Bricks

Brick is a decorative building block that does not naturally spawn anywhere. It is mostly used to make nice looking homes and towers. Since brick is non-flammable, it is often used to make fireplaces. Brick resists explosions no better than cobblestone. A pickaxe must be used to recover the resource of a placed block, but it will take under a second to break. Breaking a block with the player's hand is slow and will not yield the resource.

Current uses of Clay are to be smelted into bricks or the new (as of 13w17a) Hardened Clay block. Each clay block yields 4 clay balls, which are smelted into individual bricks, which in turn are crafted into brick blocks. For each clay block found in a map, players can make 1 brick block.

Decorative Description
The brick when added was Vibrant, and colorful, then in alpha the brick texture was toned down a bit and was a vibrant shade of dark red. Then in beta 1.7 the brick became dull and had more brown than red. The cement between the bricks look faded and old.