Nether Bricks

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	0.1

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	6
Nether Brick Slab or Red Nether Brick Slab	Nether Bricks or Red Nether Bricks	66
Nether Brick Stairs or Red Nether Brick Stairs	Nether Bricks or Red Nether Bricks	44
Nether Brick Wall or Red Nether Brick Wall	Nether Bricks or Red Nether Bricks	66

Stonecutting

Name	Ingredients	Cutting recipe
Nether Brick Slab or Nether Brick Stairs or Nether Brick Wall	Nether Bricks	2
Red Nether Brick Slab or Red Nether Brick Stairs or Red Nether Brick Wall	Red Nether Bricks	2
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

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`block.nether_bricks.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	0.8	0.8	16
Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.nether_bricks.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	0.8	0.8	16
Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`block.nether_bricks.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.25	0.5	16
None^{[sound 1]}	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.nether_bricks.fall`	None^{[sound 1]}	0.5	0.75	16
Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.nether_bricks.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

↑ ^a ^b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
Blocks	Once the block has broken	`dig.nether_brick`	1.0	0.8-1.0
Blocks	When the block is placed	`dig.nether_brick`	1.0	0.8-1.0
Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`hit.nether_brick`	0.25	0.5
Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	`fall.nether_brick`	0.4	1.0
Players	Walking on the block	`step.nether_brick`	0.16	1.0
Players	Jumping from the block	`jump.bone_block`	0.12	1.0
Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	`land.nether_brick`	0.14	1.0

Chiseled and cracked

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`block.nether_bricks.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	0.8	0.8	16
Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.nether_bricks.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	0.8	0.8	16
Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`block.nether_bricks.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.25	0.5	16
None^{[sound 1]}	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.nether_bricks.fall`	None^{[sound 1]}	0.5	0.75	16
Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.nether_bricks.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

↑ ^a ^b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
Blocks	Once the block has broken	`dig.stone`	1.0	0.8-1.0
Blocks	When the block is placed	`dig.stone`	1.0	0.8-1.0
Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`hit.stone`	0.37	0.5
Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	`fall.stone`	0.4	1.0
Players	Walking on the block	`step.stone`	0.3	1.0
Players	Jumping from the block	`jump.stone`	0.12	1.0
Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	`land.stone`	0.22	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

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`

Bedrock Edition:

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`

↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Available with /give command.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d The block's direct item form has the same id as the block.

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:

	DV	Description
	0	Nether Bricks
	1-15	Inaccessible "boring" variants of nether bricks

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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

[breakingtimenote-3] Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

[bugMC-177082-4] MC-177082

[bugMC-177082-5] MC-177082

[bedrock-item-id-6] ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.

[bedrock-give-available-7] Available with /give command.

[bedrock-item-form-8] The block's direct item form has the same id as the block.

[1] Known as Nether Bricks in Java Edition and Nether Brick Block in Bedrock Edition.

[2] Known as Red Nether Bricks in Java Edition and Red Nether Brick [sic] in Bedrock Edition.

[a]

[b]

[A]

[sound 1]

[sound 1]

[i 1]

[i 2]

[i 3]