Minecraft:Iron Ore

Template:Infobox block Iron ore is a Minecraft:mineral block typically found underground. It is a source of Minecraft:raw iron, which can be smelted into Minecraft:iron ingots.

Deepslate iron ore is the Minecraft:deepslate variant of iron ore. It is found in deepslate layers.

Obtaining

Breaking

Iron ore itself can be obtained by mining it with a Minecraft:stone pickaxe or higher enchanted with Minecraft:Silk Touch. When mined without Silk Touch, iron ore drops a single Minecraft:raw iron. It is affected by the Minecraft:Fortune enchantment, dropping 1–2, 1–3, or 1–4 raw iron with Fortune I, II, and III, respectively. Template:Breaking row

Natural generation

Iron ore generates in three batches. The first batch attempts to generate 90 times per chunk in blobs of 0–13Template:Only or 0–16Template:Only, from levels 80 to 384, being most common around level 232 and becoming less common toward either end of the range. The second batch attempts to generate 10 times per chunk in blobs of 0–13Template:Only or 0–16Template:Only, from levels −24 to 56, being most common around level 16 and becoming less common toward either end of the range. The third batch attempts to generate 10 times per chunk in blobs of 0–5, evenly from levels −64 to 72.

Iron ore can replace Minecraft:stone, Minecraft:andesite, Minecraft:diorite, Minecraft:granite, Minecraft:tuff, and Minecraft:deepslate. Iron ore that replaces tuff or deepslate becomes deepslate iron ore.

Iron ore can generate as a large Minecraft:ore vein found in the deepslate layer, consisting of iron ore, Minecraft:blocks of raw iron, and Minecraft:tuff.

Usage

The primary usage of iron ore is to mine it for Minecraft:raw iron.

Note blocks

Iron ore can be placed under Minecraft:note blocks to produce "bass drum" sounds.

Sulfur cube

Template:In development Minecraft:Sulfur cubes have the ability to absorb iron ore and deepslate iron ore, either through picking it up or being interacted with it. This provides the medicine ball/slow flat effect to the mob when hitting it.

Sounds

Data values

ID

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History

Gallery

Screenshots

• A total of 20 iron ore blocks were obtained from this blob, which was likely composed of two smaller blobs.
  A total of 20 iron ore blocks were obtained from this blob, which was likely composed of two smaller blobs.
• Iron ore blob.
  Iron ore blob.
• Ravine with multiple ores, water and lava falls, and stronghold bridge over it.
  Ravine with multiple ores, water and lava falls, and stronghold bridge over it.
• Vein of deepslate iron ore with some raw iron blocks.
  Vein of deepslate iron ore with some raw iron blocks.
• Iron ore in a cave.
  Iron ore in a cave.

In other media

• Iron ore as it appeared in Template:MCE.
  Iron ore as it appeared in Template:MCE.
• Iron ore as it appears in Template:MCL.
  Iron ore as it appears in Template:MCL.

External links

• Block of the Week: Iron Ore – Minecraft.net on June 30, 2017