How do you get Flint in Minecraft?

Flint is obtained through mining. You never craft Flint; 2 recipes spend it.

Where do you find Flint in chests?

Flint is chest loot in village fletcher chests (about 56%, 1 to 3 at a time) and ruined portal chests (about 46%, 1 to 4 at a time). Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

What is Flint used for?

Flint is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Arrow and Flint and Steel.

How many Flint can you stack?

Flint at 64 a slot, and Arrow takes 1 per craft, so a full slot is 64 Arrow with nothing left over. A shulker box of Flint comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

When was Flint added to Minecraft?

Flint was added in the early Alpha development period.

Miscellaneous

Flint

A material obtained as an occasional drop when mining gravel. It is used to craft flint and steel and arrows.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Flint at a glance

Mining gives you Flint, an item filed under Miscellaneous. Carrying Flint is cheap: 64 to a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 1728 in a chest.

Flint additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Arrow and Flint and Steel. Of the 2 kinds of generated chest that can hold Flint, village fletcher chests are the best bet at about 56% per chest. It sits between Firework Star and Flow Armor Trim in Miscellaneous, number 49 of 147 there.

Used to craft

Flint is an ingredient in 2 other recipes across 2 categories, 1 of them in Weapons, Arrow first and Flint and Steel last. The links below go straight to the recipes that take Flint.

How to obtain

Mining

Notes

Not a block. Has a 10 percent base chance to drop from gravel, increased by Fortune; a tool with Fortune III makes gravel always drop flint. Can also be traded from fletcher villagers.

Frequently asked questions about Flint

How do you get Flint in Minecraft?
Flint is obtained through mining. You never craft Flint; 2 recipes spend it.
Where do you find Flint in chests?
Flint is chest loot in village fletcher chests (about 56%, 1 to 3 at a time) and ruined portal chests (about 46%, 1 to 4 at a time). Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.
What is Flint used for?
Flint is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Arrow and Flint and Steel.
How many Flint can you stack?
Flint at 64 a slot, and Arrow takes 1 per craft, so a full slot is 64 Arrow with nothing left over. A shulker box of Flint comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.
When was Flint added to Minecraft?
Flint was added in the early Alpha development period.

Building with it

Gravel drops flint about one time in ten, and a shovel with Fortune raises that sharply. Flint makes arrows and, with an iron ingot, flint and steel, so a single gravel patch supplies both the ammunition and the ignition for a Nether trip.

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