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).


 * On a side note, it takes 648 nuggets to get the 8 gold blocks for a golden apple (because 9 nuggets make a single ingot, 9 ingots make a single gold block, and 8 gold blocks with the red apple craft a single golden apple). It takes 41472 nuggets to craft a stack of 64 Golden apples, and it takes 2,239,488 nuggets to fill up an entire large Chest of 54 slots with stacks of 64 of Golden Apples. Note: This might be confused with the amount using Gold Ingots. Remember that this uses Gold Nuggets and because 1 ingot is crafted with 9 nuggets and 1 block is crafted with 9 ingots, these account for the seemingly impossibly large values that occur when small values, such as this, add up over many multiplications.

Gold (Klumpen) Pépite d'or Золото (самородок)