Gold Nugget

The Gold Nugget is an item that was first introduced in the 1.9 Pre-release. These are obtained by killing Zombie Pigmen, and can be crafted into Gold ingots, making Gold a renewable ore.

Trivia

 * Since Zombie Pigmen carry golden swords with them, it is likely that the gold nuggets are pieces from the destroyed swords since they are not dropped upon death. Only 1/18th of the gold from pigmen's swords are salvaged (assuming 100% drop rate).


 * Due to their shape, it is also possible that the Gold Nugget is the remains of a gold tooth dropped by the pigman upon death.


 * On a side note, it takes 648 nuggets to get the 8 gold blocks for a golden apple. It takes 41472 nuggets to craft a stack of 64 Golden apples, and it takes 2,239,488 nuggets to fill up an entire large Chest of 54 slots with stacks of 64 of Golden Apples.

Gold (Klumpen) Pépite d'or Золото (самородок)