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What is Raw Gold in Minecraft?

Raw gold is a shiny, lumpy piece of gold that you get from mining gold ore. It is the unprocessed version of gold, meaning you have to smelt it before you can craft with it. Think of it as a gold nugget before it has been melted down and formed into a proper ingot. Its only real purpose is to be cooked in a furnace to create gold ingots. The game added raw gold to make mining more consistent with iron and copper. Now, when you mine gold ore with a regular pickaxe, you get a piece of raw gold instead of the whole block. This also means that the Fortune enchantment now works on gold ore, allowing you to get more gold from a single vein, which is a fantastic change for all treasure hunters.

How to get Raw Gold in Minecraft

The main way to get raw gold is by mining gold ore. Gold ore is a stone block with yellowish specks in it. It is most commonly found deep underground, usually below Y level 32, but you can also find it in badlands biomes high up on the surface. You will need at least an iron pickaxe to mine it. If you use a stone or wooden pickaxe, the ore block will break and you will get nothing. When you mine a gold ore block, it will drop one piece of raw gold. To get more from a single block, you can use a pickaxe enchanted with Fortune. A Fortune III pickaxe can make a single ore block drop up to four pieces of raw gold. You can also find raw gold in chests in various structures, like mineshafts and buried treasure chests. Another place to find it is in the new trail ruins structures, where you can get it by brushing suspicious sand or gravel. It is a fairly common find from archaeology, so it is a good way to get some extra gold while you are looking for pottery sherds.

How to use Raw Gold in Minecraft

The most important use for raw gold is to smelt it into gold ingots. To do this, you just need to place the raw gold in the top slot of a furnace or a blast furnace with some fuel in the bottom slot. Each piece of raw gold will cook into one gold ingot. Gold ingots are used for many things, like crafting golden apples, powered rails, and clocks. If you have a lot of raw gold and want to save space in your chests, you can also craft it into a block. Just place nine pieces of raw gold in a three by three square in a crafting table to create one block of raw gold. This is a great way to store it compactly, and you can always turn the block back into nine pieces of raw gold later.

How to craft Raw Gold in Minecraft

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What can Raw Gold make in Minecraft

Gold Ingot

Raw Gold Block

My Story

How This All Started

So basically, I was playing Minecraft one night after a long day doing deliveries, and I was trying to remember what drops what and how to craft certain things. Every website I went to was either dead slow, missing loads of stuff, or just looked terrible. I thought "bloody hell, surely I can do better than this?"

By the way, this My Story section is something new I've only just started adding things here! Most of the site was actually built before I ever wrote this part. Now that the website is live, I'm running into problems galore! So if things look a bit rough or unfinished, bear with me I'm updating and adding as I go.

That was probably a mistake.

A half finished story, oh well. I'll keep adding more as I go!

Learning the Hard Way

I knew absolutely nothing about making websites. Like, properly nothing. I didn't even know what PHP was. But I'm stubborn as anything, so I just started watching YouTube tutorials and reading random stuff online while I was on my breaks.

Turns out building a database is harder than it looks. Who knew? I've probably broken this thing more times than I've fixed it. My laptop has definitely been sworn at more than it deserves.

The worst part is when you spend hours trying to figure out why something doesn't work, and it turns out you missed a semicolon. Or when everything works fine on your computer but looks like complete rubbish on someone else's. Fun times.

The Reality of It

Look, I'm not gonna lie this has been a right pain sometimes. I work full time doing deliveries, so most of this gets done late at night when I should probably be sleeping. I've had way too many energy drinks and definitely not enough sleep.

The database has corrupted itself more times than I care to remember. I've had images that wouldn't load for no reason. CSS that worked yesterday but decided to have a tantrum today. The usual web development nightmare stuff.

But every time I get something working properly, it feels brilliant. Like when I finally got all the block images showing up correctly, or when the search actually started finding things. Small wins, but they keep me going.

What I Actually Want to Build

Here's the thing I want this to be your go to place for everything Minecraft. Not just blocks and items, but proper guides, build tutorials, maybe even schematics you can download. Server info, community stuff, the lot.

I know it doesn't look like much right now, and there's loads missing. But I'm working on it. It takes time when you're learning as you go and doing it around a full time job. But I'd rather take my time and do it properly than rush it and end up with something rubbish.

The plan is to make it the kind of site I actually want to use fast, easy to navigate, with everything you need in one place. No endless ads, no broken links, just useful stuff presented in a way that doesn't make you want to throw your computer out the window.

Why I Keep Going

Honestly? Because every time someone uses this site or gives me feedback, it reminds me why I started. I love Minecraft, I love building things (both in game and apparently websites), and I love the community.

Plus, I've learned loads doing this. Sure, I've wanted to give up more times than I can count, but seeing it slowly come together is pretty satisfying. And if it helps other people find what they're looking for without having to trawl through ten different outdated websites, then that's worth it.

So yeah, bear with me while I figure this all out. It's going to take a while, but it'll get there eventually. Thanks for checking it out, and if you spot anything broken or have suggestions, let me know. I'm still learning, but I'm determined to make this work.