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Note: Currently undergoing a major refactoring - it's probably a bad idea to have two separate history sections for one page, so this page will be converted to a page dedicated to showing asset and data value changes. Once reasonably complete, this will be proposed on the community portal. NOTE: As part of this proposal, only the sections for cobblestone and oak stairs are (reasonably) complete - later sections are to come after discussion of layout and other details is done.
Note: Currently undergoing a major refactoring - it's probably a bad idea to have two separate history sections for one page, so this page will be converted to a page dedicated to showing asset and data value changes. Once reasonably complete, this will be proposed on the community portal. NOTE: As part of this proposal, only the sections for cobblestone and oak stairs are (reasonably) complete - later sections are to come after discussion of layout and other details is done.
This page documents an in-depth history of assets relating to stairs.
Assets
Cobblestone Stairs
Java Edition
Block texture and model history
| Yellow | The block was introduced in this version. |
|---|---|
| Green | The block's texture was changed in this version. |
| Blue | The block's model was changed in this version. |
| Purple | The block's texture and model were both changed in this version. |
| Orange | Another visual change was made to the block in this version which does not fit in any of the above categories. |
| Red | The block was either removed in this version, no longer exists, or did not yet exist. |
- Straight stairs
| From version | Normal | Upside-down | Textures used | Further info | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North | East | South | West | North | East | South | West | Before | After | |||
| Minecraft Infdev | 20100629 | - | - | - | - | - | File:Cobblestone (texture) JE3 BE1.png | Introduction | ||||
| Beta 1.7 | - | - | - | - | File:Cobblestone (texture) JE3 BE1.png | File:Cobblestone (texture) JE4 BE2.png | The texture application/UV for many blocks was changed in this version. | |||||
| 1.2.1 | 12w08a | - | - | Added upside-down stairs | ||||||||
| 1.7.4 | 13w48a | - | - | Fixed the UV for many stairs.[1] | ||||||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | File:Cobblestone (texture) JE4 BE2.png | File:Cobblestone (texture) JE5.png | Texture Update | ||||||||
| 18w50a | File:Cobblestone (texture) JE5.png | File:Cobblestone (texture) JE6 BE3.png | Texture Update | |||||||||
- Inner corner stairs
Section pending.
- Outer corner stairs
Section pending.
Item texture and model history
| From version | Item | Further info | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minecraft Infdev | 20100629 | Introduction | |
| Alpha v1.0.1 | Has a graphical bug: | ||
| Beta 1.6 | Test Build 3 | Fixed the graphical bug | |
| Beta 1.7 | Texture and model changed - see block section | ||
| Beta 1.8 | Pre-release | ||
| 1.0.0 | RC2 | ||
| 1.5.1 | 13w11a | Inconsistently appears as | |
Name and translation string history
- Beta 1.0: With the introduction of tooltips, the block has been officially named Stone Stairs.
Bedrock Edition
Block texture and model history
| Yellow | The block was introduced in this version. |
|---|---|
| Green | The block's texture was changed in this version. |
| Blue | The block's model was changed in this version. |
| Purple | The block's texture and model were both changed in this version. |
| Orange | Another visual change was made to the block in this version which does not fit in any of the above categories. |
| Red | The block was either removed in this version, no longer exists, or did not yet exist. |
- Straight stairs
| From version | Normal | Upside-down | Textures used | Further info | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North | East | South | West | North | East | South | West | Before | After | |||
| v0.1.0 alpha | - | - | - | - | - | File:Cobblestone (texture) JE3 BE1.png | Introduction | |||||
| v0.2.0 alpha | - | - | - | - | File:Cobblestone (texture) JE3 BE1.png | File:Cobblestone (texture) JE4 BE2.png | Texture has been changed. | |||||
| v0.4.0 alpha | - | - | - | - | - | - | Models has been changed. | |||||
| v0.6.0 alpha | - | - | Introduce dupside down stairs. Models has been changed. | |||||||||
| ? | - | - | Models have been changed. | |||||||||
| v1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | File:Cobblestone (texture) JE4 BE2.png | File:Cobblestone (texture) JE6 BE3.png | Texture Update | ||||||||
- Inner corner stairs
Section pending.
- Outer corner stairs
Section pending.
