Brick

Brick

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)

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        },
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            "field": "Yes",
            "label": "(link to Renewable resource article, displayed as Renewable)"
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            "label": "Stackable"
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    "images": [
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A brick is an item mainly obtained by smelting clay balls used to craft brick blocks, flower pots, and decorated pots.

Obtaining

Mining

When breaking a decorated pot with a tool without Silk Touch on the main hand, the decorated pot can drop 0-4 brick(s) depending on the material that the decorated pot was made of.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Brick	Desert well	Suspicious sand	1	12.5% { "item": "Brick", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.125, "structure": "Desert well", "container": "Suspicious sand" }
	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	4.4% { "item": "Brick", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.0444444444444444, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }
Bedrock Edition
Brick	Desert well	Suspicious sand	1	12.5% { "item": "Brick", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.125, "structure": "Desert well", "container": "Suspicious sand" }
	Trail Ruins	Suspicious gravel	1	8.7% { "item": "Brick", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.08695652173913049, "structure": "Trail Ruins", "container": "Suspicious gravel" }

Smelting

A brick can be obtained by smelting a clay ball.

Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Clay Ball + Any fuel	0.3

Trading

Villager		Probability		Villager wants	Player receives	Trades in stock	Villager experience
		JE	BE
Mason	Novice	10%	10%	Emerald	10 × Brick	16	1

Usage

Bricks can be used to craft brick blocks, flower pots, and decorated pots.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Bricks	Brick
Decorated Pot	Any Pottery Sherd or Brick		It is possible to use any combination of bricks and pottery sherds.
Flower Pot	Brick

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Brick	brick	Item	item.minecraft.brick

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Brick	brick	383	Item	item.brick.name

Video

History

Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.11							Added bricks as an item.
Java Edition
1.4.2			12w34a				Bricks are now used to craft flower pots.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of brick items has been changed.
			19w11a				Mason villagers now sell 10 bricks for 1 emerald, making bricks renewable.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			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 pots with a tool on the main hand.
1.20			23w12a				The probability for the brick to generate in the suspicious sand in desert wells 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 brick items 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.
1.19.70 Experiment Next Major Update			Preview 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
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added bricks as an item.
TU14		1.04					Bricks are now used to craft flower pots.
			1.90				The texture of brick items has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added bricks.

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Brick" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

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