Talk:Stairs

The {{block}} template's tool parameter includes three breaking tools, an axe outline and sprites for both wooden and stone pickaxes. I don't rely on infoboxes much and hadn't noticed this usage before. At first I thought it meant that a stair could be broken by any axe or by a wooden or stone pickaxe, but having both wooden and stone pickaxes doesn't make sense unless it means a stair can't be broken by an iron, gold, diamond, or netherite pickaxe, and I was sure that wasn't true. Then I noticed the sprite captions say that stairs can be broken by any axe, a wooden pickaxe is required, and a stone pickaxe is also required, which obviously is still more nonsense. Finally I looked at the table in the Breaking section and realized that different tools are required depending on which variety of stairs is to be broken. Under circumstances such as these, wouldn't it be better to leave the tool parameter off entirely? Alternatively, maybe we should alter the sprite captions for tool2 and tool3 parameters to say something like "Some variants require a xxxxx or better"? — Auldrick (talk) 18:16, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Infobox is a summary. If the info is too complicated, it belongs in the article. We have done that before with data values and drops, so I agree its precedented here. KnightMiner ^(t/c) 18:21, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

I think by the future versions of Minecraft, the crafting recipes for stairs should yield 8 stairs instead of 4, why? 184.22.93.123 09:08, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

The wiki is not for feature requests. TheGreatFall (talk) 09:13, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

The bug report for the "Cut Sandstone Stairs" is MCCE-856. That's the bug when Console Edition. I couldn't figure out how to add the link to the bug report but it's just "bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCCE-856". ZaLink700 (talk) 17:52, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

See Template:Bug for documentation on adding it. Amatulic (talk) 17:53, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

what the title is referring to is how you can interact with blocks and shoot arrows(and other projectiles) through the gap in the stairs when was it changed to be like this? I fell like this should be in the history section

There is a lot of crafting recipes for how to craft stairs(excluding waxing copper stairs). Can someone condense the massive chunk of recipes into 2 recipes: Recipe for crafting stair and another one for crafting waxed stair. The same can also go for cutting using a stone cutter. Jadon0506

is it because features found in joke versions don't count towards a game's outdated features, is it a mistake, or what? if the first isn't true, then as far as i'm concerned, outdated features need to be documented in the History section, as opposed to be thrown into the Trivia section. Swaggiest stairs ever also already have their own page, but the information about them is still kept on the Stairs one; i saw a similar thing happen on the Door page, where the Iron Door already has its own page, and yk the rest. So is that intentional or you just haven't decided yet whether to remove it or keep it? 176.56.15.216 16:08, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

That is 100% intentional. Joke features aren’t included in the history section on main game articles because that is what they are: joke features. Including them in the history section just doesn’t feel right for something that is basically a joke. BDJP ^(t|c) 16:13, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

The original stairs page had the benefit of showing that all the stair crafting recipes are the same. Now with the split pages one has to check 40 different pages to see that all the stair crafting recipes are the same. This just feels like worse information for the overview page.

Do we not have a way to have a template for loading obtaining recipes like {{crafting obtaining|Wooden Stairs|Cut Copper Stairs|Stone Stairs|Cobblestone Stairs|Stone Brick Stairs}}? This would allow a page to query the individual stair pages for the crafting recipes for obtaining. As far as I know, there's only {{crafting usage}}, but that only shows the usage of stairs (there's none), not the obtaining of stairs.

I'm also not aware of a {{stonecutter usage}} template or {{stonecutter obtaining}}.

There was a discord discussion about duplicating information with cobblestone stairs. This just means that that templates to load content on the overview pages and split pages are more than necessary.

Also, "added stairs" for New Nintendo 3DS Edition is too confusing. Added stairs? How many stairs? Which kinds of stairs? Before, the original overview page showed all the stairs added on 3DS Edition as textures. Now it's all gone because of the split. Plus, the list of Creative blocks on 3DS Edition redirects to the overview page of stairs. Now it's too difficult to find how many stairs exist on 3DS Edition.

Delvin4519 (talk) 15:18, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

You have the ability to edit the page. This is not an issue of infrastructure or the split itself, it is literally just an issue with the specific edit that was made. You can edit the page, you can add the renders back to the gallery, and you can add the obtaining section back to the page in a simplified way. Painting this as us not being able to handle these splits is…dramatic, to say the least. - Harristic | Talk 👁 DungeonsEntitySprite penguin-onesie.png: Sprite image for penguin-onesie in Minecraft
15:32, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

AFAIK, I can restore the breaking times for all the stairs. But crafting recipes and stonecutting, not really. They should just be fetched from the split pages or vice versa. Delvin4519 (talk) 15:33, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

There's really no need for breaking times to be on the overview page since the times vary so much. You also don't need to have every single stonecutting and crafting recipe on the overview page, all those recipes are half the reason the pages got split anyway. Just add the oak stairs recipe as an example and say that all stairs are crafted in the same way. - Harristic | Talk 👁 DungeonsEntitySprite penguin-onesie.png: Sprite image for penguin-onesie in Minecraft
15:38, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

In that sense it's probably better for the crafting recipes to be on the overview page, since the split pages only load a single recipe. This already works this way with purpur slabs. It's crafted from purpur blocks and pillars on the purpur slab page in a merged crafting entry. Then on Purpur Block and Purpur Pillar, {{crafting usage}} only loads a single one of the 2 blocks that are combined in the crafting recipe on purpur slab. The infrastructure is there for crafting usage and advancements to make all of this work. We just need to expand to cover everything else with this. Delvin4519 (talk) 15:43, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

I can’t find anything on Cut Sandstone Stairs. I remember them from TU31 World Preview screenshot that 4J showed off but weirdly haven’t seen anything or anyone mentioning it anywhere. NGL (talk) 08:02, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Do you have an image of the screenshot? 👁 Image
NmF (talk) 13:28, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVEcceDXAAEc6MW?format=jpg&name=large

It was a bug while the update was being developed, sandstone stairs used the correct texture in the TU31. Red sandstone stairs on the other hand did use the wrong texture in TU31, and this is noted in the relative history section.--Capopanzo (talk | contribs) 14:01, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for bringing this up, I've added this to Sandstone Stairs#History. It was just a bug and was fixed before the update was released.--Capopanzo (talk | contribs) 14:19, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

We don't need to justify Mojang's design choices.--Capopanzo (talk | contribs) 10:10, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

When the stairs was added to Minecraft, the stairs looks distorced in the inventory. IronSculkJungle7643 (talk) 15:34, 6 May 2026 (UTC)