Iron Nugget Rarity color Common Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64)

Iron nuggets are pieces of iron that can be obtained by smelting iron tools/weapons or iron/chainmail armor. One iron nugget is effectively worth one-ninth of an iron ingot.

Obtaining [ edit ]

Crafting [ edit ]

Smelting [ edit ]

Durability and enchantments do not affect the ability to smelt iron tools, weapons, or armor into iron nuggets.

Bartering [ edit ]

Piglins may barter 9–36 iron nuggets when given a gold ingot.

Natural generation [ edit ]

Usage [ edit ]

Iron nuggets are used to craft iron ingots, lanterns, soul fire lanterns, and chains.

Crafting ingredient [ edit ]

Data values [ edit ]

ID [ edit ]

Java Edition:

Name Namespaced ID Translation key Iron Nugget iron_nugget item.minecraft.iron_nugget

Bedrock Edition:

Name Namespaced ID Numeric ID Translation key Iron Nugget iron_nugget 452 item.iron_nugget.name

History [ edit ]

Trivia [ edit ]

From the iron nuggets introduction in 1.11.1 to the Village and Pillage update in 1.14, it was the first and only completely useless item in Minecraft (so far), only being used for iron ingots, which can also make iron nuggets, so it was only useful in itself. It wasn't used in any crafting recipes (except iron ingots), and it took 9 iron nuggets to make one ingot, which made it not really worth smelting iron tools and armor for just one iron nugget. It changed when they added lanterns in 1.14, which required 8 iron nuggets in its crafting recipe, and 1.16, when they added chains and soul lanterns, which required 2 and 8, respectively.

Issues [ edit ]

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