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Availability of ores before the Caves & Cliffs update.

Coal[a] Lapis Lazuli Iron Gold Redstone[b] Diamond Emerald[c]
Ore block Coal Ore Lapis Lazuli Ore Iron Ore Gold Ore Redstone Ore Diamond Ore Emerald Ore
Refined resource Coal Lapis Lazuli Iron Ingot Gold Ingot Redstone Dust Diamond Emerald
Manufactured Blue Dye Iron Nugget Gold Nugget
Mineral block Block of Coal Lapis Lazuli Block Block of Iron Block of Gold Block of Redstone Block of Diamond Block of Emerald
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
Total range... 0 to 255 −63 to 64 −16 to 80;

128 to 255

−63 to 32 −63 to 80 −63 to 16 32 to 255
Most found in layers... 84 to 108;

136 to 255

−4 to 4 28 to 36;

232 to 255

−20 to −12 −60 to −50 216 to 255
Commonly up to layers... 156 32 64 13 76 −16 255
Rare on layers... 0 to 36 33 to 64 65 to 80;

128 to 168

14 to 32 77 to 79 −15 to 15 32 to 108
None at or above... 256 65 81; 256 33 81 17 256
Can replace Stone

Andesite
Diorite
Granite

Stone
  1. This refers to coal ore blocks spawned in ore veins and not as parts of fossils or mansion forges.
  2. Redstone has the same layer and line-size statistics as Diamond, but is generated eight times per chunk as opposed to once.
  3. Instead of multi-block veins, emerald ore is placed in scattered blocks.
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