Overview
Blackstone Stairs is one of the 30 variants of this shape in the game. What changes between them is the material, and with it the hardness, the drops, the durability and the recipe — so every figure on this page is this variant's own. Oak Stairs is the same shape in a different material.
Blackstone Stairs counts as a Nether block in Minecraft 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Blackstone Stairs. Its hardness of 1.5 makes it a normal, unhurried block to mine.
Anything below a wooden pickaxe breaks it without leaving a drop. It drops as the same block you mined. It stacks to 64.
You make it with Blackstone. You can also cut it from Blackstone on a stonecutter. It is not used in any crafting recipe.
About the blackstone set
How long it takes to break
Blackstone Stairs has a hardness of 1.5. By hand that is 7.5 seconds per block; with the correct tool at netherite tier it is 0.25 seconds.
Iron takes 0.4 seconds against diamond's 0.3, so the upgrade worth making for this block is the one to diamond.
Below wooden the block breaks and simply vanishes. Bring the right tier or leave it in the ground.
Efficiency contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 2.5 times faster than the plain tool.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand * | 7.5 s | 7.5 s | 7.5 s |
| Wooden | 1.2 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Stone | 0.6 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Iron | 0.4 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
| Diamond | 0.3 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
| Netherite | 0.25 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
| Golden | 0.2 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
Properties
With 6 blast resistance Blackstone Stairs usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard full stack. The fastest tool for it is a pickaxe; any other kind of tool mines it no faster than a bare hand does, because the speed bonus only applies to the tool class the block is tagged for. As furnace fuel it burns for 15 seconds — one and a half smelting operations.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Wooden Pickaxe
- Fuel value
- 15 s
How to get it
Crafting Table
Blackstone Stairs ×4
Stonecutter
Blackstone Stairs
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Blackstone Stairs drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Blackstone Stairs in Minecraft?
Blackstone Stairs is crafted from Blackstone.
What tool do you need to break Blackstone Stairs?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Blackstone Stairs blast resistant?
Blackstone Stairs has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Blackstone Stairs fit in one stack?
Blackstone Stairs stacks to 64, which puts 3,456 of them in a double chest.
How long does Blackstone Stairs take to break?
0.25 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the right class, or 7.5 seconds bare-handed.
The rest of the set
Blackstone Stairs is one of 30 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
