Cobblestone Stairs

Cobblestone Stairs
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	6
Hardness	2
Luminous	No
Transparent	Partial (blocks light)‌; Yes‌
Waterloggable	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire; from lava	No
Map color (JE)	; 11 STONE

Cobblestone stairs are a cobblestone variant of stairs.

Obtaining

Breaking

Cobblestone stairs can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, they drop nothing.

Block	Cobblestone Stairs
Hardness	2
Tool
Breaking time (sec)^[A]
Default	10
Wooden	1.5
Stone	0.75
Copper	0.6
Iron	0.5
Diamond	0.4
Netherite	0.35
Golden	0.25
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

incorrect tool, drops nothing
correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
correct tool, drops the block itself
italicized can be instant mined

↑ These durations ignore other influential factors (e.g. Mining Fatigue), and are measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Natural generation

Cobblestone stairs generate as a part of strongholds, woodland mansions, pillager outposts, plains villages, taiga and snowy taiga villages. Cobblestone stairs also generate as part of each jungle pyramid.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Cobblestone	4

Stonecutting

Ingredients	Cutting recipe
Cobblestone

Usage

Note blocks

Cobblestone stairs can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sounds.

Sounds

Java Edition:

v t e `stone` sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`block.stone.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	1.0	0.8	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.stone.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	1.0	0.8	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`block.stone.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.25	0.5	16
	Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.stone.fall`	`subtitles.block.generic.fall`	0.5	0.75	16
	Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.stone.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e `stone` sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`dig.stone`	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	`dig.stone`	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`hit.stone`	0.37	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	`fall.stone`	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	`step.stone`	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	`jump.stone`	0.12	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	`land.stone`	0.22	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
Cobblestone Stairs	`cobblestone_stairs`	Block & Item	`stairs` `mineable/pickaxe`	`stairs`	`block.minecraft.cobblestone_stairs`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID^{[i 1]}	Translation key
Cobblestone Stairs	`stone_stairs`	`67`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.stone_stairs.name`

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ Available with /give command.
↑ The block's direct item form has the same ID as the block.

Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing	`north`	`east` `north` `south` `west`	The direction the stairs' full-block side faces. When placed in-game by a player, this matches the direction the player faces.
half	`bottom`	`bottom` `top`	Top if the stairs are upside-down.
shape	`straight`	`inner_left` `inner_right` `outer_left` `outer_right` `straight`	"straight" is the default stairs shape. "inner" is an "inside corner" stair shape, with two full-block and two stair-shaped side faces. "outer" is an "outside corner" stair shape, with two stair-shaped and two half-block side faces. "left" and "right" specify in which direction is the higher part of the step.
waterlogged	`false`	`false` `true`	Whether or not there's water in the same place as these stairs.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
upside_down_bit	`0x4`	`false`	`false` `true`	`0` `1`	True if the stairs are upside-down.
weirdo_direction	`0x1` `0x2`	`0`	`0` `1` `2` `3`	`0` `1` `2` `3`	The direction the stairs' full-block side faces. 0: East 1: West 2: South 3: North

History

There is an associated page listing all historical changes related to the appearance and/or sounds associated with this block in further detail than below; see /Asset history.

