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All of the ores as of 1.16.4.
Ores isolated down to bedrock
This graph shows the actual amount of ores found in a relatively small but untapped world as of Java Edition 1.12.2
This graph shows the actual amount of ancient debris found in a relatively small but untapped world as of Java Edition 20w06a
An ore is any uncommon rock-type block used to obtain specific resources.
Usage
Ore blocks 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.
There are two ways to obtain a resource from an ore block, depending on the type of ore:
- Mining: The indicated yield can be increased by mining the ore with a pickaxe enchanted with Fortune. Ores that drop their resource when mined require a Silk Touch pickaxe to drop themselves.
- Coal, diamond, emerald, and nether quartz ores drop 1 unit of corresponding raw material.
- Redstone ore drops 4–5 redstone dust.
- Lapis lazuli ore drops 4–9 lapis lazuli.
- Smelting: Iron ore, copper ore,[upcoming: JE 1.17], gold ore, and ancient debris all drop themselves when mined. They must be smelted to obtain the corresponding resource (iron, copper, gold, and netherite scraps, respectively).
As a smelting ingredient
| Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|
| Any raw ore + Any fuel |
Ores can be smelted faster using a blast furnace.
It is not efficient to mine with Silk Touch and then smelt an ore block that normally drops multiple pieces of its resource, because smelting these ores yields less experience and only 1 piece of the resource.
Further uses
All mineral blocks except quartz and copper[upcoming: JE 1.17] 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. Copper blocks[upcoming: JE 1.17] are also crafted from 4 copper ingots, which is reversible only if the copper block has not started oxidizing.
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Any processed ore |
All raw materials except quartz can be crafted from their mineral blocks.
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Most mineral blocks |
Iron and Gold ingots can be converted into nuggets and vice-versa.
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Metal Ingots |
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
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| Metal Nuggets |
Lapis Lazuli can be crafted into a dye, or even used as one in Bedrock Edition.
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Lapis Lazuli |
Netherite scraps, obtained by smelting ancient debris, are used alongside gold ingots to create netherite ingots. This is the only mineral used alongside another mineral to create an alloy. Netherite tools and armor also require you to first have diamond tools and armor.
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Gold Ingot, Netherite Scrap |
Netherite ingots can be used on a smithing table to upgrade diamond items to netherite items. Data such as durability, enchantments, and custom names are preserved.
Diamond items +
Netherite Ingot
Availability
The following is the distribution of ores according to the altitude (layers are number of blocks above the lowest layer of bedrock) in the Overworld and the Nether. The highest layers that gold, redstone, diamond, and lapis lazuli ore can be found on are two layers lower.[1]
Overworld
| Coal[a] | Iron | Copper[upcoming: JE 1.17][upcoming: BE 1.16.210] | Lapis Lazuli | 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 | Common Very Common[upcoming: Lua error in Module:Version_link at line 112: attempt to concatenate local 'text' (a nil value).] |
Common | Rare | Uncommon | Common | Uncommon | Rare | Very Rare |
| Total range... | 0 – 255 | (−16) – 80;
128 – 255 |
0 – 96 | (−63) – 64 | (−63) – 32 | (−63) – 80 | (−63) – 16 | 32 – 255 | |
| Most found in layers... | 84 – 108;
136 – 255 |
28 – 36;
232 – 255 |
44 – 52 | (−4) – 4 | (−20) – (−12) | (−60) – (−50) | 216 – 255 | ||
| Commonly up to layers... | 156 | 64 | 80 | 32 | 13 | 76 | −16 | 255 | |
| Rare on layers... | 0 – 36 | 65 – 80;
128 – 168 |
81 – 96 | 33 – 64 | 14 – 32 | 77 – 79 | (−15) – 15 | 32 – 108 | |
| None at or above... | 256 | 81; 256 | 97 | 65 | 33 | 81 | 17 | 256 | |
| Can Replace | Stone | ||||||||
The Nether
| Nether Quartz[d] | Nether Gold | Ancient Debris | ||
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| Minimal pickaxe for drop | Wooden | Diamond | ||
| Abundance | Very Common | Common | Very Rare | |
| Found in biome... | Any Nether | |||
| Most found in layers... | 10 – 114 | 15 | 13 – 17[e] | |
| Commonly up to layers... | 120 | 95 | 23 | |
| Rare on layers... | 123 – 125 | 96 – 116 | 22 – 119 | |
| None at or above... | 128 | 117 | 120 | |
| Can Replace | Netherrack | |||
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Nether quartz spawns equally in all parts of the Nether.
- ↑ Unlike most other ores, ancient debris' frequency peaks at layer 15, and quickly tapers off above and below.
History
Gallery
Trivia
- Ancient debris has two ways to generate, similar to gold ore.
- Since it is exclusive to only one Overworld biome, Emerald ore is actually rarer than ancient debris per chunk.
References
- ↑ http://i.imgur.com/djSvZ.png
- ↑ https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/204619936616808451
- ↑ snapshot 12w21a/b lang/en_US.lang: tile.oreRuby.name=Ruby Ore
- ↑ https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/205641953742819328



































