Overview
Minecraft classifies Bricks as a building block. Bricks is made at a crafting table. Hardness 2 puts it in the middle of the pack for mining speed.
Mine it with a wooden pickaxe or better, or you get no drop at all. Broken correctly, it drops itself. Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot.
The recipe calls for Brick. It is an ingredient in 4 recipes, among them Brick Slab, Brick Stairs, Brick Wall and 1 more.
How long it takes to break
Bricks sits at hardness 2: 10 seconds per block with your fists, 0.35 with the correct netherite tool.
You are looking at 0.5 seconds on iron and 0.4 on diamond — the iron step is where the time actually falls.
A weaker tool still breaks it, but anything under wooden returns nothing — you spend the time and lose the drop, which is how most veins get wasted.
The Efficiency formula is level² + 1 added to tool speed — at V that is about 3.5 times the unenchanted rate.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand * | 10 s | 10 s | 10 s |
| Wooden | 1.5 s | 0.25 s | 0.15 s |
| Stone | 0.75 s | 0.25 s | 0.1 s |
| Iron | 0.5 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Diamond | 0.4 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Netherite | 0.35 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Golden | 0.25 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
Properties
Bricks resists blasts at 6, which usually is not enough when something explodes nearby. Light does not pass through it, and it emits none of its own. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal full stack. The block is tagged for pickaxes, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Wooden Pickaxe
Crafting recipe
Crafting Table
Bricks
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Bricks drops itself.
Used to craft
Bricks is an ingredient in 4 recipes, producing Brick Slab, Brick Stairs, Brick Wall, and Field Masoned Banner Pattern.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Bricks in Minecraft?
Bricks is crafted from Brick.
What tool do you need to break Bricks?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Bricks blast resistant?
Bricks has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Bricks fit in one stack?
A stack is 64, and a double chest of them comes to 3,456.
How long does Bricks take to break?
With the correct tool at netherite tier it takes 0.35 seconds; by hand it takes 10 seconds.
The rest of the set
Bricks is one of 7 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
