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Gold Ingot
MiscellaneousCraftable

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

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

gold_ingot

Gold Ingot at a glance

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

Keep Gold Ingot around: 15 recipes here take Gold Ingot, 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 on Gold Ingot at about 88% per chest. Gold Ingot sits between Goat Horn and Gold Nugget in Miscellaneous, number 59 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe for Gold Ingot

Furnace
Gold IngotGold Ingot

What Gold Ingot is 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 Gold Ingot

  • Smelting
  • Crafting
  • Mob drops
  • Chest loot

Cooking 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.

Mobs That Drop Gold Ingot

Zombified Piglin drops 1 of them.

Notes on Gold Ingot

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

  1. Gold Ore going into Gold Ingot, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Gold Ingot in Minecraft?

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

  2. Gold Ingot turning into Bell and Clock, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Gold Ingot used for?

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

  3. Several Gold Ingot at once, the way a kill drops them

    Which mobs drop Gold Ingot?

    Zombified Piglin drops 1 of them.

  4. 64 Gold Ingot drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Gold Ingot can you stack?

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

  5. The raw item going into a furnace and coming out as Gold Ingot

    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.

  6. A chest beside Gold Ingot, the loot this answer lists

    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 on Gold Ingot are per chest, and Luck moves Gold Ingot nowhere at all.

  7. Gold Ingot coming forward out of the past, in the game since Alpha

    When was Gold Ingot added to Minecraft?

    Gold Ingot was added in the early Alpha development period.

Building with Gold Ingot

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.