Wooden stairs can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass" sound. Wooden stairs can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per block. Due to this, transparent blocks that need to placed on an opaque surface can be placed on these faces. Generally, the solid faces of stairs are handled as solid blocks. Therefore, walking up stairs doesn't make the player hungry at all. Walking up a stairway doesn't cost any exhaustion from the player's hunger bar, compared to 0.2 exhaustion per jump. Walking up stairs is faster than jumping up the same distance.
Right side up stairs do not join with upside-down stairs and vice versa. When a stairs' full-block side is adjacent to the side of another stairs, the stairs' full-block side shortens to join the other stairs' full-block side (it creates an "outer corner").When a stairs' half-block side is adjacent to the side of another stairs, the stairs' full-block side wraps into an "L" shape to join the other stairs (it creates an "inner corner").Stairs change their shape to join with adjacent stairs (of any material): Pointing at a block bottom or the top half of a block side places the stairs upside-down.
Wood stairs must be crafted entirely from one type and color of wood, and they retain the style of that wood's type and color. Spruce and cobblestone stairs generate in taiga and snowy taiga villages.Spruce and diorite stairs generate in snowy tundra villages.Sandstone, smooth sandstone, and granite stairs generate in desert villages.Acacia stairs generate naturally in savanna villages.Oak and cobblestone stairs generate naturally in plains villages.Stone brick stairs generate naturally in some cold ocean ruins.Sandstone stairs generate naturally in some warm ocean ruins.Nether brick Stairs generate in nether ruined portal.โ.Blackstone, polished blackstone, and polished blackstone brick Stairs generate in nether ruined portal.โ.Stone brick and mossy stone brick Stairs generate in overworld ruined portals.Blackstone and polished blackstone brick stairs can generate in bastion remnants.Dark oak, cobblestone, and mossy cobblestone stairs can generate in pillager outposts.Oak, birch, spruce, jungle, acacia, and dark oak stairs can generate naturally in shipwrecks.Oak, dark oak and birch stairs as well as cobblestone stairs generate naturally in woodland mansions.Purpur stairs generate naturally in end cities.Spruce stairs generate naturally in witch huts and in igloo basements.Nether brick stairs generate naturally in nether fortresses.Cobblestone and stone brick stairs generate naturally in strongholds.For more information, see Breaking ยง Speed. โ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds.
Compared to slabs, the hardness values (and thus, breaking time) of stairs better reflect the blocks they are made from. Non-wood stairs drop themselves as items only if broken with a pickaxe. Wood stairs drop themselves as items when broken with any tool, or with no tool, but an axe is fastest.