Nether Quartz Ore

A Nether Quartz Ore is an ore only available in the Nether and is the only ore currently located there. It was added in the 1.5 Redstone Update, and its item is used to make components including, but not limited to the Daylight Sensor or Comparator. When mined with any pickaxe, it drops a Nether Quartz crystal, which can be used to make a Comparator, Daylight Sensor or a Block of Quartz. Like Coal, Redstone, Diamond, Emerald and Lapis Lazuli Ore, Nether Quartz Ore drops experience when mined, and works with both Fortune and Silk Touch enchantments. Mining the ore without the use of a Fortune enchantment will drop one piece of Nether Quartz.

Nether Quartz may seem to be very common, but is actually about as abundant as iron in the overworld. It simply appears to be more abundant because you can see more exposed surface area compared to caves in the overworld. This makes it a very easy task to find the ore. It is available at any layer, but it is best found on layers 12-14 (below the main lava lake). There is an average of roughly 70 ores per chunk.

Trivia

 * Nether Quartz Ore is the first and currently only ore available in the Nether.
 * This is the first ore in which the texture isn't based upon Stone; it is based upon Netherrack.
 * It has large thick stripes on it rather than the usual dots or small stripes design that other ores have.
 * Unlike Netherrack, fire does not infinitely burn on Nether Quartz Ore.
 * Since Nether Quartz Ore can appear on any layer, some of it may be hard to reach, as it could be on a cliff-face overlooking lava or near either bedrock layer, or under an overhang.
 * Despite being modeled after Netherrack, Nether Quartz Ore has the same blast resistance as Stone and the other ores. Additonally, the Nether Quartz Block has a blast resistance of 4, while Netherrack has a blast resitance of 2. But for some reason, despite being made of netherrack and quartz, it's blast resitance is much higher, being 15.

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Netherquarz (Erz) Mena de cuarzo Quartz du Nether (minerai) Ruda kwarcu Кварц Нижнего мира (руда) 下界石英矿石