Overview
Prismarine Brick Stairs is one of the 5 variants of this shape in the game. What changes between them is the material, and with it the hardness, the drops, the durability and the recipe — so every figure on this page is this variant's own. Brick Stairs is the same shape in a different material.
Prismarine Brick Stairs counts as an underwater block in Minecraft 1.21.4. Prismarine Brick 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 Prismarine Bricks. The stonecutter is the cheaper route: one Prismarine Bricks gives one of these. No recipe takes it as an ingredient.
About the prismarine set
How long it takes to break
Prismarine 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.
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 adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed, so Efficiency V is about 2.5 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.
| 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 Prismarine Brick Stairs usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. A single slot takes 64, the usual 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.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Wooden Pickaxe
How to get it
Crafting Table
Prismarine Brick Stairs ×4
Stonecutter
Prismarine Brick Stairs
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Prismarine Brick Stairs drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Prismarine Brick Stairs in Minecraft?
Prismarine Brick Stairs is crafted from Prismarine Bricks.
What tool do you need to break Prismarine Brick Stairs?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Prismarine Brick Stairs blast resistant?
Prismarine Brick Stairs has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Prismarine Brick Stairs fit in one stack?
Prismarine Brick Stairs stacks to 64, so a single double chest holds 3,456 of them.
How long does Prismarine Brick Stairs take to break?
With the correct tool at netherite tier it takes 0.25 seconds; by hand it takes 7.5 seconds.
The rest of the set
Prismarine Brick Stairs is one of 5 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
