Overview
Polished Granite Stairs is a stone-family block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Polished Granite 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 Granite. You can also cut it from Granite on a stonecutter. It is not used in any crafting recipe.
How long it takes to break
Polished Granite 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.
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.
The Efficiency formula is level² + 1 added to tool speed — at V that is about 2.5 times the unenchanted rate.
| 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 Polished Granite 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. The block is tagged for pickaxes, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate. As furnace fuel it burns for 15 seconds — one and a half smelting operations.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Wooden Pickaxe
- Fuel value
- 15 s
How to get it
Crafting Table
Polished Granite Stairs ×4
Stonecutter
Polished Granite Stairs
Stonecutter
Polished Granite Stairs
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Polished Granite Stairs drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Polished Granite Stairs in Minecraft?
Polished Granite Stairs is crafted from Polished Granite.
What tool do you need to break Polished Granite Stairs?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Polished Granite Stairs blast resistant?
Polished Granite Stairs has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Polished Granite Stairs fit in one stack?
64 per stack, so a double chest holds 3,456 Polished Granite Stairs.
How long does Polished Granite Stairs take to break?
With the correct tool at netherite tier it takes 0.25 seconds; by hand it takes 7.5 seconds.
