Stone Bricks

Stone bricks are one of the materials that are used in strongholds, basements of igloos, and underwater ruins.

Cracked stone bricks are a stone bricks variant which is also found in strongholds, basements of igloos, and underwater ruins.

Mossy stone bricks are another variant, which is yet also found in strongholds, basements of igloos, and underwater ruins.

Chiseled stone bricks are yet another variant of stone bricks. It is found in jungle temples, basements of igloos, and underwater ruins.

Obtaining
Stone bricks can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing.

Natural generation
Regular, cracked, and mossy stone bricks generate as part of strongholds, making up most of the walls, ceilings, and floors.

All 4 variants will also generate in underwater ruins.

Three blocks of chiseled stone bricks generate as part of each jungle temple.

Igloo basements are lined with stone brick, cracked at eye level and mossy at foot level, with chiseled brick along the floor and ceiling.

Stone bricks can be found in village mason house chests.

Trading
Stone mason villagers sell 4 chiseled stone bricks for 1-2 emeralds as their second tier trade.

Usage
As stone bricks offer no real advantage over cobblestone, their main use is decoration.

Crafting ingredient

 * Stone Bricks


 * Mossy Stone Bricks

Any mixture of regular, cracked, mossy, and chiseled stone bricks can be used to make stone bricks stairs and stone bricks slabs.

Silverfish
Silverfish have the ability to enter and hide in any variant of stone bricks, creating an infested block of the corresponding type.

Block data
In Bedrock Edition, stone bricks use the following data values:

Trivia

 * Strangely, when smelting cobblestone blocks, the cracked form of stone, they turn into stone without cracks. Yet, when smelting stone bricks without cracks, they turn into a cracked variant. This could be a reference to two different processes: how rocks expand when heated, and causing fractures, which could make the stone bricks crack; or simply melting the cobblestone so it reforms into igneous stone.