How to Make, Find, and Use Cracked Stone Bricks in Minecraft

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Everything you need to know about getting Cracked Stone Bricks

Co-authored by GraySun Builds and Hannah Dillon

Last Updated: November 5, 2025 Fact Checked

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Creating Cracked Stone Bricks

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Mining Cracked Stone Bricks

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Cracked Stone Brick Uses

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Are you trying to make Cracked Stone Bricks in Minecraft? This variation of the Stone Brick block has no advantages over other stone or cobblestone blocks, but you may want it for decoration (which is its main use). Cracked Stone Bricks cannot be crafted, so the only way to get them is by smelting them or mining them from where they naturally generate.

Getting Cracked Stone Bricks in Minecraft

Cracked Stone Bricks must be smelted or mined. To smelt Cracked Stone Bricks, you'll need to put 1 Stone Brick block and 1 fuel into a furnace, blast furnace, smoker, or campfire.^{[1]
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Expert Interview} Cracked Stone Bricks are naturally generated in strongholds, ocean ruins, igloo basements, ruined portals, and trail ruins.

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Creating Cracked Stone Bricks

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Get a smelter. Cracked Stone Bricks can only be made by smelting them in a smelter. You can't craft Cracked Stone Bricks via the crafting grid, so you must use a furnace, blast furnace, smoker, or campfire to smelt them.^{[2]
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- Furnaces are obtained from weaponsmiths in plains, desert, or savanna villages. They also generate in houses in snowy tundra, taiga, and snowy taiga villages, as well as in ancient cities, trail ruins, and igloos. You can also craft one with 8 stone-tier blocks.^{[3]
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- Blast furnaces are obtained from armorers within villages, as well as in trail ruins. You can craft one with 5 Iron Ingots, 3 Smooth Stone, and 1 furnace.
- Smokers are obtained from butcher houses in villages. You can also craft one with 1 furnace and 4 of any of the following (can be mixed): log, stem, stripped log, stripped stem, wood, hyphae, stripped wood, and stripped hyphae.
- Campfires are found in taiga and snowy taiga villages, as well as inside ancient cities. You can craft one with 3 Sticks, 1 Charcoal, and 3 of any of the following (can be mixed): log, stem, stripped log, stripped stem, wood, hyphae, stripped wood, and stripped hyphae.
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Place one Stone Brick block and one fuel inside the smelter. Many types of objects can be used as fuel, including most items made of wood, Lava Buckets, and Blaze Rods.^{[4]
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- Coal or Charcoal are good choices because they're common and don't require many resources to obtain.

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Mining Cracked Stone Bricks

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Mine a Cracked Stone Brick. Cracked Stone Bricks can be mined with any pickaxe. These blocks can be generated in strongholds, ocean ruins, igloo basements, ruined portals, and trail ruins.
- If you mine a cracked stone brick block with anything other than a pickaxe, the block won't drop anything.^{[5]
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- Infested Cracked Stone Bricks must be mined with a Silk Touch weapon. Silk Touch is an enchantment for your tools that allows you to get the blocks themselves instead of their usual drop. You can obtain it from the following places:^{[6]
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  - Enchantment tables
  - Books obtained by fishing
  - Monster room chests
  - Librarian villagers
  - Structure loot (non-village)
  - Certain mob drops in Bedrock Edition

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Cracked Stone Brick Uses

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The main use for cracked stone brick blocks are for decoration. These blocks have no advantages over stone or cobblestone, so the difference is purely aesthetic.
If you place a cracked stone brick block under a note block, they will make bass drum sounds.