Java Edition Infdev
20100629							Added stone stairs.
20100629							The inventory icon for stone stairs is a flat cobblestone texture.
Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.1							The inventory icon for stone stairs has been changed to an image of a render of them, which is glitched.
v1.2.0			preview				The orientation of stone stairs is now determined based on the direction the player faces while placing them. Before this version, they would determine their orientation based on the surrounding blocks (changing if they were changed).
v1.2.2							Stone stairs now have an odd property of being transparent to light; when there is at least one block of air beneath, sunlight or other light sources shine through and light up blocks beneath or behind the stairs as if nothing opaque are present between them.
							Other atmospheric effects such as snowfall do not penetrate stone stair blocks.
							Snow cannot accumulate on top of stone stairs, grass is able to grow on a block directly underneath them and disappears if stone stairs were placed on top of it. Any stone stairs placed between Alpha v1.2.0_02 and Beta 1.5 would keep this property in later versions until it or an adjacent block is changed or removed, causing a lighting update.
Java Edition Beta
1.0							Items have been given in-game names. The block has been named "Stone Stairs".
1.6			Test Build 3				The light transparency of stone stairs from Alpha v1.2.2 has been fixed.
1.6			Test Build 3				The inventory icon for stone stairs has been reversed.
1.7							The model of stone stairs has been changed.
1.7							The texture of stone stairs has been changed due to the cobblestone texture change.
1.8			Pre-release				On some GPUs, a major lighting bug is present which causes the insides of stone stair blocks to appear completely black.
							Dropped stone stairs no longer appear larger than normal blocks.
							Stone stairs now generate in strongholds.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6				Stone stairs now drop themselves when mined, instead of a block of their source material.
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6				Stone stairs take much shorter to destroy, and the breaking time depends on the pickaxe's material.
1.2.1			12w08a				Added upside down stone stairs.
1.2.1			12w08a				The model of stone stairs has been changed.
1.3.1			12w22a				Stone stairs now generate in jungle temples.
			12w25a				Redstone dust, repeaters, torches, levers, pressure plates and rails can now be placed on stone stairs positioned upside down.
			12w30a				Upside down stone stairs can now be placed by generally looking at the top half of the side of a block, rather than strictly the underside of one.
1.4.2			12w34a				Stone stairs now automatically change shape into corner stairs depending on location.
			12w39a				Stone stairs now interact properly with lighting.
			12w39a				Smooth lighting on stone stairs is slightly bugged.
1.5			13w05a				The lighting of stone stairs has been fixed when Smooth Lighting is on.
1.5			13w05b				Stone stairs no longer stop sprinting.
1.7.4			13w48a				The model of stone stairs has been changed.
1.8			14w31a				"Stone Stairs" have been renamed to "Cobblestone Stairs".
1.9			15w31a				Cobblestone stairs are now rotated 90° in the inventory.
			15w44b				Due to model changes, cobblestone stairs now display an incorrectly stretched or squashed texture.^[1] This may be GPU dependent as only corner stairs are distorted on some computers.
			15w45a				The cobblestone stair texture is no longer incorrectly stretched.
			15w45a				However it is now incorrectly mapped in a different way.^[2]
			15w46a				Cobblestone stair texture mapping has now been corrected. It is not known, however, if cobblestone stairs from this version onward look at all different from those before 15w44b.
1.11			16w39a				Cobblestone stairs now generate in woodland mansions.
1.12			17w15a				Torches can now be placed on the full-block sides of cobblestone stairs.
							Iron bars, glass panes and fences adjacent to the full-block side of cobblestone stairs now visually connect.
							Carpet and snow layers can now be placed on top of upside down cobblestone stairs.
1.13			18w10c				Water can now be placed on the same block as cobblestone stairs.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of cobblestone stairs has been changed.
			18w46a				Cobblestone stairs now allow light to pass through certain faces.
			18w50a				The texture for cobblestone stairs has been changed.
			19w03c				Some redundant faces have been removed from cobblestone stairs.^[3]
			19w13a				Cobblestone stairs no longer block light, except at the full faces.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.1.0							Added cobblestone stairs.
v0.2.0							The texture of cobblestone stairs has been changed.
v0.3.0							Survival players no longer start out with an infinite amount of cobblestone stairs in the inventory.
v0.4.0							The model of cobblestone stairs has been changed.
v0.6.0							The texture of cobblestone stairs has been changed.
v0.9.0			build 1				Cobblestone stairs now generate in strongholds and villages.
v0.15.0			build 1				Cobblestone stairs now generate in jungle temples.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Cobblestone stairs now generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of cobblestone stairs has been changed.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				Cobblestone stairs now generate in pillager outposts.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added stone stairs.
TU3							The texture of stone stairs has been changed.
TU5							Stone stairs are found in the Redstone & Transportation tab in the Creative inventory.
TU5							Stone stairs now generate in strongholds and villages.
TU12							Stone stairs now automatically change shape into corner stairs depending on location.
							They can also now be placed upside down.
							Items can now be placed directly on upside down cobblestone stairs.
TU14		1.04					The placement of upside down stone stairs and slabs has been changed.
							Moved stone stairs to the Building Blocks tab in the Creative inventory.
							Stone stairs now generate in jungle temples.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		"Stone Stairs" have been renamed to "Cobblestone Stairs".
TU49	CU39	1.42	1.42	1.42	Patch 18		Cobblestone stairs are now rotated 90° in the inventory.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Torches can now be placed on the full-block sides of cobblestone stairs.
							Iron bars, glass panes and fences adjacent to the full-block side of cobblestone stairs now visually connect.
							Carpet and snow layers can now be placed on top of upside down cobblestone stairs.
							Cobblestone stairs now generate in woodland mansions.
			1.88				Woodland mansions now generate with stone stairs instead of cobblestone stairs.
			1.90				The texture of cobblestone stairs has been changed.
			1.91				Cobblestone stairs now generate in pillager outposts.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added "cobblestone" stairs.
0.1.0							Cobblestone stairs generate in strongholds and villages
1.9.19							Cobblestone stairs now generate in woodland mansions.

