Overview
Sandstone Wall is one of the 15 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. Andesite Wall is the same shape in a different material.
Minecraft classifies Sandstone Wall as a building block. 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 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 Wall sits at hardness 0.8: 4 seconds per block with your fists, 0.15 with the correct netherite tool.
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.
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.
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
Blast resistance on Sandstone Wall is 0.8, so any explosion nearby takes it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. 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.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Wooden Pickaxe
How to get it
Crafting Table
Sandstone Wall ×6
Stonecutter
Sandstone Wall
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Sandstone Wall drops itself.
Guides and tools that cover this
Frequently asked questions
How do you get Sandstone Wall in Minecraft?
Sandstone Wall is crafted from Sandstone.
What tool do you need to break Sandstone Wall?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Sandstone Wall blast resistant?
Sandstone Wall has a blast resistance of 0.8, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Sandstone Wall fit in one stack?
A stack is 64, and a double chest of them comes to 3,456.
How long does Sandstone Wall take to break?
0.15 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the right class, or 4 seconds bare-handed.
The rest of the set
Sandstone Wall is one of 15 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
