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Let's continue down this dark road.

Iron! We've finally found iron! Equip a STONE (or better, if you have one) pickaxe and mine it.

It drops Iron Ore. You can't craft with this immediately, you'll have to 'cook' it in a furnace like you did with food. Then you can use it to craft armor and tools.

Turns out this mine isn't so far from home.

This is how you smelt Iron.

If you don't know how to craft iron tools, just enter in the ingredients for a stone tool and replace the cobblestone with Iron Ingots.

So let's keep exploring....

You can use water as an elevator, either going to the surface or down below...

And this stream goes down very far below....

Iron!

Just build a bridge across with some disposable material like Dirt.
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This Minecraft walkthrough is divided into 19 total pages.