Red Nether Bricks - Minecraft Block Guide | Properties, Recipe & Uses (2025)

What is Red Nether Bricks in Minecraft?

Red Nether bricks are a dark, reddish brown building block with a classic brick pattern. It is a more vibrant, red version of the regular Nether brick. The main purpose of red Nether bricks is to be a strong, fireproof, and decorative building material. Their dark, blood red color is perfect for building evil castles, imposing fortresses, or any structure that needs a dark and moody atmosphere. They are a key part of the Nether brick family, offering a different color for builders to work with. They are a fantastic block for any builder who wants to create structures that feel strong, ancient, and menacing.

How to get Red Nether Bricks in Minecraft

You can only get red Nether bricks by crafting them. They do not generate naturally in the world. The crafting recipe is a bit unusual. You will need two Nether brick items and two Nether wart. You can get Nether brick items by smelting Netherrack in a furnace. You can get Nether wart by finding it in Nether fortresses. Once you have your materials, open a crafting table. Place the Nether bricks and Nether wart in a 2 by 2 checkerboard pattern. This will give you one red Nether brick block. This means you need to explore the Nether thoroughly to get the ingredients for this special block.

How to use Red Nether Bricks in Minecraft

The main use for red Nether bricks is for building and decoration. They are a very strong block with a high blast resistance, and they are completely immune to fire, making them an excellent choice for building in the dangerous environment of the Nether. You can use them to build a safe base that is protected from ghast fireballs. Their dark red color is great for creating spooky or evil looking structures. You can also use red Nether bricks to craft other decorative blocks. You can make red Nether brick stairs, slabs, and walls for more detailed building. They pair very well with regular Nether bricks and blackstone to create a very textured and detailed Nether build.

How to craft Red Nether Bricks in Minecraft

Crafting Table

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What can Red Nether Bricks make in Minecraft

Red Nether Brick Slab

Red Nether Brick Stairs

Red Nether Brick Wall

My Story

How This All Started

So basically, I was playing Minecraft one night after a long day doing deliveries, and I was trying to remember what drops what and how to craft certain things. Every website I went to was either dead slow, missing loads of stuff, or just looked terrible. I thought "bloody hell, surely I can do better than this?"

By the way, this My Story section is something new I've only just started adding things here! Most of the site was actually built before I ever wrote this part. Now that the website is live, I'm running into problems galore! So if things look a bit rough or unfinished, bear with me I'm updating and adding as I go.

That was probably a mistake.

A half finished story, oh well. I'll keep adding more as I go!

Learning the Hard Way

I knew absolutely nothing about making websites. Like, properly nothing. I didn't even know what PHP was. But I'm stubborn as anything, so I just started watching YouTube tutorials and reading random stuff online while I was on my breaks.

Turns out building a database is harder than it looks. Who knew? I've probably broken this thing more times than I've fixed it. My laptop has definitely been sworn at more than it deserves.

The worst part is when you spend hours trying to figure out why something doesn't work, and it turns out you missed a semicolon. Or when everything works fine on your computer but looks like complete rubbish on someone else's. Fun times.

The Reality of It

Look, I'm not gonna lie this has been a right pain sometimes. I work full time doing deliveries, so most of this gets done late at night when I should probably be sleeping. I've had way too many energy drinks and definitely not enough sleep.

The database has corrupted itself more times than I care to remember. I've had images that wouldn't load for no reason. CSS that worked yesterday but decided to have a tantrum today. The usual web development nightmare stuff.

But every time I get something working properly, it feels brilliant. Like when I finally got all the block images showing up correctly, or when the search actually started finding things. Small wins, but they keep me going.

What I Actually Want to Build

Here's the thing I want this to be your go to place for everything Minecraft. Not just blocks and items, but proper guides, build tutorials, maybe even schematics you can download. Server info, community stuff, the lot.

I know it doesn't look like much right now, and there's loads missing. But I'm working on it. It takes time when you're learning as you go and doing it around a full time job. But I'd rather take my time and do it properly than rush it and end up with something rubbish.

The plan is to make it the kind of site I actually want to use fast, easy to navigate, with everything you need in one place. No endless ads, no broken links, just useful stuff presented in a way that doesn't make you want to throw your computer out the window.

Why I Keep Going

Honestly? Because every time someone uses this site or gives me feedback, it reminds me why I started. I love Minecraft, I love building things (both in game and apparently websites), and I love the community.

Plus, I've learned loads doing this. Sure, I've wanted to give up more times than I can count, but seeing it slowly come together is pretty satisfying. And if it helps other people find what they're looking for without having to trawl through ten different outdated websites, then that's worth it.

So yeah, bear with me while I figure this all out. It's going to take a while, but it'll get there eventually. Thanks for checking it out, and if you spot anything broken or have suggestions, let me know. I'm still learning, but I'm determined to make this work.