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How to Craft Stone Brick Stairs in Minecraft

Stone Brick Stairs in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Building elegant staircases. Minecraft has used the name Stone Brick Stairs since Beta 1.8.

Bring 6 Stone Bricks to a Crafting Table and you have Stone Brick Stairs. Read it row by row: Stone Bricks in the left column, then two Stone Bricks in the left and middle columns, then three Stone Bricks. Done once, that is 4 Stone Brick Stairs.

Stone Brick Stairs Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

Stone Brick Stairs provide a polished look for staircases and architectural details. Stone Brick Stairs uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

Minecraft have used the name Stone Brick Stairs since Beta 1.8, the oldest release whose language file lists it. The recipe itself last changed in Minecraft 1.14. Guides written before that release show a different set of ingredients for stone brick stairs, so check the grid above rather than the video.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with stone bricks (craft from stone).

Stack Maths

Counted per stack: 64 stone bricks, 10 crafts, 40 stone brick stairs. Short by one craft: 4 stone bricks left.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Stone Bricks6xCraft from stone

Gather 6x Stone Bricks (craft from stone), then take the lot to a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

Stone, then Stone Bricks, then the Stone Brick Stairs. All in: 8 Cobblestone.

  1. 1
    88StoneFurnace, repeat 8x
  2. 2
    88Stone Bricksrepeat 2x
  3. 3
    Stone Brick Stairsthis page

Gather this first

8Cobblestone

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    6x Stone Bricks

  2. 2

    4x Stone Brick Stairs

Minecraft crafting recipe for Stone Brick Stairs: 6 x Stone Bricks in a crafting table, making 4 Stone Brick Stairs.

Tips & Notes

  • Line up 6x Stone Bricks before you open the Crafting Table. Stone Bricks: craft from stone.
  • The recipe returns 4 Stone Brick Stairs at a time.

Uses for Stone Brick Stairs

  • Building elegant staircases
  • Structural decoration

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Stone Brick Stairs in Minecraft?
The list for Stone Brick Stairs is short: 6 Stone Bricks, worked at a Crafting Table. Copy the grid above cell for cell, and one craft produces 4 Stone Brick Stairs.
What do you need to make Stone Brick Stairs from scratch?
Counting all the way down, Stone Brick Stairs comes to 8 Cobblestones, spread over 3 crafts.
Where do you find the materials for Stone Brick Stairs?
Each ingredient in Stone Brick Stairs has its own source. Stone Bricks: craft from stone.
How many Stone Brick Stairs do you get from one craft?
The Stone Brick Stairs recipe makes 4 Stone Brick Stairs in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Stone Brick Stairs in Minecraft?
Stone Brick Stairs is registered as minecraft:stone_brick_stairs. Commands accept the short form stone_brick_stairs as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Stone Brick Stairs?
/give @p stone_brick_stairs gives you Stone Brick Stairs. Swap @p for a player name to hand it to someone else, and put 64 on the end for a whole stack.
Is the Stone Brick Stairs recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Stone Brick Stairs works the same on both: 6 Stone Bricks at a Crafting Table, the same pattern, 4 at a time, whether you are on Java or Bedrock.
What version of Minecraft added Stone Brick Stairs?
The name Stone Brick Stairs goes back to Minecraft Beta 1.8, 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. That pattern above is still the one the game uses.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
6 Stone Bricks in, 4 Stone Brick Stairs out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Java Beta 1.8 is the earliest release that calls it this. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
When the recipe last changed
Walked forward through 50 Java releases from 1.13 onwards; 1.14 is the last one that altered it.
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 Stone Brick Stairs per craft against the stack size.

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