Metal
A metal is a lustrous, conductive, and generally strong and workable material. There currently exist two different metals within Minecraft:
There also exists one alloy:[upcoming: JE 1.16 & BE 1.16.0]
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Properties of metals[edit]
Metals in Minecraft all share the following properties:
- They can exist in nugget, ingot and full block forms.
- They have corresponding tool and armor sets.
- Their tool and armor sets can be processed by a furnace or blast furnace in order to receive a nugget of the respective metal back.
- Their ores are the only ores which drop themselves as a block without the use of the Silk Touch enchantment, requiring these ores to be smelted via furnace or blast furnace to receive the ingot (excluding nether gold ores[upcoming: JE 1.16]).
- They are capable of making pressure plates of varying weightedness.
- They, in block form, can power beacons.
Iron has the following additional properties:
- Can be used to create iron doors and iron trapdoors.
- Can be used to create iron bars.
- Has another corresponding armor set, the chain armor.
- Used for many heavy utility blocks such as anvils, cauldrons and hoppers.
- Heals iron golems.[Java Edition only]
Gold has the following additional properties:
- Can be used to upgrade apples, carrots and melon slices into golden apples, golden carrots and glistering melon slices.
- Bartering with piglins.[upcoming: JE 1.16 & BE 1.16.0]
Alloys have the following distinct properties from pure metals:
- They exist in block and ingot form, but not in nugget form.
- They do not have direct ores and must be combined from other metals.
Metallic elements[edit]
Aside from gold and iron, there exist numerous elements[Bedrock and Education editions only] which also correspond to real-life metals. However, these do not have the same uses that gold and iron metals have in-game.
d-block metals[edit]
- Scandium
- Titanium
- Vanadium
- Chromium
- Manganese
- Cobalt
- Nickel
- Copper
- Zinc
- Yttrium
- Zirconium
- Niobium
- Molybdenum
- Technetium
- Ruthenium
- Rhodium
- Palladium
- Silver
- Cadmium
- Lutetium
- Hafnium
- Tantalum
- Tungsten
- Rhenium
- Osmium
- Iridium
- Platinum
- Mercury
- Lawrencium
- Rutherfordium
- Dubnium
- Seaborgium
- Bohrium
- Hassium
- Meitnerium
- Darmstadtium
- Roentgenium
- Copernicium
f-block metals[edit]
- Lanthanum
- Cerium
- Praseodymium
- Neodymium
- Promethium
- Samarium
- Europium
- Gadolinium
- Terbium
- Dysprosium
- Holmium
- Erbium
- Thulium
- Ytterbium
- Actinium
- Thorium
- Protactinium
- Uranium
- Neptunium
- Plutonium
- Americium
- Curium
- Berkelium
- Californium
- Einsteinium
- Fermium
- Mendelevium
- Nobelium
Alkali metals[edit]
Alkaline earths[edit]
Other metals/Poor metals[edit]
Metal as a material type[edit]
Certain blocks are classified as metals as opposed to rock, requiring a pickaxe to be mined. However, the blocks placed in this category are not necessarily made of a metal in themselves; for example, blocks of diamond, blocks of emerald, blocks of redstone and lapis lazuli blocks are all listed under this category despite not being made of a metal.
History[edit]
| Java Edition Classic | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0.14a |   Added iron and gold ores. | ||||
| 0.0.20a |  Added blocks of gold. | ||||
| 0.27 SURVIVAL TEST |  Added blocks of iron. | ||||
| Java Edition Indev | |||||
| 0.31 | 20100129 |   Added iron and gold ingots. | |||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease |  Added gold nuggets. | |||
| 1.11.1 | 16w50a |  Added iron nuggets. | |||
| Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
| 1.16 | 20w06a |  Added netherite ingots. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| Pre-release | Added blocks of iron. | ||||
| 0.1.0 |  Added iron and gold ores.
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 Added blocks of gold. | |||||
| 0.3.2 | Added iron and gold ingots. | ||||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | Added gold nuggets. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Added iron nuggets. | |||
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.51 |  Added netherite ingots. | |||
See also[edit]
