How do you smelt an iron nugget?

The Iron Nugget is a small piece of refined iron, made from smelting chunks of iron ore in a brick oven or a full block of iron ore in a kiln. It has several crafting applications, or nine can be crafted together to create an Iron Ingot, which is used to create most iron items.

Iron Nugget is an essential material for many cool recipes. But is it craftable? In this article, We will show you how to craft Iron Nugget in Minecraft!

Everything you need to make Iron Nugget

Iron Nugget is an easy-to-find material but has many usages. You can gain access to Iron Nugget quite early in the game, as long as you found some Irons, or are lucky with loot chests. 

• 1x Iron Ingot OR 1x any Iron Tools/Armors

How to craft Iron Nugget in Minecraft

#1 Collect 1x Iron Ingot

You can mine Iron Ores underground and smelt them in the Furnace to get Iron Ingots. Remember to break them with a Pickaxe.

If you already have an Iron Ingot, go to step 2 below.

Or continue reading, I’ll show you 3 more ways you can Iron Nugget without an Iron Ingot.

You can smelt any Iron Tools/Armors/Horse Armor in the furnace to get 1x Iron Nugget.

Another way is through bartering with Piglins using Gold Ingot. They have a chance to give you 9-37x Iron Nuggets.

And the final way is to look for looted chests in Bastion Remnant, Ruined portal, Shipwreck, and Village. You can get 1-18x Iron Nuggets per chest.

#2 Finish off crafting an Iron Nugget

When you have the Iron Ingot, simply put it in the crafting grid and you will get 9x Iron Nuggets. The ratio is always 1x Iron Ingot for 9x Iron Nuggets. And you can just press E and use your character crafting grid, no Crafting Table required.

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Iron nuggetType:ItemStackable:Yes, 64Found naturally:NoRenewable:YesIdentifier:iron_nugget

Iron nugget is an item that can be obtained by Smelting iron tools and armor, and by crafting from Iron ingot.

Obtaining

Crafting

Nine iron nugget can be obtained by crafting it from Iron ingot.

Smelting

One iron nugget can be obtained by smelting it from iron Tools and Armor. The number of nuggets does not depend on the damage to the item. This is a good way to recover iron from badly damaged items.

Small quality of life change. Most if not all iron items can be smelted into nuggets if not needed (horse / human armor, tools, and so on.), and mine carts are one of the few of these that spawn naturally (in mine shafts specifically). in addition, if the player is inclined to collect everything from their environment, these mine carts take up valuable chest space rapidly, as they cannot be stacked.

This idea would render these spare carts useful, save valuable inventory space, and would not to be too far-fetched of a use, considering that every other iron item of this type (except the compass) has this function.

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