Item texture and model history
| From version | Item | Further info | |
|---|---|---|---|
| v0.1.0 alpha | Introduction, from gui_blocks.png | ||
| v0.2.0 alpha | From gui_blocks.png | ||
| ? | From gui_blocks.png | ||
| ? | From gui_blocks.png | ||
| ? | From gui_blocks.png | ||
Name and translation string history
Oak Stairs
Java Edition
| Yellow | The block was introduced in this version. |
|---|---|
| Green | The block's texture was changed in this version. |
| Blue | The block's model was changed in this version. |
| Purple | The block's texture and model were both changed in this version. |
| Orange | Another visual change was made to the block in this version which does not fit in any of the above categories. |
| Red | The block was either removed in this version, no longer exists, or did not yet exist. |
- Straight stairs
| From version | Normal | Upside-down | Textures used | Further info | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North | East | South | West | North | East | South | West | Before | After | |||
| Minecraft Infdev | 20100629 | - | - | - | - | - | Introduction | |||||
| Beta 1.7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | The texture application/UV for many blocks was changed in this version. | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9-pre5 | - | - | - | - | Texture change only | ||||||
| 1.2.1 | 12w08a | - | - | Added upside-down stairs | ||||||||
| 1.7.4 | 13w48a | - | - | Fixed the UV for many stairs.[1] | ||||||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | Texture Update | ||||||||||
| 18w47a | Texture Update | |||||||||||
- Inner corner stairs
Section pending.
- Outer corner stairs
Section pending.
Item texture and model history
| From version | Item | Further info | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minecraft Infdev | 20100629 | Introduction | |
| Alpha v1.0.1 | Has a graphical bug: | ||
| Beta 1.6 | Test Build 3 | Fixed the graphical bug | |
| Beta 1.7 | UV changes | ||
| Beta 1.8 | Pre-release | ||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9-pre5 | Texture changed - see blocks section | |
| RC2 | |||
| 1.5.1 | 13w11a | Inconsistently appears as | |
Name and translation string history
- Beta 1.0: With the introduction of tooltips, the block has been officially named Wooden Stairs.
Bedrock Edition
Block texture and model history
| Yellow | The block was introduced in this version. |
|---|---|
| Green | The block's texture was changed in this version. |
| Blue | The block's model was changed in this version. |
| Purple | The block's texture and model were both changed in this version. |
| Orange | Another visual change was made to the block in this version which does not fit in any of the above categories. |
| Red | The block was either removed in this version, no longer exists, or did not yet exist. |
- Straight stairs
| From version | Normal | Upside-down | Textures used | Further info | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North | East | South | West | North | East | South | West | Before | After | |||
| v0.1.0 alpha | - | - | - | - | - | Introduction | ||||||
| v0.2.0 alpha | - | - | - | - | Texture changed, and UV was allegedly changed. | |||||||
| v0.4.0 alpha | - | - | - | - | - | - | This can only have been a UV change. | |||||
| v0.6.0 alpha | - | - | Introduced upside down stairs. | |||||||||
| ? | - | - | A model change. | |||||||||
| v1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Texture Update | ||||||||||
- Inner corner stairs
Section pending.
- Outer corner stairs
Section pending.
Item texture and model history
| From version | Item | Further info | |
|---|---|---|---|
| v0.1.0 alpha | Introduction, from gui_blocks.png | ||
| v0.2.0 alpha | From gui_blocks.png | ||
| v0.3.2 alpha | From gui_blocks.png | ||
| ? | From gui_blocks.png | ||
| ? | From gui_blocks.png | ||
Name and translation string history
Data values
This section could document stuff like old numeric IDs, old namespaced IDs, old block states, and old metadata handling including extreme inaccessible metadata values.
