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Mossy Stone Bricks in Minecraft | MinecraftBible
Mossy Stone Bricks is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4 that requires Wooden Pickaxe or better to mine, dropping Mossy Stone Bricks.
What is Mossy Stone Bricks?
Mossy 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. Mossy Stone Bricks does not emit light. Mossy Stone Bricks filters 15 levels of light passing through it, which is why it blocks skylight below it.
Namespaced identifier: minecraft:mossy_stone_bricks. Command: /give @p minecraft:mossy_stone_bricks 1.
How to mine Mossy Stone Bricks
Mossy 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×.
Mossy Stone Bricks drops
When broken, Mossy Stone Bricks drops:
Silk Touch preserves the block itself; Fortune increases quantity of ore-style drops but has no effect on ordinary blocks.
What Mossy Stone Bricks is used to craft
Mossy Stone Bricks appears as an ingredient in 3 known Minecraft recipes:
Block tags & properties
- Opaque
- Requires Tool
- Craftable
- Crafting Material
Mossy Stone Bricks technical properties
- Flammable: No
- Burns from lava: No
- Renewable: Yes
- Emits light: No (luminance 0)
Values sourced from Minecraft Wiki: Mossy Stone Bricks (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Verified for Java Edition 1.21.4.
Technical properties
- Namespaced ID: minecraft:mossy_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: Yes
- /give command: /give @p minecraft:mossy_stone_bricks 1
Overview
Mossy 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 Mossy Stone Bricks with the wrong tool will destroy it without dropping anything.
- Expect to collect Mossy Stone Bricks once it breaks.
Step-by-step walkthrough
- Bring the correct tool tier before mining - breaking Mossy Stone Bricks with the wrong tool will destroy it without dropping anything.
- Expect to collect Mossy Stone Bricks once it breaks.
- 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:mossy_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 Mossy 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 Mossy Stone Bricks drop when mined?
Breaking Mossy Stone Bricks drops Mossy Stone Bricks.
How hard is Mossy Stone Bricks to mine?
Mossy 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).
Can I craft Mossy Stone Bricks?
Yes - this page lists 4 known crafting recipes for Mossy Stone Bricks.
What is Mossy Stone Bricks used to craft?
Mossy Stone Bricks is used as an ingredient in 3 other recipes.
What is the internal Minecraft ID for Mossy Stone Bricks?
The namespaced ID is minecraft:mossy_stone_bricks, usable with /setblock, /fill, and /give.