Minecraft:Stairs

File:All Stairs.png

All stairs as of Java Edition 26.2 and Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 26.30

Stairs are Minecraft:blocks that allow mobs and players to change elevation without jumping.

Variants

There are 64/97Template:Upcoming variants of stairs: Template:Columns-list

Obtaining

Crafting

All stairs have the same crafting recipe format, where six blocks result in four stairs of the same type. Like Minecraft:axes, the crafting recipe of stairs can be horizontally flipped. Template:Crafting

Stonecutting

All non-wooden stairs (not including bamboo) can be obtained by stonecutting. This is more efficient than crafting them, since each block directly results in one stair of the same type. Template:Stonecutting

Usage

Placement

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

To place stairs, Template:Control 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 Minecraft:player.

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

• Pointing at a Minecraft: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 or Template:In block with Template:Cd tag Template:OnlyExperimental, 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

Minecraft:Walking up stairs is faster than Minecraft:jumping up the same distance. Walking up a stairway doesn't cost any exhaustion from the player's Minecraft: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.

The full-block faces of stairs do block Minecraft:light, and their non-full faces let light through the gaps.Template:More info

Block states

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History

Gallery

Historical screenshots

• The old Minecraft:light transparency
  The old Minecraft:light transparency
• First image of upside-down stairs released by Minecraft:Jeb
  First image of upside-down stairs released by Minecraft:Jeb
• Jeb testing corner stairs
  Jeb testing corner stairs
• Jeb testing corner stairs
  Jeb testing corner stairs
• Jeb testing corner stairs
  Jeb testing corner stairs
• Jeb testing corner stairs
  Jeb testing corner stairs
• Stairs with snow, torches, and fences connecting to them
  Stairs with snow, torches, and fences connecting to them
• First image of diorite, granite, and andesite stairs
  First image of diorite, granite, and andesite stairs