End of proposal - all further material is work in progress and out with the proposal
Old history section
| beta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | Pre-release | Added brick and stone brick stairs. | |||
| Stone brick stairs drop stone bricks, brick stairs drop bricks. | |||||
On some GPUs, a major lighting bug is present which causes the insides of stairs blocks to appear completely black. | |||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease | Added nether brick stairs. | |||
They can appear similarly black. | |||||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5 | Brick, nether brick and stone brick stairs no longer appear black on the inside. | ||||
The texture of brick stairs has been changed due to the bricks texture change. | |||||
The texture of wooden stairs has been changed due to the planks texture change. | |||||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 | Mining a stair block now drops the stair block, instead of the stair's source material. | ||||
| 1.2.1 | 12w08a | Added upside-down stairs. Before they were added, edited data values of 4 through 15 would create invisible stairs that could be walked through; these higher values are now used for upside-down stairs. | |||
The models of stairs have been changed. | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | Added sandstone stairs. | |||
| 12w22a | Stone stairs now generate in jungle temples. | ||||
| 12w25a | Redstone dust, repeaters, torches, levers, pressure plates and rails can now be placed on stairs positioned upside down. | ||||
Added wooden stairs for the remaining three wood types (birch, spruce and jungle). | |||||
| 12w26a | Added crafting recipes for birch, spruce and jungle wood stairs. | ||||
| 12w30a | Upside down stairs can now be placed by generally looking at the top half of the side of a block, rather than strictly the underside of a block. | ||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Stairs now automatically change shape into corner stairs depending on location. | |||
| 12w39a | Stairs now interact properly with lighting. | ||||
| Smooth lighting on stairs is now currently slightly bugged. | |||||
| 1.5 | 13w02a | Added quartz stairs. | |||
| 13w05a | The lighting stairs has been fixed when Smooth Lighting is on. | ||||
| 13w05b | Stairs no longer stop sprinting. | ||||
| 1.7.2 | 1.7 | Added acacia and dark oak stairs. | |||
| 1.7.4 | 13w48a | The models of stairs have been changed. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w17a | Upside down sandstone and quartz stairs each have now had their top and bottom textures switched.[2] | |||
| 14w31a | "Stone Stairs" have been renamed to "Cobblestone Stairs". | ||||
| 14w32a | Added red sandstone stairs. | ||||
| 1.9 | June 22, 2015 | Jeb reveals purpur stairs on Instagram, with the words "MINECON 2015 HYPE!" | |||
| 15w31a | Added purpur stairs. | ||||
| Stairs are now rotated 90° in the inventory. | |||||
| 15w43a | Spruce wood stairs acting as corners of a table now generate within igloo basements. | ||||
| 15w44b | Due to model changes, stairs now display incorrectly stretched or squashed textures.[3] These may be GPU dependent as only corner stairs are distorted on some computers. | ||||
| 15w45a | Stair textures are no longer incorrectly stretched. However they are now incorrectly mapped.[4] | ||||
| 15w46a | Stair texture mapping has now been corrected. It is not known, however, if stairs from this version onwards look at all different from those before 15w44b. | ||||
| April 17, 2018 | Dinnerbone confirms that Java Edition 1.14 is to contain many new stairs and slabs. | ||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The cobblestone stairs ID has been changed from stone_stairs to cobblestone_stairs.
| |||
| <wood type> wood stairs have been renamed to <wood type> stairs. | |||||
| Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 53, 67, 108, 109, 114, 128, 134, 135, 136, 156, 163, 164, 180 and 203. | |||||
| 18w07a | Added stairs for prismarine variants. | ||||
| 18w09a | Stone brick and sandstone stairs now generate in underwater ruins. | ||||
| 18w10c | Water can now be placed on the same block as stairs. | ||||
| 18w20a | "Prismarine Bricks Stairs" have been renamed to "Prismarine Brick Stairs." | ||||
| 1.13.1 | 18w32a | Purpur stairs can now be crafted with purpur pillars. | |||
| October 8, 2018 | LadyAgnes tweets a photo of granite, andesite, and diorite stairs. Confirming in the tweet that polished variants would be coming soon. | ||||
| October 10, 2018 | Dinnerbone tweets that there are to be 14 new stair blocks. | ||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | The textures of all stairs have been changed. | |||
Added andesite, polished andesite, diorite, polished diorite, granite, polished granite, mossy stone brick, mossy cobblestone, sandstone, smooth sandstone, red sandstone, smooth red sandstone, smooth quartz, stone, red nether brick and end stone brick stairs. | |||||
