Bricks

Brick is a block first appearing in a version of Survival Test. The block has 1 texture that is put on all sides of the block. Bricks don't occur naturally on a generated map.

Brick is available for use in Creative mode. It is mostly used to make nice looking homes or fireplaces, as well as towers.

In Alpha mode, a Brick block can be crafted from 4 Clay Bricks in the pattern below: 



Clay's only usage is to be made into bricks, as breaking Clay drops 4 Clay Balls, which can then be smelted into Clay Bricks. This means that for each Clay Block found in a map, 1 Brick block can be made. For this reason, Brick is hard to gather in large quantities. Brick is a durable block and resists well to explosions. Breaking a block with the player's hand is slow and will not yield the resource; a Pickaxe must be used. Since Brick is not flammable, it is often used to make Lava Fireplaces.

Trivia

 * Brick originally appeared (And still does in Creative mode, Survival Test, Indev and Infdev) with a bright red texture. Upon being added in Alpha, the bricks in the texture were given a darker look.
 * Notch has said that there may be more kinds of brick blocks in different colors in the future.
 * For a brief time, huge brick pyramids were a rare structure that could spawn in a old Infdev version. See this video, this video and the end of this video to see the pyramids and exploration of them. The pyramids were completely solid; they had no inside rooms. A strange quality about these pyramids is that if one dug under it, a layer of dirt and stone extended under the pyramid. This suggests it spawned right on top of the terrain instead of being a complete pyramid with the bottom parts underground. It is unknown if pyramids can still be found in present Infdev versions, but reports in finding pyramids are dying down, so it's a safe assumption that they are no longer included.