Stone Bricks

Stone Bricks

Transparency	No
Luminance	No
Blast resistance	30
Tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Experience	Smelting Stone Bricks: 0.1
Drops	Itself
Data value	dec: 98 hex: 62 bin: 1100010
Name	See Data Values

Stone bricks are one of the materials that are used in strongholds and in the basements of igloos.

Cracked stone bricks are a stone bricks variant which is also found in strongholds and in the basements of igloos.

Mossy stone bricks are another variant, which is yet also found in strongholds.

Chiseled stone bricks are yet another variant of stone bricks. It is found in jungle temples and in the basements of igloos.

Obtaining

Stone bricks can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing.

Block	Stone Bricks
Hardness	1.5
Tool
Breaking time
Hand	7.5
Wooden	1.15
Stone	0.6
Iron	0.4
Diamond	0.3
Golden	0.2

Natural generation

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

All 4 variants will also generate in underwater ruins.

Three blocks of chiseled stone bricks generate as part of each jungle temple.

Igloo basements are lined with stone brick, cracked at eye level and mossy at foot level, with chiseled brick along the floor and ceiling.

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.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Stone Brick Slab	Any Stone Bricks	6
Stone Brick Stairs	Any Stone Bricks	4

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

Silverfish

Silverfish have the ability to enter and hide in any variant of stone bricks, creating a monster egg of the corresponding type.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Block	ID Name
Stone Bricks	stone_bricks
Cracked Stone Bricks	cracked_stone_bricks
Mossy Stone Bricks	mossy_stone_bricks
Chiseled Stone Bricks	chiseled_stone_bricks

Bedrock Edition:

Block	ID Name	Numeral ID
Stone Bricks	stonebrick	98

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, stone bricks use the following data values:

	DV	Description
	0	Stone brick
	1	Mossy stone brick
	2	Cracked stone brick
	3	Chiseled stone brick

History

Classic
May 21, 2009					Notch shows interest in adding stone bricks, with multiple colors.
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 - that occur naturally in strongholds. The different bricks were 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.
Official release
1.2.1			?		Added chiseled stone bricks.
1.3.1			12w18a		The 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.
			12w19a		Renamed Detailed Stone Bricks to Chiseled Stone Bricks.
			12w22a		Chiseled stone bricks occur naturally in jungle temples. There are only 3 chiseled stone bricks per temple. This was the only way of obtaining them in survival mode.
					Inventory sprites for blocks were flipped from left to right, changing to .
1.8			14w02a		Added crafting recipe for mossy stone bricks and chiseled 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.
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.
					Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 98.
			18w09a		Stone bricks and its 3 variants now generate in underwater ruins.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.4.0					Added crafting recipe for stone bricks.
					Chiseled stone bricks are available and are fully functional at the time, obtainable only through editing.
0.6.0					Stone bricks are now used to craft stone brick stairs and slabs.
0.9.0			build 1		Regular, mossy and cracked stone bricks now spawn naturally in strongholds.
					Added chiseled stone bricks to creative inventory.
0.11.0			build 1		Added crafting recipe for mossy stone bricks and chiseled stone bricks.
					Cracked stone bricks can now be obtained by smelting stone bricks.
Pocket Edition
1.0			build 1		Stone bricks now generate within igloo basements, along with their cracked, mossy and chiseled variants.
Legacy Console Edition
TU5	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added stone bricks.
TU12					Added chiseled stone bricks.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Added crafting recipes for mossy stone bricks and cracked stone bricks.
					Cracked stone bricks can be obtained by smelting stone bricks.

Issues

Issues relating to "Stone Bricks" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

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 could be a reference to two different processes: how rocks expand when heated, and causing fissures which could make the stone bricks crack; or simply melting the cobblestone so it reforms into igneous stone.

Gallery

• 

  First view of the stone bricks that Notch posted.

• 

  Naturally occurring stone bricks - regular, cracked, and mossy - in a stronghold.

• 

  An image from 1.8 pre-release.

• 

  Chiseled stone bricks, as revealed in the 1.2 pre-release.

See also

• Monster Egg

Blocks

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