Stone Bricks

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

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

Mossy stone bricks are another variant, which is yet also found in strongholds.

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

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.

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.

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

Crafting ingredient
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 a monster egg of the corresponding type.

Data values
All variants of stone bricks have the ID name, and a numerical ID of 98.

Trivia

 * Strangely, when smelting cobblestone blocks, the cracked form of stone, they turn into the smooth variant. Yet when smelting perfectly normal smooth stone bricks they turn into a cracked variant. This could be a reference to two different processes: how rocks expand when heated, and causing fissures which could make the stone bricks crack; or simply melting the cobblestone so it reforms into igneous stone.


 * The shorter crack in single stone brick blocks always points south. This can be useful as an emergency navigation trick.