Wool Stairs
| Renewable | Yes |
|---|---|
| Stackable | Yes (64), same color only |
| Tool | |
| Blast resistance | JE: 0.8 BE: 0.16 |
| Hardness | 0.8 |
| Luminous | No |
| Transparent | JE: Partial (blocks light) BE: Yes |
| Waterloggable | Yes |
| Flammable | Yes (30) |
| Catches fire from lava |
Yes |
| Map color | 16 colors
8 SNOW
|
| Note block instrument | JE: Guitar BE: Default (Harp)[until: 26.60] BE: Guitar [upcoming: 26.60] |
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Wool stairs are a craftable stair variant of wool. They can be dyed in all 16 colors.
Obtaining
[edit | edit source]Breaking
[edit | edit source]Wool stairs can be broken using any tool, but shears are the fastest.
| Block | ||
|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 0.8 | |
| Breaking time (secs) | ||
| Default | 1.2 (JE) 1.2 (BE) | |
| 0.25 (JE) 0.25 (BE) | ||
- 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
Natural generation
[edit | edit source]White wool stairs generate naturally as part of structures within abandoned camps.
Crafting
[edit | edit source]| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Wool Stairs | Matching Wool | |
| Wool Stairs | Any Wool Stairs + Matching Dye |
Usage
[edit | edit source]Wool stairs come in sixteen colors, which are white, light gray, gray, black, brown, red, orange, yellow, lime, green, cyan, light blue, blue, purple, magenta, and pink. Just like the wool block, the white variant serves as the undyed block. Wool stairs of any color can be re-dyed into any other color.
Wool stairs are easily mined, highly flammable, and offer little resistance against explosions.
Vibration occlusion
[edit | edit source]Contrary to popular belief, wool stairs cannot be used to block vibrations from reaching nearby sculk sensors. If wool stairs are placed between a sensor and a vibration source, the sensor is somehow still able to detect vibrations behind it. If wool stairs are placed between a sensor and a sculk shrieker, the sensor is able to alert the shrieker. This also applies to allays hearing note blocks and wardens hearing sounds.
Although they don't work for occluding, sculk sensors are not able to detect the placing and breaking of wool stairs, as well as entities walking, sprinting, or jumping on top of it. They are also unable to detect items dropped on wool stairs, or wool stairs itself dropped in item form.
Fuel
[edit | edit source]In Java Edition, wool stairs can be used as fuel in furnaces and their variants, smelting 0.5 items per block of wool stairs.
Sounds
[edit | edit source]wool sound type | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block placed[until: JE 26.4] | Blocks | When the block is placed | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block | subtitles | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
| Something falls on a block | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block | subtitles | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
| Footsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 | |
cloth sound type | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch |
| ? | Blocks | Once the block has broken | dig | ? | 1.0 | 0.8–1.0 | |
| ? | Blocks | When the block is placed | dig | ? | 1.0 | 0.8–1.0 | |
| ? | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit | ? | 0.35 | 0.5 | |
| ? | Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall | ? | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
| ? | Players | Walking on the block | step | ? | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
| ? | Blocks | Jumping from the block | jump | ? | 0.12 | 1.0 | |
| ? | Blocks | Falling on the block without fall damage | land | ? | 0.18 | 1.0 | |
Data values
[edit | edit source]ID
[edit | edit source]| Name | Identifier | Form | Block tags | Item tags | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
white_wool_stairs | Block & Item | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations |
block | |
light_gray_wool_stairs | Block & Item | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations |
block | |
gray_wool_stairs | Block & Item | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations |
block | |
black_wool_stairs | Block & Item | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations |
block | |
brown_wool_stairs | Block & Item | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations |
block | |
red_wool_stairs | Block & Item | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations |
block | |
orange_wool_stairs | Block & Item | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations |
block | |
yellow_wool_stairs | Block & Item | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations |
block | |
lime_wool_stairs | Block & Item | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations |
block | |
green_wool_stairs | Block & Item | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations |
block | |
cyan_wool_stairs | Block & Item | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations |
block | |
light_blue_wool_stairs | Block & Item | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations |
block | |
blue_wool_stairs | Block & Item | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations |
block | |
purple_wool_stairs | Block & Item | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations |
block | |
magenta_wool_stairs | Block & Item | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations |
block | |
pink_wool_stairs | Block & Item | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations | wool_stairsdampens_vibrations |
