Gold Ingot

**Gold ingots** are metal ingots used to craft various items.

### Zombie pigmen

Zombie pigmen have a 2.5% chance of dropping a gold ingot if killed by a player or tamed wolf. The chance is increased by 1% per level of Looting, for a maximum of 5.5% with Looting III.

### Drowned

In Java Edition, drowned have a 5% chance of dropping a gold ingot, 6% with Looting I, 7% with Looting II, and 8% with Looting III.

In Bedrock Edition, drowned have a 11% chance of dropping a gold ingot, 13% with Looting I, 15% with Looting II, and 17% with Looting III.

### Natural generation

Gold ingots can be found in 25.4% of village temple chests, 9.6% of dungeon chests, 9.6% of woodland mansion chests, and 88.0% of buried treasure chests, all in stacks of 1–4; in 26.5% of shipwreck treasure chests in stacks of 1–5; in 51.0% of jungle temple chests, 18.0% of desert temple chests, and 52.3% of End city chests, all in stacks of 2–7; and in 12.1% of stronghold altar chests, 9.9% of village toolsmith chests, 18.6% of stronghold storeroom chests, 25.6% of village weaponsmith chests, 49.0% of fortress chests, and 16.9% of chest minecarts in Mineshafts, all in stacks of 1–3.

In Bedrock Edition they can be found in 11.8% of stronghold altar chests and 15.2% of stronghold storeroom chests in stacks of 1–3, in 34.3% of buried treasure chests in stacks of 1–5, and in 50.9% of jungle temple chests in stacks of 2–7.

### Mobs

If the mob Cheeky Chocolate is killed, she drops 1 Gold Ingot.

## Usage

### Crafting Ingredient

As a material for weapons, tools, and armor, gold is not a straight upgrade from iron (except in the case of horse armor). Gold has a higher mining speed and enchantability than any other material, but attack power and durability tends to be low. The golden pickaxe can harvest only those blocks that are harvestable by a wooden pickaxe.

### Trading

Cleric villagers buy 8-10 gold ingots for an emerald.‌

Apprentice-level cleric villager buy 3 gold ingots for an emerald as part of their trade.‌

### Repairing

Golden helmets, chestplates, leggings, boots, swords, pickaxes, axes, hoes and shovels can be repaired with gold ingots in an anvil.

### Beacons

Gold ingots can be used to select powers from a beacon. The player must select one of the available powers, and then insert an ingot in the item slot.

A gold ingot can be substituted for an iron ingot, an emerald, or a diamond.

## History

### Java Edition Indev

* 0.31 20100129: Added gold ingots. They can be used to craft gold blocks and gold swords, shovels, pickaxes and axes.
* 20100206: Gold ingots are now used to craft gold hoes.
* 20100218: Gold ingots are now used to craft gold helmets, chestplates, leggings and boots.

### Java Edition Alpha

* v1.2.0 ?: Gold ingots are now used to craft clocks.

### Java Edition Beta

* 1.5: Gold ingots are now used to craft powered rails.
* 1.8 Pre-release: Gold ingots can now be found in the new stronghold storerooms and mineshaft chests.

### Java Edition

* 1.0.0 Beta 1.9 Prerelease: Gold ingots are now used to craft gold nuggets.
* Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3: Gold ingots can now be found in the new stronghold altar chests.
* 1.1 12w01a: Gold ingots can now be found in village blacksmith chests.
* 1.3.1 12w21a: Added desert temples, with a hidden chest room and loot containing gold ingots.
* All types of villagers now buy 8–9 gold ingots for 1 emerald, as a fallback trade in case no trades were generated for that villager.
* 12w22a: Added jungle temples, which contain loot chests with gold ingots.
* 1.5 13w01a: Gold ingots are now used to craft light weighted pressure plates.
* 1.6.1 13w18a: Gold ingots are now found in nether fortress chests.
* 13w23a: Gold ingots are now used to craft normal golden apples.
* 1.8 14w02a: Trading has been changed: only cleric villagers now buy 8–10 gold ingots for 1 emerald, as a legitimate trade.
* 1.9 15w31a: Gold ingots can now be found in end city ship chests.
* 15w43a: The average yield of gold ingots in nether fortress chest has been decreased.
* 15w44a: The average yield of gold ingots in mineshaft and desert temple chests has been decreased.
* Gold ingots have now been added to dungeon chests.
* 1.11 16w39a: Gold ingots are now found in the new woodland mansion chests.
* 1.13 17w47a: Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 266.
* 18w10a: Gold ingots now generate in buried treasure chests.
* 18w11a: Gold ingots can now be obtained as a drop from drowned.
* 1.14 18w43a: Changed the texture of gold ingots.
* 18w44a: Changed the texture of gold ingots.

### Pocket Edition Alpha

* 0.3.2: Added gold ingots. They can be used to craft blocks of gold, gold pickaxes, axes, swords and shovels.
* 0.4.0: Gold ingots are now used to craft gold hoes.
* 0.6.0: Gold ingots are now used to craft gold armor.
* 0.8.0 build 2: Gold ingots are now used to craft powered rails and clocks.
* 0.9.0 build 1: Gold ingots can now be found in blacksmith chests in villages, stronghold altar chests and dungeon chests.
* 0.12.1 build 1: Gold ingots are now used to craft gold nuggets and golden apples.
* Gold ingots are now found in nether fortress chests.
* 0.13.0 build 1: Gold ingots are now used to craft light weighted pressure plates.
* Gold ingots now generate inside of hidden chest rooms in desert temples.
* 0.14.0 build 1: Gold ingots are now found in minecart with chests that generate in mineshafts.
* 0.15.0 build 1: Gold ingots can now be found in jungle temple chests.
* 0.16.0 build 4: Gold ingots can now be used to power beacons.

### Pocket Edition

* 1.0.0 alpha 0.17.0.1: Gold ingots can now be found in end city ship chests and stronghold storerooms.
* 1.0.4 alpha 1.0.4.0: Added trading, cleric villagers now buy 8–10 gold ingots for 1 emerald.
* 1.1.0 alpha 1.1.0.0: Gold ingots are now found in woodland mansion chests.

### Bedrock Edition

* 1.4.0 beta 1.2.13.8: Added drowned, which rarely drop gold ingots.
* beta 1.2.14.2: Gold ingots can now be found inside buried treasure chests and shipwrecks.
* 1.10.0 beta 1.10.0.3: Gold ingots can now be found in plains village weaponsmith chests.
* Changed the texture of gold ingots.
* 1.11.0 beta 1.11.0.1: Gold ingots can now be found in desert village temple chests and village toolsmith chests.
* Gold ingots can now be found in savanna, taiga, snowy taiga, snowy tundra, and desert village weaponsmith chests.
* beta 1.11.0.4: Cleric villagers now buy 3 gold ingots for one emerald.

### Legacy Console Edition

* TU1 CU1 1.0 Patch 1: Added gold ingots.

### PlayStation 4 Edition

* 1.90: Changed the texture of gold ingots.