Polished Blackstone Brick Stairs

Overview

Polished Blackstone Brick Stairs counts as a Nether block in Minecraft 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Polished Blackstone 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 Polished Blackstone Bricks. You can also cut it from Blackstone on a stonecutter. It is not used in any crafting recipe.

How long it takes to break

Polished Blackstone Brick Stairs sits at hardness 1.5: 7.5 seconds per block with your fists, 0.25 with the correct netherite tool.

Iron takes 0.4 seconds against diamond's 0.3, so the upgrade worth making 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 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

Polished Blackstone Brick Stairs resists blasts at 6, which usually is not enough when something explodes nearby. Light does not pass through it, and it emits none of its own. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal full stack. 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