[Top 5] Minecraft Best Levels for Iron

Updated:

11 Nov 2021

Which are the best ways to find Iron?

Iron might not be the rarest nor the most popular ore to come across in Minecraft, but it still is one of the most useful and important ones of the game; since you can craft many things from weapons and armours to minecarts and anvils, having a full stack of this ores is always a must on any players inventory. For that reason, we will give you the top 5 best levels to find Iron.

5. Villages:

Minecraft - Exploring Blacksmith villages

Villages and “manmade” structures in Minecraft are great places to look for iron and other precious ores since most of the time this have a great variety of chests where one of the most common loot that you can find is iron.

What makes villages great:

you will find a great variety of chests where iron can be found

4. Caves:

Minecraft guide to caves

Caves are a common natural forming structure in Minecraft and luckily for us, they are always full of ores such as iron, most of the time you don’t have to dig so deep into a cave to find a handful of iron veins exposed inside the cave, this situation is perfect if you lack tools or don’t want to wander so deep in the cave just to end up getting lost on your way back to the surface.

What makes Caves great:

common structures
Easy to find veins of exposed iron

3. Mountains:

I Mined a Full Mountain in Minecraft

If you are looking for tools or don’t want to waste your stone pickaxe by breaking most of those useless objects like stone and gravel and want to get the most of them only with mining iron, , then the mountains are your go-to, since up in the mountains not only will you find tons of caves and sinkholes where iron can be a common ore, but also on top of some mountains Iron veins tend to be exposed making your hunt for this precious material a much easier one.

What makes Mountains great:

Mountains have caves with lots of iron
Exposed iron on the surface of some mountains

2. Layers 11-13:

Best layers for Iron

This layer is great for finding Iron for a couple of reasons, first of all, iron is such a common ore that you will find it mostly on any layer, but we chose this layer since here not only will you find iron, but also a handful of other scarce ores like diamonds and Redstone, so who knows maybe you will be lucky enough to find some diamonds on your quest for iron and to us that sounds like an absolute win.

Why Layer 11-13 are great:

Easy to find iron
In these layers is where rare ores form

1. Ravines:

Minecraft - Guide to exploring ravines

Ravines are the best place to go if you are looking for iron, these huge holes that appear on the surface of the world are like a combination of every item mentioned on our list, they are generally full of exposed veins of not only iron but other precious ores; they also go all the way from mountain tops to the deepest layers of the world and to make it even better they are not so rare to come across as other natural structures in the game. Just be careful when you find one since falling inside one without the measures needed can end up being fatal since you can fall to your death or into a river of lava at the bottom of the ravine.

What makes ravines great: