What can I do with extra netherite?

With extra netherite, you can upgrade your diamond items to netherite items, such as netherite swords, netherite pickaxes, netherite axes, netherite shovels, and netherite hoes, using a smithing table, and also create netherite armor, including netherite helmets, netherite chest plates, netherite leggings, and netherite boots. Additionally, you can use netherite to craft netherite blocks, which are unbreakable by the strongest explosions from normal gameplay, with the exception of blue wither skulls.

FAQs about Netherite

Understanding Netherite

1. What are the perks of full netherite?: Netherite items are more powerful and durable than diamond, and in dropped item form are resistant to fire or lava, with netherite blocks boasting a blast resistance of 1,200, the same as obsidian.
2. Is full netherite armor worth it?: Full diamond and full netherite provide the same amount of damage reduction (80%), but each piece of netherite armor provides 10% knockback reduction, and netherite seems to have about 40-60 more durability for each armor piece compared to diamond.
3. Is netherite better than diamond?: Yes, netherite is better than diamond as it has a higher toughness and durability, and netherite also has knockback resistance, meaning players will barely move if they are hit with arrows, and any weapons made with netherite will also do more damage than diamond.

Crafting and Upgrading

4. What do you use Netherite Scraps for?: The only use of netherite scrap is for crafting netherite ingots with gold ingots, by combining 4 netherite scraps with 4 gold ingots in any crafting grid.
5. What do you combine netherite with?: Combine your diamond item with a netherite ingot using the smithing table to upgrade it to a netherite item.
6. Can you smelt netherite?: Ancient debris can be smelted into netherite scraps in a furnace or blast furnace, and then netherite scraps can be combined with gold ingots to make a netherite ingot.

Netherite Tools and Armor

7. Is a netherite pickaxe worth it?: Netherite armor/tools have roughly 1.3x the durability of diamond, but the tools are all the same speed as diamond tools, which makes them not worth getting because the difficulty to obtain is 4x greater than diamond.
8. Is it better to make netherite tools or armor?: Each piece of netherite armor provides 10% knockback reduction, and netherite seems to have about 40-60 more durability for each armor piece compared to diamond, while netherite tools seem to have 470 more durability than diamond tools.
9. How many hits can netherite armor take?: A maxed-out netherite armor can absorb up to 80% of inflicted damage and possesses 8 defense points, and in terms of durability, it can endure up to 592 hits.

Enchanting and Trading

10. Is it better to enchant before or after netherite?: If you want the best enchants, you might want to upgrade your diamond gear to netherite before enchanting, as netherite has a higher enchantibility than diamond.
11. Should armor have mending?: By using a Minecraft player’s experience points and levels, mending restores the durability of any items it can be enchanted with, which is very helpful for players with precious armor, weapons, or tools.
12. Can you get Netherite scrap from Piglins?: Yes, piglins accept gold blocks and give better trades for them, including netherite scraps and ingots.

Netherite in the Game

13. What is the most important netherite item?: A single block of netherite can fully upgrade a whole set of diamond armor, including five diamond weapons or tools, and netherite blocks boast a blast resistance of 1,200, the same as obsidian.
14. Is netherite 1.20 worth?: Personally, netherite really only adds a bit of knockback resistance and you can get by just fine with diamond armor, but many people express their dissatisfaction with this update as it makes the already difficult process even more difficult and time-consuming.
15. Are netherite swords worth it?: The only things potentially worth using are the sword (has +1 damage at all levels over diamond) and the armor (same defense as diamond, but with +1 knockback resistance and a new stat called armor toughness which makes its defense technically higher than diamond).