This page describes content that exists only in outdated versions of Minecraft.
This feature used to be in the game, but has ever since been removed. It may or may not return in a future update.
Before the Caves & Cliffs update on Java Edition 1.17 and Bedrock Edition 1.17.0, all overworld ores had the following distribution:
| Coal[a] | Lapis Lazuli | Iron | Gold | Redstone[b] | Diamond | Emerald[c] | ||
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| Minimal pickaxe for drop | Wooden | Stone | Iron | |||||
| Found in biome... | Any | Badlands | Any | Mountains | ||||
| Abundance | Very Common | Rare | Common | Uncommon | Common | Uncommon | Rare | Very Rare |
| Most found in layers... | 5-52 | 13-17[d] | 5-54 | 5-29 | 5-12 | 5-29 | ||
| Commonly up to layers... | 124 | 23 | 61 | 29 | 76 | 12 | 29 | |
| Rare on layers... | 125-127 | 31-33 | 62-63 | 31-33 | 77-79 | 13-15 | 30-32 | |
| None at or above... | 128 | 34 | 64 | 34 | 80 | 16 | 33 | |
| Can Replace | Stone | |||||||
Notes[]
- ↑ This refers to coal ore blocks spawned in ore veins and not as parts of fossils or mansion forges.
- ↑ Redstone has the same layer and line-size statistics as Diamond, but is generated eight times per chunk as opposed to once.
- ↑ Instead of multi-block veins, emerald ore is placed in scattered blocks.
- ↑ Unlike most other ores, lapis lazuli's frequency peaks around layer 15, and slowly tapers off above and below.