Turn iron ore into iron ingots

Craft tools to mine iron ore

Iron ore - to make iron ingots from it - cannot be mined by hand:

1. Chop down 3 trees. You now have to place these one after the other in a crafting field to get 12 pieces of wood.
2. Crafting You make a workbench out of 4 pieces of wood and create 4 sticks out of 2 pieces of wood on top of each other.
3. Now craft a wooden pickaxe from 3 pieces of wood in the upper row of the workbench from 2 sticks one below the other.
4. Use it to mine stones. You need 3 cobblestones to craft a stone pickaxe with the remaining 2 sticks, with which you can now mine the coveted iron ore.


Minecraft: charcoal - this is how you get the fuel

If you want to make something in Minecraft, you often need coal for it. Instead of coal ...

Now you need a furnace in which to make iron ingots from the iron ore.

Making iron ingots in the furnace

1. To get the paving stones needed for the stove, use the pickaxe to mine stone. Now place 8 paving stones in the outer fields of the workbench and you get the oven.
2. Since you can make iron ingots from iron ore better with charcoal or coal, you should now look for coal or cut down a log.
3. Put a piece of wood in the stove at the bottom and the tree trunk at the top to get charcoal.
4. Now put the charcoal and iron ore in the furnace. Now you've finally made iron ingots.

How to use iron ingots in Minecraft

It is important in Minecraft Turn iron ore into iron bars because you will need them often, even if you can find iron bars in chests or abandoned shafts.

• You can not only craft iron blocks from iron bars, but also tools such as axes, picks, shovels.
• You also need iron bars for armor, doors, rails and carts.

You can also reclaim iron ingots from iron blocks, so you don't always have to make them from iron ore.