Cracked Stone Bricks

Cracked Stone Bricks

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	6
Hardness	1.5
Luminous	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	11 STONE
Note block instrument	Bass Drum

Cracked stone bricks are a variant of stone bricks, obtained through smelting and natural generation.

Obtaining

Breaking

Cracked stone bricks can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, they drop nothing.

Block	Cracked Stone Bricks
Hardness	1.5
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	17.5 (JE) 7.5 (BE)
Wooden	11.15 (JE) 1.15 (BE)
Stone	10.6 (JE) 0.6 (BE)
Copper	10.45 (JE) 0.45 (BE)
Iron	10.4 (JE) 0.4 (BE)
Diamond	10.3 (JE) 0.3 (BE)
Netherite	10.25 (JE) 0.25 (BE)
Golden	10.2 (JE) 0.2 (BE)
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Infested blocks

Cracked stone bricks can also be obtained by mining its respective infested block with Silk Touch.

Natural generation

Cracked stone bricks generate as part of strongholds, making up some of the walls, ceilings and floors. Cracked stone bricks can also generate as part of ocean ruins, igloo basements, ruined portals and trail ruins.

Smelting

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Cracked Stone Bricks	Stone Bricks + Any fuel	0.1

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 cracked stone bricks, creating an infested block of the corresponding type.

Sounds

Java Edition:

stone sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

stone sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.stone	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.37	0.5
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.4	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.3	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.12	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.22	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	Translation key
Cracked Stone Bricks	cracked_stone_bricks	Block & Item	stone_bricks	stone_bricks	block.minecraft.cracked_stone_bricks

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Cracked Stone Bricks	cracked_stone_bricks	stonebrick / 2	1124	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -869)	tile.stonebrick.cracked.name

Videos

History

Development

Java Edition

Java Edition Beta
1.7							The tooltip for stone bricks has been added to the language file (en_US.lang). The variants of stone bricks did not originally have their own tooltips.
1.8			Pre-release				Added cracked stone bricks.
							Cracked stone bricks occur naturally in strongholds.
							The different bricks are all called stone bricks in-game.
			Pre-release 2 ;)				Cracked stone bricks now drop themselves when mined.
Java Edition
1.3.1			12w18a				The variants of stone bricks now have all received unique tooltips.
1.8			14w25a				Cracked stone bricks can now be obtained by smelting stone bricks.
1.9			15w43a				Cracked stone bricks now generate within igloo basements.
			15w43b				Igloos now have fewer cracked stone bricks.
1.13			18w09a				Cracked stone bricks now generate in underwater ruins.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of cracked stone bricks have been changed.
			18w47a				The textures of cracked stone bricks have been changed again to look more smooth.
1.16			20w16a				Cracked stone bricks can now spawn as part of a ruined portal.
1.20			23w12a				Cracked stone bricks now generate in trail ruins.
26.2			snap1				Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb cracked stone bricks, providing the football/regular effect to the mob.
			snap6				Changed effect from football/regular to slow bouncy.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0							Added cracked stone bricks.
v0.6.0							Cracked stone bricks are now available in the creative inventory.
v0.9.0			build 1				Cracked stone bricks now naturally generate in strongholds.
v0.11.0			build 1				Cracked stone bricks can now be obtained by smelting stone bricks.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Cracked stone bricks now generate within igloo basements.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.20.1				Cracked stone bricks now generate in underwater ruins.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of cracked stone bricks have been changed.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.57				Cracked stone bricks can now spawn as part of a ruined portal.
26.20 Experiment Drop 2 of 2026			Preview 26.20.23				Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb cracked stone bricks, providing the football/regular effect to the mob.
26.30			Preview 26.30.20				Implemented all features from the "Drop 2 of 2026" experiment in vanilla gameplay.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU5	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added cracked stone bricks.
							The different bricks are all called stone bricks in-game.
TU7							The variants of stone bricks now have all received unique tooltips.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Cracked stone bricks can now be obtained by smelting stone bricks.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Cracked stone bricks now generate within igloo basements.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Cracked stone bricks now generate in underwater ruins.
			1.90				The textures of cracked stone bricks have been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added cracked stone bricks.

Data history

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.8			14w06a				Cracked stone bricks now use the newly-implemented model json file models/block/cube.json; previously the geometry was defined in the game code itself.
			14w25a				Stone bricks and its variants are now defined via block states rather than by numerical metadata. Prior to this version, the numerical metadata variants of stone bricks were as follows: DV Description 0 Stone Bricks 1 Mossy Stone Bricks 2 Cracked Stone Bricks 3 Chiseled Stone Bricks 4-15 Inaccessible "boring" variants of stone bricks
1.13			17w47a				The different block states for the stonebrick ID have been split up into their own IDs.
							Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 98.

Bedrock Edition

Issues

Issues relating to "Cracked Stone Bricks" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  Naturally occurring stone bricks - regular, cracked, and mossy - in a stronghold
• 
  Stone bricks being smelted into cracked stone bricks

See also

• Infested Block