Overview
Cut 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.
Cut Red Sandstone counts as a building block in Minecraft 1.21.4. Cut Red Sandstone has a crafting recipe, so it is renewable as long as you can source its ingredients. At a hardness of 0.8 it takes a moment to break but never slows a build down.
It needs at least a wooden pickaxe to drop anything; a weaker tool destroys it for nothing. Mining it returns the block itself, so it is safe to relocate. A blast resistance of 0.8 means a single creeper will clear it away.
It stacks to 64. You make it with Red Sandstone. You can also cut it from Red Sandstone on a stonecutter.
It is used to craft Cut Red Sandstone Slab and Red Sandstone Stairs.
About the red sandstone set
How long it takes to break
At a hardness of 0.8, Cut Red Sandstone takes 4 seconds to punch out and 0.15 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.
An iron tool takes 0.2 seconds and a diamond one 0.15, so the jump that actually matters 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 3 times faster than the plain tool.
| 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
Cut Red Sandstone has a blast resistance of 0.8, so any explosion nearby destroys it. It blocks light completely and emits no light of its own. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal 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.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Wooden Pickaxe
How to get it
Crafting Table
Cut Red Sandstone ×4
Stonecutter
Cut Red Sandstone
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Cut Red Sandstone drops itself.
Used to craft
Cut Red Sandstone is an ingredient in 2 recipes, producing Cut Red Sandstone Slab and Red Sandstone Stairs.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Cut Red Sandstone in Minecraft?
Cut Red Sandstone is crafted from Red Sandstone.
What tool do you need to break Cut Red Sandstone?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Cut Red Sandstone blast resistant?
Cut Red Sandstone has a blast resistance of 0.8, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Cut Red Sandstone fit in one stack?
Cut Red Sandstone stacks to 64, which puts 3,456 of them in a double chest.
How long does Cut 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
Cut Red Sandstone is one of 4 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