block |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Block tags | Item tags | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
red_wool_stairs | 1404 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1149) | minecraft:is_shears_item_destructibleminecraft:cornerable_stairs | minecraft:vibration_damper |
tile | |
white_wool_stairs | 1405 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1150) | minecraft:is_shears_item_destructibleminecraft:cornerable_stairs | minecraft:vibration_damper |
tile | |
blue_wool_stairs | 1406 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1151) | minecraft:is_shears_item_destructibleminecraft:cornerable_stairs | minecraft:vibration_damper |
tile | |
orange_wool_stairs | 1407 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1152) | minecraft:is_shears_item_destructibleminecraft:cornerable_stairs | minecraft:vibration_damper |
tile | |
magenta_wool_stairs | 1408 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1153) | minecraft:is_shears_item_destructibleminecraft:cornerable_stairs | minecraft:vibration_damper |
tile | |
light_blue_wool_stairs | 1409 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1154) | minecraft:is_shears_item_destructibleminecraft:cornerable_stairs | minecraft:vibration_damper |
tile | |
yellow_wool_stairs | 1410 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1155) | minecraft:is_shears_item_destructibleminecraft:cornerable_stairs | minecraft:vibration_damper |
tile | |
lime_wool_stairs | 1411 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1156) | minecraft:is_shears_item_destructibleminecraft:cornerable_stairs | minecraft:vibration_damper |
tile | |
pink_wool_stairs | 1412 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1157) | minecraft:is_shears_item_destructibleminecraft:cornerable_stairs | minecraft:vibration_damper |
tile | |
gray_wool_stairs | 1413 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1158) | minecraft:is_shears_item_destructibleminecraft:cornerable_stairs | minecraft:vibration_damper |
tile | |
light_gray_wool_stairs | 1414 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1159) | minecraft:is_shears_item_destructibleminecraft:cornerable_stairs | minecraft:vibration_damper |
tile | |
cyan_wool_stairs | 1415 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1160) | minecraft:is_shears_item_destructibleminecraft:cornerable_stairs | minecraft:vibration_damper |
tile | |
purple_wool_stairs | 1416 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1161) | minecraft:is_shears_item_destructibleminecraft:cornerable_stairs | minecraft:vibration_damper |
tile | |
green_wool_stairs | 1417 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1162) | minecraft:is_shears_item_destructibleminecraft:cornerable_stairs | minecraft:vibration_damper |
tile | |
brown_wool_stairs | 1418 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1163) | minecraft:is_shears_item_destructibleminecraft:cornerable_stairs | minecraft:vibration_damper |
tile | |
black_wool_stairs | 1419 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1164) | minecraft:is_shears_item_destructibleminecraft:cornerable_stairs | minecraft:vibration_damper |
tile |
Block states
[edit | edit source]| Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| facing | north | eastnorthsouthwest | The direction the stairs' full-block side faces. When placed in-game by a player, this matches the direction the player faces. |
| half | bottom | bottomtop | Top if the stairs are upside-down. |
| shape | straight | inner_leftinner_rightouter_leftouter_rightstraight | "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 | falsetrue | Whether or not there's water in the same place as these stairs. |
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| upside_down_bit | 0x4 | false | falsetrue | 01 | True if the stairs are upside-down. |
| weirdo_direction | 0x10x2 | 0 | 0123 | 0123 | The direction the stairs' full-block side faces.
|
| minecraft:corner | Not Supported | none | noneinner_leftinner_rightouter_leftouter_right | Unsupported | The corner shape of the stair. |
History
[edit | edit source]Announcement
[edit | edit source]| May 30, 2026 | Wool stairs are announced at Minecraft Live – May 2026. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Java Edition
[edit | edit source]| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26.3 | snap1 | ||||||
| snap2 | Wool stairs can now be used as fuel.[1] | ||||||
| Wool stairs can now be broken faster using shears.[2] | |||||||
Bedrock Edition
[edit | edit source]| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26.40 Experiment | Preview 26.40.27 | ||||||
| The behavior of wool stairs are now in the vanilla behavior pack, making them one of the first blocks to be data-driven. | |||||||
| 26.50 | Preview 26.50.22 | All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have been fully implemented. | |||||
| Preview 26.50.25 | Wool stairs can now be broken faster using shears.[3] | ||||||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 26.60 | Preview 26.60.22 | Wool stairs placed under Note Blocks now play the guitar instrument sound instead of the default harp sound.[4] | |||||
Issues
[edit | edit source]Issues relating to "Wool Stairs" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ MC-309067 – Wool slabs and stairs cannot be used as fuel – resolved as "Fixed".
- ↑ MC-309105 – Wool stairs and slabs are not broken faster when using shears – resolved as "Fixed".
- ↑ MCPE-240164 – Wool slabs and stairs are not broken faster when using shears
- ↑ MCPE-241748
Navigation
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| Stone-based | |
| Mineral-based | |
| Metal-based | |
| Wool | |
| Concrete | |