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An ore is any uncommon rock-type block used to obtain specific resources.
| Renewable | No |
|---|---|
| Stackable | Yes (64) |
| Tool | 👁 SlotSprite Pickaxe Required.png: Sprite image for Pickaxe Required in Minecraft |
| Blast resistance |
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| Hardness |
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| Luminous | No |
| Transparent | No |
| Flammable | No |
| Catches fire from lava |
No |
| Map color |
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| Note block instrument | Bass Drum |
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"Coal Ore",
"Iron Ore",
"Copper Ore",
"Gold Ore",
"Redstone Ore",
"Emerald Ore",
"Lapis Lazuli Ore",
"Diamond Ore",
"Deepslate Coal Ore",
"Deepslate Iron Ore",
"Deepslate Copper Ore",
"Deepslate Gold Ore",
"Deepslate Redstone Ore",
"Deepslate Emerald Ore",
"Deepslate Lapis Lazuli Ore",
"Deepslate Diamond Ore",
"Nether Gold Ore",
"Nether Quartz Ore",
"Ancient Debris"
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"Coal Ore.png",
"Deepslate Coal Ore.png",
"Iron Ore.png",
"Deepslate Iron Ore.png",
"Copper Ore.png",
"Deepslate Copper Ore.png",
"Gold Ore.png",
"Deepslate Gold Ore.png",
"Nether Gold Ore.png",
"Redstone Ore.png",
"Deepslate Redstone Ore.png",
"Emerald Ore.png",
"Deepslate Emerald Ore.png",
"Lapis Lazuli Ore.png",
"Deepslate Lapis Lazuli Ore.png",
"Diamond Ore.png",
"Deepslate Diamond Ore.png",
"Nether Quartz Ore.png",
"Ancient Debris.png"
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Ore blocks are primarily collected for their resources, which are used for crafting items, such as tools, weapons, armor, and redstone circuits. The resource can also be combined to create a block of the material's type.
Most ores drop their resource when mined, and require a Silk Touch pickaxe to drop themselves.
The average yield of any of the ores in the list above can be increased by using a pickaxe with Fortune.
Ancient debris drops itself when mined and must be smelted to obtain netherite scrap.
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. Nether gold ore is the only exception, as each ore block drops an average of 8.8 gold nuggets even when mined with Fortune III, which is less than a guaranteed gold ingot obtained from smelting the ore obtained using Silk Touch.
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. For detailed generation, see Ore (feature).
| 👁 Image Nether Quartz |
👁 Image Nether Gold |
👁 Image Ancient Debris | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ore block | 👁 Image |
👁 Image |
👁 Image | |
| Raw resource | 👁 Image |
👁 Image | ||
| Minimum pickaxe tier required |
👁 Image Wooden |
👁 Image Diamond | ||
| Found in biome | Any Nether biome | |||
| Abundance | Very common | Common | Very rare | |
| Most found in layers[f] | 114 | 16[g] | ||
| Commonly up to layers | 120 | 95 | 23 | |
| Rare on layers | 123-125 | 96-116 | 22-119 | |
| None at or above | 128 | 117 | 120 | |
| Java Edition Classic | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2009 | Notch shows interest in adding ores. Originally, only iron ore was planned. | ||||||
| 0.0.14a | May 23, 2009 | Added coal ore, iron ore, and gold ore. They can be found in veins of 200 on average. | |||||
| release | Ores could be found exposed only in amounts ranging from roughly 10 to 30 in a blob. | ||||||
| 0.26 SURVIVAL TEST | Mining an ore now gives the corresponding block of it. | ||||||
| Java Edition Indev | |||||||
| 0.31 | 20100128-2200 | Added diamond ore. | |||||
| 20100201-2227 | Ores can no longer be mined without a pickaxe. | ||||||
| Java Edition Infdev | |||||||
| 20100320 | Random ores are now placed randomly around the world. | ||||||
| 20100327 | Ores now replace stone upon a world reload. | ||||||
| 20100330 | The change of replacing stone upon a world reload has been reverted. | ||||||
| Java Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v1.0.1 | Added redstone ore. | ||||||
| Java Edition Beta | |||||||
| 1.2 | Added lapis lazuli ore. | ||||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4 | Coal, lapis lazuli, redstone, and diamond ore now also drop as ore blocks with Silk Touch. | |||||
| May 21, 2012 | Jeb released a screenshot of himself testing the trading system,[2] showcasing ruby ore.[3] | ||||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | Added emerald ore, which replaced Ruby ore. | |||||
| 12w22a | All ores (except iron and gold) now drop experience points when mined. | ||||||
| 1.5 | 13w01a | Added nether quartz ore. | |||||
| 1.16 | 20w06a | Added ancient debris. | |||||
| 20w11a | Added nether gold ore. | ||||||
| 20w12a | Nether gold ore now drops gold nuggets instead of itself. | ||||||
| October 3, 2020 | Copper ore is revealed at Minecraft Live 2020. | ||||||
| 1.17 | 20w45a | Added copper ore. | |||||
| February 17, 2021 | Henrik Kniberg showcases deepslate (then grimstone) variants of Overworld ore. | ||||||
| 21w08a | Added deepslate iron ore, deepslate gold ore, deepslate diamond ore, deepslate redstone ore, and deepslate lapis lazuli ore. | ||||||
| 21w10a | Added deepslate coal ore, deepslate emerald ore, and deepslate copper ore. They do not generate in Survival mode as they are intended for usage by map makers and datapack creators. | ||||||
| Fossils that generate below Y=0 now generate with deepslate diamond ore. | |||||||
| 21w14a | If iron, gold and copper ores are broken without Silk Touch, they drop raw metal instead. | ||||||
| 21w16a | Deepslate emerald ore now generates naturally. | ||||||
| Added ore veins in the prototype data pack, which contain copper ore and deepslate iron ore. | |||||||
| 21w17a | Deepslate coal ore and deepslate copper ore now generate naturally. | ||||||
| 1.18 | Experimental Snapshot 1 | Deepslate emerald ore and deepslate coal ore no longer generate naturally. | |||||
| 21w40a | Deepslate emerald ore can now generate naturally, again. | ||||||
| 21w44a | Deepslate coal ore can now generate naturally, again. | ||||||
| 1.20.2 | 23w31a | Increased the generate amount of diamond ore below Y=0. | |||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
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| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added coal ore, iron ore, gold ore, diamond ore, redstone ore, and lapis lazuli ore. |
| TU7 | All ores (except iron and gold) now drop experience points when mined. | ||||||
| TU14 | 1.04 | Added emerald ore and nether quartz ore. | |||||
| TU43 | CU33 | 1.36 | 1.36 | 1.36 | Patch 13 | 20 additional blobs of gold ore now generate in mesa biomes between Y=32 and Y=79. | |
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1.0 | Added coal ore, iron ore, gold ore, diamond ore, redstone ore, lapis lazuli ore, emerald ore, and nether quartz ore. | ||||||
Issues relating to "Ore" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
| 👁 Image Coal |
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| 👁 Image Copper |
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| 👁 Image Iron |
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| 👁 Image Gold |
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| 👁 Image Redstone |
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| 👁 Image Emerald |
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| 👁 Image Lapis Lazuli |
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| 👁 Image Diamond |
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| 👁 Image Nether Quartz |
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| 👁 Image Netherite |
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