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What is Brick in Minecraft?

A brick is a simple, reddish brown item that you get from cooking clay. It is important to know that a single brick is not a block you can place. Instead, it is a crafting ingredient. Its main purpose is to be used to craft brick blocks, which are some of the most classic and beloved building blocks in all of Minecraft. A brick is also used to make flower pots, which are essential for any decorator who wants to bring some plant life into their builds. It is a fundamental item for any builder who loves the traditional look of a brick house.

How to get Brick in Minecraft

The only way to get a brick is by smelting a clay ball in a furnace or blast furnace. To get clay balls, you need to find clay blocks. Clay is a smooth, gray block that is most commonly found underwater in rivers, lakes, and swamps. You can also find large patches of it in lush caves. When you break a clay block, it will drop four clay balls. Using a shovel with the Fortune enchantment can make it drop more. Once you have your clay balls, just pop them in a furnace with some fuel, and they will cook into bricks.

How to use Brick in Minecraft

The most common use for a brick is to craft brick blocks. You can combine four bricks in a 2x2 square in a crafting table to create one brick block. These blocks are perfect for building houses, fireplaces, and pathways. The other main use for a brick is to craft a flower pot. By placing three bricks in a 'V' shape in a crafting table, you can make a flower pot, which you can then place down and put a flower or sapling inside. A brick can also be used when crafting a decorated pot. If you use a brick instead of a pottery sherd, that side of the pot will be plain, which is useful for creating simpler designs.

How to craft Brick in Minecraft

Furnace

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Cooking Time: 10s ÔÇó Experience: 0.3

What can Brick make in Minecraft

Bricks

Decorated Pot

Flower Pot

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.