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How to Craft Mud Bricks in Minecraft

Mud Bricks in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Building material from the mangrove swamp. The recipe first appears in the game's files in Minecraft 1.19.

Feed a Crafting Table 4 Packed Mud and Mud Bricks come back. The grid takes four Packed Mud in a 2x2 square. That comes out as 4 Mud Bricks.

Mud Bricks Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

Mud Bricks are a warm-toned building block crafted from packed mud. Mud Bricks uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

This recipe first appears in the game's own data files in Minecraft 1.19, and not in the release before it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with packed mud (craft from mud and wheat).

Per Stack

Work a stack down, 64 packed mud, and you land on 64 mud bricks. Craft 16 clears the box of packed mud.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Packed Mud4xCraft from mud and wheat

Collect 4x Packed Mud (craft from mud and wheat) first; the Crafting Table does the rest.

The Full Chain

4 Mud and 4 Wheat makes 4 Packed Mud, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 4 Mud and 4 Wheat.

  1. 1
    4WheatWheat44Packed Mudrepeat 4x
  2. 2
    Mud Bricksthis page

Gather this first

4MudWheatWheat4Wheat

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    4x Packed Mud

  2. 2

    4x Mud Bricks

Minecraft crafting recipe for Mud Bricks: 4 x Packed Mud in a crafting table, making 4 Mud Bricks.

Tips & Notes

  • Caught out without a Crafting Table? Mud Bricks fits the 2x2 inventory grid, so you can make it anywhere.
  • One craft costs 4x Packed Mud. Start with the Packed Mud: craft from mud and wheat.
  • The recipe returns 4 Mud Bricks at a time.

Uses for Mud Bricks

  • Building material from the mangrove swamp

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Mud Bricks in Minecraft?
4 Packed Mud at a Crafting Table: that is the whole shopping list for Mud Bricks. Arrange them in the exact grid pattern shown above, and one craft produces 4 Mud Bricks.
What do you need to make Mud Bricks from scratch?
Gather 4 Mud and 4 Wheat and you have everything Mud Bricks needs. The in-between items are all crafted, 2 crafts from start to finish.
Can you craft Mud Bricks without a crafting table?
Yes, you can make Mud Bricks in the 2x2 grid built into your inventory screen, no crafting table needed. It is laid out as four Packed Mud in a 2x2 square, which never leaves a 2x2 area.
Where do you find the materials for Mud Bricks?
The parts of Mud Bricks do not all come from one place. Packed Mud: craft from mud and wheat.
How many Mud Bricks do you get from one craft?
The Mud Bricks recipe makes 4 Mud Bricks in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Mud Bricks in Minecraft?
The Mud Bricks item ID is minecraft:mud_bricks, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write mud_bricks on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Mud Bricks?
Use /give @p mud_bricks to put Mud Bricks in your own inventory, or /give @p mud_bricks 64 for a full stack of 64. Cheats have to be on.
Is the Mud Bricks recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
It is the same recipe on both: 4 Packed Mud at a Crafting Table gives you Mud Bricks, in the layout shown above, 4 at a time.
How many times do you repeat each step for Mud Bricks?
Most steps for Mud Bricks are a single craft, but Packed Mud has to be made 4 times to reach 4 Packed Mud. The chain section shows the totals per step.
What version of Minecraft added Mud Bricks?
Mojang's own data puts mud bricks at Minecraft 1.19, the first release that describes how to make it. What you see in the grid above is how it works in the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
4 Packed Mud in, 4 Mud Bricks out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Java 1.19 is the first release that knows this recipe at all. 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: 4 Mud Bricks per craft against the stack size.

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