Overview
Red Sandstone Wall is one of the 15 variants of Andesite Wall: same recipe, same hardness, same drops — only the look differs. The full write-up for the set is on the Andesite Wall page.
Red Sandstone Wall counts as a building block in Minecraft 1.21.4. Red Sandstone Wall is made at a crafting table. Hardness 0.8 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. It offers almost no protection from explosions (0.8 blast resistance).
A full stack holds 64. It is crafted from Red Sandstone. The stonecutter is the cheaper route: one Red Sandstone gives one of these.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient.
About the red set
How long it takes to break
At a hardness of 0.8, Red Sandstone Wall takes 4 seconds to punch out and 0.15 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.
Iron takes 0.2 seconds against diamond's 0.15, 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 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 Wall has a blast resistance of 0.8, so any explosion nearby destroys 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.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Wooden Pickaxe
How to get it
Crafting Table
Red Sandstone Wall ×6
Stonecutter
Red Sandstone Wall
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Red Sandstone Wall drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Red Sandstone Wall in Minecraft?
Red Sandstone Wall is crafted from Red Sandstone.
What tool do you need to break Red Sandstone Wall?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Red Sandstone Wall blast resistant?
Red Sandstone Wall has a blast resistance of 0.8, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Red Sandstone Wall fit in one stack?
64 per stack, so a double chest holds 3,456 Red Sandstone Wall.
How long does Red Sandstone Wall take to break?
With the correct tool at netherite tier it takes 0.15 seconds; by hand it takes 4 seconds.
The rest of the set
Red Sandstone Wall is one of 15 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
