Minecraft: Edition

Minecraft: Edition

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Acquire Hardware

Acquire Hardware

Smelt an iron ingot.

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How to unlock the Acquire Hardware achievement in Minecraft: Edition - Definitive Guide

Firstly you need wood for a pickaxe. Next you'll need to mine down at an angle until you get to stone, Use this stone to create a furnace (8 Cobblestone. Found in the crafting table menu). Now you want to mine into your mine until you find a version of stone with pink pixel on it. This is Iron which can only be mined with a stone pickaxe

Now to smelt the Iron you need either Coal, Charcoal or logs. If you found coal while looking for Iron put it on the bottom section of the furnace, if not then Charcoal can be made by smelting wooden logs with wooden logs or to completely bypass that section just smelt the iron with the logs.

Take the ingot out of the furnace and you should unlock the achievementclap

What you'll need
* Wood (To be used to create a Crafting table and sticks for tools)
* Stone (To create the furnace and stone pickaxe)
* Crafting Table
* Funerce
* Wooden and Stone Pickaxe
* Sticks
* Iron Ore
* Coal/Charcoal/Logs

EDIT: Some people are reporting this achievement to not be unlocking when it is supposed to. The To get around this Soundgoodizer suggested creating a new world and do everything from scratch by yourself, and repeat it until you get the achievement,
A patch has been released that reportedly fixes the bugged achievements, making this achievement obtainable again.
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08 Sep 2014 18:56

11 Comments
This has got to be glitched I have stacks of them and no achievement.
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By Iceonfire89 on 22 Dec 2015 14:55
Have you tried loading up a brand new world in survival? If a world has been loaded in and saved in creative mode once then achievements are disabled for that world. So try just loading up a new world and smelting some ore.

If that doesn't work then create a new thread in the forums and see if anyone else has come across the bug and found a fix for it.
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By Ditto51 on 22 Dec 2015 15:33
Yeah tried that, tried everything. No joy.
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By Iceonfire89 on 22 Dec 2015 23:12
Can confirm this achievement will not unlock
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By Soundgoodizer on 29 Dec 2015 05:23
I was having trouble getting this one to unlock then I built a new stone pick axe and mined a block of iron ore and smelted it THEN the achievement unlocked.
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By Mo the Surfer on 29 Dec 2015 07:37
it's unlockable but it can just be tricky. the way i did it was i started a brand new world on normal (not sure if the difficulty matters, probably not) and did everything by myself from scratch. i had to do it several times before it finally unlocked
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By Soundgoodizer on 02 Jan 2016 21:53
Okay, I've updated the solution to mention the buggyness and suggested Soundgoodizer method to get around it.
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By Ditto51 on 03 Jan 2016 10:52
Thanks Ditto, and yea I can also confirmed this achievement is super glitchy. I have smelted iron ore in the tutorial world and two other custom created worlds and even after making full iron weapons and armor it still hasn't popped. None of these worlds were ever loaded in creative it seems super random whether it pops or not.
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By BoundenLlama183 on 04 Jan 2016 01:04
Will test the statement above right now. Hope they are right.
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By Iceonfire89 on 13 Feb 2016 20:43
I can confirm the glitched cheevos are obtainable now, just got iron ingot and zombie flesh ones.
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By Iceonfire89 on 13 Feb 2016 20:48
In case it helps, smelting the ingot did not give the achievement, it only appeared when I took it out of the furnace. I the trouble as noted isn't as simple as that but, well, just in case . . .
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By SpirantCrayon22 on 07 Feb 2021 08:51
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For this achievement, you will need some coal and at least 1 iron ore.

These both can be found anywhere underground. Coal looks like a stone block with blacks spots in it, iron ore looks like a stone block with brown spots in it.

Dig around until you find some of each, then return to your furnace. Place the iron in the top square and the coal in the top square and then wait for it to do the work.

Note: you may want to take multiple stone pickaxes with you as they break fairly easily. It is also worth taking some sticks, that way you can create some torches as soon as you find some coal.

Source:
https://www.xboxachievements.com/game/minecraft/achievement/...
All credit goes to the original writer.

Here's a video:
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To get an iron ingot, you will need to a stone pickaxe and to start mining. Eventually you will find a new ore called Iron Ore, the game shall notify you when you come across this element. Mine the Iron Ore using your pickaxe and then smelt it in a furnace to create an iron ingot.

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