Ore


Info

All of the current ores.

Ores are rare stone blocks used to obtain resources.

Usage

Ores are primarily collected for crafting purposes, such as for tools See the in-game items. For program enhancing software, see Programs and Editors. Tools are items used by the player while held to perform actions faster and more efficiently, to gather materials not and armor Armor Type Wearable items Durability See Durability Renewable Yes Stackable No Data values See Data values Name See Data values For the armor that can be worn by horses, see Horse Armor. Armor classes. From minecraft . Redstone is obtained from redstone ore Redstone Ore Transparency Partial (when active) Luminance Yes, 9 (when updated, clicked, or stepped on) Blast resistance 15 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Experience Mined: 1–5 Smelted: 0.7 Drops Redstone (4–5) Data minecraft , which can be used to create redstone circuits See redstone circuits. For other redstone-related articles, see Redstone (disambiguation). Contents 1 Redstone basics 1.1 Redstone components 1.2 Power 1.3 Power level 1.4 Redstone update 1.5 Redstone tick 1.6 Signals and pulses minecraft . Ore can also be combined to create a block of the material`s type.

Obtaining resources from ores is as simple as mining them (this is not the case for iron and gold ores, which must be smelted). Coal, diamond, emerald, and nether quartz ores drop 1 unit corresponding raw materials. Redstone ore drops 4-5 redstone dust, and lapis lazuli ore drops 4-8 lapis lazuli Lapis Lazuli Type Wool dyes Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Data value dec: 3514 hex: 15F4 bin: 1010111114 Name dye 4 See the Lapis Lazuli dye. For the block, see Lapis Lazuli Block. minecraft . All ore blocks except iron and gold require a Silk Touch "Flame" redirects here. For the non-solid damage-dealing block, see Fire. “ How does enchanting work in Minecraft? Well, you open a magical book and pick a random spell, not quite sure knowing what it will minecraft pickaxe to drop themselves.

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As a smelting ingredient

Ingredients Smelting The furnace interface. Smelting is a method of producing refined goods in Minecraft, also known as melting, baking, cooking, burning, drying, or producing. It has the same idea as crafting; one must put in acceptable recipe
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Further uses

All mineral blocks except quartz are crafted by putting 9 of the raw material items in a square. Quartz blocks are irreversibly crafted with 4 nether quartz and can be crafted in the inventory.

Ingredients Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid minecraft recipe
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All raw materials except quartz can be crafted from their mineral blocks.

Ingredients Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid minecraft recipe
Most mineral blocks

Availability

This graph shows the actual amount of ore found in a relatively small but untapped world.
Ores isolated down to bedrock

The following is the distribution of ores according to the altitude (layers are number of blocks above the lowest layer of bedrock). The highest layers that gold, redstone, diamond, and lapis lazuli can be found on are two layers lower. The graph on the right shows the ore distribution.

Ore type Most found on... Commonly found up to... Rare on layers... None at or above... Lowest tier of pickaxe needed for drop Found in...

Coal
Layers 5-52 Layer 128 Layer 129-131 Layer 132
Wooden

The Overworld

Iron
Layers 5-54 Layer 64 Layer 65-67 Layer 68
Stone

The Overworld

Lapis Lazuli
Layers 14-16 Layer 23 Layer 31-33 Layer 34
Stone

The Overworld

Gold
Layers 5-29 Layer 29 Layer 31-33 Layer 34
Iron

The Overworld

Gold
Layers 32-63 Layer 76 Layer 77-79 Layer 80
Iron

The Overworld
, in mesa biomes only

Diamond
Layers 5-12 Layer 12 Layer 13-15 Layer 16
Iron

The Overworld

Redstone
Layers 5-12 Layer 12 Layer 13-15 Layer 16
Iron

The Overworld

Emerald
Layers 5-29 Layer 29 Layer 30-32 Layer 33
Iron
Javaand Console editions


Stone
Pocketedition only


The Overworld
, only in the Extreme Hills biome

Nether Quartz
Layers 15-120 Layer 120 Layer 124-125 Layer 126
Wooden

The Nether
  1. This refers to coal ore blocks spawned in ore veins and not as parts of fossils or mansion forges.
  2. Unlike other ores, lapis lazuli`s frequency peaks around layer 15, and slowly tapers off above and below.
  3. Instead of multi-block veins, emerald ore is placed in scattered blocks.
  4. Quartz spawns equally in all parts of the nether (not counting lava and bedrock.)

Redstone has the same layer and line-size statistics as Diamond, but is generated 8 times per chunk as opposed to 1.

Table

Coal Iron Redstone Gold Lapis Lazuli Diamond Emerald Nether Quartz
Ore block Coal Ore.png Iron Ore.png Redstone Ore.png Gold Ore.png Lapis Lazuli Ore.png Diamond Ore.png Emerald Ore.png Nether Quartz Ore.png
Refined resource Coal.png Iron Ingot.png Redstone (Dust).png Gold Ingot.png Lapis Lazuli.png Diamond.png Emerald.png Nether Quartz.png
Mineral block Block of Coal.png Block of Iron.png Block of Redstone.png Block of Gold.png Lapis Lazuli Block.png Block of Diamond.png Block of Emerald.png Block of Quartz.png

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History

Classic
0.0.14a_01 Iron Ore.png Coal Ore.png Old Gold Ore.png Added gold ore, iron ore, and coal ore.
They could only be found exposed in amounts ranging from roughly 10 to 30 in a vein.
0.26 SURVIVAL TEST 9 Gold Ore.pngChanged the texture of gold ore.
0.27 SURVIVAL TEST 10 Mining an ore gives the corresponding block of it.
Indev
0.31 Diamond Ore.png Added diamond ore.
Alpha
1.0.1 Redstone Ore.png Added redstone ore.
Beta
1.2 Lapis Lazuli Ore.pngAdded lapis lazuli ore.
1.8 The highest layer for some ores was lowered by 2.
Official release
1.0.0 Beta 1.9-pre4 Coal, diamond, redstone, and lapis lazuli can now also drop as ore blocks with Silk Touch.
1.3.1 12w21a Removed Ruby Ore.png Added "ruby" ore, which generates in veins up to 10 blocks.
12w21b Emerald Ore.pngThe previously added ruby ore`s texture was changed to emeralds.
12w22a All ores except gold and iron (which give experience when smelted) drop experience points when mined.
Emerald ore spawns by itself, instead of in veins.
1.5 13w01a Nether Quartz Ore.pngAdded nether quartz ore.
1.8 14w29a Ore generation is now a lot faster.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.1.0 Coal Ore.pngIron Ore.pngRedstone Ore.pngLapis Lazuli Ore.pngGold Ore.pngDiamond Ore.pngAdded coal, iron, redstone, gold, lapis and diamond ores.
0.3.0 Coal ore now drops coal.
0.3.2 Diamond ore now drops a diamond.
Iron and gold ores are now smeltable into metal ingots.
0.4.0 Lapis lazuli ore now drops the dye.
0.8.0 Redstone ore now finally drops redstone dust.
0.9.0 Emerald O