Tiers

Tiers refer to the different levels and materials of tools and weapons.

Tiers
There are currently six tiers in the game: wood, stone, iron, diamond, netherite, and gold. The tier of an item determines its mining level, durability, mining speed multiplier, damage multiplier, enchantability, and repair item.

Affected Items
Axes, hoes, pickaxes, shovels, and swords all use tiers.

Other mechanics
Other mechanics in the game use these tiers for various purposes.
 * Ancient debris, blocks of netherite, crying obsidian, obsidian, respawn anchors require a pickaxe to have a mining level of 3 or better.
 * Blocks of diamond, diamond ore, blocks of emerald, emerald ore, blocks of gold, gold ore, and redstone ore require a pickaxe to have a mining level of 2 or better.
 * Blocks of iron, iron ore, lapis lazuli blocks, and lapis lazuli ore require a pickaxe to have a mining level of 1 or better.