Overview
Sandstone 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.
Minecraft classifies Sandstone Stairs as a building block. Sandstone Stairs 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 Sandstone. The stonecutter is the cheaper route: one Sandstone gives one of these.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient.
About the sandstone set
How long it takes to break
Sandstone Stairs sits at hardness 0.8: 4 seconds per block with your fists, 0.15 with the correct netherite tool.
Iron takes 0.2 seconds against diamond's 0.15, so the upgrade worth making for this block is the one to diamond.
Below wooden the block breaks and simply vanishes. Bring the right tier or leave it in the ground.
Each Efficiency level adds level² + 1 to the tool's speed, so a level V tool clears this about 3 times faster than an unenchanted one.
| 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
Sandstone Stairs resists blasts at 0.8, which is not enough to survive anything explosive nearby. Light does not pass through it, and it emits none 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
Sandstone Stairs ×4
Stonecutter
Sandstone Stairs
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Sandstone Stairs drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Sandstone Stairs in Minecraft?
Sandstone Stairs is crafted from Sandstone.
What tool do you need to break Sandstone Stairs?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Sandstone Stairs blast resistant?
Sandstone Stairs has a blast resistance of 0.8, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Sandstone Stairs fit in one stack?
Sandstone Stairs stacks to 64, so a single double chest holds 3,456 of them.
How long does Sandstone Stairs take to break?
The correct netherite tool clears it in 0.15 seconds. Bare hands take 4.
The rest of the set
Sandstone Stairs is one of 30 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
