Q&A for How to Obtain Netherite in Minecraft

A silk touch pickaxe (or any other tool in the game) allows for the block that is being broken to drop itself. This means that a piece of glass that would normally break, when destroyed using a silk touch pickaxe/tool, will stay intact. This applies to all other blocks.

Ancient debris generates in veins of 1-3. In a chunk (16x16 area of blocks), two veins attempt to generate (although they might be blocked due to lava or something like that). Minecraft has a functionally infinite amount of chunks since the world barrier extends 30 million blocks in every direction. Therefore, you don't have to worry about running out of netherite.

To craft netherite, you need to put 4 netherite scrap and 4 gold ingots into the crafting table menu (placement doesn't matter). You get one netherite scrap by smelting a piece of ancient debris in a furnace.

It's also possible to find netherite scrap by raiding a bastion, although the chance of it is very low. On Java Edition, it has a 4.5% chance of generating in a chest and you'll need four netherite scrap to make one netherite ingot.

Mining methods that don't use explosions will be slower, but they're also a lot cheaper since you don't have to craft beds or TNT. All you have to do is continue mining a long tunnel at y = 15, and you'll eventually find some ancient debris. You can create branches going perpendicularly to the main tunnel with a few blocks of space in between them too. Make sure you can instantly mine netherrack with your pickaxe or this will be a very slow process. You'll also have to be prepared to block of pockets of lava you might expose while mining.

It was coded into the game to add a special ability to netherite armor which adds another incentive to get it. The fire-resistance also makes sense since netherite is found deep in the nether where fire and lava are found all around.

Yes, if you die in lava or fire, your netherite armor and tools won't burn. This also applies to ancient debris, netherite ingots, and netherite blocks.

Yes, the enchantments will stay on after you put the diamond armor in the smithing table.

Yes, you can. It will take a little bit longer though to find gold. You can find gold 32-80 on the Y level.

If you use the smithing table to get a netherite pickaxe, the durability will increase to be the durability of a netherite pickaxe, which is 2031 durability. However, if the diamond pickaxe you use in the smithing table has less durability than its maximum, then the resulting netherite pickaxe will have an equal amount of durability lost. For example, if the diamond pickaxe is at 1560 durability, with 1561 being the maximum for a diamond pickaxe, then the netherite pickaxe would have a durability of 2030.

No. Netherite scrap cannot burn in lava explosions or fire. Netherite amour, block, and ingot also cannot burn in lava.

If you're scared that you'll get killed by the mobs of the nether, just switch the difficulty to peaceful. If you're scared of the fire and lava, brew a potion of fire resistance or just try to avoid it.

No, you have to use a smithing table to upgrade diamond tools to netherite tools.

Yes, the ancient debris are immune to explosions, so you can try it. Just don't get blown up in the progress

With the most recent 1.20 update, there have been smithing templates that you need to craft Netherite armour, the one you need has an arrow pointing up on it. You need this, a Netherite ingot, and your diamond item that you want to upgrade.