Overview
Stone Brick 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.
Stone Brick Stairs counts as a stone-family block in Minecraft 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Stone Brick Stairs. Its hardness of 1.5 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 Stone Bricks. You can also cut it from Stone Bricks on a stonecutter. It is not used in any crafting recipe.
About the stone set
How long it takes to break
Stone Brick Stairs has a hardness of 1.5. By hand that is 7.5 seconds per block; with the correct tool at netherite tier it is 0.25 seconds.
Iron manages 0.4 seconds and diamond 0.3, which makes diamond the tier that changes how this block feels.
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.
Each Efficiency level adds level² + 1 to the tool's speed, so a level V tool clears this about 2.5 times faster than an unenchanted one.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand * | 7.5 s | 7.5 s | 7.5 s |
| Wooden | 1.2 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Stone | 0.6 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Iron | 0.4 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
| Diamond | 0.3 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
| Netherite | 0.25 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
| Golden | 0.2 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
Properties
Blast resistance on Stone Brick Stairs is 6, so an explosion nearby will usually take it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. A single slot takes 64, the usual full stack. The block is tagged for pickaxes, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Wooden Pickaxe
How to get it
Crafting Table
Stone Brick Stairs ×4
Stonecutter
Stone Brick Stairs
Stonecutter
Stone Brick Stairs
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Stone Brick Stairs drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Stone Brick Stairs in Minecraft?
Stone Brick Stairs is crafted from Stone Bricks.
What tool do you need to break Stone Brick Stairs?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Stone Brick Stairs blast resistant?
Stone Brick Stairs has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Stone Brick Stairs fit in one stack?
64 per stack, so a double chest holds 3,456 Stone Brick Stairs.
How long does Stone Brick Stairs take to break?
About 0.25 seconds if you bring the correct netherite tool; 7.5 seconds with your fists.
The rest of the set
Stone Brick Stairs is one of 30 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
