Image of spruce stairs from Minecraft.

How to Make Spruce Stairs in Minecraft

This guide explains how to make spruce stairs in Minecraft with step-by-step instructions and screenshots.

Image of spruce stairs in a grassy area.

Minecraft stairs can be placed to make it easier to go up and down inclines like those long passages down to your diamond mine. And they are often used to build grand staircases, detailed roof lines on buildings, as decorative blocks, or in simple paths. 

Minecraft Versions

You can craft spruce stairs in the following versions of Minecraft.

Minecraft Version Platform Supported
Java PC, Mac, Linux Yes
Bedrock PE, PS4, Xbox, Win10 Yes
Education Edition PC, Mac Yes

Blocks Required To Make Spruce Stairs

The recipe for spruce stairs requires following ingredients:

				
					6 Spruce Planks
				
			

Which will make 4 spruce stairs.

How To Make Spruce Stairs In Minecraft

Step 1: Open A Crafting Table

To make spruce stairs, open your crafting table. You should see the 3×3 crafting grid in the top portion of the interface. (See image below.)

Image of spruce stairs recipe ingredients (6 spruce planks) from the video game Minecraft.

Step 2: Add the Spruce Stairs Recipe Ingredients to the Crafting Grid

Place six spruce wood planks in the 3×3 crafting grid.

To make spruce stairs, place spruce planks in the first square of the top row of the crafting table grid, the first and second squares of the middle row, and in all three squares of the bottom row.

How to make spruce stairs in Minecraft - Recipe & Ingredients

The spruce stairs recipe in Minecraft is a shaped recipe, which means that as long as the ingredients are placed in the crafting grid in the same pattern you will be able to make stairs even if they are flipped. (See image below.)

However, the recipe will not work for stairs of any type if the ingredients are placed upside-down.

Once you’ve placed the spruce planks in the correct squares, the spruce stairs will appear in the square on the right.

Step 3: Move the Spruce Stairs to Your Inventory

Move the finished spruce stairs from the righthand square of the crafting table menu to your inventory.

Image of spruce stairs in inventory - Minecraft.

Well done! You now know how to make spruce stairs in Minecraft.

Minecraft Give Command for Spruce Stairs

You can use the Give command to add spruce stairs to your inventory. To use the Give command open chat in your Minecraft game and type the following.

For the Java edition

				
					/give @p spruce_stairs 1
				
			

For the Bedrock edition

				
					/give @p spruce_stairs 1 0
				
			

FAQ’s

Do spruce stairs generate naturally in Minecraft?

Spruce stairs can naturally generate in with huts, igloos, shipwrecks and snowy tundra, snowy  taiga, and taiga villages. But since these can be rare and may not have many oak stairs to take, it’s a whole lot easier to just make them on a crafting table.

Are spruce stairs stackable? If so, how many can go in a stack?

Spruce stairs, like all stairs in Minecraft, are stackable and you can have up to 64 in one stack.

What is the best tool(s) for breaking stairs?

An ax is the fastest tool for breaking wood stairs, like spruce, birch, and dark oak stairs. And a pickaxe is best for breaking non-wood stairs, like cobblestone, granite, or deepslate stairs. Breaking a wood stair without a tool will drop a stair that can be picked up. Breaking non-wood stairs with anything other than a pickaxe will cause the stairs not to drop and they will be lost.

Is walking up stairs faster than jumping up one block?

Yes, walking upstairs is faster than jumping up the same distance. Another benefit to using stairs over jumping is that it doesn’t exhaust your hunger bar, meaning you won’t wear yourself down and have to eat.

Can wood stairs be used as fuel for furnaces and blast furnaces?

Yes, spruce and other wood stairs can be used as fuel in furnaces, blast furnaces, and smokers. You will be able to smelt 1.5 items be wood stair burned.

Are spruce stairs water soluble?

Yes, spruce stairs, like all stair variants, wood and non-wood, are water soluble. Meaning you can place a stair and water from a water bucket in the same space. This can come in handy when you’re have a single layer of blocks and need to make a spot that holds water. Replacing a full block with a stair or slab will allow you to place water in the same place as well.