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).


 * It takes 648 nuggets to get the 8 gold blocks for a golden apple. It takes 41,472 nuggets to craft a stack of 64 Golden apples, and it takes 2,239,488 nuggets to fill up an entire large Chest with stacks of 64 of Golden Apples.


 * Gold Nuggets can be used as currency in SMP, as they are worth one ninth of a gold ingot.

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