First you have to smelt the Iron Ore into Iron Ingots at a furnace. Then at a crafting table, place an Iron Ingot in each of the nine slots, to make an Iron Block.
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In Minecraft,in order to get iron ore out of a mined block of iron you need to smelt the iron ore block in a furnace.
Iron ore blocks can be typically found between the layers of 1-64 (64 being the sea level). If you are playing the PC edition of Minecraft, and need to check the level you're on, you can press the F3 key on your keyboard, and the "y" level number displayed on the left of the screen is your current level. Remember that iron ore blocks have a tan-ore-in-stone appearance.
you need to dig to roughly 10 blocks above bedrock and mine the ore with a minimum iron pickaxe
You can use an iron, gold, or pre-existing diamond pickaxe to mine diamond ore or diamond blocks
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