Bricks

Brick is decorative and building block that does not naturally spawn anywhere. It is mostly used to make nice looking homes and towers. Since Brick is not flammable, it is often used to make Lava Fireplaces. To make bricks, the player needs clay. Due to the rarity of Clay, Brick is hard to gather in large quantities. Brick is a durable block and resists explosions well. A Pickaxe must be used to recover the resource of a placed block, but it will always take 3 seconds to destroy, no matter the pickaxe type. Breaking a block with the player's hand is slow and will not yield the resource.

Clay's only current usage is to be made into bricks or clay blocks, as breaking Clay drops 4 Clay Balls, which can then be smelted into Clay Bricks. The 4 clay bricks can be crafted into one brick block. This means that for each Clay block found in a map, players can make 1 Brick block. However, since the 1.6 update, clay blocks have become almost nonexistent on a map generated after the update, making Brick blocks extremely hard to get.

In the recent Beta 1.7 video showing off the pistons, Bricks are seen with a different texture, a brighter red, pinkish, texture.

Crafting
A Brick block can be crafted from 4 Clay Bricks in a square pattern.

Usage
Some players use brick for creating structures and shelters, due to its high blast resistance (30), and its elegance in representing a home. Brick blocks cannot currently be crafted into any item in the official game. Many players choose to use brick blocks for a fireplace/chimney.

History

 * Brick originally appeared (and still does in Creative mode, Survival Test, Indev and Infdev) with a bright red texture. Upon being added in Alpha, the bricks in the texture were given a darker look.


 * For a brief time, huge brick pyramids were a rare structure that could spawn in an old Infdev version. See this video, this video and the end of this video to see the pyramids and exploration of them. The pyramids were completely solid; they had no inside rooms. A strange quality about these pyramids is that if one dug under it, a layer of dirt and stone extended under the pyramid. This suggests it spawned right on top of the terrain instead of being a complete pyramid with the bottom parts underground. Pyramids were removed before Alpha was released.

Future

 * Notch has said that there may be more kinds of brick blocks in different colors in the future.