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Open in the icon editorIron ore in Minecraft: the best height to mine it
Iron ore is the source of raw iron, which you then smelt into ingots. A stone pickaxe is enough to collect it, which makes it the first important ore in any game. Without Silk Touch it drops one raw iron, and with Fortune III it can give up to four.
It generates in three batches, and knowing them helps decide where to look. The largest runs from level 80 to 384 and is most common around Y=232, so tall mountains are packed with iron. The second runs from -24 to 56, peaking at Y=16, and is the one you meet exploring ordinary caves. The third is small blobs spread evenly between -64 and 72.
Below Y=0 you get the deepslate variant, which is slower to mine. That layer also holds large ore veins made of iron ore, blocks of raw iron and tuff, and finding one keeps you in iron for a long time.
If you want volume, the plan is simple: climb a tall mountain or head down to around Y=16. And before mining for hours, consider an iron golem farm, which gives iron without any digging.
Sources: minecraft.wiki/Iron Ore
How to get Iron Ore
Mined with a pickaxe (stone or better). Mining it drops Raw Iron.
Recipe and drops taken from the Minecraft 26.3 data pack.
What you make with Iron Ore
It goes in as an ingredient in these recipes.
- Iron Ingot
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