Iron

Iron
Properties
Type	Element
Made With/By	Mining
Difficulty of Production	Very Easy
Exists in Reality	Yes
Atomic Number	26

Iron is one of the most common but useful vanilla resources, used in a variety of applications from machines, tools, to alloys to make stronger versions of the previous.

Production

Mineral Deposits

Iron ore generates commonly in Y levels below 96. Iron ore clusters are a more rare version of the ore, which drop iron crystals when mined.

Hematite stratum have a vast amount of hematite, which can be melted into iron ingots.

Processing

Smelting

2

Shredding

2

3

Foundry Processing

Ore can be melted in a crucible into 2 ingots of molten iron, with a secondary product of 3 nuggets of molten titanium, and a stone byproduct.

Melting titanium ore yields a secondary product of 3 nuggets of molten iron.

Hematite can be combined with flux to produce molten iron.

2 ingots

2 nuggets

1 ingot

3 nuggets

Centrifuging

2

Iron powder is also a secondary product of the centrifuging of many other minerals.

4 4

2 2
2
2 3 3

2 2
3

Crystalization

Iron ore can be crystalized to produce iron crystals.

500mB

Electrolysis

Fluid Processing
450mB 150mB 50mB 3 3 2
1,000mB 500mB 500mB

Crystal Processing
100mB 6 ingots 2 ingots 3
100mB 6 ingots 2 ingots 3
100mB 6 ingots 2 ingots 3
100mB 2 ingots 2 ingots 4 3
100mB 3 ingots 4 ingots 4 3

Uses

Iron can be alloyed with coal to produce steel.

Gallery

Block
Welded plate
Cast plate
Powder
Plate
Crystals
Ore
Ore Cluster
Hematite

External Links

Iron at Wikipedia
Iron at the Minecraft Wiki