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Potato Stairs

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This article documents an April Fools' Day joke.
 
This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.
Potato Stairs
Potato Stairs.png: Infobox image for Minecraft block 'Potato Stairs'
Invicon Potato Stairs.png: Inventory sprite for Potato Stairs in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Potato Stairs
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Potato stairs are a potato variant of the wooden stairs, crafted from the respective potato planks, only present in 24w14potato.

Obtaining

Breaking

Potato stairs can be broken using anything, but axes are the fastest.

Block Potato Stairs
Hardness 2
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default 3
ItemSprite wooden-axe.png: Sprite image for wooden-axe in MinecraftWooden 1.5
ItemSprite stone-axe.png: Sprite image for stone-axe in MinecraftStone 0.75
ItemSprite iron-axe.png: Sprite image for iron-axe in MinecraftIron 0.5
ItemSprite diamond-axe.png: Sprite image for diamond-axe in MinecraftDiamond 0.4
ItemSprite netherite-axe.png: Sprite image for netherite-axe in MinecraftNetherite 0.35
ItemSprite golden-axe.png: Sprite image for golden-axe in MinecraftGolden 0.25
Options
Efficiency
000
Haste
001
1JEBE
Legend
  • incorrect tool, drops nothing
  • correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
  • correct tool, drops the block itself
  • italicized can be instant mined
  1. ↑ These durations ignore any other influential factors (e.g., Mining Fatigue) and are measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Mining efficiency.

Natural generation

Potato stairs generate naturally as part of potato villages.

Crafting

Ingredients Crafting recipe
Potato Planks
Invicon Potato Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Potato Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Potato Planks with description: Potato PlanksInvicon Potato Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Potato Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Potato Planks with description: Potato PlanksInvicon Potato Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Potato Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Potato Planks with description: Potato PlanksInvicon Potato Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Potato Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Potato Planks with description: Potato PlanksInvicon Potato Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Potato Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Potato Planks with description: Potato PlanksInvicon Potato Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Potato Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Potato Planks with description: Potato Planks
Invicon Potato Stairs.png: Inventory sprite for Potato Stairs in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Potato Stairs4

Usage

Sounds

This section uses a sound table which may not accurately represent the sounds associated with this feature.
 
Because of MC-177082, subtitles for falling on blocks may not have existed at this point in development, so a dedicated sound table accounting for this may be required.
BlockSprite warped-planks.png: Sprite image for warped-planks in Minecraft nether_wood sound type
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Block brokenBlocksOnce the block has brokenblock.nether_wood.breaksubtitles.block.generic.break​1.00.7216
​Block placedBlocksWhen the block is placedblock.nether_wood.placesubtitles.block.generic.place​1.00.7216
​Block breakingBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenblock.nether_wood.hitsubtitles.block.generic.hit​0.250.4516
​Something falls on a blockEntity-DependentFalling on the block with fall damageblock.nether_wood.fallsubtitles.block.generic.fall​0.50.7516
​FootstepsEntity-DependentWalking on the blockblock.nether_wood.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.151.016

Data values

ID

NameIdentifierBlock tags Translation key
BlockSprite potato-stairs.png: Sprite image for potato-stairs in Minecraft Potato Stairspotato_stairsstairs
wooden_stairs
mineable/axe		 block.minecraft.potato_stairs

Block states

Name Default value Allowed values Description
facingnortheast
north
south
west		The direction the stairs' full-block side faces.
When placed in-game by a player, this matches the direction the player faces.
halfbottombottom
top		Top if the stairs are upside-down.
shapestraightinner_left
inner_right
outer_left
outer_right
straight		"straight" is the default stairs shape.
"inner" is an "inside corner" stair shape, with two full-block and two stair-shaped side faces.
"outer" is an "outside corner" stair shape, with two stair-shaped and two half-block side faces.
"left" and "right" specify in which direction is the higher part of the step.
waterloggedfalsefalse
true		Whether or not there's water in the same place as these stairs.

Issues

Issues relating to "Potato Stairs" are not maintained on the bug tracker because it is an April Fools' joke, and is therefore not in the newest stable version or snapshot. Issues reported there are closed as "Invalid".

Sources