Stone Bricks

Stone Bricks

Transparent	No
Luminance	0
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
Namespaced ID	See Data values

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

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

Mossy stone bricks are another variant, which is yet also found in strongholds, basements of igloos, and underwater ruins.

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

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.

Stone bricks can be found in 37.7% of village mason chests in stacks of 1.

A single regular stone brick spawns in some snowy tundra villages.

Smelting

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
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.‌^{[Bedrock and Java editions only][until BE 1.12.0]}

Apprentice-level stone mason villagers have a 25% chance to sell 4 chiseled stone bricks for one emerald as part of their trades.‌^{[upcoming: BE 1.12.0]}

Usage

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

Crafting ingredient

Stone Bricks

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Stone Brick Slab	Stone Bricks	6	‌[Legacy Console Edition only]
Stone Brick Slab	Stone Bricks	6	‌[Bedrock and Java editions only]
Stone Brick Stairs	Stone Bricks	4
Stone Brick Wall	Stone Bricks	6

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.

Stonecutting

Using a stonecutter, stone bricks can be turned into 2 stone brick slabs, stone brick stairs, stone brick wall, chiseled stone bricks; mossy stone bricks can be turned into 2 mossy stone brick slabs, mossy stone brick stairs, mossy stone brick wall.

Silverfish

Silverfish have the ability to enter and hide in any variant of stone bricks, creating an infested block of the corresponding type.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Block	Namespaced ID
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	Namespaced ID	Numeric 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

Java Edition Classic
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 - that 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 will now drop themselves when mined.
Java Edition
1.2.1		1.2-pre			Added chiseled stone bricks.
1.3.1		12w18a			The variants of stone bricks have now all received unique tooltips.
					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 now been renamed to Chiseled Stone Bricks.
		12w22a			Chiseled stone bricks will 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.
					Inventory sprites for blocks have now been 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 will now generate within igloo basements, along with their cracked, mossy and chiseled variants.
		15w43b			Igloos will 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 will now generate in underwater ruins.
1.14		18w43a			Changed the texture of all stone bricks.
		18w47a			Smoothed the textures of all stone bricks.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.4.0					Added crafting recipe for stone bricks.
					Chiseled stone bricks are now available and are fully functional, 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 will now naturally generate in strongholds.
					Added chiseled stone bricks to the 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.
0.15.0		build 1			Chiseled stone bricks will 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 will 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 will 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 villager for 1-2 emeralds.
					Changed the textures of all stone bricks.
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 only cost one emerald.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.12.0		beta 1.12.0.3			Chance of stone mason villagers to sell chiseled stone bricks reduced from 100% to 25%.
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 now be obtained by smelting stone bricks.
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

• Strangely, 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. This could be a reference to two different processes: how rocks expand when heated, and causing fractures, 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

• Infested Block

Blocks

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