Cracked Stone Bricks

Cracked 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

Cracked stone bricks are a variant of stone bricks, obtained through smelting and natural generation.

Obtaining

Breaking

Cracked stone bricks can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, they drop nothing.

Block
Hardness	1.5
Tool
Breaking time (sec)^[A]
Default	7.5
Wooden	1.15
Stone	0.6
Copper	0.45
Iron	0.4
Diamond	0.3
Netherite	0.25
Golden	0.2
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

↑ These durations ignore other influential factors (e.g. Mining Fatigue), and are measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Infested blocks

Cracked stone bricks can also be obtained by mining its respective infested block with Silk Touch.

Natural generation

Cracked stone bricks generate as part of strongholds, making up some of the walls, ceilings and floors. Cracked stone bricks can also generate as part of ocean ruins, igloo basements, ruined portals and trail ruins.

Smelting

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
	Stone Bricks + Any fuel	0.1

Usage

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

Note blocks

Cracked stone bricks can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sounds.

Silverfish

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

Sounds

Java Edition:

v t e `stone` sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	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	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	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`dig.stone`	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	`dig.stone`	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`hit.stone`	0.37	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	`fall.stone`	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	`step.stone`	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	`jump.stone`	0.12	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	`land.stone`	0.22	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

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

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID^{[i 1]}	Translation key
Cracked Stone Bricks	`cracked_stone_bricks`	`stonebrick / 2`	`-869`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.stonebrick.cracked.name`

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ Available with /give command.
↑ The block's direct item form has the same ID as the block.

History

Java Edition Beta
1.7							The tooltip for stone bricks has been added to the language file (en_US.lang). The variants of stone bricks did not originally have their own tooltips.
1.8			Pre-release				Added cracked stone bricks.
							Cracked stone bricks occur naturally in strongholds.
							The different bricks are all called stone bricks in-game.
			Pre-release 2				Cracked stone bricks now drop themselves when mined.
Java Edition
1.3.1			12w18a				The variants of stone bricks now have all received unique tooltips.
1.8			June 20, 2014				TheMogMiner tweeted about a smelting recipe for cracked stone bricks.
1.8			14w25a				Cracked stone bricks can now be obtained by smelting stone bricks.
1.9			15w43a				Cracked stone bricks now generate within igloo basements.
1.9			15w43b				Igloos now have fewer cracked stone bricks.
1.13			18w09a				Cracked stone bricks now generate in underwater ruins.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of cracked stone bricks have been changed.
1.14			18w47a				The textures of cracked stone bricks have been changed again to look more smooth.
1.16			20w16a				Cracked stone bricks can now spawn as part of a ruined portal.
1.20			23w12a				Cracked stone bricks now generate in trail ruins.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0							Added cracked stone bricks.
v0.6.0							Cracked stone bricks are now available in the creative inventory.
v0.9.0			build 1				Cracked stone bricks now naturally generate in strongholds.
v0.11.0			build 1				Cracked stone bricks can now be obtained by smelting stone bricks.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Cracked stone bricks now generate within igloo basements.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.20.1				Cracked stone bricks now generate in underwater ruins.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of cracked stone bricks have been changed.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.57				Cracked stone bricks can now spawn as part of a ruined portal.
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 cracked stone bricks.
TU5							The different bricks are all called stone bricks in-game.
TU7							The variants of stone bricks now have all received unique tooltips.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Cracked stone bricks can now be obtained by smelting stone bricks.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Cracked stone bricks now generate within igloo basements.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Cracked stone bricks now generate in underwater ruins.
			1.90				The textures of cracked stone bricks have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added cracked stone bricks.

Data history

Java Edition

1.8 14w06a Cracked stone bricks now use the newly-implemented model json file models/block/cube.json; previously the geometry was defined in the game code itself.

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: