Overview
Chiseled Red Sandstone is one of the 4 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. Red Sandstone is the same shape in a different material.
In Minecraft 1.21.4, Chiseled Red Sandstone is a building block. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Chiseled Red Sandstone. Its hardness of 0.8 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. With a blast resistance of only 0.8 it will not survive an explosion.
Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot. The recipe calls for Red Sandstone Slab. A stonecutter can cut it straight from Red Sandstone, with nothing wasted.
It goes into exactly one recipe: Red Sandstone Stairs.
About the red sandstone set
How long it takes to break
At a hardness of 0.8, Chiseled Red Sandstone takes 4 seconds to punch out and 0.15 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.
Iron manages 0.2 seconds and diamond 0.15, which makes diamond the tier that changes how this block feels.
It will break below wooden, and you will get nothing for it. That combination of time spent and drop lost is the classic mining mistake.
Each Efficiency level adds level² + 1 to the tool's speed, so a level V tool clears this about 3 times faster than an unenchanted one.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand * | 4 s | 4 s | 4 s |
| Wooden | 0.6 s | 0.1 s | instant |
| Stone | 0.3 s | 0.1 s | instant |
| Iron | 0.2 s | 0.1 s | instant |
| Diamond | 0.15 s | 0.1 s | instant |
| Netherite | 0.15 s | 0.1 s | instant |
| Golden | 0.1 s | 0.1 s | instant |
Properties
With 0.8 blast resistance Chiseled Red Sandstone goes down to any nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal full stack. The block is tagged for pickaxes, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Wooden Pickaxe
How to get it
Crafting Table
Chiseled Red Sandstone
Stonecutter
Chiseled Red Sandstone
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Chiseled Red Sandstone drops itself.
Used to craft
Chiseled Red Sandstone is an ingredient in 2 recipes, producing Red Sandstone Slab and Red Sandstone Stairs.
Guides and tools that cover this
Frequently asked questions
How do you get Chiseled Red Sandstone in Minecraft?
Chiseled Red Sandstone is crafted from Red Sandstone Slab.
What tool do you need to break Chiseled Red Sandstone?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Chiseled Red Sandstone blast resistant?
Chiseled Red Sandstone has a blast resistance of 0.8, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Chiseled Red Sandstone fit in one stack?
64 per stack, so a double chest holds 3,456 Chiseled Red Sandstone.
How long does Chiseled Red Sandstone take to break?
With the correct tool at netherite tier it takes 0.15 seconds; by hand it takes 4 seconds.
The rest of the set
Chiseled Red Sandstone is one of 4 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
