Many people new to Creativerse find it difficult to mine large amounts of iron. Whether its because the iron blends in with it's surroundings, people don't look hard enough, or do not use the best techniques, for whatever reason, this guide is for those who cannot easily find iron.

Iron is found in the stalactite layer. There are two primary rock types in this layer, and several ancillary block types.

The first type of rock is Siltstone. it is a soft brown color, and often contains glowing mushrooms, is often interspersed with saltrock, and even mold. Silstone is used in many recipes.

The second type is stalactite. This is a darker brown color There are a few recipe uses for stalactites.
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Iron is a node, much like coal. and it must be extracted from this node using an ore extractor. The best extractor a new player can use, is the bright blue Advanced extractor. If possible, obtain a super extractor to get the most out of the extraction process.

First, you need some torches or light. If you do not know how to make these, you shouldnt be hunting iron yet.

To find iron when you first start in a world, go searching for holes in the ground, pretty much anywhere except mountains and higher elevations. Often you can find these holes in forests or grasslands and one of the very best locations is along the shore of the ocean! Enter this hole and you will find a cave, (if you don't find a deep enough cave, go find another!). search the cave, looking for stalactites or siltstone. Be careful of monsters!


Place a light or a torch down every now and then and scan the walls, ceiling, and the floor for a red node of iron.

Place your extractor on the iron, and when it is complete, head back to your base and forge it into iron bars.

The best way to obtain significant amounta of iron is to train your ability in crafting until you can create the Strong TNT explosive. Once you can make this powerful explosive, you can now obtain tremendous amounts of iron.


With the Strong tnt, you dig down, or go into a cave until you hit the stalactite layer. Once you are at least 5 blocks deep in this layer, dig into a wall 5 blocks, place a Strong tnt at eye level, set it off and run like the devil is after you.



After the explosion, you might see iron, mine it and continue. Go into the big hole you made, and in one of the walls, dig 5 blocks in, and repeat the process of placing a Strong tnt, setting it off, running out.

I will often do this in a straight line for a while, and then take a sharp turn and go into a side wall 5 paces, and repeat the process, coming back in the direction I started.

This method will yield tens of thousands of iron, on EVERY claim. Including in the ocean.

There are 26,400 claims on every world. This means that there are hundreds of thousands of iron nodes to mine.

Please note that you can use Super tnt the same way in the corruption layer to obtain Lumite, and in the fossil layer you would use strong tnt to get coal and obsidian in the same manner. a single claim can yield tens of thousands of each type of ore.

Once you have some iron mining under your belt, you can then switch to the advanced tnt to clear more rock in the mining process. This will require some hardened lava to craft! So craft wisely!

After blasting a hole in the wall, a large amount of surface area is exposed. Mold, mud, glowing mushrooms, and saltrock are then very easily seen and can be taken from the walls formed by the explosion. even if you don't find iron with a super tnt, you can find a tremendous amount of these other ancillary, important materials.

Goo is most easily obtained by taking mold from the stalactite level and putting it into the machine processor. You get 6 goo per 1 mold.

Gunpowder is most easily obtained by processing coal in the processor. You may also obtain it by searching for glowing chests at night on the surface and grabbing the goodies within. The best place to find chests is the grasslands where glowing chests are easy to spot in the dark. You can also find chests underground, but since this often entails having to stun and kill creatures, it is 'cheaper' to just hunt them on the surface at night.

Gunpowder is also difficultly obtained by killing hotfeet, which are spawned on the lava layer. I recommend that if you are killing hotfeet for gunpowder that you use stun bombs on them, or have a nice sword and plenty of health potions. Stun bombs followed by stabbing them is the cheapest way to kill hotfeet. You can also kill hotfeet with a couple explosive bombs, eliminating the need to stab them after you stun them. Hunting hotfeet for gunpower is a waste of time, and damage to your weapon.

Iron is the third ingredient, and comes full circle in its own procurement. This is why your first few nodes of iron must be found in caves, so that you can make bombs to find more iron.

Iron can be found in Diamond Chests, which are located in the Corruption Layer. (the bottom layer of the world)

On average, there are usually 5 to 10 raw iron in a diamond chest, but you can often find more. Using the Pro DLC glider, I am able to pick up 150 to 200 diamond chest an hour, without ever falling ill from the influences of the corruption layer.

What this means is that I can often find 400 to 600 iron an hour without even trying hard. I once obtained almost 4000 iron in an hour just picking up chests.

Excavators are different type of explosives. Instead of destroying rock, they will collect some of it, and place it in bags, and in the same action, clear out an area 7 x 7 x 7, leaving the nodes.

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The only kind of excavator that works in the stalactite layer, is the super excavator. It is expensive in that it uses Lumite, so I suggest you use it wisely.

28 nodes found below my house

a random chunk of iron nodes, eleven in total (three are hidden behind the wall)

a really sweet amount of iron all in one spot

I randomly flew off and made an iron mine in under 5 minutes, exposing 23 ore nodes (207 raw iron)