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, ocean ruins, ruined portals, and trail ruins.
Smooth stone bricks are a fifth variant exclusive to Bedrock Edition, visually identical to regular stone bricks, which cannot be found naturally and are only accessible via commands.
Obtaining[]
Stone bricks can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, they drop nothing.
Block | Stone Bricks | |
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Hardness | 1.5 | |
Tool | ||
Breaking time[A] | ||
Default | 7.5 | |
Wooden | 1.15 | |
Stone | 0.6 | |
Iron | 0.4 | |
Diamond | 0.3 | |
Netherite | 0.25 | |
Golden | 0.2 |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Infested blocks[]
Stone bricks, mossy stone bricks, cracked stone bricks and chiseled stone bricks can also be obtained by mining their respective infested blocks with Silk Touch.
Crafting[]
Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
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Stone Bricks | Stone | ||
Mossy Stone Bricks | Stone Bricks + Vines |
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Mossy Stone Bricks | Stone Bricks + Moss Block |
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Chiseled Stone Bricks | Stone Brick Slab |
Stonecutting[]
Name | Ingredients | Cutting recipe | Description |
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Stone Bricks or Chiseled Stone Bricks |
Stone | ||
Chiseled Stone Bricks | Stone Bricks | [Java Edition only][1] |
Smelting[]
Name | Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
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Cracked Stone Bricks | Stone Bricks + Any fuel |
Trading[]
Apprentice-level stone mason villagers sell 4 chiseled stone bricks for one emerald as part of their trades.[Java Edition only]
Apprentice-level stone mason villagers have a 25% (1⁄4) chance to sell 4 chiseled stone bricks for one emerald as part of their trades.[Bedrock Edition only]
Natural generation[]
Regular stone bricks, as well as occasional cracked and mossy stone bricks, generate as part of strongholds, making up most of the walls, ceilings, and floors. They and chiseled stone bricks can also generate as part of ocean ruins and ruined portals. Igloo basements are lined with stone bricks. In addition, three chiseled stone bricks generate as part of each jungle temple. Stone bricks and mossy stone bricks can also spawn in trail ruins.
Chest loot[]
Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
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Java Edition | ||||
Stone Bricks | Village | Mason's chest | 1 | 37.7% |
Bedrock Edition | ||||
Stone Bricks | Village | Mason's chest | 1 | 37.7% |
Usage[]
As stone bricks offer no real advantage over stone or cobblestone, their main use is for decoration.
Crafting ingredient[]
Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
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Lodestone | Chiseled Stone Bricks + Netherite Ingot |
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Stone Brick Slab or Mossy Stone Brick Slab |
Stone Bricks or Mossy Stone Bricks |
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Stone Brick Stairs or Mossy Stone Brick Stairs |
Stone Bricks or Mossy Stone Bricks |
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Stone Brick Wall or Mossy Stone Brick Wall |
Stone Bricks or Mossy Stone Bricks |
Stonecutting[]
Name | Ingredients | Cutting recipe | Description |
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Stone Brick Slab or Stone Brick Stairs or Stone Brick Wall |
Stone Bricks | ||
Chiseled Stone Bricks | Stone Bricks | [Java Edition only][1] | |
Mossy Stone Brick Slab or Mossy Stone Brick Stairs or Mossy Stone Brick Wall |
Mossy Stone Bricks |
Note Blocks[]
All types of stone bricks can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sounds.
Silverfish[]
Silverfish have the ability to enter and hide in any variant of stone bricks, creating an infested block of the corresponding type.
