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Nether Gold Ore

Nether gold ore is a type of gold ore found in the Nether that drops gold nuggets instead of raw gold when broken. As with other gold blocks, breaking Nether gold ore will anger nearby piglins.

Nether gold ore requires a pickaxe to be mined. If mined with any other tool or by hand, it drops nothing.

Nether gold ore drops 2-6 gold nuggets when mined with any pickaxe. Fortune has a 33.3% chance to multiply the drops by 2, Fortune II has a 25% chance to multiply the drops by 2 or 3 and Fortune III has a 20% chance each to multiply the drops by 2, 3, or 4 for a maximum possible drop of 24 golden nuggets. The average number of nuggets from Fortune III is 8.8, which is less than an ingot; therefore it is slightly more efficient to mine Nether gold ore with Silk Touch and smelt it into gold ingots.

Source: Minecraft Wiki cacheUpdated: 2026-06-17 Open Original

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Nether Gold Ore

Java 1.21.4
Typeitem
Stack64
Durability-
Sections4
Canonical IDitem:nether_gold_ore
Minecraft IDminecraft:nether_gold_ore
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displayNameNether Gold Ore
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