Red Nether Brick Wall — Minecraft block

Overview

Red Nether Brick Wall is one of the 15 variants of Andesite Wall: same recipe, same hardness, same drops — only the look differs. The full write-up for the set is on the Andesite Wall page.

Red Nether Brick Wall counts as a Nether block in Minecraft 1.21.4. Red Nether Brick Wall 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 Red Nether Bricks. A stonecutter can cut it straight from Red Nether Bricks, with nothing wasted. Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.

About the red set

How long it takes to break

Red Nether Brick Wall has a hardness of 2. By hand that is 10 seconds per block; with the correct tool at netherite tier it is 0.35 seconds.

You are looking at 0.5 seconds on iron and 0.4 on diamond — the iron step is where the time actually falls.

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 Red Nether Brick Wall usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. A single slot takes 64, the usual 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