Data history

Java Edition
1.2.1	12w08a	Before upside-down stairs were added, edited data values of 4 through 15 would create invisible stairs that could be walked through; these higher values are now used for upside down stairs.
1.13	17w47a	The cobblestone stairs ID has been changed from `stone_stairs` to `cobblestone_stairs`.
1.13	17w47a	Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 67.

Issues

Issues relating to "Cobblestone Stairs" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Screenshots

Naturally occurring cobblestone stairs in numerous villages.

References

↑ "[MC-91710] Texture broken on stairs (uvlock is broken) - Jira" – Mojira, October 30, 2015.
↑ "[MC-92137] Stairs' UV Mapping is upside down - Jira" – Mojira, November 5, 2015.
↑ "[MC-114779] Stairs render faces that cannot be seen normally - Jira" – Mojira, March 25, 2017.

Navigation

[breakingtimenote-1] These durations ignore other influential factors (e.g. Mining Fatigue), and are measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

[bedrock-item-id-2] ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.

[bedrock-give-available-3] Available with /give command.

[bedrock-item-form-4] The block's direct item form has the same ID as the block.

[5] "[MC-91710] Texture broken on stairs (uvlock is broken) - Jira" – Mojira, October 30, 2015.

[6] "[MC-92137] Stairs' UV Mapping is upside down - Jira" – Mojira, November 5, 2015.

[7] "[MC-114779] Stairs render faces that cannot be seen normally - Jira" – Mojira, March 25, 2017.

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v t e Stairs
Wood-based	Oak Spruce Birch Jungle Acacia Dark Oak Mangrove Cherry Pale Oak Bamboo Mosaic Crimson Warped
Stone-based	Stone Mossy Cobblestone Stone Brick Mossy Stone Brick Granite Polished Granite Diorite Polished Diorite Andesite Polished Andesite Cobbled Deepslate Polished Deepslate Deepslate Brick Deepslate Tile Tuff Polished Tuff Tuff Brick
Overworld	Brick Mud Brick Resin Brick Sandstone Smooth Sandstone Red Sandstone Smooth Red Sandstone Prismarine Prismarine Brick Dark Prismarine
The Nether	Nether Brick Red Nether Brick Blackstone Polished Blackstone Polished Blackstone Brick
The End	End Stone Brick Purpur
Mineral-based	Quartz Smooth Quartz
Metal-based	Cut Copper Waxed Exposed Waxed Exposed Weathered Waxed Weathered Oxidized Waxed Oxidized
Joke	Swaggiest Potato Potone Taterstone Baked Potato Brick Expired Charred