How To Make Bricks In Minecraft: The Ultimate Guide

Of all the building materials in Minecraft, Bricks are one of the older ones. They’ve been around long before Bedrock Edition’s existence, even, and were once used in naturally generated Brick Pyramids! Though, according to the Minecraft Wiki, these Pyramids no longer exist.

Regardless! This guide will break down how to make Bricks in the current version of Minecraft. We’ll go over what Bricks are even for, how to smelt them, and what recipes they’re used in.

Let’s get into it.

What Are Bricks In Minecraft?

Bricks in Minecraft aren’t as versatile as many of the game’s other items, but are instead used in just a few key recipes.

To start, Bricks are used for the Brick Block, one of the more controversial building materials in the game. It’s a bit of a blander block, no doubt, but it also represents a real-world material which is important to consider.

It can also be used to create a Decorated Pot, which you can use to place other items on top of, such as Flowers and a few other plants. However, note that creating a Pot without Pottery Sherds results in a blank pot. Use the Sherds if you’d like designs on your Decorated Pot. Y’know, making it actually decorated.

Finally, you can use Bricks to make a Flower Pot. A fairly self-explanatory item, the Flower Pot holds Flowers, Bamboo, Saplings, Cacti, Mushrooms, Fungi, and a few other items. Some players place Flower Pots on top of Decorative Pots, while others simply place them around their builds as an aesthetic alteration.

How To Make Bricks In Minecraft

Making Bricks is fairly easy. The process requires a Clay Ball, a Furnace, and a fuel source.

Clay Balls

Gather Clay Balls by breaking Clay Blocks, which you can find while exploring Lush Caves or while swimming around in shallow water in the game’s oceans, often next to Sand Blocks.

These greyish blocks drop a few Clay Balls per break. You can also place four Clay Balls in a Crafting Table to recreate the block, and then burn the block to create Terracotta.

Otherwise, you can find Clay Balls inside of a Desert House Chest or inside a Mason Villager’s Chest, if a Village spawns those professions, that is.

Furnace

Creating a Furnace is simple.

Take eight Cobblestone blocks (or other types of Stone Brick) and organize them in a square within a Crafting Table.

Place the Furnace down to use it.

Fuel Source

A Fuel source in Minecraft can be many things. It can be nearly any type of Wood, be it a Fence or a Log, a piece of Coal or Charcoal, or even a Bucket of Lava, if you can afford it. The Bucket of Lava is the game’s longest-lasting source of fuel, but acquiring one can take a bit longer than the more common methods, such as Coal, which can be mined.

Either way, smelting Clay Balls doesn’t take very long. Let’s get into the Brick-making process.

How To Create Brick Blocks

With all of the required materials in hand, it’s time to create regular Bricks.

Start by opening the Furnace Menu by right-clicking on it. Then, place Clay in the top slot and your fuel in the bottom slot. This will begin the Smelting process.

Wait for just a little bit, and you’ll see flames slowly dwindling as the item burns. Eventually, you’ll have a Brick! Over time, you’ll have multiple Bricks as you let the Smelting continue. In fact, you can stack up to 64 Bricks in your inventory in one slot. Each Clay Ball equals one Brick.

Once you have at least four Bricks, bring them over to a Crafting Table and organize them as mentioned earlier in the article to make a Brick Block, covering two-thirds of the second row and the third row, respectively.

Keep in mind that you can also find Bricks while exploring in a Desert Well or in Trail Ruins. That, and Stone Mason Villagers will trade sixteen Bricks for one Emerald, if you’re playing Java Edition, of course.

What To Do With Brick Blocks

Brick blocks are actually relevant in a few recipes.

Brick Slabs

You can combine three Brick Blocks on the Crafting Table’s bottom row to create six Brick Slabs. These are useful for building half-step stairs for navigating around your world.

Brick Stairs

Stairs, just like you’d make from Wood or Stone Brick materials, only in the Brick format! Six Brick Blocks produce four Stairs.

Brick Wall

A Brick version of the typical fence, you can craft a Brick Wall by placing one block in each slot of the middle row and the bottom row of a Crafting Grid.

Field Masoned Banner Pattern

You can create the Field Masoned Banner Pattern by combining a piece of Paper with a Brick. You can then apply that Pattern to a Banner, giving it a Field Mason design.

If you don’t feel like making them, you can also find Brick Blocks in Underwater Ruins or while digging around in Trail Ruins. Lots of Bricks in Ruins, it seems!

Bricks can be used for all sorts of builds. Maybe you can craft a Brick house to stand out from the common Wood buildings, or try your hand at a massive fireplace chimney!

Either way, they’re a great material for showing off to your friends. Speaking of friends, why not gather some together to help craft a ton of Bricks?

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