Happy Minecraft Guide: Bricks
October 24, 2010
Bricks look nice.
Sadly they’re a bit rare in the survival mode of Minecraft, so it’s necessary to do a little expedition to gather up the materials.
First thing you’ll need is a boat. Make a few by putting wooden planks in a ‘U’ shape.
Boats are a bit fragile and will break if you hit the shore too hard, so be a bit careful with them.
Now make a couple of dozen torches, a few shovels and bring along a sword or bow, and some food as well. It might take a little while to find some good deposits, depending on how the map you started on spawned.
Bricks come from clay. Clay tends to spawn in sandy areas next to the ocean and looks fairly similar to stone.
Clay is a little bit rare and you may have to go quite far from home in order to get a decent amount of the stuff. Typically a clay deposit will yield somewhere between 15 to 40 blocks and it’ll take a few minutes of exploration to find each deposit.
The best way to search for clay is to ride your boat around the coast and nearby islands, keeping an eye out for any deposits and marking your way back home with a few torches.
Make sure to keep putting those torches down. Getting lost and losing your precious cargo really wouldn’t be fun.
Once you’re all done, head right back home and bake all the clay into bricks, then combine them up into blocks ready for construction.
The bricks go in a 4 by 4 pattern in order to make the blocks themselves.
Now you can make a lovely brick villa.
