Gold Nugget — Minecraft item

Overview

In Minecraft, Gold Nugget is a crafting material item. A full stack holds 64. It drops from Zombified Piglin.

Chest loot in Ocean Ruins, Ruined Portal (Overworld), and Ruined Portal (Nether) can contain it. You mine it out of Nether Gold Ore; the richest layer is around Y 15. It is crafted from Gold Ingot.

A furnace turns Golden Axe into it. Its crafting uses are Glistering Melon Slice and Golden Carrot.

Properties

One inventory slot holds 64, so a double chest holds 3,456.

Stack size: 64
Renewable: Yes
Category: Materials

How to get it

Crafting Table

Shapeless recipe

Gold Nugget ×9

Furnace · 10s · 0.1 XP

Golden Axe

Gold Nugget

Also works in: Blast Furnace

Dropped by

1 mobs drop Gold Nugget: Zombified Piglin. Looting raises the maximum on most of them.

Zombified Piglin

Found in

Gold Nugget is in the loot tables of Ocean Ruins, Ruined Portal (Overworld), and Ruined Portal (Nether).

Ocean Ruins — Scattered clusters of sunken buildings, in a sandstone warm-water variant and a stone cold-water variant.
Ruined Portal (Overworld) — A broken nether portal frame of crumbling obsidian and blackstone, with lava, netherrack and gold blocks scattered around it, plus a chest.
Ruined Portal (Nether) — The Nether-side counterpart, generating on cliff faces, floors and ceilings throughout every Nether biome with the same crumbling obsidian frame and loot chest.