Stairs

Stairs are blocks that allow mobs and players to change elevation without jumping.
== Obtaining ==
=== 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. Compared to slabs, the hardness values (and thus, breaking time) of stairs better reflect the blocks they are made from.
=== Natural generation ===
* Cobblestone and stone brick stairs generate naturally in strongholds.
* Nether brick stairs generate naturally in nether fortresses.
* Spruce stairs generate naturally in witch huts and in igloo basements.
* Purpur stairs generate naturally in end cities.
* Oak, birch, and dark oak stairs as well as cobblestone stairs generate naturally in woodland mansions.
* Oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, and dark oak stairs can generate naturally in shipwrecks.
* Dark oak, cobblestone, and mossy cobblestone stairs can generate in pillager outposts.
* Blackstone and polished blackstone brick stairs can generate in bastion remnants.
* Cobbled deepslate, polished deepslate, deepslate brick and deepslate tile stairs can generate in ancient cities.
* Brick stairs and mud brick stairs generate in trail ruins.
; Ruined portals
* Stone brick and mossy stone brick stairs generate in Overworld ruined portals.
* Blackstone, polished blackstone, and polished blackstone brick stairs generate in Nether ruined portals.
* Nether brick stairs generate in Nether ruined portals.
; Ocean ruins
* Sandstone stairs generate naturally in some warm ocean ruins.
* Stone brick stairs generate naturally in some cold ocean ruins.
; Villages
* Oak and cobblestone stairs generate naturally in plains villages.
* Acacia stairs generate naturally in savanna villages.
* Sandstone, smooth sandstone, and granite stairs generate in desert villages.
* Spruce and diorite stairs generate in snowy tundra villages.
* Spruce and cobblestone stairs generate in taiga and snowy taiga villages.
=== 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.
=== Stonecutting ===
== Usage ==
=== Placement ===
To place stairs, a stairs item while pointing at a surface facing the space the stairs should occupy. When placed, a stair orients itself 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 places the stairs right side up.
* Pointing at a block bottom or the top half of a block side places the stairs upside-down.
Stairs 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 wraps 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 shortens to join the other stairs' full-block side (it creates an "outer corner").
Right side up stairs do not join with upside-down stairs and vice versa.
=== Walking ===
Walking up stairs is faster than jumping up the same distance. Walking up a stairway doesn't cost any exhaustion from the player's hunger bar, compared to 0.2 exhaustion per jump. Therefore, walking up stairs doesn't make the player hungry at all.
=== Behavior ===
Generally, the solid faces of stairs are handled as solid blocks. Due to this, transparent blocks that need to placed on an opaque surface can be placed on these faces.
=== Fuel ===
Overworld wood stairs can be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per block.
=== Note blocks ===
Wood stairs can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass" sounds.
Non-wood stairs can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sounds.
== Sounds ==
=== Normal wood ===
=== Cherry wood ===
=== Bamboo wood ===
=== Nether wood ===
=== Nether brick ===
=== Copper ===
=== Other ===
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Brick, purpur, quartz, red sandstone, sandstone, stone brick, and cobblestone stairs):
All other stairs:
== Data values ==
=== ID ===
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=== Block states ===
== History ==
SunshineThrough.jpg|The old light transparency.
Up-side-down stairs.png|First image of upside-down stairs released by Jeb.
Old Cobblestone Stairs Icon Issue.gif|The Stairs icon in Alpha v1.0.1 had a rendering problem.
CornerStairs.jpg|Jeb testing corner stairs.
CornerStairsTest2.png|Jeb testing corner stairs.
CornerStairsTest3.png|Jeb testing corner stairs.
Jeb Sandstone Stairs.png|Jeb testing corner stairs.
ExcitedZe Stairs.jpg|Stairs with snow, torches and fences connecting to them.
Diorite, Granite and Andesite Stairs.jpg|First image of diorite, granite and andesite Stairs.
