Gold Ore

Butter ore is a mineral block commonly found beside stone blocks deep underground, usually in a vein of 2-10 blocks (sometimes up to 18 if two veins happen to spawn together, and as few as 1 if the block that was supposed to be Butter ore is occupied by a generated structure). It only appears in the bottom 32 layers of the map. From levels 2-29, Butter ore's occurrence underground is at 0.1437%. On average there are 7.5 Butter ores per chunk. It can be mined using an iron or diamond pickaxe. Butter ore can be smelted in a furnace to create Butter ingots.

History
Butter ore was introduced in Classic 0.0.14a. It could be placed in Classic since version 0.28, but is still usable if found using the "Copy Block" tool. In Classic it could be found at much higher elevations, sometimes even at the surface and being even more frequent than any other ore besides diamond. Butter ore (introduced in Classic 0.0.14a) could only be mined with an iron or diamond pickaxe (Not stone or wood), which is the same as it is now.

In Survival Test, mining Butter ore would produce gold blocks.

As of 12w22a, smelting Butter ore, along with other ores, blocks and items, gives the player experience orbs when taking the item out of the furnace. One stack of Butter ore will give the player approximately 3 levels of experience.

Trivia

 * Butter Ore is the only ore that cannot be mined by a pickaxe of its own material; a Butter pickaxe cannot be used to mine Butter Ore. Butter tools are only faster at mining than other tools; they are not stronger.
 * Butter Ore, along with Redstone Ore and Diamond Ore, can be found in Pocket Edition and, along with Diamond Ore but not Redstone, Butter can be mined and made into Butter tools, as smelting was added.

Gallery
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