An iron or diamond pick is pretty much all you need to mine gold, since getting a netherite pickaxe is way more difficult: you will need to go to the nether, find 4 pieces of ancient debris and mine them with a diamond pickaxe, smelt the ancient debris in a furnace (to get the netherite scraps), combine the scraps with gold ingots to make a netherite ingot, and finally upgrade the diamond pickaxe using a smithing table.

If you’re playing on Pocket Edition, tap and hold on the block to break it. If you’re playing on a console or with a controller, hold the right trigger. If you’re going through caves instead, make sure to leave a trail of torches behind you. This will help you find your way back out. However, in version 1. 18 and above, gold is less likely to generate when exposed to air, so going caving for gold is less likely to turn up much. You can also stand in the middle of two blocks and alternate breaking each one. However, you’ll have to pillar back up or use ladders later.

Layer 28 is the highest and usually safest layer where you’ll find the maximum amount of gold pre-1. 18. Pre-1. 18, layers 11–13 are the best places to look for gold and diamonds at the same time. Try to avoid digging below layer 10, where lava becomes much more common. In version 1. 18 and higher, gold is most commonly found at Y-level -16, with gold becoming less common toward either end of its range.

To find every single gold block, keep two solid blocks between each tunnel. However, this is a much slower method.

If you’re playing on Pocket Edition, tap and hold on the block to break it. If you’re playing on a console or with a controller, hold the right trigger.

If you are playing on Java Edition, have cheats enabled on your world and are having a hard time finding a badlands biome, you can use commands to find one. Open chat and type /locatebiome badlands and enter it. This will give you the coordinates of the nearest badlands biome, which you can then teleport or travel to.

Place two obsidian blocks next to each other on the ground, and then place a placeholder block on each end. Place three obsidian blocks in columns on each of the placeholder blocks. Put a placeholder block on the top of each column. Place two more obsidian blocks between the top placeholders, then light the portal using a flint and steel.

It is best to look for Nether gold ore in biomes that aren’t basalt deltas as this biome has fewer valid generation areas. Basalt Deltas are mostly gray biomes filled with basalt and blackstone.

If you’re playing on Pocket Edition, tap and hold the block to break it. If you’re playing on a console or with a controller, press and hold right trigger to break it. If you break Nether gold ore or other gold blocks near piglins, they will attack you, regardless of if you are wearing golden armor or not.

Alternatively, you can mine nether gold ore with a Silk Touch pickaxe and smelt it just like regular gold ore.

The easiest way to find abandoned mineshafts is by exploring caves and ravines. Look for oak planks, fences, rails, and torches you didn’t place, as these things indicate a mineshaft. Look for minecart chests in the mineshaft and check them for gold ingots or other loot you want.

Explore caves and ravines, and look out for cobblestone you didn’t place, as this usually indicates a dungeon. Place torches on and around the spawner in the dungeon. This will prevent mobs from spawning. You could also destroy the spawner with a pickaxe, but this will completely destroy it. Check the chests for gold ingots or other loot you want.

Pick a direction and start traveling until you find a village. It may take you a while to find one, so bring plenty of supplies like food, blocks, tools, and armor. When you find a village, check inside all the homes for any chests. Open the chests and take any gold ingots and other loot you want. Finding a village is beneficial because villages provide access to free items. [14] X Research source You can find chests filled with random items all around a village. [15] X Research source You can exchange materials that you find throughout the game for different items depending on the specialization of the villager. [16] X Research source

Swim or sail around oceans while looking for wooden structures underwater. You can also feed a dolphin raw cod or salmon, which will cause them to lead you to the nearest underwater structure, which may be a shipwreck[18] X Research source . Swim around the shipwreck and check all the rooms and chests. Take any gold ingots, buried treasure maps, and other loot you want. Buried treasure maps will lead you to buried treasure chests which can have gold ingots in them. Use the buried treasure map to find buried treasure. Hold the map in your hand and look for the white dot on it that indicates you. Determine what direction you need to go in to get to the red X on the map and start traveling in that direction. As you travel, check your dot’s movements. When you’re on top of the red X, start digging around that area until you find a chest. Open the chest and take any gold ingots or other loot you want.

