How do you get Gold Nugget in Minecraft?

Gold Nugget is crafted from Gold Ingot at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 9. It also comes from mob drops, and Gold Nugget from smelting, not just the recipe above.

Where do you find Gold Nugget in chests?

Gold Nugget is chest loot in large underwater ruin chests (about 79%, 1 to 3 at a time), igloo basement chests (about 55%, 1 to 3 at a time), bastion bridge chests (about 48%, 2 to 6 at a time), and shipwreck treasure chests (about 37%, 1 to 10 at a time). It shows up in 9 kinds of chest in total. Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

How many Gold Nugget can you stack?

8 Gold Ingot is what 64 Gold Nugget costs, since each one returns 9, so filling a single slot is 8 crafts. A shulker box of Gold Nugget comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

Which mobs drop Gold Nugget?

0 to 1 per kill, and only Zombified Piglin carries Gold Nugget at all. It caps at 1 unenchanted; 1 more each level puts Zombified Piglin at 4.

What is Gold Nugget used for?

Gold Nugget is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Glistering Melon Slice and Golden Carrot.

When was Gold Nugget added to Minecraft?

Gold Nugget was added in the 1.0 full release.

MiscellaneousCraftable

Gold Nugget

A small piece of gold. Nine nuggets combine into one gold ingot.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Gold Nugget at a glance

Gold Nugget comes from crafting, mob drops, and smelting, and Miscellaneous is where it sits as an item. Stack Gold Nugget 64 high: 576 across a hotbar, 1728 in a shulker box, and 3456 in a double chest.

Gold Nugget additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Glistering Melon Slice and Golden Carrot. Of the 9 kinds of generated chest that can hold Gold Nugget, large underwater ruin chests are the best bet at about 79% per chest. It sits between Gold Ingot and Gray Dye in Miscellaneous, number 60 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Gold Ingot
Gold Nugget9
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Gold Nugget has the grid for Gold Nugget

Used to craft

Follow Gold Nugget forward and you land on 2 recipes: 1 in Miscellaneous, the rest spread over 1 other categories, Glistering Melon Slice through Golden Carrot. The links below go straight to the recipes that take Gold Nugget.

How to obtain

Crafting
Mob drops
Smelting

Cooking

Heat is all Gold Nugget asks for: any of 12 types, Golden Pickaxe and Golden Shovel through Golden Nautilus Armor go in any of these 2 and come back out. The blast furnace is quickest at 5 seconds a piece, the furnace slowest at 10. Experience comes with it: 0.1 a piece, 6.4 for the 64 in a slot.

Mobs that drop it

0 to 1 per kill, and only Zombified Piglin carries Gold Nugget at all. Gold Nugget caps at 1 unenchanted; 1 more each level puts Zombified Piglin at 4.

Notes

Dropped by zombified piglins and obtained by smelting golden tools or armor. Used to craft Golden Carrots, Glistering Melon Slices and Firework Stars.

Frequently asked questions about Gold Nugget

How do you get Gold Nugget in Minecraft?
Gold Nugget is crafted from Gold Ingot at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 9. It also comes from mob drops, and Gold Nugget from smelting, not just the recipe above.
Where do you find Gold Nugget in chests?
Gold Nugget is chest loot in large underwater ruin chests (about 79%, 1 to 3 at a time), igloo basement chests (about 55%, 1 to 3 at a time), bastion bridge chests (about 48%, 2 to 6 at a time), and shipwreck treasure chests (about 37%, 1 to 10 at a time). It shows up in 9 kinds of chest in total. Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.
How many Gold Nugget can you stack?
8 Gold Ingot is what 64 Gold Nugget costs, since each one returns 9, so filling a single slot is 8 crafts. A shulker box of Gold Nugget comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.
How do you cook Gold Nugget?
Heat is all Gold Nugget asks for: any of 12 types, Golden Pickaxe and Golden Shovel through Golden Nautilus Armor go in any of these 2 and come back out. The blast furnace is quickest at 5 seconds a piece, the furnace slowest at 10. Experience comes with it: 0.1 a piece, 6.4 for the 64 in a slot.
Which mobs drop Gold Nugget?
0 to 1 per kill, and only Zombified Piglin carries Gold Nugget at all. It caps at 1 unenchanted; 1 more each level puts Zombified Piglin at 4.
What is Gold Nugget used for?
Gold Nugget is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Glistering Melon Slice and Golden Carrot.
When was Gold Nugget added to Minecraft?
Gold Nugget was added in the 1.0 full release.

Building with it

One ingot gives nine nuggets, and nuggets are what golden carrots and glistering melons are actually built from. Zombified piglins drop them directly, so a Nether gold farm supplies the potion ingredients that an overworld gold mine would take far longer to reach.

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