Q&A for How to Find Iron in Minecraft

Armor is usually made when you have a good amount of iron to spend, as armor needs a lot of Iron. Also, certain ores (such as the valuable diamond) need an Iron tool in order to be mined.

Yes, iron can be found at Levels 1-63. It can therefore be found near lava with diamonds.

Craft it by placing a piece of redstone in the middle of your crafting table and iron at the sides, top and bottom (but not the corners).

Then you must make a mine. Dig down to a suitable level and begin branch mining. You will probably mine into a cave at some point. Continue from there.

You can, but this may result in the golem trying to kill you. If you hurt just one villager, all the iron golems (even the ones that just spawned) will try to kill you. Bring armor and weapons. Killing the golem might be useful if you're short on iron.

There is no definite answer for this; it depends on how deep the ore is. You can also get iron from killing Zombies, but its very rare.

Not usually. Minecraft tries to space out the ores.

As the author says, don't waste your time digging straight down. Most of the time the only thing you will find that way is cobblestone. Instead, look around your area for any caves or natural entrances into cobblestone,

This varies on the world generated, but iron is fairly common. You will find some after searching hard enough.

You may find iron ingots in mineshafts, but they are extremely rare.

Dig up and down; usually, iron ore is in a 2x2x3 cube.

If you are not using any presets, iron ore does not spawn underground, but you can find it in villages. Village blacksmiths' chests have a chance to spawn iron ingots in them, or you could trade with villagers for iron. But you cannot get iron ore, just iron.

You can easily check your Y axis by going into the debug mode. You can check the debug mode by pressing F3, then find XYZ and then look for your Y axis, as shown in the picture.

You just got really unlucky with the cave or mine you found or made. Iron usually is pretty easy to find when one is mining.

You can set to peaceful so all mobs de-spawn.

They can be traded for with villagers, found it blacksmith chests, found in desert and jungle temples, or found in dungeons and strongholds.

Iron ore spawns in all biomes. It is usually found in caves.

Craft weapons and tools. Armor is hard to make and is a waste.

There isn't really a single place where you can find caves. Just try and look around for dark holes that look like they might be caves.

It depends on how much stuff you have. If you have an iron or diamond pickaxe, mine some up. If you have one of those but they have low durability, or if you have a wood, stone, or gold sword, don't do it. Keep in mind, you might not need gold for anything besides crafting it into gold blocks and building with it.

You go to Y-10 (the debug screen, found by pressing F3) and either find a cave or do strip mining, where you dig a 2 block tall, 1 block wide hole until you find diamonds.

You could go deeper or uncover vast areas by using TNT.

Bring torches and light up the cave so mobs can't spawn.

Dig it up.

There is no debug mode. Instead, get to the bedrock layer, the bottom one, and dig up from there. One block = 1 layer.

Caves naturally spawn in random places across the game. They are typically found near mountains, though some are straight down in the earth. Some are even found while mining.

You can either try to use whatever blocks you have (don't use flammable blocks) to build from the bottom of the lava pit/pool, or you can try to swim to the edge of the lava pit/pool.

The best place is about Y40. It is fairly safe. If you are using an artificial mine, then you should dig one block at a time to avoid caves.

It depends. Worlds are generated randomly, some have plenty, while others are bare.

You were probably using a stone pickaxe instead of an iron pickaxe to cultivate ores.