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Fill Area With Nether Bricks

Fill a region with nether bricks

✅ Verified for Java 26.2 · Bedrock 26.32 — checked June 2026

Fills an 11x6x11 cube of nether brick blocks centered on your position, spanning roughly five blocks in each horizontal direction and six blocks up. Good for roughing out a fortress shell fast. To undo it, re-run the same coordinates with air as the block.

/fill ~-5 ~ ~-5 ~5 ~5 ~5 nether_bricks
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How to use

  1. Open chat (T on Java, / on Bedrock).
  2. Paste the command and press Enter.
  3. A large cube of nether bricks instantly fills the area.

Related commands

Create a hollow room or box out of any block

/fill ~ ~ ~ ~10 ~6 ~10 stone hollow

Create a pool or lake by filling a region with water

/fill ~ ~ ~ ~10 ~ ~10 water

Swap every block of one type for another in a region

/fill ~ ~ ~ ~10 ~10 ~10 stone replace dirt

Copy a region of blocks and paste it somewhere else

/clone ~-5 ~-5 ~-5 ~5 ~5 ~5 ~15 ~-5 ~-5

Delete all blocks in a large area quickly

/fill ~-10 ~-2 ~-10 ~10 ~10 ~10 air

Quickly fill a region with water

/fill ~-5 ~ ~-5 ~5 ~3 ~5 water