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How to Craft Quartz Stairs in Minecraft

Quartz Stairs in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Modern white building designs. Minecraft has used the name Quartz Stairs since 1.5.1.

Feed a Crafting Table 6 Blocks of Quartz and Quartz Stairs come back. Read it row by row: a Block of Quartz in the left column, then two Blocks of Quartz in the left and middle columns, then three Blocks of Quartz. The grid returns 4 Quartz Stairs.

Quartz Stairs Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Quartz Stairs is minecraft:quartz_stairs. In commands the namespace may be left off, so quartz_stairs works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p quartz_stairs
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p quartz_stairs 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve quartz_stairs 1

Cheats have to be on for Quartz Stairs to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Quartz Stairs have a clean white appearance for modern or classical builds. Quartz Stairs uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

Minecraft have used the name Quartz Stairs since 1.5.1, the oldest release whose language file lists it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with block of quartz (craft from nether quartz).

The Full Stack Sum

A full stack of 64 block of quartz gives 40 quartz stairs, across 10 crafts at 6 for 4. Left behind: 4 block of quartz.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Block of Quartz6xCraft from nether quartz

Gather 6x Block of Quartz (craft from nether quartz), then take the lot to a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

24 Nether Quartz makes 6 Block of Quartz, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 24 Nether Quartz.

  1. 1
    Nether QuartzNether Quartz246Block of Quartzrepeat 6x
  2. 2
    Quartz Stairsthis page

Gather this first

Nether QuartzNether Quartz24Nether Quartz

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    6x Block of Quartz

  2. 2

    4x Quartz Stairs

Minecraft crafting recipe for Quartz Stairs: 6 x Block of Quartz in a crafting table, making 4 Quartz Stairs.

Tips & Notes

  • One craft costs 6x Block of Quartz. Start with the Block of Quartz: craft from nether quartz.
  • Each craft yields 4 Quartz Stairs, so a full stack of 64 takes 16 crafts.

Uses for Quartz Stairs

  • Modern white building designs

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Quartz Stairs on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Quartz Stairs in Minecraft?
To craft Quartz Stairs you need 6 Blocks of Quartz at a Crafting Table. Copy the grid above cell for cell, and one craft produces 4 Quartz Stairs.
What do you need to make Quartz Stairs from scratch?
Counting all the way down, Quartz Stairs comes to 24 Nether Quartz, spread over 2 crafts.
Can you craft Quartz Stairs without a crafting table?
No, Quartz Stairs needs a crafting table. It is laid out as six Blocks of Quartz, and that takes 3 rows, more than the 2x2 grid in your inventory can hold.
Where do you find the materials for Quartz Stairs?
The materials for Quartz Stairs each come from somewhere different. Block of Quartz: craft from nether quartz.
How many Quartz Stairs do you get from one craft?
The Quartz Stairs recipe makes 4 Quartz Stairs in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Quartz Stairs in Minecraft?
Quartz Stairs is registered as minecraft:quartz_stairs. Commands accept the short form quartz_stairs as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.
Can you farm everything you need for Quartz Stairs?
Quartz Stairs needs nothing you have to go find: block of quartz from a mason villager. Set those up once and you can keep making quartz stairs.
What is the give command for Quartz Stairs?
Use /give @p quartz_stairs to put Quartz Stairs in your own inventory, or /give @p quartz_stairs 64 for a full stack of 64. Cheats have to be on.
Is the Quartz Stairs recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
No difference to worry about: Quartz Stairs takes 6 Blocks of Quartz at a Crafting Table on Java and on Bedrock alike, 4 at a time.
How many times do you repeat each step for Quartz Stairs?
Most steps for Quartz Stairs are a single craft, but Block of Quartz has to be made 6 times to reach 6 Blocks of Quartz. The chain section shows the totals per step.
What version of Minecraft added Quartz Stairs?
The name Quartz Stairs goes back to Minecraft 1.5.1, and no older release we can read uses it. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. Today the game builds it from 6 Blocks of Quartz, as shown above.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
6 Blocks of Quartz in, 4 Quartz Stairs out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Minecraft Java 1.5.1 uses this name and the release before it does not. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
That the ingredients come back
What drops, what villagers trade and what farms regrow in Minecraft Java, followed through the recipes to see what those ingredients can be turned into.
Stack size
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 4 Quartz Stairs per craft against the stack size.

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