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How to Craft Stone Bricks in Minecraft

Stone Bricks in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Building material for elegant structures. Minecraft has used the name Stone Bricks since Beta 1.7.

Stone Bricks cost you 4 Stone, put together at a Crafting Table. In the grid that is four Stone in a 2x2 square. The grid returns 4 Stone Bricks.

Stone Bricks Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

Stone Bricks are a refined building block made from stone. They appear in strongholds and are popular in construction. Stone Bricks uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

Minecraft have used the name Stone Bricks since Beta 1.7, the oldest release whose language file lists it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with stone (smelt cobblestone).

The Full Stack Sum

Counted per stack: 64 stone, 16 crafts, 64 stone bricks. It divides evenly, no stone left over.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Stone4xSmelt cobblestone

For Stone Bricks: 4x Stone (smelt cobblestone), brought to a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

4 Cobblestone makes 4 Stone, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 4 Cobblestone.

  1. 1
    44StoneFurnace, repeat 4x
  2. 2
    Stone Bricksthis page

Gather this first

4Cobblestone

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    4x Stone

  2. 2

    4x Stone Bricks

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

Tips & Notes

  • Caught out without a Crafting Table? Stone Bricks fits the 2x2 inventory grid, so you can make it anywhere.
  • Line up 4x Stone before you open the Crafting Table. Stone: smelt cobblestone.
  • The recipe returns 4 Stone Bricks at a time.

Uses for Stone Bricks

  • Building material for elegant structures
  • Crafting stone brick stairs, slabs and walls

What Stone Bricks Goes Into

4 other recipes list Stone Bricks as an ingredient.

Stone Brick StairsCrafting TableStone Brick WallCrafting TableStone Brick SlabCrafting TableMossy Stone BricksCrafting Table

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Stone Bricks in Minecraft?
Bring 4 Stone to a Crafting Table and you can make Stone Bricks. Copy the grid above cell for cell, and one craft produces 4 Stone Bricks.
What do you need to make Stone Bricks from scratch?
Counting all the way down, Stone Bricks comes to 4 Cobblestones, spread over 2 crafts.
What can you make with Stone Bricks?
Stone Bricks is an ingredient in 4 other recipes on this site, including Stone Brick Stairs, Stone Brick Wall, Stone Brick Slab and Mossy Stone Bricks. The section above links to each of them.
Can you craft Stone Bricks without a crafting table?
You can, and without a table: the 2x2 grid in your inventory is enough for Stone Bricks. It is laid out as four Stone in a 2x2 square, which never leaves a 2x2 area.
Where do you find the materials for Stone Bricks?
The materials for Stone Bricks each come from somewhere different. Stone: smelt cobblestone.
How many Stone Bricks do you get from one craft?
The Stone Bricks recipe makes 4 Stone Bricks in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Stone Bricks in Minecraft?
Stone Bricks is registered as minecraft:stone_bricks. Commands accept the short form stone_bricks as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Stone Bricks?
/give @p stone_bricks gives you Stone Bricks. Swap @p for a player name to hand it to someone else, and put 64 on the end for a whole stack.
Which recipe uses the most Stone Bricks?
Of everything on this site, Stone Brick Stairs swallows the most Stone Bricks: 6 Stone Bricks in one craft. That is worth knowing before you decide how many to make.
What version of Minecraft added Stone Bricks?
The name Stone Bricks goes back to Minecraft Beta 1.7, and no older release we can read uses it. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because 1.13 renamed every recipe file in the game. That pattern above is still the one the game uses.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
4 Stone in, 4 Stone Bricks out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Minecraft Java Beta 1.7 uses this name and the release before it does not. 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 Stone Bricks per craft against the stack size.

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