Overview
Purpur Stairs is one of the 30 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. Oak Stairs is the same shape in a different material.
Purpur Stairs counts as an End block in Minecraft 1.21.4. Purpur Stairs is made at a crafting table. Hardness 1.5 puts it in the middle of the pack for mining speed.
Mine it with a wooden pickaxe or better, or you get no drop at all. Broken correctly, it drops itself. Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot.
The recipe calls for Purpur Block. A stonecutter can cut it straight from Purpur Block, with nothing wasted. Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.
About the purpur set
How long it takes to break
Hardness 1.5 puts Purpur Stairs at 7.5 seconds a block bare-handed, or 0.25 seconds with the right tool at netherite tier.
You are looking at 0.4 seconds on iron and 0.3 on diamond — the diamond step is where the time actually falls.
A weaker tool still breaks it, but anything under wooden returns nothing — you spend the time and lose the drop, which is how most veins get wasted.
Efficiency contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 2.5 times faster than the plain tool.
| 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
Purpur Stairs has a blast resistance of 6, so a nearby explosion will usually destroy it. It blocks light completely and emits no light of its own. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal full stack. The fastest tool for it is a pickaxe; any other kind of tool mines it no faster than a bare hand does, because the speed bonus only applies to the tool class the block is tagged for. 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
Purpur Stairs ×4
Stonecutter
Purpur Stairs
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Purpur Stairs drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Purpur Stairs in Minecraft?
Purpur Stairs is crafted from Purpur Block.
What tool do you need to break Purpur Stairs?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Purpur Stairs blast resistant?
Purpur Stairs has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Purpur Stairs fit in one stack?
64 per stack, so a double chest holds 3,456 Purpur Stairs.
How long does Purpur Stairs take to break?
0.25 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the right class, or 7.5 seconds bare-handed.
The rest of the set
Purpur Stairs is one of 30 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
