How to Make a Gold Nugget in Minecraft

Use this simple recipe to make a Gold Nugget in Minecraft. You can see the exact ingredients, recipe layout, and workstation below.

Gold Nugget recipe

Follow the recipe below. The pattern must use the correct slots when the recipe is shaped.

Place 1 Gold Ingot in a Crafting Table to make 9 Gold Nuggets.

Shapeless recipe with 1 ingredient: the order does not matter and it also fits in your 2 × 2 inventory grid.
Each craft uses 1 ingredient item and produces 9 Gold Nuggets. A full stack of 64 takes 8 crafts and 8 ingredient items in total.

Output: 9 Gold Nuggets

Process 1 Any item such as Golden Pickaxe in a Blast Furnace to make 1 Gold Nugget.

Cooking time: 10s Experience: +0.1 XP

Cooking one item takes 10 seconds, so a full stack of 64 takes 10 min 40 s and gives 6.4 XP in total.

Output: 1 Gold Nugget

Process 1 Any item such as Golden Pickaxe in a Furnace to make 1 Gold Nugget.

Cooking time: 10s Experience: +0.1 XP

Cooking one item takes 10 seconds, so a full stack of 64 takes 10 min 40 s and gives 6.4 XP in total.

Output: 1 Gold Nugget

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Gold Nugget. It includes the exact ingredients, recipe layout, required workstation, and amount produced.

The data comes from Minecraft Java 26.3. Recipes can change in later game versions, so check the version you play before crafting.