Sandstone

Sandstone

Transparent	No
Luminance	0
Blast resistance	4
Tool
Renewable	Sandstone : Yes‌[JE only] Red Sandstone : Yes‌[BE & JE only]
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Drops	Itself
Data values	Sandstone dec: 24 hex: 18 bin: 11000 Red Sandstone dec: 179 hex: B3 bin: 10110011
Namespaced ID	See § Data values

	“	Sandstone is pretty easy to find in Minecraft. Find a desert and start digging. The upper layers of the ground will be regular sand, but below that the weight has compressed the sand into tougher sandstone blocks that hold their shape and won't fall. If all that digging sounds like hard work, then track down a desert village, well or temple instead - all of which are made of different kinds of sandstone. Or - for the very laziest amongst you - just combine four sand in a crafting grid.	„
		— Duncan Geere

Sandstone and red sandstone are solid blocks, commonly found in deserts and beaches.

Natural generation

Regular sandstone generates in deserts and beaches, compressed underneath several meters of sand. This naturally protects sand from falling into caves and ravines. 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.

Obtaining

Sandstone can be mined with any pickaxe. If broken with any other item, the block drops nothing.

Block	Sandstone Red Sandstone
Hardness	0.8
Tool
Breaking time
Hand	4
Wooden	0.65
Stone	0.35
Iron	0.2
Diamond	0.2
Golden	0.1

Smelting

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

This recipe awards 0.1 experience.

Trading

Wandering traders sell 4 red sandstone for one emerald.

Usage

Unlike sand, sandstone is never affected by gravity.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Block	Namespaced ID
Sandstone	sandstone
Cut Sandstone	cut_sandstone
Chiseled Sandstone	chiseled_sandstone
Smooth Sandstone	smooth_sandstone
Red Sandstone	red_sandstone
Cut Red Sandstone	cut_red_sandstone
Chiseled Red Sandstone	chiseled_red_sandstone
Smooth Red Sandstone	smooth_red_sandstone

Bedrock Edition:

Block	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Sandstone	sandstone	24
Red Sandstone	red_sandstone	179

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.
1.8		?			Sandstone no longer occurs naturally in chunks generated.
1.8.1					The issue from Beta 1.8 has now been resolved, allowing sandstone to now naturally occur in generated chunks.
Java Edition
1.2.1		release			Two textures have now 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 is changed, and added sandstone with these textures, using the same in-game name as regular sandstone.
					The normal sandstone's texture has now been changed.
1.3.1		12w19a			Distinct names (chiseled sandstone and smooth sandstone) have now 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 crafting recipe for sandstone stairs.
		12w22a			Inventory sprites for blocks have now been flipped from left to right, changing to .
1.8		14w20a			Sandstone now generates at the entrances of caves.
		14w29a			Smooth sandstone can now 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 now been renamed to cut (red) sandstone.
					Added item form for the smooth double slab sandstone.
					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.
					All sandstone textures have now been changed.
					All red sandstone textures have now been changed.
		18w44a			All sandstone's textures have been changed, once again.
		18w47a			Changed the top textures of all sandstone blocks.
					All red sandstone textures have been changed, once again.
		18w50a			Changed the top textures of all sandstone blocks, once again.
					Changed the top textures of all red sandstone blocks.
Pocket Edition Alpha
Pre-release					Added regular sandstone.
0.6.0					Added chiseled and smooth sandstone.
					Sandstone is now crafted in the stonecutter.
0.7.3					Sandstone stairs were made craftable.
0.9.0		?			Sandstone and cut sandstone now generates in desert villages.
?					Sandstone now generates in desert wells.
0.13.0		build 1			Sandstone is now no longer crafted in the stonecutter.
					Sandstone, cut sandstone and chiseled sandstone now generate in desert temples.
0.14.0		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 now 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 now 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			Smooth sandstone now does the generate in new desert villages.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.1			Red Sandstone can generate as supporting floating platform under red sand if the village building generated in badlands biomes.
		beta 1.11.0.4			Red Sandstone now sold by wandering trader.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 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.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added Sandstone.

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.
• Cut sandstone and cut red sandstone are two of the three blocks with a slab equivalent, but not a stair equivalent.

Gallery

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  Natural sandstone.

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  Natural sandstone found at the bottom of a stack of sand.

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  Natural sandstone blocking sand from entering a cave system.

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  Natural sandstone well.

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  A player-made pyramid made out of sandstone, cut sandstone and chiseled sandstone.

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  The different kinds of sand-based blocks.

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  The first image of red sandstone, as tweeted by Nathan Adams.

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  Red sandstone generating at the entrance of a badlands cave.

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  Sandstone generating as part of an underwater ruin.

References

Blocks

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