Iron Ore

Iron Ore

Transparent	No
Luminance	0
Blast resistance	15
Tool
Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Drops	Itself
Data value	dec: 15 hex: F bin: 1111
Namespaced ID	iron_ore

This article is about the ore. For the item, see Iron Ingot. For the mineral block, see Block of Iron. For the nugget, see Iron Nugget.

	“	I never fail to get a little bit excited when I mine into a vein of iron ore. After a while in every Minecraft world, coal isn't really worth picking up any more because it's so easy to find when you need it. But I never miss an opportunity - even when I'm being pursued by a horde of hissing creepers - to grab a bit of iron.	„
		— Duncan Geere

Iron ore is a mineral block found underground. It is the most common mineral that can be used to make tools and armor.

Occurence

Natural generation

Mineral veins

Iron ore can generate in the Overworld in the form of mineral veins. Iron ore attempts to generate 20 times per chunk in veins of size 9, from altitudes 0 to 64, in all biomes.

Obtaining

Iron ore will drop as an item if mined by a stone pickaxe or better. If mined by any other tool, it will drop nothing.

Block	Iron Ore
Hardness	3
Tool
Breaking time
Hand	15
Wooden	7.5
Stone	1.15
Iron	0.75
Diamond	0.6
Golden	1.25

Usage

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Iron Ingot	Iron Ore + Any fuel

This recipe awards 0.7 experience.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	Attenuation distance
	Block breaking	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	Blocks	0.5	0.25	16
	Block broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	Blocks	0.8	1.0	16
	Block placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	Blocks	0.8	1.0	16
	Footsteps	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	Blocks	1.0	0.15	16
	No subtitle	block.stone.fall	(Plays when fallen on from a height)	Blocks	0.75	0.5	16

Video

Note: Information in this video about iron ingots, blocks, and tools may be outdated. However, the information regarding iron ore is still correct.

History

Java Edition Classic
May 21, 2009					Notch shows interest in adding iron ore.
May 23, 2009					Notch says he accomplished adding iron veins in stone.
0.0.14a					Added iron ore.
					Iron ore spawns in huge veins, sometimes big enough to protrude into 3 caverns, and could be as big as 167 ores.
0.26 SURVIVAL TEST					Breaking iron ore now gives the player 1–3 blocks of iron when mined.
Java Edition Indev
0.31		?			Iron ore now no longer drops blocks of iron when mined.
		20100129			Before the furnace was added, players had to smelt ore by dropping ore blocks onto fire.
					Iron ore now drops itself when mined.
		20100201-2			Iron ore now requires a stone, iron, or diamond pickaxe to be successfully obtained.
Java Edition Infdev
20100227					Iron ore no longer generates.
20100320					Iron ore veins now generate, but differently.
20100327					Ore veins now appear more like they do today.
					Iron ore now will regenerate after the world is reloaded, assuming that the positions of the ore blocks were replaced by stone.
20100330					Iron ore no longer regenerates.
Java Edition
1.3.1		12w22a			Smelting iron ore, along with other ores, blocks and items, gives the player experience orbs when taking the item out of the furnace. One stack of iron ore will give the player approximately 2 levels of experience.
					Inventory sprites for blocks have now been flipped from left to right, changing to .
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 15.
Texture Update		2018			A texture of iron ore has now been proposed.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of iron ore has now been changed.
1.14.1		Pre-Release 1			The texture of iron ore has now been changed, once again.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.3.0					Added iron ore.
0.12.1		?			Iron ore now gives experience when smelted.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of iron ore has now been changed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added iron ore.
?					Smelting iron ore now gives experience.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The texture of iron ore has now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added iron ore.

Issues

Issues relating to "Iron Ore" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• There's no particular beige iron ore in real life. Colors of common real life iron minerals range from black or red to gold-yellow but none of them are truly beige.
• Iron only makes up about 0.6 percent of a Minecraft world.

Gallery

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  A vein of iron ore.

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  A total of 20 iron ore blocks were obtained from this vein, which is most likely composed of two smaller veins.

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  Iron ores exposed in a ravine.

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  An exposed single iron ore block that generated in a hole in the ground leading to a cave.

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  A vein of iron ore.

References

Blocks

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