This article is about the block. For the item, see Nether Brick. For other uses, see Brick (disambiguation).
Nether bricks[a] are blocks used to form nether fortresses in the Nether.
Red nether bricks[b], cracked nether bricks and chiseled nether bricks are decorative variants that do not naturally generate.
Obtaining[]
Breaking[]
Nether bricks can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, they drop nothing.
| Block | Nether Bricks Red Nether Bricks Chiseled Nether Bricks Cracked Nether Bricks | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 2 | |
| Tool | ||
| Breaking time[A] | ||
| Default | 10 | |
| Wooden | 1.5 | |
| Stone | 0.75 | |
| Iron | 0.5 | |
| Diamond | 0.4 | |
| Netherite | 0.35 | |
| Golden | 0.25 | |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Natural generation[]
Nether bricks form the walls and supporting pillars of all nether fortresses.
Crafting[]
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Nether Bricks | Nether Brick | |
| Red Nether Bricks | Nether Wart + Nether Brick |
|
| Chiseled Nether Bricks | Nether Brick Slab |
Smelting[]
| Name | Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Cracked Nether Bricks | Nether Bricks + Any fuel |
Usage[]
Nether bricks are non-flammable and immune to ghast fireballs, making them a suitable shelter material for the Nether.
If a nether bricks block is inside the whole bounding box of a nether fortress (not just inside the individual parts), nether fortress mobs (such as blazes and wither skeletons) can spawn on it if other normal conditions are met. It is not known if this is an exclusive property of the block.
Crafting ingredient[]
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Nether Brick Fence | Nether Bricks + Nether Brick |
|
| Nether Brick Slab or Red Nether Brick Slab |
Nether Bricks or Red Nether Bricks |
|
| Nether Brick Stairs or Red Nether Brick Stairs |
Nether Bricks or Red Nether Bricks |
|
| Nether Brick Wall or Red Nether Brick Wall |
Nether Bricks or Red Nether Bricks |
Stonecutting[]
| Name | Ingredients | Cutting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Nether Brick Slab or Nether Brick Stairs or Nether Brick Wall |
Nether Bricks | |
| Red Nether Brick Slab or Red Nether Brick Stairs or Red Nether Brick Wall |
Red Nether Bricks | |
| Chiseled Nether Bricks | Nether Bricks |
Note Blocks[]
All types of nether bricks can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sounds.
Sounds[]
Normal[]
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block | subtitles | 0.8 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block | subtitles | 0.8 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block | subtitles | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
| None[sound 1] | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block | None[sound 1] | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
| Footsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
| 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 | 0.25 | 0.5 | |
| Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Walking on the block | step | 0.16 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Jumping from the block | jump | 0.12 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Falling on the block without fall damage | land | 0.14 | 1.0 |
Chiseled and cracked[]
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block | subtitles | 0.8 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block | subtitles | 0.8 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block | subtitles | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
| None[sound 1] | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block | None[sound 1] | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
| Footsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
| 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 | |
| Players | Jumping from the block | jump | 0.12 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Falling on the block without fall damage | land | 0.22 | 1.0 |
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nether Bricks | nether_bricks | Block & Item | block.minecraft.nether_bricks |
| Red Nether Bricks | red_nether_bricks | Block & Item | block.minecraft.red_nether_bricks |
| Cracked Nether Bricks | cracked_nether_bricks | Block & Item | block.minecraft.cracked_nether_bricks |
| Chiseled Nether Bricks | chiseled_nether_bricks | Block & Item | block.minecraft.chiseled_nether_bricks |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nether Brick Block | nether_brick | 112 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile.nether_brick.name |
| Red Nether Brick [sic] | red_nether_brick | 215 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile.red_nether_brick.name |
| Cracked Nether Bricks | cracked_nether_bricks | 558 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile.cracked_nether_bricks.name |
| Chiseled Nether Bricks | chiseled_nether_bricks | 557 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile.chiseled_nether_bricks.name |
History[]
| Java Edition | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease |  Added nether brick, which can be crafted into nether brick stairs and fences. | ||||||||||
| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | Nether brick is now used to craft nether brick slabs. | ||||||||||
| 1.5 | 13w01a | Added crafting recipe, using nether brick items. | ||||||||||
| 1.8 | 14w11b | Nether bricks with numerical metadata variants 1 through 15, which are inaccessible through normal gameplay, now have no model  rather than appearing identical to nether bricks. | ||||||||||
| 14w26a | Block metadata has been completely removed from this snapshot onwards with the introduction of block states. As this block never used block metadata at all prior to this version, fifteen unused, inaccessible metadata variants of it have been completely removed from the game:
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| 1.10 | May 6, 2016 | Jens Bergensten tweets an image of two new Nether blocks. | ||||||||||
| 16w20a |  Added red nether brick. | |||||||||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | The IDs have been changed from (red_)nether_brick to (red_)nether_bricks.
