Raw Gold
Material Stack: 64 Since 1.17 (Caves & Cliffs)
Quick answer: Mine gold ore or deepslate gold ore with an iron pickaxe or better: 1 raw gold per ore.
How to get it
- Mine gold ore or deepslate gold ore with an iron pickaxe or better: 1 raw gold per ore
- Fortune raises it to up to 4 per ore at Fortune III; Silk Touch drops the block
- Most gold lives in badlands and below Y=32 - mesa biomes are gold country
Uses
- Smelt into gold ingots for bartering, powered rails and golden apples
- Store 9 as a block of raw gold - the fastest way to haul a badlands mining session home
- Feed your piglin bartering hall: every ingot starts life as raw gold
Renewability
Semi-renewable: ore is finite, but zombified piglin farms make gold effectively infinite.
Java vs Bedrock
Identical in Java and Bedrock.
Related: Gold IngotRaw Iron