Overview
Tuff Bricks is one of the 7 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. Bricks is the same shape in a different material.
Tuff Bricks is a stone-family block in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. A crafting table turns its ingredients into Tuff Bricks. Its hardness of 1.5 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 Polished Tuff. You can also cut it from Polished Tuff on a stonecutter. It is an ingredient in 4 recipes, among them Tuff Brick Slab, Tuff Brick Stairs, Tuff Brick Wall and 1 more.
About the tuff set
How long it takes to break
Hardness 1.5 puts Tuff Bricks at 7.5 seconds a block bare-handed, or 0.25 seconds with the right tool at netherite tier.
Iron takes 0.4 seconds against diamond's 0.3, so the upgrade worth making for this block is the one to diamond.
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 2.5 times the unenchanted rate.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand * | 7.5 s | 7.5 s | 7.5 s |
| Wooden | 1.2 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Stone | 0.6 s | 0.2 s | 0.1 s |
| Iron | 0.4 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
| Diamond | 0.3 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
| Netherite | 0.25 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
| Golden | 0.2 s | 0.15 s | 0.1 s |
Properties
With 6 blast resistance Tuff Bricks usually goes down to a nearby explosion. It is fully opaque and produces no light. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal full stack. The fastest tool for it is a pickaxe; any other kind of tool mines it no faster than a bare hand does, because the speed bonus only applies to the tool class the block is tagged for.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Wooden Pickaxe
How to get it
Crafting Table
Tuff Bricks ×4
Stonecutter
Tuff Bricks
Stonecutter
Tuff Bricks
Drops
Mined with Wooden Pickaxe, Tuff Bricks drops itself.
Used to craft
Tuff Bricks is an ingredient in 4 recipes, producing Tuff Brick Slab, Tuff Brick Stairs, Tuff Brick Wall, and Chiseled Tuff Bricks.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Tuff Bricks in Minecraft?
Tuff Bricks is crafted from Polished Tuff.
What tool do you need to break Tuff Bricks?
Wooden Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Tuff Bricks blast resistant?
Tuff Bricks has a blast resistance of 6, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Tuff Bricks fit in one stack?
A stack is 64, and a double chest of them comes to 3,456.
How long does Tuff Bricks take to break?
With the correct tool at netherite tier it takes 0.25 seconds; by hand it takes 7.5 seconds.
The rest of the set
Tuff Bricks is one of 7 variants of the same shape. The others are made from different materials, so their numbers differ:
