For other uses, see Flint (disambiguation).
Flint is an item obtained from mining gravel that can be used to craft a flint and steel, a fletching table, and arrows.
Obtaining
Mining
When a block of gravel is mined, there is a 10% chance that a single piece of flint will drop instead of the gravel block. When mined with a Fortune-enchanted tool, this chance increases to 16% at Fortune I, 25% at Fortune II, and 100% at Fortune III. Gravel mined using a tool with Silk Touch or gravel that fell on a non-solid block never produces flint.
Generated loot
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition and Bedrock Edition | ||||
 Flint
|
 Ruined Portal
|
Chest | 1–4 | 46.4%{ "item": "Flint", "stacksize": "1–4", "chance": 0.46437576826185156, "structure": "Ruined Portal", "container": "Chest" }
|
 Village
|
Fletcher's chest | 1–3 | 55.8%{ "item": "Flint", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.5583399765985125, "structure": "Village", "container": "Fletcher's chest" }
| |
Trading
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | Trades in stock | Villager experience | Price multiplier | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | |||||||
 Fletcher |  Novice | 67% | 50% | 10 ×  Gravel+  Emerald | 10 ×  Flint | 12 | 1 | 0.05 |
Usage
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Arrow | Flint + Stick + Feather |
|
| Fletching Table | Flint + Any Planks |
              |
| Flint and Steel | Iron Ingot + Flint |
  |
Trading
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | Trades in stock | Villager experience | Price multiplier | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | |||||||
| Fletcher |  Apprentice | 100% | 100% | 26 × Flint | Emerald | 12 | 10 | 0.05 |
 Leatherworker | Apprentice | 67% | 100% | 26 × Flint | Emerald | 12 | 10 | 0.05 |
| Toolsmith |  Journeyman | 40% | 100% | 30 × Flint | Emerald | 12 | 20 | 0.05 |
 Weaponsmith | Journeyman | 100% | 100% | 24 × Flint | Emerald | 12 | 20 | 0.05 |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flint | flint | Item | item |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flint | flint | 356 | Item | item |
History
Java Edition
| Java Edition Indev | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20100219 |  Added flint.
| ||||||
| Flint is used to craft flint and steel. | |||||||
| Java Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v1.0.14 | Crafting arrows now requires flint, rather than iron ingots. | ||||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | Farmer villagers now sell 4–5 flint for 1 emerald and 10 gravel. | |||||
| 1.3 |  The texture of flint has been slightly changed. | ||||||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Fletcher villagers now sell 6–10 flint for 1 emerald and 10 gravel. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  The texture of flint has been changed. | |||||
| 18w50a | Flint can now be found in chests in village fletcher houses. | ||||||
| 19w11a | Fletcher, leatherworker, toolsmith and weaponsmith villagers now buy flint. | ||||||
| Flint can now be used to craft the Fletching Table. | |||||||
| 1.16 | 20w07a | Flint has a 10⁄109 (~9.17%) chance of being given by the new piglins when bartering, in a stack size of 3–8, making it renewable. | |||||
| 20w09a | Flint can no longer be obtained by bartering with piglins. However, they are still renewable as piglins offer gravel. | ||||||
| 20w16a | Flint now generates in ruined portal chests. | ||||||
Bedrock Edition
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.3.3 | Added flint.
| ||||||
| Flint can be used to craft arrows. | |||||||
| v0.4.0 | Flint can now be used to make flint and steel. | ||||||
| v0.8.0 | build 1 | The texture of flint has been changed. | |||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.4 | alpha 1.0.4.0 | Fletcher villagers now sell 6–10 flint for 1 emerald and 10 gravel. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | The texture of flint has been changed. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Flint can now be found in village fletcher chests. | |||||
| beta 1.11.0.4 | Trading has been changed; fletcher villagers now have a 50% chance to sell 10 flint for 10 gravel and one emerald as part of their first tier trade. | ||||||
| Flint can now be sold to toolsmith, weaponsmith, fletcher, and leatherworker villagers. | |||||||
Legacy Console Edition
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added flint. |
| TU9 | The texture of flint has been changed. | ||||||
| TU14 | 1.04 | Farmer villagers now sell 2–3 flint for 1 emerald and 10 gravel. | |||||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | 1.22 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Fletcher villagers now sell 6–10 flint for 1 emerald and 10 gravel. | |
| 1.90 | The texture of flint has been changed. | ||||||
| 1.91 | Trading has been changed; fletcher villagers now have a chance to sell 10 flint for 10 gravel and one emerald as part of their first tier trade. | ||||||
| Flint can now be sold to toolsmith, weaponsmith, fletcher, and leatherworker villagers. | |||||||
Data history
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 318. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Flint" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Gallery
Screenshots
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A piece of flint found in a ruined portal chest, together with an enchanted golden apple
In other media
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Flint as it appears in Minecraft Earth
External links
- "Taking Inventory: Flint" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, October 31, 2019.
