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How to Make an Iron Ingot in Minecraft

Use this simple recipe to make an Iron Ingot in Minecraft. You can see the exact ingredients, recipe layout, and workstation below.

Iron Ingot recipe

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

Method 1: Crafting Table

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

Ingredients

Crafting notes

  • The 3 × 3 pattern needs the 3 × 3 grid of a crafting table. Ingredients must stay in the shown positions, and most patterns can also be mirrored.
  • Each craft uses 9 ingredient items and produces 1 Iron Ingot. A full stack of 64 takes 64 crafts and 576 ingredient items in total.

Output: 1 Iron Ingot

Method 2: Crafting Table

Place 1 Iron Block in a Crafting Table to make 9 Iron Ingots.

Ingredients

Crafting notes

  • 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 Iron Ingots. A full stack of 64 takes 8 crafts and 8 ingredient items in total.

Output: 9 Iron Ingots

Method 3: Blast Furnace

Process 1 Deepslate Iron Ore in a Blast Furnace to make 1 Iron Ingot.

Cooking time: 10s Experience: +0.7 XP

Ingredients

  • 1 Deepslate Iron Ore

Crafting notes

  • Cooking one item takes 10 seconds, so a full stack of 64 takes 10 min 40 s and gives 44.8 XP in total.

Output: 1 Iron Ingot

Method 4: Blast Furnace

Process 1 Iron Ore in a Blast Furnace to make 1 Iron Ingot.

Cooking time: 10s Experience: +0.7 XP

Ingredients

  • 1 Iron Ore

Crafting notes

  • Cooking one item takes 10 seconds, so a full stack of 64 takes 10 min 40 s and gives 44.8 XP in total.

Output: 1 Iron Ingot

Method 5: Blast Furnace

Process 1 Raw Iron in a Blast Furnace to make 1 Iron Ingot.

Cooking time: 10s Experience: +0.7 XP

Ingredients

Crafting notes

  • Cooking one item takes 10 seconds, so a full stack of 64 takes 10 min 40 s and gives 44.8 XP in total.

Output: 1 Iron Ingot

Method 6: Furnace

Process 1 Deepslate Iron Ore in a Furnace to make 1 Iron Ingot.

Cooking time: 10s Experience: +0.7 XP

Ingredients

  • 1 Deepslate Iron Ore

Crafting notes

  • Cooking one item takes 10 seconds, so a full stack of 64 takes 10 min 40 s and gives 44.8 XP in total.

Output: 1 Iron Ingot

Method 7: Furnace

Process 1 Iron Ore in a Furnace to make 1 Iron Ingot.

Cooking time: 10s Experience: +0.7 XP

Ingredients

  • 1 Iron Ore

Crafting notes

  • Cooking one item takes 10 seconds, so a full stack of 64 takes 10 min 40 s and gives 44.8 XP in total.

Output: 1 Iron Ingot

Method 8: Furnace

Process 1 Raw Iron in a Furnace to make 1 Iron Ingot.

Cooking time: 10s Experience: +0.7 XP

Ingredients

Crafting notes

  • Cooking one item takes 10 seconds, so a full stack of 64 takes 10 min 40 s and gives 44.8 XP in total.

Output: 1 Iron Ingot

About this Minecraft recipe

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Iron Ingot. 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.