Stone Bricks
This article is about normal variant. For the mossy variant, see Mossy Stone Bricks. For the cracked variant, see Cracked Stone Bricks. For the chiseled variant, see Chiseled Stone Bricks. For the block referred to in the code as stoneBrick in early versions, see Cobblestone.
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 |
| Map color (JE) |
|
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Stone bricks is a block found in various structures. It has three other variants: mossy stone bricks, cracked stone bricks, and chiseled stone bricks.
Obtaining
Breaking
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 | |
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
Stone bricks can also be obtained by mining their respective infested blocks with Silk Touch.
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Stone |  4 |
Stonecutting
| Ingredients | Cutting recipe |
|---|---|
| Stone | |
Natural generation
Regular stone bricks generate as part of strongholds, making up most of the walls, ceilings, and floors. They can also generate as part of cold ocean ruins and ruined portals. Igloo basements are lined with stone bricks. Stone bricks can also spawn in trail ruins, and in trial chambers surrounding silverfish trial spawners. A single stone brick can generate in snowy villages under one of the possible meeting points (snowy_meeting_point_2).
Generated loot
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition and Bedrock Edition | ||||
|
|
 Village
|
Mason's chest | 1 | 37.7%{ "item": "Stone Bricks", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.3771328842719901, "structure": "Village", "container": "Mason's chest" }
|
Usage
As stone bricks offer no real advantage over stone or cobblestone, their main use is for decoration.
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Mossy Stone Bricks | + Vines |
  |
| Mossy Stone Bricks | + Moss Block |
 |
| Stone Brick Slab | ||
| Stone Brick Stairs | ||
| Stone Brick Wall |
Smelting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Cracked Stone Bricks | + Any fuel |
       0.1 |
Stonecutting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Cutting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stone Brick Slab or Stone Brick Stairs or Stone Brick Wall |
|||
| Chiseled Stone Bricks |  |
||
| Mossy Stone Brick Slab or Mossy Stone Brick Stairs or Mossy Stone Brick Wall |
Mossy Stone Bricks |
Note Blocks
Stone bricks can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sounds.
Silverfish
Silverfish have the ability to enter and hide in stone bricks, turning them into infested stone bricks.
Sounds
 stone sound type | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block | subtitles | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
| Something falls on a block | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block | subtitles | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
| Footsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 | |
stone sound type | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
| Blocks | Once the block has broken | dig | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Blocks | When the block is placed | dig | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit | 0.37 | 0.5 | |
| Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Walking on the block | step | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
| Blocks | Jumping from the block | jump | 0.12 | 1.0 | |
| Blocks | Falling on the block without fall damage | land | 0.22 | 1.0 | |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Block tags | Item tags | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stone Bricks | stone_bricks | Block & Item | stone_bricks | stone_bricks | block |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stone Bricks | stone_bricks | stonebrick / 0 | 98 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile |
History
| Java Edition Classic | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2009 | Notch shows interest in adding stone bricks, with multiple colors. | ||||||
| Java Edition Beta | |||||||
| 1.7 | The tooltip for stone bricks has been added to the language file (en_US.lang). | ||||||
| 1.8 | Pre-release |  Added stone bricks.
| |||||
| Stone bricks occur naturally in strongholds. | |||||||
| The regular stone bricks can be crafted into stone brick slabs and stairs. | |||||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6 | The mining time of stone bricks is now greatly reduced, parallel to that of stone, and is now tier dependent. | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w18a | Stone brick variants now have unique names. | |||||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | A crafting recipe have been added for mossy stone bricks, using regular stone bricks. | |||||
| 14w25a | Cracked stone bricks can now be obtained by smelting stone bricks. | ||||||
| 1.9 | 15w43a | Stone bricks now generate within igloo basements. | |||||
| 1.13 | 18w09a | Stone bricks now generate in underwater ruins. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  The textures of stone bricks have been changed. | |||||
| 18w47a |  The textures of stone bricks have been changed again to appear more smooth. | ||||||
| 18w49a | Stone bricks can now be found in chests in village mason houses. | ||||||
A single Stone Brick can be found under snowy_meeting_point_2 in Snowy villages. | |||||||
| 1.16 | 20w16a | Stone bricks, as well as its slabs and stairs, can now spawn as part of a ruined portal. | |||||
| 1.17 | 21w11a | Moss blocks with stone bricks can now be used to craft mossy stone bricks. | |||||
| 1.20 | 23w12a | Stone bricks now generate in trail ruins. | |||||
| 1.20.5 Experiment | 23w45a | Stone bricks now generate in trial chambers. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.4.0 | Added stone bricks. | ||||||
| v0.5.0 | Regular stone bricks are now available in the creative inventory. | ||||||
| v0.6.0 | Stone bricks are now used to craft stone brick stairs and slabs. | ||||||
| v0.9.0 | build 1 | Regular stone bricks now naturally generate in strongholds. | |||||
| v0.11.0 | build 1 | Crafting recipes have been added for mossy stone bricks using regular stone bricks. | |||||
| Cracked stone bricks can now be obtained by smelting stone bricks. | |||||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Stone bricks now generate within igloo basements. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Stone bricks now generate in underwater ruins. | |||||
| 1.9.0 | beta 1.9.0.0 | Stone bricks can now be used to craft stone brick walls. | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | The textures of stone bricks have been changed. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Stone bricks can now be found in village mason chests. | |||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | Stone bricks, as well as its slabs and stairs, can now spawn as part of a ruined portal. | |||||
| 1.16.220 | beta 1.16.220.52 | Stone bricks and moss block can now be used to craft mossy stone bricks. | |||||
| 1.20.60 Experiment | Preview 1.20.60.20 | Stone bricks now generate in trial chambers. | |||||
| 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 stone bricks. |
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | 1.22 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Crafting recipes have been added for mossy stone bricks, using regular stone bricks. | |
| Cracked stone bricks can now be obtained by smelting stone bricks. | |||||||
| TU43 | CU33 | 1.36 | 1.36 | 1.36 | Patch 13 | Stone bricks now generate within igloo basements. | |
| TU69 | 1.76 | 1.76 | 1.76 | Patch 38 | Stone bricks now generate in underwater ruins. | ||
| 1.88 | Stone bricks can now be used to craft stone brick walls. | ||||||
| 1.90 | The textures of stone bricks have been changed. | ||||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
| 0.1.0 | Added stone bricks. | ||||||
Data history
| Java Edition Beta | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Java Edition | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.8 | 14w06a | Stone bricks now use the newly-implemented model json file models/block/cube.json; previously the geometry was defined in the game code itself. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 14w10a | Stone bricks with numerical metadata variants 4 through 15, which are inaccessible through normal gameplay, now have no model  rather than appearing identical to stone bricks. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 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:
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| 14w26a | Stone bricks with metadata values 4 through 15 have been completely removed from the game. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The different block states for the stonebrick ID have been split up into their own IDs.
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| Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 98. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bedrock Edition | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.21.20 | Preview 1.21.10.20 | The different block states for the stonebrick ID have been split up into their own IDs.
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The unused Smooth Stone Bricks variant has been merged with the regular stone bricks (stone_bricks. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Video
Issues
Issues relating to "Stone Bricks" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Gallery
Screenshots
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First view of the stone bricks that Jeb posted. -
First view of the stone bricks that Notch posted. -
An image from Beta 1.8 Pre-release. -
Helm's Deep built from stone bricks by Jeb. -
A castle built from stone bricks by Jeb. -
A castle built from stone bricks by Jeb.
See also
References
