Sandstone

Sandstone

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	Smooth Sandstone & Smooth Red Sandstone: 6 All others: 0.8
Hardness	Smooth Sandstone & Smooth Red Sandstone: 2 All others: 0.8
Luminant	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

Sandstone is a solid block commonly found in deserts and beaches underneath sand. Red sandstone is a related block, associated with red sand.

Obtaining

Breaking

Sandstone can be mined with any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, the block won't drop.

Block	Sandstone Chiseled Sandstone Cut Sandstone Red Sandstone Chiseled Red Sandstone Cut Red Sandstone	Smooth Sandstone Smooth Red Sandstone
Hardness	0.8	2
Tool
Breaking time
Default	4	10
Wooden	0.6	1.5
Stone	0.3	0.75
Iron	0.2	0.5
Diamond	0.15	0.4
Netherite	0.15	0.35
Golden	0.1	0.25

Natural generation

Regular sandstone generates in deserts and beaches, compressed underneath several blocks of sand. Orange terracotta replaces what would be the sandstone layer for red sand, so red sandstone cannot be found naturally unless from village floating structure. It must be crafted from the red sand in badlands biomes.

However, if a village generates some buildings inside of a badlands biome, any floating platform surrounding village buildings generate with red sandstone below red sand.

Many structures that generate in deserts are made of sandstone. Desert wells are made of normal sandstone, desert villages made of normal, cut, and smooth sandstone, and desert pyramids are made of normal, cut, and chiseled sandstone. Additionally, warm underwater ruins are made greatly of sandstone variants. All the aforementioned structures use sandstone blocks, slabs, stairs, and walls. No naturally generated structures are made of red sandstone.

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Sandstone or Red Sandstone	Sand or Red Sand
Cut Sandstone or Cut Red Sandstone	Sandstone or Red Sandstone	44
Chiseled Sandstone or Chiseled Red Sandstone	Sandstone Slab or Red Sandstone Slab

Stonecutting

Name	Ingredients	Cutting recipe
Cut Sandstone or Cut Red Sandstone	Sandstone or Red Sandstone
Chiseled Sandstone or Chiseled Red Sandstone	Sandstone or Red Sandstone

From smelting

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Smooth Sandstone	Sandstone + Any fuel	0.1
Smooth Red Sandstone	Red Sandstone + Any fuel	0.1

Usage

Unlike sand, sandstone is never affected by gravity.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Breaking the block	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	Mining the block	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	Placing the block	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition: ^{[needs in-game testing]}

Sound	Source‌[upcoming: BE 1.16.200]	Description	Namespaced ID	Volume	Pitch
	?	Breaking the block	dig.stone	?	0.8
	?	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	?	?
	?	Mining the block	hit.stone	?	0.5
?	?	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	?	?
?	?	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	?	?
	?	Walking on the block	step.stone	?	?
	?	Placing the block	use.stone	?	0.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Sandstone	sandstone	block.minecraft.sandstone
Cut Sandstone	cut_sandstone	block.minecraft.cut_sandstone
Chiseled Sandstone	chiseled_sandstone	block.minecraft.chiseled_sandstone
Smooth Sandstone	smooth_sandstone	block.minecraft.smooth_sandstone
Red Sandstone	red_sandstone	block.minecraft.red_sandstone
Cut Red Sandstone	cut_red_sandstone	block.minecraft.cut_red_sandstone
Chiseled Red Sandstone	chiseled_red_sandstone	block.minecraft.chiseled_red_sandstone
Smooth Red Sandstone	smooth_red_sandstone	block.minecraft.smooth_red_sandstone

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Sandstone	sandstone	24	tile.sandstone.default.name tile.sandstone.chiseled.name tile.sandstone.cut.name tile.sandstone.smooth.name
Red Sandstone	red_sandstone	179	tile.red_sandstone.default.name tile.red_sandstone.chiseled.name tile.red_sandstone.cut.name tile.red_sandstone.smooth.name

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, sandstone and red sandstone use the following data values:

Sandstone

	DV	Description
	0	Sandstone
	1	Chiseled Sandstone
	2	Cut Sandstone
	3	Smooth Sandstone

Red Sandstone

	DV	Description
	0	Red Sandstone
	1	Chiseled Red Sandstone
	2	Cut Red Sandstone
	3	Smooth Red Sandstone

Block states

See also: Block states

In Bedrock Edition, sandstone and red sandstone use the following block states:

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
sand_stone_type	default	default	Sandstone
		heiroglyphs	Chiseled Sandstone
		cut	Cut Sandstone
		smooth	Smooth Sandstone

