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How to Get Flint in Minecraft

Flint is a mineral that frequently makes an appearance in Minecraft because it's heavily used as raw materials in crafting essential tools and weapons like arrows and flint and steel. Step by step, this post will illustrate you the best and fastest way to get flint, demonstrate the most effective methods, and walk you through the processes necessary to increase the chances of getting the desired result of flint much faster.

How to Mine Flint in Minecraft

The quickest way to harvest flint in Minecraft is to mine gravel. Gravel is initially a block that, when you break it, it has a chance to change it to flint in the process. By default, the drop chance is 10%. However, the Fortune enchantment book can give you a big hand here because it will significantly change the rate you're after.

Mining Techniques for Flint:

  • Mining gravel has a 10% chance to drop flint instead of gravel.

  • Fortune I increases the drop chance of flint to 16%.

  • Fortune II increases the drop chance of flint to 25%.

  • Fortune III gives a 100% chance for gravel to drop flint, making it the most efficient method to obtain flint quickly.

Therefore, the Fortune III enchantment will assure you of flint every time you break a gravel block besides providing you with up to four flint per block. As a result, this is the fastest method for the acquisition of flint.

Another piece of advice is to steer clear of a Silk Touch tool as it will totally bar the flint from coming out. Also, the gravel that was being mined and hanging on a non-solid block can't give off a flint either.

Gravel Blocks

Gravel is a common unattractive piece of landscape in the world of Minecraft, which can be found on the surface, in caves, oceans, and Nether. Gravel can be mined, using a shovel, for quickness. Removing these gravel blocks autogenerates the flint material for your pocket.

One can also erect a "gravel tower" by piling up loads of gravel high and breaking it from the bottom to renew the blocks and get more flint. This farming method is one of the simple yet effective methods to get more flint only if the above is managed carefully and closely monitored.

One alternative is to let sand fall down as you hold a torch on one of the blocks. This method doesn't give you flint directly but still enables you to get through vast amounts of gravel blocks in a very short time which can then be turned to flint again by using a shovel.

Obtain Flint from Villagers and Chests

Java Edition's Fletcher villagers at novice level may give you 10 flint in exchange for 10 gravel blocks and one emerald. This kind of exchange is 50% likely to occur in Bedrock Edition.

Apprentice-level fletcher villagers buy 26 flint for one emerald in both editions of Minecraft. Journeyman-level toolsmith villagers have a 2/5 chance to buy 30 flint for one emerald in Java Edition. Last but not least, Journeyman-level weaponsmith villagers buy 24 flints for one emerald.

Other villagers like toolsmiths, weaponsmiths, and leatherworkers may also buy flint. This has made flint an important item to trade with villagers for emeralds.

Moreover, one of the ways to get flint is to search in chests, mostly in the following:

  • Ruined Portal Chests (1–4 flint, 46.4% chance)

  • Village Fletcher's Chests (1–3 flint, 55.8% chance)

Crafting Ingredient

Flint is a tool used to craft a lot of things. The following are the main items that can be crafted with flint:

Arrows

  • 1 flint + 1 stick + 1 feather = 4 arrows

  • Gravel dropped by Flint

  • Sticks from trees

  • Feathers from chickens or skeletons (via bone drops)

Flint and Steel

  • 1 flint + 1 iron ingot = Flint and Steel

  • Used to start fires or ignite TNT

Fletching Table

  • 2 flint + 4 planks = Fletching Table

  • Used by fletcher villagers for their profession

Flint is neither created through the smelting process nor smeltable but it can be obtained by the aforementioned means. Also, it should be remembered that it is easy to find flint, especially when you know where to look and use the right tools.

Conclusion

The right strategies can help you have an endless amount of flint in Minecraft. For example, if you use the Fortune III shovel, break gravel in bulk, loot village chests, and trade with villagers, you can get flint very quickly and efficiently through these means.

Suppose you are in the business of making arrows, flint and steel, or upgrading your villagers, then the knowledge of how to get flint can help you to increase your play time and will make the survival mode less difficult.