| 18w44a | The textures for andesite, polished andesite, diorite, polished diorite, stone, sandstone, smooth sandstone stairs have been changed. | ||||
| 18w47a | The textures for oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, stone bricks, mossy stone bricks, nether bricks, red sandstone, and smooth red sandstone stairs have been changed. | ||||
| 18w50a | The textures for spruce, cobblestone, mossy cobblestone, sandstone, smooth sandstone, red sandstone, and smooth red sandstone stairs have been changed. | ||||
| 19w03c | Some redundant faces have been removed from stairs.[5] | ||||
| 19w08a | The texture of diorite stairs has been changed. | ||||
Smooth quartz uses the bottom texture of normal quartz blocks, rather than the top texture. | |||||
| 19w13a | Stairs no longer block light, except at the full faces. | ||||
| 19w13b | The texture of quartz stairs has been changed. | ||||
| 1.16 | 20w06a | Added crimson and warped stairs. | |||
| 20w10a | The top texture of one upside-down quartz stairs variant has been switched to use the correct one.[6] | ||||
| 20w15a | Added blackstone, polished blackstone, and polished blackstone brick stairs. | ||||
| 20w16a | Blackstone and polished blackstone brick stairs now generate as part of bastion remnants. | ||||
| Stone brick, mossy stone brick, blackstone, polished blackstone brick and polished blackstone stairs can now generate as part of ruined portals. | |||||
| 1.16.2 | 20w28a | Blackstone, polished blackstone and polished blackstone brick stairs are now renewable as piglins have an 8.71% chance to trade 8-16 blackstone during bartering. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.3.0 | |||||
| 0.6.0 | |||||
| Corner stairs and upside-down stairs have been added. | |||||
| 0.8.0 | build 2 | ||||
| 0.9.0 | build 1 | ||||
| Stone brick stairs now naturally generate in strongholds. | |||||
| Cobblestone and oak wood stairs now naturally generate in villages. | |||||
| ? | The tooltip has been changed from [woodtype] Stairs to [woodtype] Wood Stairs. | ||||
| 0.11.0 | build 1 | Acacia and dark oak wooden stairs are now flammable. | |||
| Quartz stairs can now be crafted in survival mode. | |||||
| 0.13.0 | build 1 | Sandstone stairs now generate in desert temples. | |||
| 0.14.0 | build 1 | ||||
| 0.14.2 | |||||
| 0.15.0 | build 1 | Cobblestone stairs now generate in jungle temples. | |||
| Savanna villages now generate with acacia wood stairs instead oak stairs. | |||||
| Spruce wood stairs now generate in taiga, snowy tundra and snowy taiga villages. | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | ||||
| Spruce wood stairs act as corners of a table now generate within igloo basements. | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Oak, birch and dark oak wood stairs and cobblestone stairs now generate in woodland mansions. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.13.8 | ||||
| beta 1.2.14.2 | Wooden stairs can now generate in shipwrecks. | ||||
| beta 1.2.20.1 | Stone brick stairs and sandstone stairs can now generate naturally in some underwater ruins. | ||||
| 1.9.0 | beta 1.9.0.0 | ||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ||||
| Cobblestone, mossy cobblestone, and dark oak stairs now generate in pillager outposts. | |||||
| Granite and smooth sandstone stairs now generate in desert villages. | |||||
| Diorite stairs now generate in snowy tundra villages. | |||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.51 | ||||
| beta 1.16.0.57 | |||||
| Stone brick, mossy stone brick and nether brick stairs can now generate as part of ruined portals. | |||||
| Added new sounds to the nether brick stair variants. | |||||
| beta 1.16.0.63 | |||||
| 1.16.20 | beta 1.16.20.50 | Crimson and warped stairs now uses regular plank sounds instead of their stem variant sounds. | |||
Discontinued editions - decide what to do with these later
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | |
| TU3 | |||||
| TU5 | |||||
| TU7 | |||||
| TU9 | |||||
| TU12 | |||||
| Stairs now automatically change shape into corner stairs depending on location. | |||||
| Stairs can now be placed upside down. | |||||
| Items can now be placed directly on upside down stairs. | |||||
| TU13 | Jungle wood stairs are now flammable. | ||||
| TU14 | 1.04 | ||||
| The placement of upside down stairs and slabs has been changed. | |||||
| TU27 | CU15 | 1.18 | |||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | ||
| "Stone Stairs" have been renamed to "Cobblestone Stairs". | |||||
| TU46 | CU36 | 1.38 | Patch 15 | ||
| TU54 | CU44 | 1.52 | Patch 24 | 1.0.4 | Torches can now be placed on the full-block sides of stairs. |
| Iron bars, glass panes and fences adjacent to the full-block side of a stair now visually connect. | |||||
| Carpet and snow layers can now be placed on top of upside-down stairs. | |||||
| TU69 | 1.76 | Patch 38 | |||
| 1.83 | |||||
| 1.90 | |||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||
| 1.7.10 | |||||

