Description
Two recipes turn regular red sandstone into this decorative variant. On the crafting grid, four red sandstone blocks placed in a 2×2 square return four cut blocks. The stonecutter offers the same conversion at a 1:1 rate, which is more efficient when only a handful of blocks are needed.
The texture is a single visible square panel framed by a thin border, in contrast to the diagonal grain of the base block. Because the pattern is symmetric on every face, walls, ceilings and floors made from this block read as deliberate tile work, which fits desert palaces, mesa villages and badlands wells well.
A cut variant cannot be turned into stairs or smooth red sandstone, but it does support its own slab and wall through the stonecutter, so a full architectural set can be assembled. Hardness and blast resistance match the rest of the red sandstone family, so it is harvested by any pickaxe and reasonably durable around creeper traffic.