Metal

A metal is a lustrous, conductive, and generally strong and workable material. There currently exist two different metals within Minecraft:

Properties of metals
Metals in Minecraft all share the following properties:


 * They can exist in nugget, ingot and full block forms.
 * They have corresponding tool and armor sets.
 * Their tool and armor sets can be processed by a furnace or blast furnace in order to receive a nugget of the respective metal back.
 * Their ores are the only ores which drop themselves as a block without the use of the Silk Touch enchantment, requiring these ores to be smelted via furnace or blast furnace to receive the ingot.
 * They are capable of making pressure plates of varying weightedness.

Metallic elements
Aside from gold and iron, there exist numerous elements which also correspond to real-life metals. However, these do not have the same uses that gold and iron metals have in-game.