Iron Bars

Iron Bars

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Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	6
Hardness	5
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Waterloggable	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color (JE)	0 NONE

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Iron bars are blocks that serve a similar purpose to glass panes, but made of iron ingots instead of glass.

Obtaining

Breaking

Iron bars can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing.

Block
Hardness	5
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	25
Wooden	3.75
Stone	1.9
Copper ​	1.5
Iron	1.25
Diamond	0.95
Netherite	0.85
Golden	0.65
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Natural generation

Iron bars can generate in strongholds, woodland mansions, savanna villages, desert villages, plains villages, igloo basements, ruined portals, and trail ruins.

In the End, there are two End spikes that have iron bars around their End crystals.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Iron Ingot	16

Iron bars are not a source of iron. Once crafted, iron bars cannot be smelted into iron nuggets or ingots.

Post-generation

Iron bars regenerate on the end spikes whenever the ender dragon is respawned.

Usage

As with glass panes and fences, iron bars can be used to create narrow slits when placed between a door and a solid block. Mobs can see through and attack through these gaps, and arrows may be shot through them. Also as with fences and glass panes, arrows cannot be shot through iron bars themselves.

Endermen seen through iron bars do not become angry. The ender dragon cannot destroy iron bars (some of the end crystals are protected by them), which makes them a useful material in the End.

Placement

Iron bars can be placed in much the same way as fences or glass panes. If no solid block is adjacent to the bars, they have appearance of a slim, tall column. If something is placed next to iron bars, they appear either flat, shaped, shaped or shaped, depending on the blocks surrounding it.

Curing

Iron bars speed up the curing process of zombie villagers.

Sounds

Java Edition:

v t e iron sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.iron.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.iron.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.iron.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.iron.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.iron.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e iron sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	break.iron	1.0	0.8
	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.iron	1.0	0.8
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.iron	0.3	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	step.iron	1.0	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.iron	0.2	1.0
	Players	Jumping from the block	step.iron	0.12	1.1
	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	step.iron	0.4	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Iron Bars	iron_bars	Block & Item	block.minecraft.iron_bars

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Iron Bars	iron_bars	101	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.iron_bars.name

Block states

Java Edition:

History

There is an associated page listing all historical changes related to the appearance and/or sounds associated with this block in further detail than below; see /Asset history.

