How to Make an Iron Nugget in Minecraft

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

Iron Nugget recipe

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

Place 1 Iron Ingot in a Crafting Table to make 9 Iron 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 Iron Nuggets. A full stack of 64 takes 8 crafts and 8 ingredient items in total.

Output: 9 Iron Nuggets

Process 1 Any item such as Iron Pickaxe in a Blast Furnace to make 1 Iron 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 Iron Nugget

Process 1 Any item such as Iron Pickaxe in a Furnace to make 1 Iron 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 Iron Nugget

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Iron 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.