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Oak Stairs

Oak Stairs are a stair block crafted from oak planks, used to traverse height differences and for decoration.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

oak_stairs

Oak Stairs at a glance

Utility Blocks hold Oak Stairs: blocks out of crafting. Stack Oak Stairs 64 high: 576 across a hotbar, 1728 in a shulker box, and 3456 in a double chest. Feed Oak Stairs to a furnace and 1.5 smelts follow, 96 from a stack of 64.

Oak Stairs have a hardness of 2. For explosions the number that counts is 3. Use an axe on Oak Stairs to speed them up; no particular tier is required. They sits between Oak Slab and Oak Trapdoor in Utility Blocks, number 223 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

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How to obtain

  • Crafting

Fuel value

Oak Stairs burn for 15 seconds (300 ticks), which is 1.5 items per Oak Stairs

Notes

Crafts 4 stairs from 6 planks.

Frequently asked questions about Oak Stairs

  1. Oak Planks going into Oak Stairs, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Oak Stairs in Minecraft?

    Oak Stairs is crafted from Oak Planks at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 4.

  2. Oak Stairs on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Oak Stairs used for?

    Oak Stairs are a stair block crafted from oak planks, used to traverse height differences and for decoration.

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

    How many Oak Stairs can you stack?

    64 Oak Stairs fill one slot, and filling it costs 96 Oak Planks, since each one returns 4: 16 crafts. A shulker box of Oak Stairs comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

  4. Oak Stairs beside a furnace, which is where its 15 seconds of burning go

    Can Oak Stairs be used as fuel?

    One Oak Stair keeps a furnace running for 15 seconds, which is 1.5 items for each one burnt. Since one craft turns Oak Planks into Oak Stairs, a furnace fed that way runs on Oak Planks. Oak Planks alone burns 15 seconds, and Oak Stairs carry that heat forward.

  5. How long does Oak Stairs take to break?

    Look up Oak Stairs and you get 2 hardness, with 3 blast resistance on them. They are not equally easy both ways, since the two figures on them pull apart. Use an axe on Oak Stairs to speed them up; no particular tier is required. Java 26.2 defines Oak Stairs here, so no timing of our own went into them.

Building with it

Oak Stairs cost six planks and give four steps, which is the ratio every stair in the game uses. Oak is the cheapest wood to spend on them, and a stair is not only for climbing: placed upside down it becomes a lip under a roof, and against a wall it reads as trim rather than as a step.