Java Edition Beta
July 11, 2011							Notch revealed two new screenshots of a stronghold (in two different brightness settings) where the bars can be clearly seen alongside other common stronghold blocks. The lighting differences have been explained a bit (though not necessarily completely correctly) by a user on the forums.
1.8			Pre-release				Added iron bars.
							Iron bars currently do not render their side edge faces. Also, their top and bottom faces are correctly not rendered when connected to other blocks.
Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6				The breaking time for iron bars is now greatly reduced, and depends on the pickaxe's material.
1.4.2			12w32a				Zombie villagers can now be cured. Putting iron bars close to the zombie villager helps speed up the process.
1.7.2			13w41a				Iron bars now connect to glass, stained glass, and glass panes.
1.8			14w03a				Iron bars now appear completely opaque.
			14w03b				Iron bars now render as normal again.[1]
			14w10a				Textures are now mapped differently.
							Iron bars on top of one another now display a texture at the top/bottom joint of the two blocks.[2]
							Culling no longer works horizontally, either.
			?				Horizontal culling for iron bars is fixed.
			14w25a				Now subject to directional shading.
1.9			15w31a				Iron bars without any connecting blocks are now 2x2 pixels in footprint (rather than .)
							The outside edges of iron bars now have textures.
							The tallest obsidian pillars had iron bars around their end crystals, until 16w07a.
							The ender dragon can no longer destroy iron bars.
			15w43a				Iron bars now generate within igloo basements.
			15w46a				Iron bars center beams now have both edge side texture, which has changed the textures from to .
			16w07a				Iron bars have been removed from end spikes.
			pre1				Two of the shorter, thinner end spikes in the End now have a cage of iron bars around their end crystals.
1.11			16w39a				Iron bars now generate in woodland mansions.
1.12			17w15a				Iron bars now connect to the solid back sides of stairs.
1.13			18w10c				Water can now be placed on the same block as iron bars.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of iron bars have been changed.
1.14.3			pre3				Torches can now be placed on iron bars.
1.16			20w15a				Walls now connect to the bottom and sides of iron bars.
			20w16a				Iron bars can now generate as part of ruined portals.
1.20			23w12a				Iron bars can now generate in trail ruins.
1.21.5			25w02a				Added new break, place, step, fall and hit sounds.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.8.0			build 1				Added iron bars.
v0.9.0			build 1				Iron bars now spawn naturally in strongholds and villages.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Iron bars now generate on top of end spikes.
							Iron bars now generate within igloo basements.
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Iron bars now generate in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0			beta 1.2.0.2				Iron bars without any connecting blocks are now 2x2 pixels in footprint (rather than .)
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of iron bars have been changed.
1.16.0			beta 1.15.0.51				The inventory icon of iron bars has now been changed to match Java Edition's.
			beta 1.16.0.57				Iron bars can now generate as part of ruined portals.
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.25				Added new break, place, step, fall and hit sounds.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU5	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added iron bars.
							Iron bars can be found in the Miscellaneous tab in the Creative inventory.
							Iron bars now generate in strongholds.
TU9							Iron bars now generate on the two tallest end spikes in the End.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			Moved iron bars to the "Building Blocks" tab in the Creative inventory.
TU25	CU14	1.17	1.17	1.17			Iron bars now connect to glass, stained glass, and glass panes.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Iron bars now generate within igloo basements.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Iron bars on top of one another now display a texture at the top/bottom joint of the two blocks.
							Iron bars without any connecting blocks are now 2x2 pixels in footprint (rather than .)
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Iron bars now generate in woodland mansions.
							Iron bars now connect to the solid back side of stairs.
			1.90				The textures of iron bars have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added iron bars.

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Iron Bars" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• In Java Edition, a 2×2 area made of iron bars can make a square-shaped hole big enough for the player and most mobs to fit through, but not rain, water, etc. that can be used as an easy entrance for an underwater house, and even an exit if pistons are used. Glass panes work in the same way.
• If a sign or a painting is placed on iron bars, it appears to float in the air.
• Despite apparently being thin enough to do so, iron bars do not let a ghast's explosion touch the block beneath them as long as the block is protected from other angles of the explosion affecting it.
• If an iron bar is connected to a block and a rail is placed on the block, the top texture of the iron bar disappears.
• While curing a zombie villager, iron bars placed nearby speed up the healing process. The same happens with beds, and both these things occur in the stereotypical prison cell.
• Arrows cannot be shot through iron bars.
• Because iron bars are 1 block high, the player can normally jump over iron bars, unlike fences.

Gallery

Renders

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  Unconnected
• 
  North
• 
  East
• 
  South
• 
  West
• 
  North and south
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  East and west
• 
  North and east
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  East and south
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  South and west
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  North and west
• 
  East, south, west
• 
  North, south, west
• 
  North, east, west
• 
  North, east, south
• 
  Connected from all sides
• 
  Unconnected (Bedrock Edition)

Screenshots

• 
  The first image of the bars that Jens Bergensten posted, where the iron bars can be seen to the right of the center.
• 
  An image posted by Notch, here we can see iron bars to the left and right of the center.
• 
  Naturally occurring iron bars at a blacksmith's shop in a village.
• 
  A jail cell made out of iron bars and cobblestone.
• 
  Water does not flow through the holes in the bars, but the player can fit inside them.
• 
  Natural-generated iron bars found in the End surrounding an end crystal.
• 
  A social media rendering of a zombie trying to pry through iron bars outside Kai’s house.^[3]

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