Polished Andesite Stairs — Minecraft block

Overview

Polished Andesite Stairs counts as a stone-family block in Minecraft 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Polished Andesite 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 Polished Andesite. You can also cut it from Andesite on a stonecutter. It is not used in any crafting recipe.

How long it takes to break

Polished Andesite Stairs has a hardness of 1.5. By hand that is 7.5 seconds per block; with the correct tool at netherite tier it is 0.25 seconds.

An iron tool takes 0.4 seconds and a diamond one 0.3, 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.

Each Efficiency level adds level² + 1 to the tool's speed, so a level V tool clears this about 2.5 times faster than an unenchanted one.

* 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

With 6 blast resistance Polished Andesite Stairs usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. 64 fit in a slot — a 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