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examined: a pickaxe made of stone. She held up an identical one.
    â€œIt hurts your hand and takes forever to punch through rock, and you don’t get anything from it. You’d be best to mine stuff with a pickaxe.”
    Feeling a little bit stupid for his ignorance, Stan set into the mine, pickaxe in hand, tailed closely by Kat.
    His first stop was the coal ore he’d seen. He took his pickaxe and mined a good-sized lump of coal in a matter of minutes. He saw that the coal ran in a vein, and before long he had collected about ten lumps of it. He brought them over to Kat, who was hacking away at a stone wall.
    â€œGood,” she said. “Let me see those.” He handed her the lumps. She pulled some sticks from her inventory and fastened them to the coal to make torches. Each lump of coal yielded four torches, so they had forty in all.
    â€œNow we can go deeper into the mine, where there isn’t any natural light,” she explained. They ventured farther,placing torches along the wall as they went. Stan noticed that the torches ignited the second that Kat attached them to the wall, with no matches or lighter or anything. Strange . . .
    â€œHey, look over here!” Stan ran over to a spot on the ground flecked with black. “More coal! I’m going to dig this out,” he said. “Could you get me some stone for a new sword? And get some for Charlie, too.”
    â€œWhatever,” she said. She started hacking into the wall at a new location, gathering up tremendous amounts of stone chunks. Stan dug into the coal vein. He was about to dig into the eighth piece of coal when Kat said, “Hey, Stan! Come check this out!”
    Stan walked over to her. She had made quite a dent in the wall, and she was staring at a block that was different from the stone all around her. This block was flecked with little spots that looked similar to the coal ore, but were light brown instead of black. Kat stepped back.
    â€œI’ve never seen that before. Do you think it could be gold?”
    â€œIt might be. Hang on, put a torch up,” Stan said. Kat obliged. Stan pulled out his book and turned to the section on blocks. He found a page describing gold ore and showed it to Kat.
    â€œNo,” she said. “It doesn’t match the color. Gold ore has yellow flecks; these flecks are tan. Check out the other pages.”
    Stan turned to the previous page. He held that illustration up for Kat.
    â€œThat’s it!” she exclaimed. “What is it?”
    Stan read from the book.
    IRON ORE
    Iron ore is an ore block typically found in mines or mountainous regions. When smelted, it produces one iron ingot.
    Stan looked up.
    â€œDo you know what an Iron Ingot is?” he asked.
    Kat shrugged her shoulders. “Look it up,” she said.
    He did.
    IRON INGOT
    An iron ingot is a crafting item. It is most commonly obtained by smelting iron ore, but can also be found in the chests of Dungeons, Strongholds, Abandoned Mine Shafts, Temples, and NPC villages, or by killing Iron Golems and (rarely) Zombies. The iron ingot is an essential crafting item for a wide variety of things, including iron swords, iron armor, iron tools, buckets, shears, iron bars, tripwire hooks, and many other things. Tools and armor made from iron are of a higher quality than stone or leather, respectively, but of a lower quality than diamond.
    Of this entire passage, one small section caught Kat’s attention.
    â€œIron sword?” she exclaimed. “So if I smelt this stuff, whatever that means, I can get an iron sword?”
    â€œApparently,” said Stan.
    â€œSweet!” shouted Kat gleefully, and she began hacking away at the wall of ore. The two players hacked at the wall and managed to get out four blocks of iron ore before they hit stone again.
    â€œLet’s look around here. Maybe there’ll be some more!” She was about to take her pickaxe to the adjacent section of the wall when