Deepslate Brick Stairs — Minecraft block

Overview

Deepslate Brick Stairs is one of the 5 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. Brick Stairs is the same shape in a different material.

Deepslate Brick Stairs is a stone-family block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Deepslate Brick Stairs. A hardness of 3.5 makes it slow going without the right tool.

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 Deepslate Bricks. You can also cut it from Cobbled Deepslate on a stonecutter. It is not used in any crafting recipe.

About the deepslate set

How long it takes to break

Hardness 3.5 puts Deepslate Brick Stairs at 18 seconds a block bare-handed, or 0.6 seconds with the right tool at netherite tier.

Iron takes 0.9 seconds against diamond's 0.7, so the upgrade worth making for this block is the one to iron.

Below wooden the block breaks and simply vanishes. Bring the right tier or leave it in the ground.

The Efficiency formula is level² + 1 added to tool speed — at V that is about 4 times the unenchanted rate.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand *	18 s	18 s	18 s
Wooden	2.7 s	0.45 s	0.2 s
Stone	1.4 s	0.4 s	0.2 s
Iron	0.9 s	0.35 s	0.2 s
Diamond	0.7 s	0.3 s	0.2 s
Netherite	0.6 s	0.3 s	0.15 s
Golden	0.45 s	0.25 s	0.15 s

Properties

With 6 blast resistance Deepslate Brick Stairs usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard full stack. A pickaxe is the fastest choice here. A tool of the wrong class is no better than your fist — the speed bonus is tied to the block's own tool tag.

Transparent: No
Required tool: Wooden Pickaxe