Red Sandstone

Obtaining and breaking Red Sandstone

• Pickaxe is the recorded preferred tool for Red Sandstone, and the registry marks a suitable tool as required for the intended drop.
• Its recorded hardness is 0.8. Compare this with the blast resistance value when deciding whether the concern is mining time or explosion survival.
• Craft or process Red Sandstone using Crafting Table or Stonecutter or Furnace.

What to use Red Sandstone for

10 current recipe relationships are recorded for Red Sandstone. These links include recipes that produce the block and recipes that consume it as an ingredient.

• Ingredient for Cobblestone Wall.
• Ingredient for Cut Red Sandstone.
• Ingredient for Red Sandstone.
• Ingredient for Red Sandstone Slab.
• Ingredient for Red Sandstone Stairs.
• Ingredient for Red Sandstone Wall.
• Ingredient for Smooth Red Sandstone Stairs.
• Ingredient for Stone Block Slab2.
• Red Sandstone has 1 recorded output recipe; open the linked recipe to compare edition, station, layout and yield before crafting a batch.
• Red Sandstone is used by 10 recorded recipes, including Cobblestone Wall, Cut Red Sandstone, Red Sandstone.
• One full inventory stack holds 64 Red Sandstone blocks; 27 full stacks fill a single chest or shulker-box-sized inventory with 1728 blocks.

• Cobblestone Wall Recipe has 24 current variants.
• Cut Red Sandstone Recipe has 1 current variant.
• Red Sandstone Recipe has 6 current variants.
• Red Sandstone Slab Recipe has 2 current variants.
• Red Sandstone Stairs Recipe has 5 current variants.
• Red Sandstone Wall Recipe has 1 current variant.
• Smooth Red Sandstone Stairs Recipe has 3 current variants.
• Stone Block Slab2 Recipe has 12 current variants.

Build and technical notes

• Red Sandstone is a building blocks block identified as minecraft:red_sandstone. Its material, collision, light and recipe relationships below are the useful details for building, survival collection and commands.
• The recorded collision shape is “block”. Collision is a gameplay property, so do not infer it only from the block's visible model.
• Red Sandstone has 1 recorded Java block-state combination, so its base state is comparatively simple.
• Its recorded blast resistance is 0.8; this is separate from hardness and should be used for explosion-risk comparisons.

Java and Bedrock differences

• Red Sandstone exists in both tracked editions. Java uses minecraft:red_sandstone; Bedrock uses minecraft:red_sandstone.
• The available hardness, blast-resistance and preferred-tool records do not show a cross-edition conflict for this block.

Command and version data

/give @p minecraft:red_sandstone 64

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