Deepslate Tile Stairs — Minecraft block

Overview

In Minecraft 1.21.4, Deepslate Tile Stairs is a stone-family block. Deepslate Tile Stairs is made at a crafting table. Expect to wait: its hardness of 3.5 is well above average.

Mine it with a wooden pickaxe or better, or you get no drop at all. Broken correctly, it drops itself. Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot.

The recipe calls for Deepslate Tiles. A stonecutter can cut it straight from Cobbled Deepslate, with nothing wasted. Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.

About the deepslate set

How long it takes to break

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

Iron manages 0.9 seconds and diamond 0.7, which makes iron the tier that changes how this block feels.

A weaker tool still breaks it, but anything under wooden returns nothing — you spend the time and lose the drop, which is how most veins get wasted.

Each Efficiency level adds level² + 1 to the tool's speed, so a level V tool clears this about 4 times faster than an unenchanted one.

* 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 Tile Stairs usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal 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. As furnace fuel it burns for 15 seconds — one and a half smelting operations.

Transparent: No
Required tool: Wooden Pickaxe
Fuel value: 15 s