Nether Brick

This article is about the item. For the block, see Nether Bricks.
For other uses, see Nether Bricks (disambiguation).
Nether Brick
Nether Brick.png: Infobox image for Nether Brick the item in Minecraft
Invicon Nether Brick.png: Inventory sprite for Nether Brick in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Nether Brick
Rarity tier

Common

Renewable

Yes

Stackable

Yes (64)

A Nether brick is an item made by smelting netherrack in a furnace, and is used to craft the Nether bricks block and its variants.

Obtaining

Smelting

Nether brick can be smelted from netherrack.

Ingredients Smelting recipe
Netherrack +
Any fuel
Invicon Netherrack.png: Inventory sprite for Netherrack in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Netherrack with description: Netherrack
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Invicon Nether Brick.png: Inventory sprite for Nether Brick in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Nether Brick0.1

Bartering

Piglins may barter 2 to 8 Nether brick items when given a gold ingot. Apart from netherrack that generates on floating portals in Bedrock Edition, bartering is the only renewable source of Nether bricks.

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Name Ingredients Crafting recipe
Nether Brick Fence Nether Bricks +
Nether Bricks
Invicon Nether Brick.png: Inventory sprite for Nether Brick in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Nether BrickInvicon Nether Brick.png: Inventory sprite for Nether Brick in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Nether BrickInvicon Nether Brick.png: Inventory sprite for Nether Brick in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Nether BrickInvicon Nether Brick.png: Inventory sprite for Nether Brick in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Nether Brick
Invicon Nether Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Nether Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Nether Bricks with description: Nether Bricks
Red Nether Bricks Nether Wart +
Invicon Nether Wart.png: Inventory sprite for Nether Wart in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Nether Wart with description: Nether WartInvicon Nether Brick.png: Inventory sprite for Nether Brick in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Nether BrickInvicon Nether Brick.png: Inventory sprite for Nether Brick in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Nether BrickInvicon Nether Wart.png: Inventory sprite for Nether Wart in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Nether Wart with description: Nether Wart
Invicon Red Nether Bricks.png: Inventory sprite for Red Nether Bricks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Red Nether Bricks with description: Red Nether Bricks

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierFormTranslation key
ItemSprite nether-brick.png: Sprite image for nether-brick in Minecraft Nether Bricknether_brickItemitem.minecraft.nether_brick

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID FormTranslation key
ItemSprite nether-brick.png: Sprite image for nether-brick in Minecraft Nether Bricknetherbrick523Itemitem.netherbrick.name

History

Java Edition
1.513w01a Added Nether brick items.
1.1016w20aNether brick items can now be used to craft red Nether bricks.
1.1418w43a The texture of Nether bricks has been changed.
1.1620w07aNether bricks now have a 10109 (~9.17%) chance of being given by the new piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 1–4.
20w09aNether brick items now have a 20226 (~8.84%) chance of being given by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 1–5.
20w10aNether brick items now have a 40411 (~9.73%) chance of being given by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 4–16.
1.16.220w28aNether brick items now have a 40459 (~8.71%) chance of being given by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 2–8.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.6.0 Added Nether brick items.
v0.16.0build 5Added Nether brick items to the Creative inventory.[1]
Pocket Edition
1.1.3alpha 1.1.3.0Nether brick items are now used to craft red Nether bricks.
Bedrock Edition
1.9.0beta 1.9.0.0Nether brick items are now used to craft Nether brick fences.
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3 The texture of Nether brick items has been changed.
1.16.100beta 1.16.100.50Nether brick items can now be used as fuel for a furnace.[2]
beta 1.16.100.54Nether brick items now have a 40459 (~8.71%) chance of being given by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 2–8 to match Java Edition.
1.18.30beta 1.18.30.26Nether brick items can no longer be used as fuel in a furnace.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360Xbox OnePS3PS4PS VitaWii USwitch
TU9CU11.001.001.00Patch 11.0.1 Added Nether brick items.
TU43CU331.361.361.36Patch 13Nether brick items can now be used to craft red Nether bricks.
1.90 The texture of Nether brick items has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0 Added Nether brick items.

Data history

Java Edition
1.1317w47aThe ID of Nether bricks has been changed from netherbrick to nether_brick.
Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 405.

Issues

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

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