition, Pocket Edition, or MCPE, vanilla survival world. This is 1.17 caves and cliffs update design.

Deepslate is a stone type found deep underground in the Overworld that functions similar to regular stone.

Deepslate can be obtained only by mining it using a pickaxe with the Silk Touch enchantment, otherwise it drops cobbled deepslate. If broken with any other tool, it drops nothing. The breaking time for deepslate is roughly twice the time for stone.

Deepslate can be mined using a pickaxe without the Silk Touch enchantment to obtain cobbled deepslate.