Does Fortune work on iron?
Emily Schmidt
Updated on May 30, 2026
Mining. Iron ore and deepslate iron ore mined with a stone pickaxe or higher drops 1 unit of raw iron. If the pickaxe is enchanted with Fortune, it can drop an extra unit per level of Fortune, allowing for a maximum of 4 with Fortune III.
Does Fortune work on iron 2021?
What is this? In the past, iron ore and gold ore did not benefit from the fortune enchantment. As of update 1.17 released in 2021, these blocks now drop “raw iron” and “raw gold”, which now receive the bonus from the fortune enchantment! This logic applies to other parts of the game as well.Does raw iron work with Fortune?
Raw Metals shine because they are affected by Fortune enchantments. Previously, Iron and Gold ore would not be affected by Fortune enchantments as they dropped ore blocks instead of resources such as Coal, Redstone or Diamonds.Does Fortune work on iron chunks?
Those "chunks" would be smeltable just like normal ore, but not placeable. This could be used to compensate the nerf to iron farms, while preventing the duplication of iron and gold by mining them, getting two from the same block, and mining the drops again (the reason Fortune doesn't work with them).What ores does Fortune work?
1 Answer
- Coal.
- Diamond.
- Redstone.
- Emerald.
- Lapis Lazuli.
- Nether Quartz.
- Melon (capped at 9 melons)
- Clay (Capped at 4, but increases the chance of getting 4)