Block of Raw Iron — Minecraft block

Overview

Block of Raw Iron counts as a stone-family block in Minecraft 1.21.4. Block of Raw Iron is made at a crafting table. Expect to wait: its hardness of 5 is well above average.

Mine it with a stone pickaxe or better, or you get no drop at all. Broken correctly, it drops itself. Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot.

The recipe calls for Raw Iron. It is not used in any crafting recipe.

How long it takes to break

At a hardness of 5, Block of Raw Iron takes 25 seconds to punch out and 0.85 seconds with a netherite-tier tool of the correct class.

Iron manages 1.3 seconds and diamond 0.95, which makes diamond the tier that changes how this block feels.

Below stone the block breaks and simply vanishes. Bring the right tier or leave it in the ground.

Efficiency adds its level squared plus one to the tool speed, so Efficiency V is about 3.4 times faster than the same tool unenchanted.

* breaks the block but yields no drop
Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand *	25 s	25 s	25 s
Wooden *	13 s	2.1 s	0.9 s
Stone	1.9 s	0.55 s	0.25 s
Iron	1.3 s	0.5 s	0.25 s
Diamond	0.95 s	0.45 s	0.25 s
Netherite	0.85 s	0.4 s	0.25 s
Golden *	2.1 s	1.2 s	0.7 s

Properties

Blast resistance on Block of Raw Iron is 6, so an explosion nearby will usually take it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. Stack size is 64 — the standard full stack. The fastest tool for it is a pickaxe; any other kind of tool mines it no faster than a bare hand does, because the speed bonus only applies to the tool class the block is tagged for.

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Required tool: Stone Pickaxe