Overview
Cherry 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.
Cherry Stairs counts as a building block in Minecraft 1.21.4. Cherry Stairs is made at a crafting table. Hardness 2 puts it in the middle of the pack for mining speed.
It drops as the same block you mined. It stacks to 64. You make it with Cherry Planks.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient.
About the cherry set
How long it takes to break
Cherry Stairs sits at hardness 2: 3 seconds per block with your fists, 0.35 with the correct netherite tool.
Iron manages 0.5 seconds and diamond 0.4, which makes iron the tier that changes how this block feels.
Nothing here needs a minimum tier: whatever you swing, the block still drops, and the only difference is how long it takes.
Efficiency contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 3.5 times faster than the plain tool.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand | 3 s | 3 s | 3 s |
| Wooden | 1.5 s | 0.25 s | 0.15 s |
| Stone | 0.75 s | 0.25 s | 0.1 s |
| Iron | 0.5 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Diamond | 0.4 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Netherite | 0.35 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Golden | 0.25 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
Properties
With 3 blast resistance Cherry Stairs usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard full stack. Fire takes to it quickly — encouragement 5, burn 20 — which makes it a poor neighbour for lava or a lit campfire. An axe is fastest here; any other class mines it at bare-hand speed, because the bonus only applies to the class the block is tagged for. As furnace fuel it burns for 15 seconds — one and a half smelting operations.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Any
- Flammable
- Yes (5/20)
- Fuel value
- 15 s
Crafting recipe
Crafting Table
Cherry Stairs ×4
Drops
Mined with any, Cherry Stairs drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Cherry Stairs in Minecraft?
Cherry Stairs is crafted from Cherry Planks.
What tool do you need to break Cherry Stairs?
No specific tool is required — Cherry Stairs can be broken by hand.
Is Cherry Stairs blast resistant?
Cherry Stairs has a blast resistance of 3, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Cherry Stairs fit in one stack?
64 per stack, so a double chest holds 3,456 Cherry Stairs.
How long does Cherry Stairs take to break?
The correct netherite tool clears it in 0.35 seconds. Bare hands take 3.
The rest of the set
Cherry Stairs is one of 30 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
