Smooth Red Sandstone — Minecraft block

Overview

Smooth Red Sandstone is one of the 4 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. Red Sandstone is the same shape in a different material.

Minecraft classifies Smooth Red Sandstone as a building block. Hardness 2 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. Put Red Sandstone in a furnace and this is what comes out.

It is used to craft Smooth Red Sandstone Slab and Smooth Red Sandstone Stairs.

About the red sandstone set

How long it takes to break

Smooth Red Sandstone sits at hardness 2: 10 seconds per block with your fists, 0.35 with the correct netherite tool.

You are looking at 0.5 seconds on iron and 0.4 on diamond — the iron step is where the time actually falls.

Below wooden the block breaks and simply vanishes. Bring the right tier or leave it in the ground.

Efficiency adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed, so Efficiency V is about 3.5 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand *	10 s	10 s	10 s
Wooden	1.5 s	0.25 s	0.15 s
Stone	0.75 s	0.25 s	0.1 s
Iron	0.5 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Diamond	0.4 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Netherite	0.35 s	0.2 s	0.1 s
Golden	0.25 s	0.15 s	0.1 s

Properties

Smooth Red Sandstone resists blasts at 6, which usually is not enough when something explodes nearby. Light does not pass through it, and it emits none of its own. Stack size is 64 — the standard full stack. The block is tagged for pickaxes, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate.

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Required tool: Wooden Pickaxe