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Flint is found by mining gravel. There is a 10% chance that a single unit of flint will drop instead of the gravel block. It is possible to farm flint by placing stacks of gravel and mining them down; this is a one-way process, there is no way of turning flint back into gravel.

Crafting

Ingredients Input » Output
Iron Ingot + Flint Template:Grid/Crafting Table
Flint + Stick + Feather Template:Grid/Crafting Table

Trivia

  • After the 1.3 update, finding flint is more common.[citation needed]
  • It takes 4 1/2 wooden shovels to convert 24 blocks of gravel into flint. Using this result, it should take 12 wooden shovels to convert one stack of gravel into flint.
  • It is not possible to convert gravel to flint by placing a half block underneath it, and allowing gravity to turn the stack into resources.
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