Brick
Bricks are throwables you pick up from the ground to distract or stun enemies. Throw one to the side to pull a patrol away, or straight at someone to stagger them for a follow-up hit.
- Category
- Thrown
- How to get it
- Pick up
Unlocked by
Found in
Good to know
- Joel first picks one up in The Quarantine Zone; Tommy uses one on a runner in Hometown.
- Thrown bricks don't stun armored enemies or bloaters.
- As a melee weapon a brick kills in about three hits; hit too often in a row and it may break after one.
- Bricks respawn after 1 minute on Easy and 3 minutes on Grounded.
- Luring an infected into attacking a human with bricks or bottles earns the Live Bait trophy, and winning the brick throwing contest earns Brick Master.
Using bricks
Throws break scripted patrol paths, so you can steer enemies almost anywhere. A brick stun followed by a sprinting melee strike kills runners, stalkers and clickers outright. Joel, Ellie, Riley and Tommy all use bricks.
Related weapons
- Handgun
9mm pistol
The 9mm pistol is Joel's first gun in The Last of Us Part I, picked up from his and Tess's hideout in The Quarantine Zone before they go after Robert. It fires fast, has the most ammo around and stays useful all game as a cheap backup to your heavier guns.
- Melee
Shiv
The shiv is a crafted blade made from one binding and one blade. It is your silent kill for clickers, the only way to open shiv doors, and with Shiv Master your escape when a clicker grabs you.
- Melee
2x4
The 2x4 is a plank of lumber and the most common melee weapon in the game, especially in Boston and Pittsburgh. It reaches farther than your fists, stuns a human with one hit and lasts four swings before it breaks.
- Melee
Lead pipe
The lead pipe is the toughest breakable melee weapon in the game, lasting nine hits. Joel can first pick one up in The Outskirts while clearing infected on his own, and another lies where Ellie drops it after hitting Bill in Lincoln.