Nether Brick
This article is about the item. For the block, see Nether Bricks.
For other uses, see Nether Bricks (disambiguation).
Nether Brick

| Rarity tier |
Common |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
Yes (64) |
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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 |
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 | ||
| Red Nether Bricks | Nether Wart + |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
nether_brick | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
netherbrick | 523 | Item | item |
History
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5 | 13w01a | ||||||
| 1.10 | 16w20a | Nether brick items can now be used to craft red Nether bricks. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||||
| 1.16 | 20w07a | Nether bricks now have a 10⁄109 (~9.17%) chance of being given by the new piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 1–4. | |||||
| 20w09a | Nether brick items now have a 20⁄226 (~8.84%) chance of being given by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 1–5. | ||||||
| 20w10a | Nether brick items now have a 40⁄411 (~9.73%) chance of being given by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 4–16. | ||||||
| 1.16.2 | 20w28a | Nether brick items now have a 40⁄459 (~8.71%) chance of being given by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 2–8. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.6.0 | |||||||
| v0.16.0 | build 5 | Added Nether brick items to the Creative inventory.[1] | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||||
| 1.1.3 | alpha 1.1.3.0 | Nether brick items are now used to craft red Nether bricks. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.9.0 | beta 1.9.0.0 | Nether brick items are now used to craft Nether brick fences. | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ||||||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.50 | Nether brick items can now be used as fuel for a furnace.[2] | |||||
| beta 1.16.100.54 | Nether brick items now have a 40⁄459 (~8.71%) chance of being given by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 2–8 to match Java Edition. | ||||||
| 1.18.30 | beta 1.18.30.26 | Nether brick items can no longer be used as fuel in a furnace. | |||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU9 | CU1 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | |
| TU43 | CU33 | 1.36 | 1.36 | 1.36 | Patch 13 | Nether brick items can now be used to craft red Nether bricks. | |
| 1.90 | |||||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||||
Data history
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The 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.