Gold Ore

Gold ore is a mineral block commonly found beside stone blocks deep underground, usually in a vein of 4-8 blocks (sometimes up to 16 if two veins happen to spawn together, and as few as 1 if the block that was supposed to be gold ore is occupied by a generated structure). It only appears in the bottom 32 layers of the map. From levels 2-29, gold ore's occurrence underground is at 0.1437%. On average there are 8.2 gold ores per chunk. It can be mined using an iron or diamond pickaxe. Gold ore can be smelted in a furnace to create gold ingots.

Trivia

 * Gold Ore is the only ore that cannot be mined by a pickaxe of its own material; a gold pickaxe cannot be used to mine Gold Ore. Gold tools are only faster at mining than other tools; they are not stronger.
 * Gold Ore, along with Redstone Ore and Diamond Ore, can be found in Pocket Edition - and along with Diamond and Iron Ore, gold can be mined and made into gold tools, as smelting was added.
 * In Pocket Edition, gold ore seems to be much rarer than on the PC, which players may find annoying because gold is needed in large quantities for the Nether Reactor.
 * Gold Ore is about 5 times rarer than Iron Ore at the right elevations (layer 1~32)
 * Gold ore appears to use the same color as torches.

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Golderz Gold (Ore)/es Or (minerai) Aranyérc Oro Grezzo 금 원석 Goud (erts) Złoto (ruda) pt-br:Gold (Ore)/ptbr Золото (руда) 金矿石