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| "Nether Brick" has been renamed to "Nether Bricks". | ||||||||||||
| "Red Nether Brick" has been renamed to "Red Nether Bricks". | ||||||||||||
| Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 112 and 215. | ||||||||||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |   The textures of nether bricks have been changed. | ||||||||||
| 18w47a |  The texture of nether bricks has been changed. | |||||||||||
| 18w50a |  The texture of red nether bricks has been changed, once again. | |||||||||||
| 1.16 | 20w06a | Nether bricks now have new sounds. | ||||||||||
| 20w07a | Nether bricks have become renewable, due to piglins offering nether brick items through bartering. | |||||||||||
| 20w15a |   Added cracked and chiseled nether bricks. | |||||||||||
| 20w16a |  The texture of chiseled nether bricks has been changed. | |||||||||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | ||||||||||||
| v0.6.0 | Added nether brick.
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| Nether brick can be crafted into nether brick stairs. | ||||||||||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Nether brick is now used to craft nether brick slabs and fences. | ||||||||||
| v0.14.2 |  Nether brick now has a brighter texture. | |||||||||||
| Pocket Edition | ||||||||||||
| 1.1.3 | alpha 1.1.3.0 | Added red nether bricks. | ||||||||||
| Bedrock Edition | ||||||||||||
| 1.9.0 | beta 1.9.0.0 | Nether brick blocks and red nether bricks are now used to craft stairs, slabs and walls. | ||||||||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 |  The textures of nether brick blocks and red nether bricks have been changed. | ||||||||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | Added cracked and chiseled nether bricks.
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| Nether bricks now generate on ruined portal. | ||||||||||||
| Nether bricks can be obtained from bartering with piglin. | ||||||||||||
| Nether bricks now have new sounds. | ||||||||||||
| beta 1.16.0.63 | The texture of chiseled nether bricks has been changed.
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| The texture of nether bricks has been changed to match Java Edition's again. | ||||||||||||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.54 | Nether Bricks can no longer be obtained from bartering, replaced by nether brick items to match Java Edition. | ||||||||||
| Legacy Console Edition | ||||||||||||
| TU7 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added nether bricks. | |||||||
| TU9 | A crafting recipe has now been added, using nether brick items. | |||||||||||
| TU43 | CU33 | 1.36 | Patch 13 | Added red nether bricks. | ||||||||
| 1.90 | The textures of nether brick blocks and red nether bricks have been changed. | |||||||||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | ||||||||||||
| 0.1.0 | Added nether bricks. | |||||||||||
| 1.9.19 | Added red nether bricks. | |||||||||||
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Nether Bricks" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[]
- The chiseled nether bricks have the symbol of a Wither Skeleton on them.
Gallery[]
First picture of nether bricks, released by Jeb.
Same as before, but brightened.
Second nether brick screenshot released by Jeb showing bridges.
The second screenshot again, but brightened.
The first image of red nether bricks, as tweeted by Jeb.
Red nether bricks in bedrock edition.
Chiseled nether bricks with other nether brick types.
Notes[]
- ↑ Known as Nether Bricks in Java Edition and Nether Brick Block in Bedrock Edition.
- ↑ Known as Red Nether Bricks in Java Edition and Red Nether Brick [sic] in Bedrock Edition.
References[]
External Links[]
- Block of the Week: Nether Brick – Minecraft.net on September 2, 2018