Nether Quartz Ore

Nether quartz ore is ore found in the Nether, and is a source of quartz.

Natural generation
Nether quartz ore can generate in the Nether in the form of mineral veins. Nether quartz ore attempts to replace netherrack 16 times per chunk in veins of size 1-14, from levels 10 to 117, in all nether biomes. In basalt deltas, nether quartz ore attempts to generate 32 times per chunk as there are fewer valid generation areas.

Breaking
Nether quartz ore can be mined with any pickaxe, or it drops nothing. If mined with Silk Touch, the block drops itself. Otherwise, it drops 1 nether quartz (or more with Fortune).

Smelting ingredient
Do note that smelting is pointless with Nether Quartz Ore: with any level of Fortune enchantment, one can obtain more quartz by breaking the ore instead. The experience gain is at least 10 times higher too.

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Trivia

 * Unlike netherrack, fire does not burn indefinitely on nether quartz ore.
 * Nether quartz ore has the same blast resistance as other ores, which is more than the quartz block and netherrack combined.
 * The vast quantities of easily available nether quartz ore in the Nether, combined with the relatively large quantity of experience gained from digging it, make nether quartz mining one of the fastest ways to level up in Minecraft. Breaking one nether quartz ore provides 3.5 experience points on average, so breaking about 100 of them will get the player from level 0 to 16, and about 400 from level 0 to 30.
 * Nether quartz ore is generated as part of the dimension, while netherrack is generated as part of the biome.
 * This can be seen, as when a Buffet world with the nether biome is generated, there is netherrack but no quartz ore.
 * $$, if the Nether is generated in the Overworld as a biome, neither netherrack nor nether quartz ore is generated, but the terrain is completely made out of stone with bedrock ceiling.

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