How to Make Polished Diorite Stairs in Minecraft

Polished Diorite Stairs

Polished Diorite Stairs are the stair variant of polished diorite, letting builders connect floor levels with half-block steps instead of jumping.

Block ID minecraft:polished_diorite_stairs

Mod Vanilla

Game versions

1.21

Description

Polished Diorite Stairs are the decorative stairs version of polished diorite, crafted from 6 polished diorite blocks in a stair pattern for 4 stairs at a time, or cut one per block from diorite and polished diorite in a stonecutter. Polished Diorite Stairs arrived in Java Edition 1.14 and Bedrock Edition 1.9.0 and break with any pickaxe. Polished diorite comes from 4 diorite blocks in a 2×2 grid or one per block in a stonecutter, and polished diorite also generates naturally in warm ocean ruins. Polished Diorite Stairs stack to 64 and can be waterlogged (placed underwater while holding water in place).

Polished Diorite Stairs connect floor levels faster than jumping: walking up stairs adds no exhaustion, while every jump adds 0.2 exhaustion to the hunger system. A placed stair orients its half-block side toward the player, flips upside-down when placed against the underside of a block, and joins neighboring stairs of any material into inner and outer corners automatically. Right-side-up stairs do not join with upside-down stairs. Builders combine Polished Diorite Stairs with polished diorite blocks and polished diorite slabs — 2 slabs per block in a stonecutter — so floors, steps, and ledges share one stone material.

Block properties

Item ID	`minecraft:polished_diorite_stairs`
/give command	`/give @p minecraft:polished_diorite_stairs`
Stackable	Yes (64)
Best tool	Pickaxe
Renewable	Yes
Java Edition	1.14
Bedrock Edition	1.9.0

Guide

How to get Polished Diorite Stairs in Minecraft

1

Craft polished diorite

Place 4 diorite blocks in a 2×2 square on a crafting table to produce 4 polished diorite blocks.
2

Craft the stairs

Arrange 6 polished diorite blocks in a stair pattern — a full left column of 3, 2 more in the middle column, and 1 in the bottom-right — to craft 4 Polished Diorite Stairs.
3

Use a stonecutter

Put diorite or polished diorite into a stonecutter to cut one stair per input block.
4

Place right side up or upside-down

Aim at the top of a block to set stairs right side up, or at the underside of a block to flip stairs upside-down; adjacent stairs of any material join into inner and outer corners automatically.
5

Mine with any pickaxe

Break Polished Diorite Stairs with any pickaxe, starting from wooden; mining without a pickaxe drops nothing.

Stairs beat jumping

Walking up Polished Diorite Stairs adds zero exhaustion, while every jump adds 0.2 exhaustion to the hunger bar — choose a staircase over a jump tower for long climbs.