Stone Bricks

Stone bricks and the variants Cracked stone bricks,  Mossy stone bricks, and  Chiseled stone bricks are materials found in structures such as strongholds, igloo basements, jungle temples, and ocean ruins.

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

All four variants also generate in ocean 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.

A single regular stone brick spawns in some snowy tundra villages.

Obtaining
Stone bricks can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, they drop nothing.

Smelting
This recipe awards 0.1 experience.

Trading
Apprentice-level stone mason villagers sell 4 chiseled stone bricks for one emerald as part of their trades.

Apprentice-level stone mason villagers have a 25% chance to sell 4 chiseled stone bricks for one emerald as part of their trades.

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

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

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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.