History

Java Edition Beta
1.2					Added sandstone.
1.3					Sandstone is now found below three blocks of naturally generated sand.
					Added the ability to craft sandstone slabs from sandstone.
Java Edition
1.2.1		release			Two textures have been added to the terrain.png file and might be used as decorative sandstone variants. However, these textures do not appear in the game, at the moment.
1.2.4		release			The textures added in 1.2.1 have been changed, and added sandstone with these textures, using the same in-game name as regular sandstone.
					The texture of normal sandstone has been changed.
1.3.1		12w19a			Distinct names (chiseled sandstone and smooth sandstone) have been given to the variants of sandstone. Before this update, chiseled sandstone was often referred to as hieroglyphic sandstone or decorative sandstone.
		12w21a			Added desert temples, which use all three variants of sandstone as building materials.
					Added sandstone stairs.
		12w21b			Added a crafting recipe for sandstone stairs, which uses sandstone.
1.5		13w04a			Added the block which would later be called smooth sandstone, as an unobtainable variant of the sandstone double slab.
1.8		14w20a			Sandstone now generates at the entrances of caves.
		14w29a			Smooth sandstone can no longer be crafted into itself.
		August 5, 2014			Dinnerbone tweets a screenshot containing red sandstone.
		14w32a			Added red sandstone as a solution to MC-55228.
					Red sandstone now generates in mesa caves, instead of sandstone.
1.10		16w20a			Sandstone no longer generates at the entrances of caves; the sand is now left unsupported in these locations.
					Red sandstone no longer generates naturally, as it generated only at the entrances of caves.
1.13		17w47a			The different type block states for both the sandstone and red_sandstone IDs have been split up into their own IDs.
					Smooth (red) sandstone has been renamed to cut (red) sandstone.
					Added item form for the smooth double slab sandstone. It did not use this texture.
					Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 24, 43, 179 and 180.[verify]
		18w09a			Sandstone now generates in underwater ruins.
1.14		18w43a			Smooth and smooth red sandstone can now be obtained by smelting sandstone and red sandstone, respectively.
					The textures of all sandstone have been changed.
		18w44a			The textures of all sandstone textures have been changed, once again.
		18w47a			The top textures of all sandstone blocks have been changed.
					The textures of red sandstone have been changed, once again.
		18w50a			The top textures of all sandstone blocks have been changed, once again.
Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release					Added regular sandstone.
v0.6.0					Added chiseled and smooth sandstone.
					Sandstone is now crafted in the stonecutter.
v0.7.3					Sandstone stairs have been made craftable.
v0.9.0		?			Sandstone and cut sandstone now generates in desert villages.
?					Sandstone now generates in desert wells.
v0.13.0		build 1			Sandstone is no longer crafted in the stonecutter.
					Sandstone, cut sandstone and chiseled sandstone now generate in desert temples.
v0.14.0		build 1			Added red sandstone.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.20.1			Sandstone, cut sandstone and chiseled sandstone now generate in warm underwater ruins.
1.9.0		beta 1.9.0.0			"Smooth Sandstone" and "Smooth Red Sandstone" have been renamed to "Cut Sandstone" and "Cut Red Sandstone".
					Sandstone and red sandstone can now be used to craft sandstone and red sandstone walls.
					Cut sandstone and cut red sandstone can now be used to craft cut sandstone and cut red sandstone slabs.
					Smooth sandstone has been made obtainable by smelting regular sandstone, which can be used to craft smooth sandstone slabs and stairs.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of all sandstone blocks have been changed.
					Smooth sandstone now generates in the new desert villages.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Red sandstone can now generate as supporting floating platforms under red sand, if the village building generated in a badlands biome.
		beta 1.11.0.4			Red sandstone is now sold by wandering traders.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.57			Trading has been changed; wandering traders no longer sell red sandstone.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	[verify] Added sandstone.
					Added the variants of sandstone. They drop the original sandstone upon breaking.
TU14		1.04			Added crafting recipes for smooth and chiseled sandstone.
					Smooth and chiseled sandstone now drop themselves.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Added red sandstone and its variants.
		1.90			The textures of all sandstone blocks have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added sandstone and its variants.
					Added red sandstone and its variants.

Issues

Issues relating to "Sandstone" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• Chiseled sandstone has the image of a creeper on it, while chiseled red sandstone has the image of a wither on it.
  • The idea of the wither appearing on chiseled red sandstone was suggested by Reddit user ULiopleurodon.
  • Chiseled sandstone, chiseled red sandstone, chiseled polished blackstone, chiseled nether brick and cyan glazed terracotta are the only five blocks in the game that implement a mob into the design.
• Cut sandstone and cut red sandstone are two of the three blocks with a slab equivalent, but not a stair equivalent. The other one is smooth stone.

Gallery

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  A naturally generated sandstone cluster.

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  Naturally generated sandstone found below sand layers.

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  Naturally generated sandstone in a desert well.

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  Naturally generated sandstone in a desert village. (far left)

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  Naturally generated sandstone found in a desert pyramid.

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  Naturally generated sandstone found in a desert pyramid secret interior.

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  Naturally generated red sandstone found at the entrance of a badlands cave.

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  Naturally generated sandstone as part of an underwater ruin.

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Java Edition

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  The first screenshot of red sandstone as tweeted by Nathan Adams.

References

Blocks

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