Roblox's Skyblock is a game that is growing in popularity and came out in beta fairly recently! It was a popular game in Minecraft, it's a fun new way for Roblox players to try their hand at the mode. We take a quick look at how you can get iron ore and craft iron in the game so you can upgrade your tools and crafts!
How to get iron
To get iron in Skyblock, you will first need to build any bridge to connect your island to the portal. When you start out in the game, you should see a purple portal located on a small island that you currently cannot access. Mine stone blocks on your island and use them to access the portal! Go ahead and enter this portal to find yourself in a shared space with shops! If you look a little ahead of the crop and seed vendors, you'll see a sign that says "Mine" on it. Follow the path until you see an area that has a pile of rocks and a pickaxe on them that looks like this:
You will find three types of boulders here: Stone, Coal, and Iron Ore. The stone is a solid gray, the coal has black flecks, and the iron ore has silver flecks. Iron ore is the rarest spawn, but it spawns quite regularly. Here's what it looks like:
Take out your pickaxe and click/tap and hold the iron ore rock. After a few hits, you should extract it and receive iron! Keep in mind that this area is shared with other players on your server, so you can sometimes fight for iron. A good strategy I've found is to stay near only three rocks and keep mining those no matter what spawns. They respawn very quickly, so you'll probably be able to grab any iron before someone else can get it! I also recommend upgrading to a stone pickaxe before you go, as you should have enough wood and stone to craft one. This will speed up your mining time and hopefully beat all competitors.
Once you have the iron ore, you will need to create yourself a campfire. You can place a piece of wood inside to start burning, then put a piece of iron ore inside. This will create a piece of iron for you! Do this until the fire goes out. Once you have 10 iron, you can then create a furnace that will smelt ore into iron much faster! You can also use charcoal instead of wood as fuel.
