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, gold, diamond, and netherite. The tier of an item determines its mining level, durability, mining speed multiplier, damage multiplier, enchantability, and repair item.

MCPE-71859

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

Other mechanics
Other mechanics in the game use these tiers for various purposes.
 * Piglins are attracted to items in the gold tier, along with various other gold items.
 * Obsidian, crying obsidian, blocks of netherite, and ancient debris 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.