Chiseled Nether Bricks

Overview

Chiseled Nether Bricks is one of the 4 variants of this shape in the game. What changes between them is the material, and with it the hardness, the drops, the durability and the recipe — so every figure on this page is this variant's own. Nether Bricks is the same shape in a different material.

Chiseled Nether Bricks counts as a Nether block in Minecraft 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Chiseled Nether Bricks. Its hardness of 2 makes it a normal, unhurried block to mine.

Anything below a wooden pickaxe breaks it without leaving a drop. It drops as the same block you mined. It stacks to 64.

You make it with Nether Brick Slab. You can also cut it from Nether Bricks on a stonecutter. It is not used in any crafting recipe.

How long it takes to break

At a hardness of 2, Chiseled Nether Bricks takes 10 seconds to punch out and 0.35 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.

Iron takes 0.5 seconds against diamond's 0.4, so the upgrade worth making for this block is the one to iron.

The block still breaks with a weaker tool, but below wooden it yields nothing at all — the time is spent and the drop is lost, which is the single most common way players waste a vein.

Efficiency adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed, so Efficiency V is about 3.5 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
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

With 6 blast resistance Chiseled Nether Bricks usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. 64 fit in a slot — a 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