Stone Bricks

Stone Bricks

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	6
Hardness	1.5
Luminous	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	11 STONE
Note block instrument	Bass Drum
Sulfur cube archetype	Slow Bouncy

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Stone bricks are a block found in various structures. It has three other variants: mossy stone bricks, cracked stone bricks, and chiseled stone bricks.

Obtaining

Breaking

A pickaxe is required to break stone bricks. Stone bricks drops itself when mined with a pickaxe, otherwise it drops nothing.

Block	Stone Bricks
Hardness	1.5
Tool
Breaking time (sec)
Default	17.5 (JE) 7.5 (BE)
Wooden	11.15 (JE) 1.15 (BE)
Stone	10.6 (JE) 0.6 (BE)
Copper	10.45 (JE) 0.45 (BE)
Iron	10.4 (JE) 0.4 (BE)
Diamond	10.3 (JE) 0.3 (BE)
Netherite	10.25 (JE) 0.25 (BE)
Golden	10.2 (JE) 0.2 (BE)
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Infested blocks

Stone bricks can also be obtained by mining their respective infested blocks with Silk Touch.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Stone	4

Stonecutting

Name	Ingredients	Cutting recipe	Notes
Stone Bricks	Cobblestone		In Bedrock Edition only.
Stone Bricks	Stone

Natural generation

Stone bricks generate as part of strongholds, making up most of the walls, ceilings, and floors. They can also generate as part of cold ocean ruins and Overworld ruined portals. Igloo basements are lined with stone bricks. Stone bricks can also spawn in trail ruins, in trial chambers surrounding silverfish trial spawners and also in abandoned camps.

A single stone brick can generate in snowy villages under one of the possible meeting points (snowy_meeting_point_2).

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Stone Bricks	Village	Mason's chest	1	37.7% { "item": "Stone Bricks", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.3771328842719901, "structure": "Village", "container": "Mason's chest" }

Usage

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

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Cracked Stone Bricks	Stone Bricks + Any fuel	0.1

Stonecutting ingredient

Ingredients	Cutting recipe
Stone Bricks	2

Silverfish

Silverfish have the ability to enter and hide in stone bricks, turning them into infested stone bricks.

Sounds

Java Edition:

v t e stone sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e stone sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.stone	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.37	0.5
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.4	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.3	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.12	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.22	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
Stone Bricks	stone_bricks	Block & Item	stone_bricks	stone_bricks	block.minecraft.stone_bricks

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
Stone Bricks	stone_bricks	stonebrick / 0	98	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	minecraft:is_pickaxe_item_destructible	minecraft:stone_bricks	tile.stonebrick.default.name

History

Development

May 21, 2009							Notch shows interest in adding stone bricks, with multiple colors.

Java Edition

Java Edition Beta
1.7							The tooltip for stone bricks has been added to the language file (en_US.lang).
1.8			Pre-release				Added stone bricks.
							Stone bricks occur naturally in strongholds.
							The regular stone bricks can be crafted into stone brick slabs and stairs.
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.
1.3.1			12w18a				Stone brick variants now have unique names.
1.8			14w02a				A crafting recipe have been added for mossy stone bricks, using regular stone bricks.
			14w25a				Cracked stone bricks can now be obtained by smelting stone bricks.
1.9			15w43a				Stone bricks now generate within igloo basements.
1.13			18w09a				Stone bricks now generate in underwater ruins.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of stone bricks have been changed.
			18w47a				The textures of stone bricks have been changed again to appear more smooth.
			18w49a				Stone bricks can now be found in chests in village mason houses.
							A single Stone Brick can be found under snowy_meeting_point_2 in Snowy villages.
1.16			20w16a				Stone bricks, as well as its 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 now generate in trail ruins.
1.20.5 Experiment Update 1.21			23w45a				Stone bricks now generate in trial chambers.
26.2			snap1				Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb stone bricks, providing the football/regular effect to the mob.
			snap6				Changed effect from football/regular to slow bouncy.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0							Added stone bricks.
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.
v0.9.0			build 1				Regular stone bricks now naturally generate in strongholds.
v0.11.0			build 1				Crafting recipes have been added for mossy stone bricks using regular stone bricks.
							Cracked stone bricks can now be obtained by smelting stone bricks.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Stone bricks now generate within igloo basements.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.20.1				Stone bricks now generate in underwater ruins.
1.9.0			beta 1.9.0.0				Stone bricks can now be used to craft stone brick walls.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of stone bricks have been changed.
1.11.0			beta 1.11.0.1				Stone bricks can now be found in village mason chests.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.57				Stone bricks, as well as its 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.
1.20.60 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.60.20				Stone bricks now generate in trial chambers.
26.20 Experiment Drop 2 of 2026			Preview 26.20.23				Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb stone bricks, providing the football/regular effect to the mob.
26.30			Preview 26.30.20				Implemented all features from the "Drop 2 of 2026" experiment in vanilla gameplay.
			Preview 26.30.27				Stone bricks' sulfur cube archetype has been changed from regular to slow bouncy.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU5	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added stone bricks.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Crafting recipes have been added for mossy stone bricks, using regular stone bricks.
							Cracked stone bricks can now be obtained by smelting stone bricks.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Stone bricks now generate within igloo basements.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Stone bricks now generate in underwater ruins.
			1.88				Stone bricks can now be used to craft stone brick walls.
			1.90				The textures of stone bricks have been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added stone bricks.

Data history

Java Edition

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.
Java Edition
1.8			14w06a				Stone bricks now use the newly-implemented model json file models/block/cube.json; previously the geometry was defined in the game code itself.
			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.
			14w25a				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: DV Description 0 Stone Bricks 1 Mossy Stone Bricks 2 Cracked Stone Bricks 3 Chiseled Stone Bricks 4-15 Inaccessible "boring" variants of stone bricks
			14w26a				Stone bricks with metadata values 4 through 15 have been completely removed from the game.[verify]
1.13			17w47a				The different block states for the stonebrick ID have been split up into their own IDs.
							Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 98.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.21.20			Preview 1.21.10.20				The different block states for the stonebrick ID have been split up into their own IDs.
							The unused Smooth Stone Bricks variant has been merged with the regular stone bricks (stone_bricks.

Issues

Issues relating to "Stone Bricks" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  First view of the stone bricks that Jeb posted
• 
  First view of the stone bricks that Notch posted
• 
  An image from Beta 1.8 Pre-release
• 
  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

• Infested Block