Netherite (and 1.20’s frustrating change.)
Netherite is a material introduced into Minecraft with the 1.16 “Nether Update”. It is the best ore, requiring diamond, gold and ancient debris (very rare find in the Nether). Smelt up ancient debris into netherite scrap, craft 4 scrap with 4 gold, and voila! A netherite ingot!
Sadly, though, you’re not even done yet! You’ll need a smithing table (4 planks with 2 iron ingots over it in crafting table) and a netherite smithing template (added 1.20, you didn’t need this before) only found in a bastion remnant.
Then, open up the smithing table’s GUI, smack the ingot and diamond tool/armour that you want to make netherite, and the smithing template, then you should have the netherite thing. Netherite tools will not burn in lava (useful)¸and they have the highest protection, durability and attack damage of all the tools.