Explore desert biomes until you find a pyramid like structure with 2 towers attached. This is a desert temple. Get inside the temple and locate the orange and blue terracotta inside on the floor. Below is the treasure room. Break one of the outside orange blocks and make sure there is a block beneath it before digging down more. Dig until you reach the bottom of the treasure room. Don’t step on the stone pressure plate in the middle of it, break it instead or else it will trigger a TNT explosion. Open all the chests in the room and take any gold ingots and other loot you want.

Explore jungle and bamboo jungle biomes. Look for a large cobblestone structure, this is the temple. Enter the temple. Go down the stairs that are near the entrance. On one side, there will be a wall with 3 levers. You can pull the levers and, if the correct combination is pulled, a block upstairs will be moved that will lead to a chest that can contain gold ingots and other useful loot. On the other side, there will be a corridor with some arrow traps. Look on the floor for pieces of string and tripwires. Break the tripwires to deactivate the trap. At the end of the corridor there will be a chest that can contain gold ingots and other loot.

The easiest way to find a woodland mansion is by trading with a cartographer villager for a woodland explorer map and using the map to find one. You could also explore dark oak forest biomes until you find a giant, dark oak and cobblestone mansion. Woodland mansions are very dangerous, so be sure to bring plenty of supplies including food, blocks, torches, tools, good weapons and armor. Once you find a woodland mansion, enter it and explore each room you find. Some rooms may have chests that can contain gold ingots and other loot. Take whatever loot you want.

Some rooms in bastions may also have gold blocks in them. You can break these gold blocks and turn them into ingots. Piglins will attack you if you mine gold blocks or open chests near them, so be careful when exploring bastions.

Make eyes of ender to find a stronghold. Eyes of ender are crafted using enderpearls and blaze powder. Enderpearls can be obtained by killing endermen(as well as bartering with piglins and trading with Expert-level cleric villagers), and blaze powder can be obtained by killing blazes and turning their rods into powder. Use the eyes of ender so they fly into the air. They will travel for a short distance then fall back down to the ground. Keep going in the direction they went in and periodically use another eye to make sure you’re on the right path. When the eyes go underground, start digging down until you find stone bricks. Mine the stone bricks to break into the stronghold. Explore the stronghold. Chests can generate in strongholds and they can contain gold ingots as well as other loot. Take any gold ingots and other loot you want.

Find and activate the end portal. Use the steps mentioned above to find a stronghold, then explore the stronghold until you find the end portal. To activate the portal, place 12 eyes of ender in the portal frame. (Some eyes may be already placed for you. ) Before entering the portal, make sure you’re prepared to fight the Ender dragon and find end cities. Bring plenty of food and blocks. Bring your best armor and weapons, and any healing or positive effect potions you have. Kill the Ender dragon. First, you’ll need to destroy the end crystals that are on top of the obsidian pillars. You can shoot at them or build up and punch them to destroy them. Once all are destroyed, you can begin to damage the Ender dragon by shooting it or hitting it with a weapon. Once the dragon dies, some small bedrock portals will spawn around the main island. You can build up to them and throw an enderpearl into the portal, this will take you to the outer End islands. Explore the outer End islands and look for End cities. End cities are very large, so they’ll be fairly easy to spot from afar. They are made of purple purpur blocks and endstone bricks. Enter any End cities you find and look for chests. Chests that generate in End cities can contain gold ingots and other good loot, so take any gold and other loot you want.

Gold pickaxes have the best mining speed out of any other type of pickaxe, including diamond and netherite. If you have an abundance of gold and want to mine out a large area, it may be a good idea to craft a bunch of gold pickaxes to quickly mine it out.

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Clocks will not work in the Nether or End dimensions, they will just spin around randomly. Place an item frame (eight sticks and one leather) on the wall and place a clock in it to make a wall clock. [21] X Research source

You used to be able to make a more powerful enchanted golden apple, or “Notch apple”, in most versions of Minecraft by using gold blocks (see below) instead of ingots. This recipe was removed in Minecraft 1. 9. [22] X Research source

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Piglins will attack you if you attack them, mine gold near them, or are not wearing gold armor. You can use some of your gold ingots to make a piece of gold armor to make sure they do not attack you while bartering.