Overview
Spruce 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.
In Minecraft 1.21.4, Spruce Stairs is a building block. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Spruce Stairs. Its hardness of 2 makes it a normal, unhurried block to mine.
Mining it returns the block itself, so it is safe to relocate. A full stack holds 64. It is crafted from Spruce Planks.
Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.
About the spruce set
How long it takes to break
At a hardness of 2, Spruce Stairs takes 3 seconds to punch out and 0.35 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.
Iron manages 0.5 seconds and diamond 0.4, which makes iron the tier that changes how this block feels.
No particular tool tier is required: any tool, or none at all, still yields the drop, so the table below is about speed rather than about whether you get anything.
The Efficiency formula is level² + 1 added to tool speed — at V that is about 3.5 times the unenchanted rate.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand | 3 s | 3 s | 3 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
With 3 blast resistance Spruce Stairs usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard full stack. Fire spreads to it readily (encouragement 5, burn 20), so keep it away from lava and away from anything you would rather not lose. An axe is the fastest choice here. A tool of the wrong class is no better than your fist — the speed bonus is tied to the block's own tool tag. As furnace fuel it burns for 15 seconds — one and a half smelting operations.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Any
- Flammable
- Yes (5/20)
- Fuel value
- 15 s
Crafting recipe
Crafting Table
Spruce Stairs ×4
Drops
Mined with any, Spruce Stairs drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Spruce Stairs in Minecraft?
Spruce Stairs is crafted from Spruce Planks.
What tool do you need to break Spruce Stairs?
No specific tool is required — Spruce Stairs can be broken by hand.
Is Spruce Stairs blast resistant?
Spruce Stairs has a blast resistance of 3, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Spruce Stairs fit in one stack?
Spruce Stairs stacks to 64, so a single double chest holds 3,456 of them.
How long does Spruce Stairs take to break?
With the correct tool at netherite tier it takes 0.35 seconds; by hand it takes 3 seconds.
The rest of the set
Spruce Stairs is one of 30 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
