New Slabs, Stairs & Walls
by ManosSef
Players who want more building variety can use New Slabs, Stairs & Walls, a decoration mod by ManosSef that adds slab, stair and wall variants for many vanilla blocks.
What it does
Variant blocks are added as slabs, stairs and walls for materials such as quartz, purpur, prismarine brick, dark prismarine, smooth sandstone, smooth red sandstone, smooth quartz and stone. The author limits which blocks receive variants: chiseled blocks are left out because their textures are too intricate, and netherrack is skipped because its non-full faces look odd. Nether brick based blocks received fence and fence gate variants, because the game already ships fences for those materials.
The author also published a datapack-free route for players who use the Chisel mod on 1.16.5: a Chisel tags file, Chisel Tags New Slabs Stairs Walls.zip, makes the polished brick blocks usable with Chisel. Files are published for Fabric and Forge across 33 release versions, 1.12.2 – 26.3, with snapshot builds also published. The mod is released under the MIT License and is open source, with a public source code repository and issue tracker.
Every player and the server need a copy of the mod. The author states the mod no longer receives version updates, and the latest files are 2.0.22 for 26.3 on each loader.
Key features
Slab, stair and wall variants
Each supported vanilla material gets a matching slab, stair and wall block for building.
Fences and fence gates
Nether brick based blocks gain fence and fence gate variants, matching the fences already in the game.
Selective block list
Chiseled blocks and netherrack are left without variants, by the author's choice, to keep textures and shapes clean.
Chisel compatibility file
A Chisel tags file lets polished brick blocks work with the Chisel mod on 1.16.5.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.21.x12 of 12 versions with builds
1.20.x6 of 6 versions with builds
1.19.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.18.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.17.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.16.x1 of 1 version with builds
1.12.x1 of 1 version with builds
This mod also publishes snapshot builds. Snapshots are not shown in the matrix.
How it compares
Colored Bricks is a client and server mod for Fabric and Forge across 1.16 – 1.21.8, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 and not open source. No Block Left Behind is a Fabric client and server mod for 1.21.5 – 1.21.10, released under the CC0 1.0 Universal license and open source. New Slab, Stairs and Walls by ManosSef covers Fabric and Forge across 33 release versions, 1.12.2 – 26.3, under the MIT License and open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Slabs, Stairs & Walls | Fabric and Forge | 1.12.2 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-10-07 |
| Colored Bricks | Fabric and Forge | 1.16 – 1.21.8 | Client and server | 2025-08-12 |
| No Block Left Behind | Fabric | 1.21.5 – 1.21.10 | Client and server | 2025-10-14 |
| New Slab, Stairs and Walls | Fabric | 1.19.2 | Client and server | 2022-10-24 |
Questions
Does New Slabs, Stairs & Walls need to be installed on the server?
Which loaders are supported?
Why are some blocks missing variants?
In the catalog
New Slabs, Stairs & Walls is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,982 Decoration mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
This mod adds some blocks, slabs, stairs, walls, fences and fence gates that I felt like were missing from the game. Q: Are there plans to add slabs, stairs and walls for concrete/wool/terracotta/[insert block here]?
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/new-slabs-stairs-walls
- Owner
- ManosSef
- Published
- 2026-08-05
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-07
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15