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Brick
MiscellaneousCraftable

Brick

An item produced by smelting a clay ball in a furnace, used to craft brick blocks and flower pots. Four bricks form one brick block.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

1.0

Item ID

brick

Brick at a glance

Miscellaneous holds Brick: an item out of smelting. A single slot takes 64 Brick, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest.

Brick additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Bricks and Flower Pot. It sits between Breeze Rod and Brown Dye in Miscellaneous, number 17 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Furnace
Clay BallClay Ball
BrickBrick

Used to craft

Brick is an ingredient in 2 other recipes across 1 category, 2 of them in Utility Blocks, Bricks first and Flower Pot last. The links below go straight to the recipes that take Brick.

How to obtain

  • Smelting

Cooking

Heat is all Brick asks for: Clay Ball goes in a furnace and comes back out. Give it 10 seconds per Brick in the furnace. Brick pays 0.3 experience each time, 19.2 for the whole 64.

Notes

Obtained by smelting Clay Balls. Not a placeable block on its own.

Frequently asked questions about Brick

  1. Clay Ball going into Brick, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Brick in Minecraft?

    Brick is crafted from Clay Ball at a Furnace, in a single step.

  2. The raw item going into a furnace and coming out as Brick

    How do you cook Brick?

    Heat is all Brick asks for: Clay Ball goes in a furnace and comes back out. Give it 10 seconds per Brick in the furnace. It pays 0.3 experience each time, 19.2 for the whole 64.

  3. Brick turning into Bricks and Flower Pot, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Brick used for?

    Brick is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Bricks and Flower Pot.

  4. 64 Brick drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Brick can you stack?

    64 Clay Ball is what 64 Brick costs, so filling a single slot is 64 smelts. A double chest of Brick comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

  5. Brick coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.0

    When was Brick added to Minecraft?

    Brick was added in the 1.0 full release.

Building with it

A clay ball smelted gives one brick, and four bricks make one brick block. That ratio is what makes brick building expensive: a single wall is dozens of clay balls, which is why flower pots, at three bricks each, feel cheap by comparison.