Overview
Stone 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, Stone Stairs is a stone-family block. Stone Stairs has a crafting recipe, so it is renewable as long as you can source its ingredients. At a hardness of 1.5 it takes a moment to break but never slows a build down.
It needs at least a wooden pickaxe to drop anything; a weaker tool destroys it for nothing. Mining it returns the block itself, so it is safe to relocate. A full stack holds 64.
It is crafted from Stone. The stonecutter is the cheaper route: one Stone gives one of these. No recipe takes it as an ingredient.
About the stone set
How long it takes to break
At a hardness of 1.5, Stone Stairs takes 7.5 seconds to punch out and 0.25 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.
An iron tool takes 0.4 seconds and a diamond one 0.3, so the jump that actually matters for this block is the one to diamond.
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 contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 2.5 times faster than the plain tool.
| 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 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. As furnace fuel it burns for 15 seconds — one and a half smelting operations.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Wooden Pickaxe
- Fuel value
- 15 s
How to get it
Crafting Table
Stone Stairs ×4
Stonecutter
Stone Stairs
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Stone Stairs drops itself.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Stone Stairs in Minecraft?
Stone Stairs is crafted from Stone.
What tool do you need to break Stone Stairs?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Stone Stairs blast resistant?
Stone Stairs has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Stone Stairs fit in one stack?
Stone Stairs stacks to 64, which puts 3,456 of them in a double chest.
How long does Stone 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 Stairs is one of 30 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