Sounds[]
Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
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Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block | subtitles | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
None[sound 1] | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block | None[sound 1] | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
Footsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
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Blocks | Once the block has broken | dig | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
Blocks | When the block is placed | dig | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit | 0.37 | 0.5 | |
Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
Players | Walking on the block | step | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
Players | Jumping from the block | jump | 0.12 | 1.0 | |
Players | Falling on the block without fall damage | land | 0.22 | 1.0 |
Data values[]
ID[]
Name | Identifier | Form | Block tags | Item tags | Translation key |
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Stone Bricks | stone_bricks | Block & Item | stone_bricks | stone_bricks | block.minecraft.stone_bricks |
Cracked Stone Bricks | cracked_stone_bricks | Block & Item | stone_bricks | stone_bricks | block.minecraft.cracked_stone_bricks |
Mossy Stone Bricks | mossy_stone_bricks | Block & Item | stone_bricks | stone_bricks | block.minecraft.mossy_stone_bricks |
Chiseled Stone Bricks | chiseled_stone_bricks | Block & Item | stone_bricks | stone_bricks | block.minecraft.chiseled_stone_bricks |
Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Translation key |
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Stone Bricks | stonebrick | 98 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile.stonebrick.default.name tile.stonebrick.cracked.name tile.stonebrick.mossy.name tile.stonebrick.chiseled.name tile.stonebrick.smooth.name |
Block states[]
Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
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stone_brick_type | 0x1 0x2 0x4 | default
| default | 0 | Stone Bricks |
mossy | 1 | Mossy Stone Bricks | |||
cracked | 2 | Cracked Stone Bricks | |||
chiseled | 3 | Chiseled Stone Bricks | |||
smooth | 4 | Smooth Stone Bricks (same texture as regular ones) |
History[]
Java Edition Classic | ||||||||||||||||||
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May 21, 2009 | Notch shows interest in adding stone bricks, with multiple colors. | |||||||||||||||||
Java Edition Beta | ||||||||||||||||||
1.7 | The file en_US.lang contained a reference to this block as tile.stonebricksmooth.name=Stone Bricks , giving the first confirmation of their name. | |||||||||||||||||
1.8 | Pre-release | Added stone bricks - regular, cracked, and mossy. | ||||||||||||||||
All stone bricks occur naturally in strongholds. | ||||||||||||||||||
The different bricks are all called stone bricks in-game. | ||||||||||||||||||
The regular stone bricks can be crafted into stone brick slabs and stairs. | ||||||||||||||||||
Pre-release 2 | Cracked and mossy stone bricks now drop themselves when mined. | |||||||||||||||||
Java Edition | ||||||||||||||||||
1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 | The mining time of stone bricks is now greatly reduced, parallel to that of stone, and is now tier dependent. | ||||||||||||||||
1.2.1 | 1.2 | Added chiseled stone bricks, which are currently unnamed. | ||||||||||||||||
1.3.1 | 12w18a | The variants of stone bricks now have all received unique tooltips. | ||||||||||||||||
The unnamed chiseled stone bricks are now called Detailed Stone Bricks. Before this update, they were commonly referred to as Circle Stone Bricks. | ||||||||||||||||||
12w19a | Detailed Stone Bricks have been renamed to Chiseled Stone Bricks. | |||||||||||||||||
12w22a | Chiseled stone bricks now naturally generate in jungle temples. There are only 3 chiseled stone bricks per temple. This is the only way of obtaining them in survival mode. | |||||||||||||||||
1.8 | 14w02a | Crafting recipes have been added for mossy stone bricks and chiseled stone bricks. | ||||||||||||||||
14w10a | Stone bricks with numerical metadata variants 4 through 15, which are inaccessible through normal gameplay, now have no model rather than appearing identical to stone bricks. | |||||||||||||||||
June 20, 2014 | TheMogMiner tweeted about a smelting recipe for cracked stone bricks. | |||||||||||||||||
14w25a | Cracked stone bricks can now be obtained by smelting stone bricks. | |||||||||||||||||
Stone bricks and its variants are now defined via block states rather than by numerical metadata. Prior to this version, the numerical metadata variants of stone bricks were as follows:
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14w26a | Stone bricks with metadata values 4 through 15 have been completely removed from the game. | |||||||||||||||||
1.9 | 15w43a | Stone bricks now generate within igloo basements, along with their cracked, mossy and chiseled variants. | ||||||||||||||||
15w43b | Igloos now have fewer cracked stone bricks. | |||||||||||||||||
1.13 | 17w47a | The different block states for the stonebrick ID have been split up into their own IDs.
