Smooth Red Sandstone Stairs — Minecraft block

Overview

Minecraft classifies Smooth Red Sandstone Stairs as a building block. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Smooth Red Sandstone Stairs. Its hardness of 2 makes it a normal, unhurried block to mine.

Anything below a wooden pickaxe breaks it without leaving a drop. It drops as the same block you mined. It stacks to 64.

You make it with Smooth Red Sandstone. You can also cut it from Smooth Red Sandstone on a stonecutter. It is not used in any crafting recipe.

How long it takes to break

Smooth Red Sandstone Stairs has a hardness of 2. By hand that is 10 seconds per block; with the correct tool at netherite tier it is 0.35 seconds.

Iron manages 0.5 seconds and diamond 0.4, which makes iron the tier that changes how this block feels.

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.

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 Stairs 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. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal full stack. The block is tagged for pickaxes, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate. As furnace fuel it burns for 15 seconds — one and a half smelting operations.

Transparent: No
Required tool: Wooden Pickaxe
Fuel value: 15 s