This article is about the item. For the crafted block, see Bricks. For other uses, see Brick (disambiguation).
A brick is an item used to craft brick blocks, flower pots, and decorated pots.
Obtaining[]
Smelting[]
A brick can be obtained by smelting a clay ball.
| Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|
| Clay Ball + Any fuel |
Mining[]
When breaking a decorated pot with a tool without Silk Touch on the main hand, the decorated pot can drops 0-4 brick(s) depend on the material that the decorated pot make of.
Loot[]
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Brick | Desert well | Suspicious sand | 1 | 12.5% |
| Trail ruins | Suspicious gravel | 1 | 4.4% | |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Brick | Desert well | Suspicious sand | 1 | 12.5% |
| Trail ruins | Suspicious gravel | 1 | 8.7% | |
Trading[]
Novice-level stone mason villagers sell 16[Bedrock Edition only] or 10[Java Edition only] bricks for one emerald.
Usage[]
Brick can be used to craft bricks, flower pots, and decorated pots.
Crafting ingredient[]
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Bricks | Brick | |
| Decorated Pot | Brick | |
| Flower Pot | Brick |
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brick | brick | Item | item.minecraft.brick |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brick | brick | 383 | Item | item.brick.name |
History[]
| Java Edition Alpha | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.11 |  Added bricks as an item. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Bricks are now used for flower pots. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 336. | |||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  The texture of bricks has been changed. | |||
| 19w11a | Bricks are now sold by villagers of the new mason profession, making them renewable. | ||||
| 1.20 (Experimental) | 23w07a | Bricks can now be used for crafting decorated pots. | |||
| Bricks now drop when brushing suspicious sand in desert wells. | |||||
| Bricks now drop when mining decorated pot with a tool on the main hand. | |||||
| 1.20 | 23w12a | The probability for the brick to generate in the suspicious sand in desert well has been changed from 1/7 to 1/8. | |||
| Brick can now be found in suspicious gravel and suspicious sand in trail ruins. | |||||
| 23w16a | Brick no longer generates in suspicious sand in trail ruins. | ||||
| Due to the split of the archaeological loot tables for the suspicious gravel within the trail ruins; brick now is in the common loot. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.2.0 | Added bricks as an item. They are currently unobtainable and serve no purpose. | ||||
| v0.3.2 | Bricks can now be obtained by smelting clay balls. | ||||
| Bricks are now used to craft brick blocks. | |||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Bricks are now used to craft flower pots. | |||
| v0.16.0 | build 5 | Added bricks to the Creative inventory.[1] | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | 16 bricks can now be obtained via trading with stone mason villagers for 1-2 emeralds. | |||
| The texture of bricks has now been changed. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Trading has been changed; bricks sold by stone mason villagers now cost only one emerald. | |||
| 1.20.0 (Experimental) | beta 1.19.70.23 | Bricks now drop when brushing suspicious sand in desert wells and can be used to craft decorated pots. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added bricks. | |
| 1.90 | The texture of bricks has been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added bricks. | ||||
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Brick" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.