== Issues ==
== Gallery ==
=== Renders ===
Oak Stairs.png|Oak
Spruce Stairs.png|Spruce
Birch Stairs.png|Birch
Jungle Stairs.png|Jungle
Acacia Stairs.png|Acacia
Dark Oak Stairs.png|Dark oak
Mangrove Stairs.png|Mangrove
Cherry Stairs.png|Cherry
Bamboo Stairs.png|Bamboo
Bamboo Mosaic Stairs.png|Bamboo mosaic
Crimson Stairs.png|Crimson
Warped Stairs.png|Warped
Stone Stairs.png|Stone
Cobblestone Stairs.png|Cobblestone
Mossy Cobblestone Stairs.png|Mossy cobblestone
Stone Brick Stairs.png|Stone brick
Mossy Stone Brick Stairs.png|Mossy stone brick
Granite Stairs.png|Granite
Polished Granite Stairs.png|Polished granite
Diorite Stairs.png|Diorite
Polished Diorite Stairs.png|Polished diorite
Andesite Stairs.png|Andesite
Polished Andesite Stairs.png|Polished andesite
Cobbled Deepslate Stairs.png|Cobbled deepslate
Polished Deepslate Stairs.png|Polished deepslate
Deepslate Brick Stairs.png|Deepslate brick
Deepslate Tile Stairs.png|Deepslate tile
Brick Stairs.png|Brick
Mud Brick Stairs.png|Mud brick
Sandstone Stairs.png|Sandstone
Smooth Sandstone Stairs.png|Smooth sandstone
Red Sandstone Stairs.png|Red sandstone
Smooth Red Sandstone Stairs.png|Smooth red sandstone
Prismarine Stairs.gif|Prismarine
Prismarine Brick Stairs.png|Prismarine brick
Dark Prismarine Stairs.png|Dark prismarine
Nether Brick Stairs.png|Nether brick
Red Nether Brick Stairs.png|Red nether brick
Blackstone Stairs.png|Blackstone
Polished Blackstone Stairs.png|Polished blackstone
Polished Blackstone Brick Stairs.png|Polished blackstone brick
End Stone Brick Stairs.png|End stone brick
Purpur Stairs.png|Purpur
Quartz Stairs.png|Quartz
Smooth Quartz Stairs.png|Smooth quartz
Cut Copper Stairs.png|Cut copper
Exposed Cut Copper Stairs.png|Exposed cut copper
Weathered Cut Copper Stairs.png|Weathered cut copper
Oxidized Cut Copper Stairs.png|Oxidized cut copper
Tuff Stairs.png|Tuff
Polished Tuff Stairs.png|Polished tuff
Tuff Brick Stairs.png|Tuff brick
=== Screenshots ===
Church-inside.png|Naturally occurring cobblestone stairs in numerous villages.
NetherBrickStairs1.png|Naturally occurring nether brick stairs in multiple nether fortresses.
Quartz Inner Stairs.png|A quartz corner inner stairs.
Quartz Outer Stairs.png|A quartz corner outer stairs.
MCPE-1219 - correct texture.jpg|Image of correctly textured stone brick-type, sandstone-type and quartz-type stairs - Bug:MCPE1219
MCPE-1219 - incorrect texture.jpg|Image of incorrectly textured stone brick-type, sandstone-type and quartz-type stairs when placed in wrong direction. - Bug:MCPE-1219
== Trivia ==
*Between Java Edition 1.17 snapshots 20w45a and 21w05a, "Waxed Lightly Weathered Cut Copper Stairs" was the longest name for any block in Minecraft, at 41 characters with spaces, or 36 without.
*The April Fools snapshot 20w14∞ included a block called "Swaggiest stairs ever", which was a stair variant for the netherite block.
File:Swaggiest stairs ever JE1.png|Swaggiest stairs ever.
== References ==
Category:Manufactured blocks
Category:Generated structure blocks
Category:Natural blocks
Category:Flammable blocks
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