Gold Nugget

Items

Gold Nugget — item.

Obtaining

A gold nugget is obtained by unpacking a gold ingot, defeating a zombified piglin, smelting or blasting damaged golden equipment, and mining some Nether gold sources. It is the small, stackable unit used when a recipe needs an exact amount of gold.

Data: Obtaining
Ingot conversion	1 gold ingot → 9 gold nuggets
Zombified piglin	0–1 nugget, with Looting increase
Smelting	Golden tools, armor, or horse armor → 1 nugget
Blasting	Golden tools, armor, or horse armor → 1 nugget

Crafting

crafting grid

Result

Gold Nugget× 9

Ingredients match the published snapshot.

Mining

Nether gold ore drops two to six nuggets when mined with a pickaxe. Fortune changes the distribution and can produce more than the base range, while Silk Touch yields the ore block instead. Gilded blackstone can also release two to five nuggets, with Fortune improving the chance.

Usage

Piglins pick up a nearby gold nugget but do not inspect it like a gold ingot; the item is dropped again when the piglin dies. Nuggets are therefore a compact trading-adjacent resource, not a direct substitute for the ingot used to distract piglins.

Crafting ingredient

Nuggets are used for gold ingots, clocks, golden carrots, and glistering melon slices.

Data values

The item uses the `minecraft:gold_nugget` identifier, belongs to the `metal_nuggets` tag, and stacks to 64. It is the small-unit form of gold used by storage, food, brewing, and firework recipes.

Data: Data values
Identifier	`minecraft:gold_nugget`
Version	Minecraft 26.2
Item model	assets/minecraft/models/item/gold_nugget.json
Stack size	64
Unit conversion	9 nuggets ↔ 1 gold ingot
Mob source	minecraft:entities/zombified_piglin
Item tag	metal_nuggets

History

26.2Item facts were published from the verified snapshot.Provenance: 918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5

Notes

The nine-to-one conversion makes nuggets convenient for fine-grained gold recipes and lets players recover a full ingot without losing material. Smelting damaged golden gear returns only one nugget, so the process is a material recovery path rather than a way to preserve the original value.

Gallery

Gold Nugget image · Local Minecraft asset

Gold ingot — Storage conversion · Local Minecraft asset

Golden carrot — Recipe output · Local Minecraft asset

Glistering melon slice — Recipe output · Local Minecraft asset

Firework star — Recipe ingredient · Local Minecraft asset

References

Data: References
Validated DeepMine snapshot	Validated DeepMine snapshot
Snapshot ID	918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
Digest	`39ea54a2a13de31e3c230f6b9ac3a22b5f1f74c54561393320c869d8afb83768`

Data and provenance

minecraft:gold_nugget

Snapshot digest verified.

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Facts

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Data source39ea54a2a13de31e3c230f6b9ac3a22b5f1f74c54561393320c869d8afb83768

Provenance and publication

Readiness: Pending
Snapshot: 918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
Source set: 918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
Entity identifier: minecraft:gold_nugget
Digest: 39ea54a2a13de31e3c230f6b9ac3a22b5f1f74c54561393320c869d8afb83768
Missing locales: ru, en