Overview
Red Sandstone Stairs is one of the 30 variants of Oak Stairs: same recipe, same hardness, same drops — only the look differs. The full write-up for the set is on the Oak Stairs page.
Red Sandstone Stairs counts as a building block in Minecraft 1.21.4. Red Sandstone Stairs has a crafting recipe, so it is renewable as long as you can source its ingredients. At a hardness of 0.8 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 blast resistance of 0.8 means a single creeper will clear it away.
It stacks to 64. You make it with Red Sandstone. You can also cut it from Red Sandstone on a stonecutter.
It is not used in any crafting recipe.
About the red set
How long it takes to break
At a hardness of 0.8, Red Sandstone Stairs takes 4 seconds to punch out and 0.15 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.
An iron tool takes 0.2 seconds and a diamond one 0.15, so the jump that actually matters for this block is the one to diamond.
It will break below wooden, and you will get nothing for it. That combination of time spent and drop lost is the classic mining mistake.
The Efficiency formula is level² + 1 added to tool speed — at V that is about 3 times the unenchanted rate.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand * | 4 s | 4 s | 4 s |
| Wooden | 0.6 s | 0.1 s | instant |
| Stone | 0.3 s | 0.1 s | instant |
| Iron | 0.2 s | 0.1 s | instant |
| Diamond | 0.15 s | 0.1 s | instant |
| Netherite | 0.15 s | 0.1 s | instant |
| Golden | 0.1 s | 0.1 s | instant |
Properties
Red Sandstone Stairs has a blast resistance of 0.8, so any explosion nearby destroys it. It blocks light completely and emits no light of its own. 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.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Wooden Pickaxe
- Fuel value
- 15 s
How to get it
Crafting Table
Red Sandstone Stairs ×4
Stonecutter
Red Sandstone Stairs
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Red Sandstone Stairs drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Red Sandstone Stairs in Minecraft?
Red Sandstone Stairs is crafted from Red Sandstone.
What tool do you need to break Red Sandstone Stairs?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Red Sandstone Stairs blast resistant?
Red Sandstone Stairs has a blast resistance of 0.8, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Red Sandstone Stairs fit in one stack?
64 per stack, so a double chest holds 3,456 Red Sandstone Stairs.
How long does Red Sandstone Stairs take to break?
About 0.15 seconds if you bring the correct netherite tool; 4 seconds with your fists.
The rest of the set
Red Sandstone Stairs is one of 30 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
