Stone Bricks

Stone Bricks is one of the materials that are used in strongholds.

Cracked Stone Bricks is a stone bricks variant which is also found in strongholds.

Mossy Stone Bricks is another variant, which is yet also found in strongholds.

Chiseled Stone Bricks is yet another variant of a Stone Bricks. It is found in Jungle temples.

Obtaining
Stone bricks can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it will drop 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.

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.

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 may however be a reference to how rocks expand when heated, and this may have caused fissures making it crack.