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How to Craft Brick in Minecraft

Brick in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Crafting brick blocks and flower pots.

This one is smelted rather than crafted: 1 Clay Ball in a Furnace, fuel below it, no grid involved. What comes out is 1 Brick.

Brick Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Brick is minecraft:brick. In commands the namespace may be left off, so brick works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p brick
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p brick 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve brick 1

Cheats have to be on for Brick to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Bricks are smelted from clay balls. Four bricks make a brick block. Brick is produced by smelting in a Furnace rather than by arranging items in a grid.

The brick was already in the game in Minecraft Beta 1.0, the oldest release with an English language file to read, so this recipe is at least that old.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with clay ball (break clay blocks near water).

What A Stack Yields

64 crafts drain a stack: 64 clay balls become 64 bricks. Craft 64 takes the last clay ball, with nothing spare.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Clay BallClay BallClay Ball1xBreak clay blocks near water

A Furnace and Clay Ball (break clay blocks near water): that is everything Brick asks for.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. Open your Furnace interface.
  2. Place Clay Ball in the top input slot.
  3. Add fuel (coal, charcoal, wood, etc.) to the bottom fuel slot.
  4. Wait for the smelting progress bar to complete. Collect your Brick from the output slot.
Minecraft crafting recipe for Brick: 1 x Clay Ball in a furnace, making 1 Brick.

Tips & Notes

  • One craft costs 1x Clay Ball. Start with the Clay Ball: break clay blocks near water.
  • Dried kelp blocks are the cheapest way to make Brick in bulk, at twenty smelts per block against coal's eight.

Uses for Brick

  • Crafting brick blocks and flower pots

What Brick Goes Into

2 other recipes list Brick as an ingredient.

BricksCrafting TableFlower PotFlower PotFlower PotCrafting Table

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Brick on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Brick in Minecraft?
1 Clay Ball at a Furnace: that is the whole shopping list for a Brick. The input goes in the top slot, the fuel in the one below, and one craft produces one Brick.
What can you make with Brick?
Brick is an ingredient in 2 other recipes on this site, including Bricks and Flower Pot. The section above links to each of them.
Where do you find the materials for a Brick?
The parts of a Brick do not all come from one place. Clay Ball: break clay blocks near water.
How many Bricks do you get from one craft?
The Brick recipe makes one Brick per craft.
What is the item ID for Brick in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Brick goes by minecraft:brick; brick without the namespace does the same job in a command.
What is the give command for Brick?
Use /give @p brick to put a Brick in your own inventory, or /give @p brick 64 for a full stack of 64. Cheats have to be on.
Is the Brick recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Yes, the Brick recipe is the same in both editions. Java and Bedrock both build a Brick from 1 Clay Ball at a Furnace, in the same layout, one at a time.
What version of Minecraft added the Brick?
The brick was already listed in Minecraft Beta 1.0, the oldest release Mojang publishes with an English language file, so this one is older than the files can prove and there is nothing earlier to check against. Nothing about it has changed since: the pattern above is today's.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Clay Ball in, 1 Brick out, Furnace. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Present in Minecraft Java Beta 1.0, the oldest release that exists to check. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
Stack size
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Brick per craft against the stack size.

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