![]() ![]() People messed about a bit with iron they had found in meteors a little before that, but it wasn't until the 13th century that we developed the technology to reliably build hot enough fires to melt the ores into metal. Humans first discovered the joys of iron around 1200 BC, kicking off the appropriately-named Iron Age. You can see a lovely red one just above this paragraph. In fact, iron is one of the most abundant rock-forming elements there is, found in many different kinds of ore that vary in colour from dark grey, to bright yellow, deep purple and rusty red. While iron only makes up about 0.6 percent of the world in Minecraft, it's actually almost ten times more common in the Earth's crust. Iron ore is usually found in Minecraft in veins of eight blocks or so (though sometimes as few as four, or as many as ten), and you'll only find it up to a little above sea level - so don't go hunting for it in the peaks of extreme hills biomes! On average, there are about 77 blocks of iron ore in a 16x16 block column of the world, so if all else fails you can always just mine out an open-pit quarry all the way to bedrock. Finally, on March 20th 2010, the modern smelting system was implemented. ![]() Originally each block of iron ore dropped one to three blocks of iron - a pretty good haul! Then for a while you had to toss the ore onto a fire to smelt it. ![]() Iron ore was one of the earliest materials added to the game - way back in version 0.0.14a_01 on, alongside gold and coal ores. But I never miss an opportunity - even when I'm being pursued by a horde of hissing creepers - to grab a bit of iron. After a while in every Minecraft world, coal isn't really worth picking up any more because it's so easy to find when you need it. I never fail to get a little bit excited when I mine into a vein of iron ore. ![]()
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