Stone Bricks

Stone bricks are a block found in various structures. It has three other variants: mossy stone bricks, cracked stone bricks, and chiseled stone bricks.

Breaking

A pickaxe is required to break stone bricks. Stone bricks drops itself when mined with a pickaxe, otherwise it drops nothing.

Infested blocks

Stone bricks can also be obtained by mining their respective infested blocks with Silk Touch.

Natural generation

Stone bricks generate as part of strongholds, making up most of the walls, ceilings, and floors. They can also generate as part of cold ocean ruins and Overworld ruined portals. Igloo basements are lined with stone bricks. Stone bricks can also spawn in trail ruins, and in trial chambers surrounding silverfish trial spawners. A single stone brick can generate in snowy villages under one of the possible meeting points (snowy_meeting_point_2).

Usage

As stone bricks offer no real advantage over stone or cobblestone, their main use is for decoration.

Silverfish

Silverfish have the ability to enter and hide in stone bricks, turning them into infested stone bricks.

Screenshots

Unnamed Brick Blocks.png|First view of the stone bricks that Jeb posted. Ruins1.png|First view of the stone bricks that Notch posted. New sttone slab.png|An image from Beta 1.8 Pre-release. Helm's Deep.png|Helm's Deep built from stone bricks by Jeb. Stone Castle 1.jpg|A castle built from stone bricks by Jeb. Stone Castle 2.jpg|A castle built from stone bricks by Jeb.