Iron Ingot

Iron ingots are versatile metal crafting ingredients.

Smelting
Smelting iron ore is the most common way to obtain iron ingots.

Natural generation
Iron ingots can also be found in toolsmith chests in villages.

Iron golems
Iron golems drop 3-5 iron ingots upon death, regardless of the way they die. The looting enchantment does not increase the amount of iron ingots dropped.

Zombies
Zombies have a 0.8% chance of dropping 1 iron ingot, 1.2% with Looting I, 1.5% with Looting II, and 1.8% with Looting III.

Trading
Armorer, toolsmith, and weaponsmith villagers buy 7-9 iron ingots for one emerald as part of their second tier trades. Armorer, toolsmith, and weaponsmith villagers buy 4 iron ingots for an emerald as part of their second tier trades.

Repairing
Chainmail helmets, chestplates, leggings, boots and iron helmets, chestplates, leggings, boots, swords, pickaxes, axes, hoes and shovels can be repaired with iron ingots in an anvil.

Beacons
Iron ingots can be used to select powers from a beacon. The player must select one of the available powers, and then insert an ingot in the item slot.

An iron ingot can be substituted for an emerald, a gold ingot, or a diamond.

Trivia

 * The iron ingot is the most versatile item in the game, being used in 32 crafting recipes. The second most versatile item is planks with 29 recipes.

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