What can you mine ancient debris with iron?

4 A Diamond or Better Pickaxe Can Mine Ancient Debris
Players looking to skip the traditional progression of the game and get Netherite gear quickly will be in for quite a shock after spending half a minute of whacking at the block with an Iron pickaxe.
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Can you mine Netherite debris with iron?

Luckily, you won't need a Diamond Pickaxe to mine it. Just a simple iron or above will do the trick!
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What pick can mine ancient debris?

To find Ancient Debris, first you'll need a Diamond Pickaxe. If you mine the Ancient Debris block with anything less, it won't drop anything. The blocks can be found at level 8 through 22 (and only in the Nether), so you'll have to carefully mine in the Nether to find it.
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Does Fortune 3 work ancient debris?

The Fortune enchantment does not work on ancient debris, just like iron and gold ore. It also doesn't drop any experience. An easy and efficient way to look for ancient debris is by digging a very long two-block high, one block wide tunnel at y=12 to y=15. Then place TNT blocks at 4 block intervals along with it.
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Does Fortune work on iron?

The Fortune enchantment deliberately does not work on iron and gold ore to avoid easy item duplication.
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The Ultimate Minecraft 1.19 Ancient Debris/Netherite Mining Guide



How rare is a 5 vein of ancient debris?

5, on average they generate 1.56 ores per chunk. Given this number, and that there are 32768 blocks in a chunk (16 * 128 * 16), there is approximately a 0.004% chance that any randomly selected block will be an ancient debris block.
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Can you mine obsidian with iron?

Obsidian can no longer be mined by an iron pickaxe. The enchantment table has been introduced, which is crafted using obsidian. Introduced the End, with obsidian platform and obsidian pillars. Obsidian mining time has been decreased from 15 to 2.5 seconds.
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Can you Silk Touch ancient debris?

When you break it with silk touch, it will drop something called imitation or infested ancient debris. This can be smelted directly into an imitation netherrite block, allowing survival players to make use of the wonderful texture that is currently in such short supply in the nether.
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Does Fortune iron 1.18 Work?

Top 5 ways to get iron in Minecraft 1.18 update

Having a fortune enchantment on a pickaxe can yield more raw iron from an ore block.
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Does Fortune work on diamonds?

With Fortune III, players can get up to four diamonds from mining a single block of diamond ore. In terms of mining gravel for flint, Minecraft players have a 100% chance to get flint if they use a proper Fortune III enchanted tool.
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Do beds break Netherite?

Bed mining is one of the best and cheapest ways to mine netherite. Mine a hole or staircase down to y-15. Place a bed 6 blocks from the end of the path to the surface.
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Can iron pickaxe mine diamond?

The tools you'll need to mine for diamonds

The most important item is an iron pickaxe. Diamond ore can only be mined with an iron pickaxe or better (better meaning gold, diamond, or netherite). If you try to mine diamonds with a stone or wood pickaxe, the block will break but you won't get anything from it.
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What is crying obsidian?

Crying obsidian is a luminous variant of obsidian that can be used to craft a respawn anchor and produces purple particles when placed.
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Can Crying obsidian make a portal?

Crying obsidian takes four glowstone to charge fully, and therefore allows you to respawn four times in the Nether, unless you recharge it. In survival mode, crying obsidian can only be mined with a diamond or netherite pickaxe, so be careful about that. Crying obsidian can't be used to make a nether portal.
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What level is debris 1.18 bedrock?

These blobs are concentrated between Y-levels 8 and 22. The highest concentrations of ancient debris tend to appear in Y=15. This means players will typically have to dig down in order to find the elusive block. Furthermore, blobs of zero to two blocks also appear between levels Y=8 and Y=119.
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Is it possible to find a 4 vein of Netherite?

Ancient Debris can spawn in veins of 1-3 blocks at Y-axis 8-22, and it can spawn in veins of 1-2 blocks at Y-axis 8-119. This means that the maximum number of Ancient Debris blocks you can find in one chunk (64x64 block section of the world) is five.
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What's the rarest ore in Minecraft?

Emerald Ore is the rarest ore to date in Minecraft (25 times more so than Diamond Ore, while almost always spawning in only one-block veins). When mined (with an Iron Pickaxe or higher), it drops an Emerald; the only implemented use of Emeralds to date is for trading with Villagers.
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What does a lodestone compass do in Minecraft?

Lodestones can be used together with compasses in Minecraft in order to help players find their way back to a location after getting lost in the Nether. It works by magnetic pull, which means that a compass will always point towards a Lodestone. These stones work in the Nether, the End, and the overworld.
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What is the purple obsidian in Minecraft?

Crying obsidian is a decorative block that is used to create respawn anchors. They appear like purple blocks and these blocks produce purple dripping particles as if it is "crying".
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What blocks can't the Wither break?

Blue wither skulls break all breakable blocks (including obsidian, ancient debris, and blocks of netherite), but cannot break unbreakable blocks like bedrock, end portal frames and reinforced deepslate. In Education Edition, blue wither skulls deal increased damage, but with the same explosion radius.
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Why is gold so useless in Minecraft?

Golden tools are the most efficient, yet still avoided by the majority of Minecraft players. The reason they're considered among the worst type of tools is because of their durability. A golden pickaxe can only break 32 blocks, which is by far the lowest for any amount.
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How many blocks can a Netherite shovel break with Unbreaking 3?

2 33.3%, unb 3 25% chance the durability will be consumed, essentially doubling, tripling or quadrupling the durability (albeit with a randomness-based imprecision) - Unbreaking 3 diamond pickaxe can on average break 6248 blocks.
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Can a gold pickaxe mine Obsidian?

Obsidian is the hardest material in Minecraft. It can be collected only with a DIAMOND PICKAXE.
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Can TNT destroy diamond ore?

With the TNT update, yes. Tnt will now drop every material it blows up.
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What y level is Netherite?

Strip mining is the most basic way of obtaining Netherite, and the best level to find it is at the coordinate Y = 12. Players should leave two blocks in between lanes and then just mine in a straight line, creating a strip.
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