Stairs


Obtaining

Stairs can be crafted, or can be found in villages, strongholds, nether fortresses, and end cities.

Trivia

  • Brick Stairs, Stone Brick Stairs, and Nether Brick Stairs were added in the Adventure Update.
  • Previously, Wooden Stairs would not burn, but as of Beta 1.6, Wooden Stairs and Fences have become flammable.
  • Placing 6 Mossy Stone Brick or 6 Cracked Stone Brick in a crafting box will only make Stone Brick Stairs not Mossy/Cracked Stone Brick Stairs.
  • As of version 1.2, stairs can be placed upside-down to form an arch-like stair design.
  • As of Snapshot 12w21b, sandstone stairs have a crafting recipe.
  • The 1.8.2 update for the Xbox 360 edition added Stone Brick and Brick stairs.
  • In 1.4.2 online, stairs can now join and create corners.
  • In 1.12, blocks ca

Info

Stairs are blocks See the various blocks found in Minecraft. For the blocking with shields that reduces damage when performed, see Blocking. All blocks Blocks are the basic units of structure in Minecraft. Contents 1 minecraft that allow mobs and players to change elevation without jumping.

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Breaking

Wood stairs drop themselves as items when broken with any tool, or with no tool, but an axe is fastest. Non-wood stairs drop themselves as items only if broken with a pickaxe.

Block
Brick


Cobblestone


Nether Brick

Stone Brick


Purpur

Quartz


Sandstone


Red Sandstone

Wood
Hardness 2 1.5 0.8 2
Tool



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Hand 10 7.5 4 3
Wooden 1.5 1.15 0.65 1.5
Stone 0.75 0.6 0.35 0.75
Iron 0.5 0.4 0.2 0.5
Diamond 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.4
Golden 0.25 0.2 0.1 0.25
  1. ⃢₆ₑ Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds.

Crafting

Wood stairs must be crafted entirely from one type and color of wood, and they retain the style of that wood`s type and color.

Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition minecraft Ingredients Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid minecraft recipe Description
Wood Stairs Stairs Transparency Partial (blocks light) Luminance No Blast resistance Wood: 15 Stone: 30 Sandstone, Quartz, Red Sandstone: 4 Tools Renewable Cobblestone, Stone Brick, Wood, Purpur: Yes All others: No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Wood: Yes minecraft Matching Wood Planks Wood Planks Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 15 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Yes Drops Itself Data value dec: 05 hex: 5 bin: 101 Name planks Wood planks are common blocks used in many crafting minecraft
Cobblestone Stairs Cobblestone
Brick Stairs Bricks
Stone Brick Stairs Any Stone Bricks
Nether Brick Stairs Nether Brick
Sandstone Stairs Any Sandstone
Quartz Stairs Any Quartz Block
Red Sandstone Stairs Any Red Sandstone
Purpur Stairs Any Purpur Block Can use purpur block and pillar interchangeably.
Pocket Edition only.
Purpur Stairs Purpur Block Can use purpur block only, not the pillar.
Computer and Console Edition only.

Natural generation

Oak wood and cobblestone stairs generate naturally in plains villages, and sandstone stairs generate naturally in desert villages.

Cobblestone stairs also generate naturally in strongholds, as well as stone brick stairs.

Nether brick stairs generate naturally in nether fortresses.

Spruce wood stairs generate naturally in witch huts and in igloos.

Purpur stairs generate naturally in end cities.

Oak, dark oak and birch wood stairs as well as cobblestone stairs generate naturally in woodland mansions.

Walking

Walking up stairs is faster than jumping up the same distance. It also only costs 0.01 exhaustion from the player`s hunger bar per horizontal meter walked on a stairway, versus 0.2 exhaustion per jump.

Placing

Stairs Reconfiguration ⃢₀ₔ Left: Original facing when separate. Right: Changed shape when adjacent (top: inner corner; bottom: outer corner).

To place stairs, use a stairs item while pointing at a surface facing the space the stairs should occupy. Stairs will place with the half-block side closest to the player.

Stairs can be placed either right side up or upside-down:

  • Pointing at a block top or the bottom half of a block side will place the stairs right side up.
  • Pointing at a block bottom or the top half of a block side will place the stairs upside-down.

Stairs will change their shape to join with adjacent stairs (of any material):

  • When a stairs` half-block side is adjacent to the side of another stairs, the stairs` full-block side will wrap into an "L" shape to join the other stairs (it creates an "inner corner").
  • When a stairs` full-block side is adjacent to the side of another stairs, the stairs` full-block side will shorten to join only the other stairs` full-block side (it creates an "outer corner").

Right side up stairs won`t join with upside-down stairs and vice versa.

Fuel

Wooden stairs can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per block.

Data values

Stairs are defined by their ID and block data. Stairs also have a block state which is expected to replace the functionality of block data in a future version.

ID

A stairs` ID specifies its material:

Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition minecraft ID Name Block ID
Oak Wood Stairs oak_stairs 53
Cobblestone Stairs stone_stairs 67
Brick Stairs brick_stairs 108
Stone Brick Stairs stone_brick_stairs 109
Nether Brick Stairs nether_brick_stairs 114
Sandstone Stairs sandstone_stairs 128
Spruce Wood Stairs spruce_stairs 134
Birch Wood Stairs birc

Crafting

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Sandstone
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Cobblestone
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Brick
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Stone Brick
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Quartz
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