Metal

A metal is a lustrous, conductive, and generally strong material. There are currently three different metals within Minecraft:
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There is also one alloy:
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==Properties of metals==
Pure metals in Minecraft all share the following properties:
* They can exist in nugget (excluding copper), ingot, raw, raw block and full block forms. 1 metal block is equivalent to nine ingots, and 1 ingot is in turn equivalent to nine nuggets.
* They have corresponding tool and armor sets (excluding copper).
* Their tool and armor sets can be processed by a furnace or blast furnace in order to receive a nugget of the respective metal back (excluding copper, as copper cannot be crafted into a tool/armor set, nor does it have a nugget form).
* They, in block form, can power beacons (excluding copper).
* They have raw forms, which are dropped when breaking their ores.
Alloys have the following distinct properties from pure metals:
* They exist in block and ingot form, but not in nugget form. And as such items made with alloys cannot be smelted into nugget form
* They do not have direct ores and must be combined with other metals.
==Metallic elements==
Aside from gold and iron, there exist numerous elements that correspond to real-life metals. However, these do not have the same uses that gold and iron metals have in-game.
===d-block metals===
===f-block metals===
===Alkali metals===
===Alkaline earths===
===Other metals/poor metals===
== Metal as a material type ==
Certain blocks are classified as metals as opposed to rock, requiring a pickaxe to be mined. However, the blocks placed in this category are not necessarily made of metal in themselves; for example, blocks of diamond, blocks of emerald, blocks of redstone and lapis lazuli blocks are all listed under this category despite not being made of metal.
== History ==
== See also ==
* Gem
* Raw Metal
* Block of Raw Metal
== References ==
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