Nether Brick

This article is about the item. For the block, see Nether Bricks.

For other uses, see Nether Brick (disambiguation).

Nether Brick

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)

A Nether brick is an item created by smelting netherrack in a furnace, and is used to craft the Nether bricks block and its variants.

Obtaining

Smelting

Nether brick can be smelted from netherrack.

Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Netherrack + Any fuel	0.1

Bartering

Piglins may barter 2 to 8 Nether brick items with a chance of ~8.53% (⁴⁰⁄₄₆₉) when given a gold ingot. Apart from netherrack that generates on floating portals in Bedrock Edition, bartering is the only renewable source of Nether bricks.

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Nether Brick Fence	Nether Bricks + Nether Brick	6
Nether Bricks	Nether Brick
Red Nether Bricks	Nether Wart + Nether Brick

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Nether Brick	nether_brick	Item	item.minecraft.nether_brick

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Nether Brick	netherbrick	523	Item	item.netherbrick.name

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.5			13w01a				Added Nether brick items.
1.10			16w20a				Nether brick items can now be used to craft red Nether bricks.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of Nether brick items has been changed.
1.16			20w07a				Nether brick items now have a 10⁄109 (~9.17%) chance of being given by the new piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 1–4, making it renewable.
			20w09a				Nether brick items now have a 20⁄226 (~8.84%) chance of being given by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 1–5.
			20w10a				Nether brick items now have a 40⁄411 (~9.73%) chance of being given by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 4–16.
1.16.2			20w28a				Nether brick items now have a 40⁄459 (~8.71%) chance of being given by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 2–8.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.6.0							Added Nether brick items.
v0.16.0			build 5				Added Nether brick items to the Creative inventory.[1]
Pocket Edition
1.1.3			alpha 1.1.3.0				Nether brick items are now used to craft red Nether bricks.
Bedrock Edition
1.9.0			beta 1.9.0.0				Nether brick items are now used to craft Nether brick fences.
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of Nether brick items has been changed.
1.16.100			beta 1.16.100.50				Nether brick items can now be used as fuel for a furnace.[2]
			beta 1.16.100.54				Nether brick items now have a 40⁄459 (~8.71%) chance of being given by piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 2–8 to match Java Edition.
1.18.30			beta 1.18.30.26				Nether brick items can no longer be used as fuel in a furnace.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU9	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added Nether brick items.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Nether brick items can now be used to craft red Nether bricks.
			1.90				The texture of Nether brick items has been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added Nether brick items.

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Nether Brick" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

References