How do you increase your chance of getting flint in Minecraft?

Flint is a mineral obtained from gravel.

Obtaining[]

Mining[]

When a block of gravel is mined, there is a 10% chance for a single piece of flint to drop instead of the gravel block. When mined with a Fortune-enchanted tool, this chance increases to 16% at Fortune I, 25% at Fortune II, and 100% at Fortune III. Gravel mined using a tool with Silk Touch or gravel that fell on a non-solid block never produces flint.

Trading[]

Novice-level fletcher villagers have a 50%‌[Bedrock Edition only] or 2⁄3‌[Java Edition only] chance to offer 10 pieces of flint for 10 blocks of gravel and an emerald.

Natural generation[]

Item Structure Container Quantity Chance Java EditionBedrock Edition

Flint	Ruined portal	Chest	1–4	46.4%
Village	Fletcher's chest	1–3	55.8%
Flint	Ruined portal	Chest	1–4	46.4%
Village	Fletcher's chest	1–3	55.8%

Usage[]

Crafting ingredient[]

NameIngredientsCrafting recipe ArrowFletching TableFlint and Steel

Flint + Stick + Feather	4
Flint + Any Planks
Iron Ingot + Flint

Trading[]

Apprentice-level fletcher villagers buy 26 flint for an emerald.

Apprentice-level leatherworker villagers have a 2⁄3 chance to buy 26 flint for an emerald in Java Edition, and always offer the trade in Bedrock Edition.

Journeyman-level toolsmith villagers have a 2⁄5 chance to buy 30 flint for one emerald in Java Edition, and always offer the trade in Bedrock Edition.

Journeyman-level weaponsmith villagers buy 24 flint for an emerald.

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierFormTranslation key

Flint	flint	Item	item.minecraft.flint

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID FormTranslation key

Flint	flint	356	Item	item.flint.name

History[]

Java Edition Indev20100219Java Edition Alphav1.0.14Java Edition1.3.112w21a1.31.814w02a1.1317w47a1.1418w43a18w50a19w11a1.1620w07a20w09a20w16aPocket Edition Alphav0.3.3v0.4.0v0.8.0build 2Pocket Edition1.0.4alpha 1.0.4.0Bedrock Edition1.10.0beta 1.10.0.31.11.0beta 1.11.0.1beta 1.11.0.4Legacy Console EditionTU1CU1 1.0 Patch 11.0.1? 1.90

Added flint.

Flint is now used to craft flint and steel.

Crafting arrows now requires flint, rather than iron ingots.

Farmer villagers now sell 4–5 flint for 1 emerald and 10 gravel.

The texture of flint has been slightly changed.

Fletcher villagers now sell 6–10 flint for 1 emerald and 10 gravel.

Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 318.

The texture of flint has been changed.

Flint can now be found in chests in village fletcher houses.

Fletcher, leatherworker, toolsmith and weaponsmith villagers now buy flint.

Flint has a 10⁄109 (~9.17%) chance of being given by the new piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 3–8, making it renewable.

Flint can no longer be obtained by bartering with piglins. However, they are still renewable as piglins offer gravel.

Flint now generates in ruined portal chests.

Added flint.

Flint can be used to craft arrows.

Flint can now be used to make flint and steel.

The texture of flint has been changed.

Fletcher villagers now sell 6–10 flint for 1 emerald and 10 gravel.

The texture of flint has been changed.

Flint can now be found in village fletcher chests.

Trading has been changed, fletcher villagers now have a 50% chance to sell 10 flint for 10 gravel and one emerald as part of their first tier trade.

Flint can now be sold to toolsmith, weaponsmith, fletcher, and leatherworker villagers.

Added flint.

The texture of flint has been changed.

The texture of flint has been changed.

Issues[]

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

Gallery[]

References[]

How do I increase my chances of getting flint?

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Is gravel The only way to get flint in Minecraft?