Mossy Stone Brick Stairs — Minecraft block

Overview

In Minecraft 1.21.4, Mossy Stone Brick Stairs is a stone-family block. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Mossy Stone Brick Stairs. Its hardness of 1.5 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. It stacks to 64.

You make it with Mossy Stone Bricks. You can also cut it from Mossy Stone Bricks on a stonecutter. It is not used in any crafting recipe.

How long it takes to break

Hardness 1.5 puts Mossy Stone Brick Stairs at 7.5 seconds a block bare-handed, or 0.25 seconds with the right tool at netherite tier.

Iron manages 0.4 seconds and diamond 0.3, which makes diamond the tier that changes how this block feels.

The block still breaks with a weaker tool, but below wooden it yields nothing at all — the time is spent and the drop is lost, which is the single most common way players waste a vein.

Efficiency contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 2.5 times faster than the plain tool.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand *	7.5 s	7.5 s	7.5 s
Wooden	1.2 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Stone	0.6 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Iron	0.4 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Diamond	0.3 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Netherite	0.25 s	0.15 s	0.1 s
Golden	0.2 s	0.15 s	0.1 s

Properties

Blast resistance on Mossy Stone Brick Stairs is 6, so an explosion nearby will usually take it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal full stack. It is renewable, so a single world can supply an unlimited amount of it. 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
Renewable: Yes