Tiers

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Tiers refer to the different levels and materials of tools and weapons.

Tiers

There are currently six‌/seven​ tiers in the game: wood, gold, stone, copper​, iron, diamond, and netherite. The tier of an item determines its mining level, durability, mining speed multiplier, damage bonus, enchantability, and repair item.

Tier name	Mining level	Durability	Mining speed multiplier	Damage bonus[a]	Enchantability	Repair item
Wood	0	59	2	0	15	Planks
Gold		32	12		22	Gold Ingot
Stone	1	131	4	1	5	Cobbled Deepslate Cobblestone Blackstone
Copper ​		191	5		13	Copper Ingot
Iron	2	250	6	2	14	Iron Ingot
Diamond	3	1561	8	3	10	Diamond
Netherite	4	2031	9	4	15	Netherite Ingot

Mining level

The mining level of a tool is an internal numeric value that represents an additional restriction to breaking blocks, in addition to requiring a specific type of tool. Blocks in the tag minecraft:needs_diamond_tool require a tool with mining level 3 or higher, the block tag minecraft:needs_iron_tool mandates a mining level of 2 or higher, and the tag minecraft:needs_stone_tool means the tool must have at least mining level 1. Blocks that are in none of those block tags can be mined with any tool tier, but may still require a certain tool type.

A golden pickaxe is unique because with a mining level of 0, it cannot mine its own respective ore or material block (gold-related blocks), which require a mining level of at least 2.

In the vanilla game, all blocks that require a non-zero mining level happen to also require a pickaxe to obtain the block in item form. And while netherite tools have a higher mining level than diamond tools, no blocks in the vanilla game differentiate between these two mining levels.

Affected items

Swords, axes, pickaxes, shovels, and hoes all use tiers.

Other mechanics

Other mechanics in the game use these tiers for various purposes.

• Ancient debris, blocks of netherite, crying obsidian, obsidian, and respawn anchors require a pickaxe to have a mining level of 3 or better.
• Diamond ore, blocks of diamond, blocks of emerald, emerald ore, blocks of gold, gold ore, blocks of raw gold, redstone ore and deepslate variants of mentioned ores require a pickaxe to have a mining level of 2 or better.
• Blocks of copper, copper ore, blocks of raw copper, cut copper, cut copper slabs, and cut copper stairs of all levels of oxidation, blocks of iron, iron ore, blocks of raw iron, blocks of lapis lazuli, lapis lazuli ore, lightning rods and deepslate variants of mentioned ores require a pickaxe to have a mining level of 1 or better.

History

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See also

• Armor materials
• Materials

References

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