Infested Cracked Stone Bricks

Overview

Infested Cracked Stone Bricks counts as a stone-family block in Minecraft 1.21.4. Hardness 0.75 puts it in the middle of the pack for mining speed. No specific tool is required to collect it.

With a blast resistance of only 0.75 it will not survive an explosion. Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot. No recipe takes it as an ingredient.

How long it takes to break

At a hardness of 0.75, Infested Cracked Stone Bricks takes 1.2 seconds to punch out and 0.15 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.

Iron manages 0.2 seconds and diamond 0.15, which makes diamond the tier that changes how this block feels.

There is no tier requirement to worry about. Any tool, or none, returns the drop; the numbers below just say how fast.

Efficiency contributes its level squared plus one to tool speed, which makes Efficiency V roughly 3 times faster than the plain tool.

Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand	1.2 s	1.2 s	1.2 s
Wooden	0.6 s	0.1 s	instant
Stone	0.3 s	0.1 s	instant
Iron	0.2 s	0.1 s	instant
Diamond	0.15 s	0.1 s	instant
Netherite	0.15 s	0.1 s	instant
Golden	0.1 s	0.1 s	instant

Properties

Blast resistance on Infested Cracked Stone Bricks is 0.75, so any explosion nearby takes it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard full stack. A pickaxe is the fastest choice here. A tool of the wrong class is no better than your fist — the speed bonus is tied to the block's own tool tag.

Transparent: No
Required tool: Any