Tiers

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

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

Tier name	Mining level	Durability	Mining efficiency	Damage bonus[a]	Enchantability	Repair item
Wood	0	59	2	0	15	Planks
Gold		32	12		22 (25 on armor)	Gold Ingot
Stone	1	131	4	1	5	Cobbled Deepslate Cobblestone Blackstone
Copper		191	5		13 (8 on armor)	Copper Ingot
Iron	2	250	6	2	14 (9 on armor)	Iron Ingot
Diamond	3	1561	8	3	10	Diamond
Netherite	4	2031	9	4	15	Netherite Ingot

Mining level is an internal numeric value used by pickaxes that represents an additional restriction to whether or not blocks drop anything when mined, in addition to requiring the correct tool type. While it is used only by pickaxes, other tools have mining level values internally that match their tier.

A block with the tag minecraft:needs_stone_tool^{[note 1]} requires a mining level of 1 or higher, a block with the tag minecraft:needs_iron_tool^{[note 2]} requires a mining level of 2 or higher, and a block with the tag minecraft:needs_diamond_tool^{[note 3]} requires a tool with mining level 3 or higher. If a block has no mining level tags, it can be mined with a mining level of 0. There is an unused 4th mining level with the tag minecraft:needs_netherite_tool.

All of the swords, axes, pickaxes, shovels, hoes, and spears use tiers.

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