Maximizing Yields with the Fortune Enchantment

Breaking Dense Ores for Maximum Material

Dense ores naturally yield up to three times the amount of minerals compared to normal ores. For example, breaking a single dense diamond ore can yield multiple diamonds at once without any enchantments applied. To push your resource generation even higher, pair these blocks with enchanted mining tools.

1. Acquire an enchanting table or an anvil to apply the Fortune enchantment to your pickaxe.

2. Locate a dense ore deposit in the Overworld or the Nether.

3. Clear the area around the dense ore clump of hostile mobs and hazards like lava to prevent item drops from burning.

4. Mine the dense ore block using your Fortune pickaxe. The enchantment works alongside the dense ore's built-in bonus, multiplying your total resource output.

Gathering Bonus Experience

Mining dense ores also grants significantly higher experience points compared to normal ores.

• Target ores that drop immediate experience upon breaking, such as coal, redstone, lapis lazuli, and diamond.
• Note that dense iron, dense copper, and dense gold do not drop additional experience upon being broken, matching the standard mechanic where experience comes from smelting raw materials rather than mining.