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 bonus, enchantability, and repair item.

Affected items
Swords, axes, pickaxes, shovels, and hoes all use tiers.

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