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Cracked Stone Bricks in Minecraft | MinecraftBible

Cracked Stone Bricks is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4 that requires Wooden Pickaxe or better to mine, dropping Cracked Stone Bricks.

What is Cracked Stone Bricks?

Cracked Stone Bricks is a Minecraft block classified under the mineable/pickaxe material group. It has a hardness of 1.5 and a blast resistance of 6. It stacks up to 64 per inventory slot. It is a solid, opaque block. Cracked Stone Bricks does not emit light. Cracked Stone Bricks filters 15 levels of light passing through it, which is why it blocks skylight below it.

Namespaced identifier: minecraft:cracked_stone_bricks. Command: /give @p minecraft:cracked_stone_bricks 1.

How to mine Cracked Stone Bricks

Cracked Stone Bricks requires one of the following tools to drop its item — mining with a lower tier or by hand destroys it:

Break times (unenchanted, no Haste or Mining Fatigue):

  • With the correct tool: approximately 2.25 seconds
  • By hand (no tool): approximately 7.5 seconds

Using an Efficiency-enchanted tool, Haste beacons, or a Diamond/Netherite tier drastically reduces these times. Water and being airborne slow mining by 5×.

Cracked Stone Bricks drops

When broken, Cracked Stone Bricks drops:

Silk Touch preserves the block itself; Fortune increases quantity of ore-style drops but has no effect on ordinary blocks.

Block tags & properties

  • Opaque
  • Requires Tool

Cracked Stone Bricks technical properties

  • Flammable: No
  • Burns from lava: No
  • Renewable: Yes
  • Emits light: No (luminance 0)

Values sourced from Minecraft Wiki: Cracked Stone Bricks (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Verified for Java Edition 1.21.4.

Technical properties

  • Namespaced ID: minecraft:cracked_stone_bricks
  • Material family: mineable/pickaxe
  • Hardness: 1.5
  • Blast resistance: 6
  • Stack size: 64
  • Transparent: No
  • Blocks light: 15
  • Emits light: 0
  • Diggable: Yes
  • Craftable: No
  • /give command: /give @p minecraft:cracked_stone_bricks 1

Overview

Cracked Stone Bricks is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4. This page covers mining requirements, real drop data, and crafting relevance.

Prerequisites and materials

  • Bring the correct tool tier before mining - breaking Cracked Stone Bricks with the wrong tool will destroy it without dropping anything.
  • Expect to collect Cracked Stone Bricks once it breaks.

Step-by-step walkthrough

  1. Bring the correct tool tier before mining - breaking Cracked Stone Bricks with the wrong tool will destroy it without dropping anything.
  2. Expect to collect Cracked Stone Bricks once it breaks.
  3. With the correct tool this takes about 2.25s to break (unenchanted); by hand it's roughly 7.5s.

Pro tips

  • Use /give @p minecraft:cracked_stone_bricks 1 in creative mode to prototype builds before committing resources.
  • Carry a spare tool of the correct tier - breaking with the wrong one wastes the drop.

Difficulty and time commitment

  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Estimated time per run: 1-5 min

Frequently Asked Questions

What tool do I need to mine Cracked Stone Bricks?

You need one of: Wooden Pickaxe, Stone Pickaxe, Golden Pickaxe, Iron Pickaxe, Diamond Pickaxe, Netherite Pickaxe. Mining with a lower tier tool (or by hand) will break the block without dropping its item.

What does Cracked Stone Bricks drop when mined?

Breaking Cracked Stone Bricks drops Cracked Stone Bricks.

How hard is Cracked Stone Bricks to mine?

Cracked Stone Bricks has a hardness value of 1.5. That works out to roughly 2.25s with the correct tool or 7.5s by hand (unenchanted, no Haste/Mining Fatigue).

What is the internal Minecraft ID for Cracked Stone Bricks?

The namespaced ID is minecraft:cracked_stone_bricks, usable with /setblock, /fill, and /give.

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