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Stone Bricks is one of the materials that are used in Strongholds. Stone Bricks have the same blast resistance as Brick or Cobblestone; a TNT block surrounded by either of these will only destroy one block in each direction. All variants of Stone Bricks have the same blast resistance. They can be mined with any pickaxe, but not by hand.

Cracked Stone Bricks is a variant of a Stone Bricks. It can be found in Strongholds. Its texture is a Stone Bricks texture modified to make it look cracked; however, this does not affect its blast resistance or mining time. It is obtainable by putting Stone Bricks into a Furnace (1.8), and can be used to craft other blocks the same way as regular Stone Bricks.

Mossy Stone Bricks is another variant of a Stone Bricks. It can also be found in Strongholds. Its texture is a Stone Bricks texture modified to add a mossy effect, much like moss stone. This item can be crafted as of snapshot 14w02a with a Vine and a Stone Brick.

Chiseled Stone Bricks is yet another variant of a Stone Bricks. It can be found in Jungle temples. It can be used to craft other blocks in the same way that Cracked and Mossy Stone Bricks can.

Obtaining

Regular, cracked, and mossy Stone Bricks generate as part of strongholds, making up most of the walls, ceilings, and floors.

The only way to legitimately obtain chiseled Stone Bricks is from Jungle Temples (up to 1.8). Three blocks of chiseled Stone Bricks generate with each temple.

Crafting

Regular Stone Bricks can be crafted by placing 4 Stone blocks in a square, meaning they can be crafted without a Crafting Table. Cracked stone brick can not currently be crafted.

Name Ingredients Crafting recipe
Stone Bricks Stone

4

Upcoming in 1.8

Name Ingredients Crafting recipe
Mossy Stone Bricks Stone Bricks +
Vines


Chiseled Stone Bricks Stone Bricks Slab

Smelting

Name Ingredients Smelting recipe
Cracked Stone Bricks Stone Bricks +
Any fuel


Usage

As Stone Bricks offer no real advantage over Cobblestone, their main use is decoration, and are commonly used as a building material for castles by many players, due to the medieval look not found in Stone and Cobblestone. They also have advantages over normal Bricks, as Cobblestone is much more common than Clay, and, when smelted, produces full blocks rather than individual Bricks: a stack of Stone Bricks requires only 8 coal to smelt, while a stack of Bricks requires 32.

As a crafting ingredient

Name Ingredients Crafting recipe
End Stone Brick Slab End Stone Bricks
End Stone Brick Stairs End Stone Bricks
End Stone Brick Wall End Stone Bricks
Stone Brick Slab or
Mossy Stone Brick Slab
Stone Bricks or
Mossy Stone Bricks
Stone Brick Stairs or
Mossy Stone Brick Stairs
Stone Bricks or
Mossy Stone Bricks
Stone Brick Wall or
Mossy Stone Brick Wall
Stone Bricks or
Mossy Stone Bricks

Any mixture of regular, cracked, mossy, and chiseled Stone Bricks can be used to make Stone Bricks stairs and Stone Bricks slabs.

Data values

DV Description
0 Stone bricks
1 Mossy stone bricks
2 Cracked stone bricks
3 Chiseled stone bricks
4 Smooth stone bricks

Video

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History

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1.7The file "en_US.lang" contained a reference to this block as "tile.stonebricksmooth.name=Stone Bricks", giving the first confirmation of their name.
1.8Added Stone Bricks - regular, cracked, and mossy - that occur naturally in Strongholds. The different bricks were all called Stone Bricks in-game.
Stone Bricks that the player crafts appeared to have a very small chance of having the object change to Cracked Stone Bricks or Mossy Stone Bricks when harvested. The same phenomenon also happened with harvested Stone Bricks Stairs. You could also mine another type of a "Normal" Stone Bricks (Neither Mossy nor Cracked) if you mine it from the Stone Bricks Stairs. Due to a bug in 1.8, Mossy Stone Bricks could be made by destroying Stone Bricks Stairs that were facing east (common north is where the sun rises). Due to a bug in 1.8, cracked Stone Bricks could be obtained by creating Stone Bricks stairs, then mining them while not touching stone or near water, as mining during that time will produce different results. There was no other known way to craft cracked Stone Bricks. Stone Bricks that are "crafted" by breaking a Stone Bricks Stairs that was placed when facing South (F=3) are not stackable with Stone Bricks that have been crafted from Stone or obtained by destroying a Stone Bricks Stair in East (F=2) direction. These Stone Bricks have a data value of 3 and turn into chiseled Stone Bricks when updating to Minecraft 1.2 or higher.
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1.0.0Fixed the bugs from 1.8.
1.2.1Added Chiseled Stone Bricks.
1.2.3You could use a normal Stone Bricks and a Piston, Redstone and Water to turn the Stone Bricks into chiseled Stone Bricks.
1.2.4Fixed the transmutation bug from 1.2.3.
1.3.112w18aThe variants of Stone Bricks all received unique tooltips. Chiseled Stone Bricks was called Detailed Stone Bricks in this snapshot. Before this update, it was commonly referred to as Circle Stone Bricks.
12w19aRenamed Detailed Stone Bricks to Chiseled Stone Bricks.
12w22aChiseled Stone Bricks occur naturally in Jungle Temples. There are only 3 Stone Bricks per temple. This was the only way of obtaining them in survival mode.
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1.814w02aAdded crafting recipe for Mossy Stone Bricks and Chiseled Stone Bricks.
June 20, 2014TheMogMiner tweeted about a smelting recipe for Cracked Stone Bricks.
14w25aCracked stone bricks can be obtained by smelting stone bricks.
pocketa
0.4.0Added crafting recipe for stone bricks.
Chiseled Stone Bricks are available only through editing, though it may come in the future.
pocketu
0.9.0build 1Regular, mossy and cracked stone bricks now spawn naturally in strongholds.
Legacy Console Edition
TU5Added stone bricks.
Pi Edition
0.1.1Added stone bricks.

Issues

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Trivia

  • Stone brick monster eggs always take longer to break with a pickaxe than regular stone bricks, but break by hand as quick as pistons for example.
  • In the code, cobblestone is named stonebrick. Stone bricks, however, are named stonebricksmooth.
  • The texture for stone bricks is also extremely similar to the game Metagun's stone bricks texture, made by Notch for Ludum Dare.
  • 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.

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