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Cobblestone Stairs

A sturdy staircase block made from cobblestone for castle and fortress construction. It can also be cut at a stonecutter.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

Beta 1.0

Item ID

cobblestone_stairs

Cobblestone Stairs at a glance

Utility Blocks hold Cobblestone Stairs: blocks out of crafting and Stonecutter. Carrying Cobblestone Stairs are cheap: 64 to a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 1728 in a chest.

On the hardness scale Cobblestone Stairs sit at 2. A pickaxe makes Cobblestone Stairs quick, and even the cheapest one still drops them. Blast resistance sits at 6. Cobblestone Stairs sits between Cobblestone Slab and Cobblestone Wall in Utility Blocks, number 85 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
CobblestoneCobblestone
CobblestoneCobblestone
CobblestoneCobblestone
CobblestoneCobblestone
CobblestoneCobblestone
CobblestoneCobblestone
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Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Cobblestone Stairs has the grid for Cobblestone Stairs

How to obtain

  • Crafting
  • Stonecutter

Notes

A stonecutter produces 1 stairs per cobblestone instead of 4 per 6.

Frequently asked questions about Cobblestone Stairs

  1. Cobblestone going into Cobblestone Stairs, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Cobblestone Stairs in Minecraft?

    Cobblestone Stairs is crafted from Cobblestone at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 4. They also comes from Stonecutter, not just the recipe above.

  2. How long does Cobblestone Stairs take to break?

    Cobblestone Stairs carry a hardness value of 2, and they stand up to explosions at 6. The two numbers on Cobblestone Stairs are not the same, so mining and blowing them up are separate jobs. A pickaxe makes Cobblestone Stairs quick, and even the cheapest one still drops them. Java 26.2 stores Cobblestone Stairs with those figures unchanged, so they read the same here.

  3. 64 Cobblestone Stairs drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Cobblestone Stairs can you stack?

    64 Cobblestone Stairs fills a slot, and that slot costs 96 Cobblestone, since each one returns 4, which is 16 crafts at the crafting table.

  4. Cobblestone Stairs coming forward out of the past, in the game since Beta 1.0

    When was Cobblestone Stairs added to Minecraft?

    Cobblestone Stairs was added in version Beta 1.0.

  5. Cobblestone Stairs on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Cobblestone Stairs used for?

    A sturdy staircase block made from cobblestone for castle and fortress construction. It can also be cut at a stonecutter.

Building with it

Cobblestone Stairs are the first stairs most players ever place: six cobblestone give four, and cobblestone is what a stone pickaxe produces by the stack. They are also blast resistant enough to matter, which is why a creeper-proof entrance is usually cobblestone rather than wood.