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Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 98. | ||||||||||||||||||
18w09a | Stone bricks and its 3 variants now generate in underwater ruins. | |||||||||||||||||
1.14 | 18w43a | The textures of all stone bricks have been changed. | ||||||||||||||||
18w47a | The textures of all stone bricks have been changed to look more smooth. | |||||||||||||||||
18w49a | Stone bricks can now be found in chests in village mason houses. | |||||||||||||||||
19w11a | Chiseled stone bricks are now sold by villagers of the new mason profession. | |||||||||||||||||
1.16 | 20w13a | Chiseled stone bricks can now be used to craft lodestones. | ||||||||||||||||
20w16a | Stone bricks and its 3 variants, as well as their slabs and stairs, can now spawn as part of a ruined portal. | |||||||||||||||||
1.17 | 21w11a | Moss blocks with stone bricks can now be used to craft mossy stone bricks. | ||||||||||||||||
1.20 | 23w12a | Stone bricks and cracked stone bricks now generate in trail ruins. | ||||||||||||||||
Pocket Edition Alpha | ||||||||||||||||||
v0.4.0 | Added stone bricks. | |||||||||||||||||
Chiseled stone bricks are now available and are fully functional, obtainable only through editing. | ||||||||||||||||||
v0.5.0 | Regular stone bricks are now available in the creative inventory. | |||||||||||||||||
v0.6.0 | Stone bricks are now used to craft stone brick stairs and slabs. | |||||||||||||||||
Mossy and cracked stone bricks are now available in the creative inventory. | ||||||||||||||||||
v0.9.0 | build 1 | Regular, mossy and cracked stone bricks now naturally generate in strongholds. | ||||||||||||||||
Chiseled stone bricks have been added to the creative inventory. | ||||||||||||||||||
v0.11.0 | build 1 | Crafting recipes have been added for mossy stone bricks and chiseled stone bricks. | ||||||||||||||||
Cracked stone bricks can now be obtained by smelting stone bricks. | ||||||||||||||||||
v0.15.0 | build 1 | Chiseled stone bricks now naturally generate in jungle temples. There are only 3 chiseled stone bricks per temple. | ||||||||||||||||
Pocket Edition | ||||||||||||||||||
1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Stone bricks now generate within igloo basements, along with their cracked, mossy and chiseled variants. | ||||||||||||||||
Bedrock Edition | ||||||||||||||||||
1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Stone bricks and its 3 variants now generate in underwater ruins. | ||||||||||||||||
1.9.0 | beta 1.9.0.0 | Mossy stone bricks can now be used to craft mossy stone brick stairs, slabs and walls. | ||||||||||||||||
Stone bricks can now be used to craft stone brick walls. | ||||||||||||||||||
1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Chiseled stone bricks can now be obtained via trading with stone mason villagers for 1-2 emeralds. | ||||||||||||||||
The textures of all stone bricks have been changed. | ||||||||||||||||||
1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Stone bricks can now be found in village mason chests. | ||||||||||||||||
beta 1.11.0.4 | Chiseled stone bricks sold by stone mason villagers now cost only one emerald. | |||||||||||||||||
1.12.0 | beta 1.12.0.3 | The chance of stone mason villagers to sell chiseled stone bricks has now been reduced from 100% to 25%. | ||||||||||||||||
1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | Chiseled stone bricks can now be used to craft lodestones. | ||||||||||||||||
Stone bricks and its 3 variants, as well as their slabs and stairs, can now spawn as part of a ruined portal. | ||||||||||||||||||
1.16.220 | beta 1.16.220.52 | Stone bricks and Moss Block can now be used to craft Mossy Stone Bricks. | ||||||||||||||||
Legacy Console Edition | ||||||||||||||||||
TU5 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added stone bricks. | ||||||||||||||
TU12 | 1.0.1 | Added chiseled stone bricks. | ||||||||||||||||
TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Crafting recipes have been added for mossy stone bricks and cracked stone bricks. | ||||||||||||||
Cracked stone bricks can now be obtained by smelting stone bricks. | ||||||||||||||||||
1.90 | The textures of all stone bricks have been changed. | |||||||||||||||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition | ||||||||||||||||||
0.1.0 | Added stone bricks. |
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Stone Bricks" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[]
- 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.
- On Bedrock Edition, there is an unused data value for stone bricks called smooth stone bricks, it can be obtained through commands but is unobtainable in survival mode or through the creative inventory.
Gallery[]
First view of the stone bricks that Jeb posted.
First view of the stone bricks that Notch posted.
Naturally occurring stone bricks - regular, cracked, and mossy - in a stronghold.
Helm's Deep built from stone bricks by Jeb.
A castle built from stone bricks by Jeb.
A castle built from stone bricks by Jeb.
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ a b MCPE-50057