Ore

Ores are rare stone blocks used to obtain resources.

Usage
Ores are primarily collected for crafting purposes, such as for tools and armor. Redstone is obtained from redstone ore, which can be used to create redstone circuits. 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. Note this can be increased greatly with fortune. All ore blocks except iron and gold require a Silk Touch pickaxe to drop themselves.

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 thus can be crafted in the inventory.

All raw materials except quartz can be crafted from their mineral blocks.

Availability
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.

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

History
{{History||1.16|snap=20w06a| Added ancient debris.

{{History|pocket alpha}} {{History||0.1.0|     Added coal, iron, redstone, gold, lapis lazuli and diamond ores.}} {{History||0.3.0|Coal ore now drops coal.}} {{History||0.3.2|Diamond ore now drops a diamond. {{History||0.4.0|Lapis lazuli ore now drops lapis lazuli .}} {{History||0.8.0|snap=build 2|Redstone ore now finally drops redstone dust.}} {{History||0.9.0|snap=build 1| Added emerald ore.}} {{History||0.12.1|snap=build 1| Added nether quartz ore. {{History|bedrock}} {{History||1.10.0|snap=beta 1.10.0.3|       The textures of all ores have now been changed.}} {{History||1.11.0|snap=beta 1.11.0.5| The texture of diamond ore has now been changed.}}
 * Iron and gold ores are now smeltable into metal ingots.}}
 * Mining ores now gives experience.}}

{{History|console}} {{History||xbox=TU1|xbone=CU1|ps=1.00|wiiu=Patch 1|     Added coal, iron, redstone, gold, lapis lazuli and diamond ores.}} {{History||xbox=TU7|xbone=CU1|ps=1.00|wiiu=Patch 1|All ores except gold and iron (which give experience when smelted) now drops experience points when mined.}} {{History||xbox=TU14|xbone=CU1|ps=1.04|wiiu=Patch 1| Added emerald ore & nether quartz ore.}} {{History|PS4}} {{History||1.90|       The textures of all ores have now been changed.}}

{{History|New 3DS}} {{History||0.1.0|       Added coal, iron, redstone, gold, lapis lazuli, diamond, emerald and nether quartz ores.}} {{History|foot}}