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Iron Ingot
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Iron Ingot

The most versatile metal ingot, smelted from raw iron or iron ore. It is used to craft tools, armor, buckets, anvils and countless other items.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Miscellaneous

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

iron_ingot

Iron Ingot at a glance

Miscellaneous holds Iron Ingot: an item out of smelting, crafting, chest loot, and mob drops. A slot of Iron Ingot holds 64, nine slots hold 576, and 1728 fill a chest.

Iron Ingot is also a hub ingredient, feeding 34 different recipes in this catalogue, so a stock in a chest unlocks that many crafts at once. Of the 19 kinds of generated chest that can hold Iron Ingot, buried treasure is the best bet at about 99% per chest. It sits between Ink Sac and Iron Nugget in Miscellaneous, number 69 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Furnace
Iron IngotIron Ingot

Used to craft

34 recipes call for Iron Ingot, from Activator Rail to Tripwire Hook, and Utility Blocks takes 10 of them. Every name in the list has a page of its own, grid included, with Iron Ingot in it.

How to obtain

  • Smelting
  • Crafting
  • Chest loot
  • Mob drops

Cooking

Iron Ingot comes out of Deepslate Iron Ore, Iron Ore, and Raw Iron, and a blast furnace or a furnace will each do it. Timing runs from 5 seconds in the blast furnace to 10 in the furnace. Iron Ingot pays 0.7 experience each time, 44.8 for the whole 64.

Mobs that drop it

Iron Golem leads the 4 mobs dropping Iron Ingot, at 3 to 5 a kill.

Notes

Also obtained by smelting raw iron in a blast furnace, crafting nine iron nuggets, or uncrafting an iron block. Dropped by iron golems and zombies.

Frequently asked questions about Iron Ingot

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

    How do you get Iron Ingot in Minecraft?

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

  2. The raw item going into a furnace and coming out as Iron Ingot

    How do you cook Iron Ingot?

    Iron Ingot comes out of Deepslate Iron Ore, Iron Ore, and Raw Iron, and a blast furnace or a furnace will each do it. Timing runs from 5 seconds in the blast furnace to 10 in the furnace. Iron Ingot pays 0.7 experience each time, 44.8 for the whole 64.

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

    Which mobs drop Iron Ingot?

    Iron Golem leads the 4 mobs dropping Iron Ingot, at 3 to 5 a kill.

  4. A chest beside Iron Ingot, the loot this answer lists

    Where do you find Iron Ingot in chests?

    Iron Ingot is chest loot in buried treasure (about 99%, 1 to 4 at a time), shipwreck treasure chests (about 97%, 1 to 5 at a time), village armorer chests (about 54%, 1 to 3 at a time), and village toolsmith chests (about 41%, 1 to 5 at a time). It shows up in 19 kinds of chest in total. Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

  5. Iron Ingot coming forward out of the past, in the game since Alpha

    When was Iron Ingot added to Minecraft?

    Iron Ingot was added in the early Alpha development period.

  6. Iron Ingot turning into Activator Rail and Anvil, two of the recipes it feeds

    What is Iron Ingot used for?

    Iron Ingot is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Activator Rail, Anvil, Blast Furnace, Bucket, Cauldron, Chain, Compass, Crafter, Crossbow, Detector Rail, plus 24 other items that call for it.

  7. 64 Iron Ingot drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Iron Ingot can you stack?

    64 Iron Ore is what 64 Iron Ingot costs, so filling a single slot is 64 smelts. A double chest of Iron Ingot comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

Building with it

Iron is the workhorse metal: tools, armour, buckets, rails, hoppers, anvils and shields all need it. Ore smelts into ingots, iron golems drop it, and an iron farm built around a village turns the whole supply from a mining problem into a waiting one.

Related Astroworld Resources

Villager trades for Iron Ingot

What villagers ask for Iron Ingot on Astroworld Trades

Iron Golem drops Iron Ingot

The Iron Golem page on Astroworld Mobs, where Iron Ingot is listed as a drop

Husk drops Iron Ingot

The Husk page on Astroworld Mobs, where Iron Ingot is listed as a drop

Zombie drops Iron Ingot

The Zombie page on Astroworld Mobs, where Iron Ingot is listed as a drop

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