Block of Iron

This article is about the solid Blocks of Iron. For the ore, see Iron Ore. For the ingot, see Iron Ingot.

Block of Iron

Type	Solid Block
Requirements	None
Physics	No
Transparency	No
Luminance	No
Blast Resistance	30
Tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
First Appearance	Classic 0.31 (January 29, 2010)
Data value	dec: 42 hex: 2A

Blocks of Iron (also known as Iron Blocks) are blocks for storing iron ingots that do not appear in normally generated maps anywhere. Iron blocks have the same texture for each of its sides.

Iron blocks can be made by placing 9 iron ingots in a crafting bench. The 9 ingots can be recovered by placing the block in a crafting grid. This makes iron blocks more functional as "storage units" than as building units.

Iron blocks can be mined with a stone, iron, or diamond pickaxe, taking about 2 seconds to destroy. If an iron block is broken without such a tool, it drops nothing, wasting all 9 ingots.

Iron Golem build configuration

Iron blocks and pumpkins are used to make Iron Golems in 1.2.

[edit] As a Crafting Material

Ingredients	Input » Output
Iron Block

[edit] Crafting

Ingredients	Input » Output
Iron Ingots

[edit] History

In Survival Test, breaking iron ore would cause 1 - 3 iron blocks to drop.

Iron blocks had a different skin when first made, using three different textures. The texture was changed from to in the Halloween Update.

In Classic it is still seen as . This block used three textures instead of one.

In Beta 1.9 Pre-release 5, the texture was changed again, now having subtle lines (corrugations) through it.

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Mineral Blocks	Block of Diamond Block of Gold Block of Iron Lapis Lazuli Block
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Mechanisms	Button Dispenser Door Fence Gate Lever Note Block Piston ( Sticky) Pressure Plate Rail ( Powered • Detector) Redstone ( Wire • Torch • Repeater) Redstone Lamp Trapdoor
Plants	Cactus Dead Bush Flowers Grass Block ( Grass • Fern) Leaves Lily Pad Melon ( Stem) Mushrooms ( Huge) Mycelium Pumpkin ( Stem) Saplings Sugar Cane Vines Wheat Wood
Liquids	Lava Water
Non-Solid	Fire Sign Torch
The Nether	Glowstone Netherrack Nether Brick ( Fence) Nether Wart Soul Sand
The End	Dragon Egg End Portal Frame End Stone
Creative only	Sponge Chiseled Stone Brick
Pocket Edition only	Cyan Flower Camera
Technical	Piston Arm Block 36 On-state Redstone Lamp Burning Furnace Glowing Redstone Ore Off-state Redstone Torch Active Redstone Repeater Flowing Water Flowing Lava Farmland Portal Block End Portal
Unused	Locked Chest
Planned	Cocoa Plant
Removed	Gear Dirt Slab
Unimplemented	Crying Obsidian Spike Block