| Java Edition Classic | 
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| May 21, 2009 | Notch shows interest in adding iron ore. | 
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| May 23, 2009 | Notch says he accomplished adding iron blobs in stone. | 
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| 0.0.14a | Added iron ore. | 
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| Iron ore spawns in huge blobs, sometimes big enough to protrude into 3 caverns, and could be as big as 167 blocks. | 
| 0.26 SURVIVAL TEST | Breaking iron ore now gives the player 1–3 blocks of iron when mined. | 
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| Java Edition Indev | 
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| 0.31 | 20100128 | Iron ore now drops itself instead of blocks of iron when mined. | 
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| 20100129 | Before the furnace was added, players had to smelt ore by dropping ore blocks onto fire. | 
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| 20100201-2 | Iron ore now requires a stone, iron, or diamondpickaxe to be successfully obtained. | 
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| Java Edition Infdev | 
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| 20100227-1 | Iron ore no longer generates. | 
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| 20100320 | Iron ore blobs now generate, but differently. | 
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| 20100325 | Ore blobs now appear more like they do today. | 
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| 20100327 | Iron ore now regenerates after the world is reloaded, assuming that the positions of the oreblocks were replaced by stone. | 
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| 20100330 | Iron ore no longer regenerates. | 
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| Java Edition | 
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| 1.3.1 | 12w how do you break iron in minecraft how to break down iron armor minecraft 
 
 
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