Description
Raw Gold Block compresses nine raw gold pieces into one storage block on the crafting grid, with the reverse recipe converting them back without loss. The visual presentation is the most striking of the three raw blocks: bright golden flecks of varying sizes packed densely together, almost glittering against the dimmer texture of the matrix between them. Out of the three raw ore blocks, this one most resembles the smelted gold block in colour, just rougher and less uniform.
Most gold farms produce raw drops via Fortune III on deepslate gold veins, and the resulting hauls quickly exceed inventory capacity, so this storage block becomes a near-mandatory tool for organised players. Builders sometimes display the block as a treasure marker — at the apex of a vault, behind a hidden door, or as a decorative trim on royal-themed castles. Like all three raw blocks, it does not smelt directly: any intended use of the gold must first decompress it back to raw form, then put it through a furnace or blast furnace.