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Normal blocks I can mine fine, but when it comes to diamond and gold ores, the block just gets "destroyed" (as in you can't pick it up). I'm playing on multiplayer with no spawning monsters.

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A pick made of iron will mine all ores.

A stone pick will only mine coal, and iron; but will destroy gold, diamond, redstone and emerald without dropping the item.

The diamond or netherite pickaxe is required to get obsidian.

A wooden pickaxe will only mine coal, diorite, granite, and stone.

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  • Ah, that makes sense. I just got back to playing this after a long hiatus and can't seem to remember anything lol.
    – happy_soil
    Commented Mar 15, 2011 at 1:15
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    What I do is use a cobblestone pickaxe for mining stone, and a diamond pickaxe for mining gold|diamond|redstone. Since I only use this diamond pickaxe for these rarer ores, it is lasting forever. It lasts much longer than an iron pickaxe.
    – Denilson Sá Maia
    Commented Mar 15, 2011 at 3:28
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    You can guess which kind of axe you need by the time it takes to mine. If it takes longer than a few seconds, you need something better (the ranking is wood & gold < cobblestone < iron < diamond). The only exception is obsidian for which you need diamond and it still takes half a minute
    – Zommuter
    Commented Mar 15, 2011 at 6:02
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    15 seconds for obsidian with diamond, 1 min for everything else.
    – Femaref
    Commented Mar 15, 2011 at 14:32
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    @Femaref 15s? It felt like half an eternity to me...
    – Zommuter
    Commented Mar 16, 2011 at 6:10

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