How do you get Gold Ingot in Minecraft?

Gold Ingot is crafted from Gold Ore at a Furnace, in a single step. It also comes from smelting, Gold Ingot from mob drops, and Gold Ingot from chest loot, not just the recipe above.

What is Gold Ingot used for?

Gold Ingot is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Bell, Clock, Gold Block, Gold Nugget, Golden Apple, Golden Axe, Golden Boots, Golden Chestplate, Golden Helmet, Golden Hoe, plus 5 other items that call for it.

How many Gold Ingot can you stack?

64 Gold Ingot fills a slot, and that slot costs 64 Gold Ore, which is 64 smelts at the furnace. A shulker box of Gold Ingot comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

Where do you find Gold Ingot in chests?

Gold Ingot is chest loot in buried treasure (about 88%, 1 to 4 at a time), end city chests (about 51%, 2 to 7 at a time), jungle temple chests (about 51%, 2 to 7 at a time), and nether fortress chests (about 47%, 1 to 3 at a time). It shows up in 18 kinds of chest in total. Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

When was Gold Ingot added to Minecraft?

Gold Ingot was added in the early Alpha development period.

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Gold Ingot

A metal ingot smelted from raw gold or gold ore. It is used to craft golden tools, powered rails, clocks and many other items.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Gold Ingot at a glance

Gold Ingot, an item out of smelting, crafting, mob drops, and chest loot, sits under Miscellaneous. Carrying Gold Ingot is cheap: 64 to a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 1728 in a chest.

Keep Gold Ingot around: 15 recipes here call for it, which makes it worth a slot in the storage room rather than something you gather per project. Of the 18 kinds of generated chest that can hold Gold Ingot, buried treasure is the best bet at about 88% per chest. It sits between Goat Horn and Gold Nugget in Miscellaneous, number 59 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

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Gold Ingot
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Gold Ingot has the grid for Gold Ingot

Used to craft

15 recipes call for Gold Ingot, from Bell to Powered Rail, and Tools takes 4 of them. Each link below opens that recipe with Gold Ingot in the grid.

How to obtain

Smelting
Crafting
Mob drops
Chest loot

Cooking

Gold Ingot comes out of Deepslate Gold Ore, Gold Ore, Nether Gold Ore, and Raw Gold, and a blast furnace or a furnace will each do it. A blast furnace does one in 5 seconds, a furnace needs 10. Gold Ingot pays 1 experience each time, 64 for the whole 64.

Mobs that drop it

Zombified Piglin drops 1 of them.

Notes

Also obtained by smelting raw gold in a blast furnace, by crafting nine gold nuggets, or by uncrafting a gold block. Used to craft Netherite Ingots.

Frequently asked questions about Gold Ingot

How do you get Gold Ingot in Minecraft?
Gold Ingot is crafted from Gold Ore at a Furnace, in a single step. It also comes from smelting, Gold Ingot from mob drops, and Gold Ingot from chest loot, not just the recipe above.
What is Gold Ingot used for?
Gold Ingot is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Bell, Clock, Gold Block, Gold Nugget, Golden Apple, Golden Axe, Golden Boots, Golden Chestplate, Golden Helmet, Golden Hoe, plus 5 other items that call for it.
Which mobs drop Gold Ingot?
Zombified Piglin drops 1 of them.
How many Gold Ingot can you stack?
64 Gold Ingot fills a slot, and that slot costs 64 Gold Ore, which is 64 smelts at the furnace. A shulker box of Gold Ingot comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.
How do you cook Gold Ingot?
Gold Ingot comes out of Deepslate Gold Ore, Gold Ore, Nether Gold Ore, and Raw Gold, and a blast furnace or a furnace will each do it. A blast furnace does one in 5 seconds, a furnace needs 10. Gold Ingot pays 1 experience each time, 64 for the whole 64.
Where do you find Gold Ingot in chests?
Gold Ingot is chest loot in buried treasure (about 88%, 1 to 4 at a time), end city chests (about 51%, 2 to 7 at a time), jungle temple chests (about 51%, 2 to 7 at a time), and nether fortress chests (about 47%, 1 to 3 at a time). It shows up in 18 kinds of chest in total. Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.
When was Gold Ingot added to Minecraft?
Gold Ingot was added in the early Alpha development period.

Building with it

Gold smelts from ore or comes from bartering with piglins, and it is the softest useful metal in the game: fast tools, weak armour, and the highest enchantability of any material. It also makes golden carrots, golden apples and powered rails.

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Gold Ingot at a glance

Crafting recipe

Used to craft

How to obtain

Cooking

Mobs that drop it

Notes

Frequently asked questions about Gold Ingot

How do you get Gold Ingot in Minecraft?

What is Gold Ingot used for?

Which mobs drop Gold Ingot?

How many Gold Ingot can you stack?

How do you cook Gold Ingot?

Where do you find Gold Ingot in chests?

When was Gold Ingot added to Minecraft?

Building with it

Related Astroworld Resources

Villager trades for Gold Ingot

Zombified Piglin drops Gold Ingot

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