Isn't It Iron Pick?

Tab: MinecraftDifficulty: Easy

Quick answer: Upgrade your Pickaxe

Tree path: Minecraft › Stone Age › Getting an Upgrade › Acquire Hardware › Isn't It Iron Pick? (advancements are independent: they can be completed in any order; the tree only guides progression)

Tree parent: Acquire Hardware

Advancements are exclusive to Java Edition. The Bedrock Edition equivalent is achievements, which have different objectives.

How to get Isn't It Iron Pick?

  1. Mine iron ore with a stone pickaxe or better. It is common underground and in caves, especially in mountains.
  2. Smelt the raw iron in a furnace or blast furnace to get iron ingots.
  3. Craft an iron pickaxe at a crafting table: 3 iron ingots across the top row and 2 sticks down the middle.
  4. The advancement unlocks the moment the iron pickaxe is in your inventory.

Tips

Enchant your stone pickaxe with Fortune before mining iron: Fortune increases the raw iron dropped per ore, so one vein goes much further.

Advancements this unlocks

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