The Bricks Mod (Bricks and Cubes)

One material system. Every scale of build.

Bricks and Cubes rebuilds Minecraft's construction materials into one consistent, survival-friendly building system. Use familiar full blocks for large structures, divide them into precise pieces for fine detail, turn those same materials into functional connected blocks, or shape terrain in smooth eighth-block steps.

Everything follows the same rule: material is conserved. Changing a block into smaller forms gives you exactly the same amount of building material, and changing it back does not create or destroy resources.

Build with precision

Supported construction materials can be placed on a 4 x 4 x 4 grid. Different shapes and materials can share the same block space, opening the door to trim, framing, furniture, relief, gradients, detailed facades, compact redstone decoration, and much more.

The system includes nine reusable micro forms:

• Slabs and bricks for broad structure
• Cubes for half-scale details
• Plates and tiles for thin surfaces
• Rods for narrow beams and supports
• Small slabs, small bricks, and small cubes for fine work

Parts snap to their natural positions and orientations. Composite blocks support waterlogging, return every contained piece when broken, and let you remove one targeted component at a time by sneak-right-clicking with an empty hand.

333 materials, one coherent library

Build across a large catalog of stone, wood, glass, metal, concrete, terracotta, wool, Nether, End, and other familiar material families. Raw, cobbled, smooth, cut or polished, mossy, cracked, weathered, and waxed forms are included where they make sense—without inventing unnecessary stages for materials that do not need them.

Wood pieces use builder-friendly names such as beams, planks, and sticks, while canonical items such as bricks, ingots, and nuggets keep familiar identities and recipes.

Functional forms from the same material

Your building pieces are more than decoration. Materials can become connected and functional structures, including:

• Fences, walls, gates, glass panes, and metal bars
• Shelves, signs, and hanging signs
• Carpets, buttons, pressure plates, and levers
• Freestanding and wall-mounted decorative heads

These forms return their original components when broken, so experimenting with a design does not waste material.

Change finishes without rebuilding

Transform a placed full block, connected structure, or individual micro component directly in the world:

• Apply a Moss Block or Vine to add moss
• Use Shears to clean moss away
• Use a Pickaxe to chip smooth or polished material into a cracked finish
• Apply a Resin Clump to repair cracks
• Wax, scrape, and naturally weather copper while preserving each piece's shape and position

Only the targeted component changes, even inside a mixed-material composite.

Smooth, fractional terrain

Shape natural ground with stackable 1/8-height layers for dirt, coarse dirt, rooted dirt, gravel, sand, red sand, clay, mud, soul materials, grass, podzol, mycelium, and every concrete powder color.

Terrain layers retain the behavior that belongs to them: sand and gravel fall, layers can be waterlogged, grass and mycelium spread while preserving height, and concrete powder hydrates into the correct amount of solid concrete.

Simple form selection

Hold Shift and scroll while holding a supported material—or while hovering over it in the survival inventory—to cycle between the full block and its available forms.

Stack counts automatically rescale to preserve exact volume. Fractional leftovers are retained, and the selection falls back safely when there is not enough material for a larger form. Micro forms stay out of the creative tabs, keeping thousands of implementation items from cluttering the inventory.

Designed to live alongside Minecraft

The mod normalizes superseded vanilla construction blocks, recipes, commands, inventory items, and newly generated structures into the canonical material system while keeping legacy registry entries available for save and mod compatibility.

Only newly generated chunks receive world-generation normalization. Existing chunks and player builds are not scanned or rewritten.

Requirements and compatibility

• Minecraft 26.2
• NeoForge 26.2.0.25-beta or newer
• Required on both the client and server
• No additional mod dependencies

The first public release is 1.0.0. Because the mod intentionally unifies many vanilla building forms, back up important worlds before introducing it to a long-running instance.

Build smaller details. Build smoother terrain. Build everything from the same material.