Polished Tuff Stairs — Minecraft block

Overview

Polished Tuff Stairs is a stone-family block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. Polished Tuff Stairs has a crafting recipe, so it is renewable as long as you can source its ingredients. At a hardness of 1.5 it takes a moment to break but never slows a build down.

It needs at least a wooden pickaxe to drop anything; a weaker tool destroys it for nothing. Mining it returns the block itself, so it is safe to relocate. A full stack holds 64.

It is crafted from Polished Tuff. The stonecutter is the cheaper route: one Polished Tuff gives one of these. No recipe takes it as an ingredient.

How long it takes to break

Polished Tuff 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.

You are looking at 0.4 seconds on iron and 0.3 on diamond — the diamond step is where the time actually falls.

Below wooden the block breaks and simply vanishes. Bring the right tier or leave it in the ground.

The Efficiency formula is level² + 1 added to tool speed — at V that is about 2.5 times the unenchanted rate.

* 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 Polished Tuff Stairs is 6, so an explosion nearby will usually take it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. A single slot takes 64, the usual full stack. A pickaxe is fastest here; any other class mines it at bare-hand speed, because the bonus only applies to the class the block is tagged for. As furnace fuel it burns for 15 seconds — one and a half smelting operations.

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Required tool: Wooden Pickaxe
Fuel value: 15 s