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All Minecraft Ores!

An Ore is a type of block naturally found in Minecraft. Ore is primarily collected for crafting purposes, such as tools, armor, and more. Redstone Ore is used as a type of wiring which can be used to create redstone circuits, compasses, clocks and more. Coal Ore can be used to smelt other ores (gold and iron) out of their stone bodies. Ore can also be combined to create a block of the material's type for iron, gold, diamond, emerald, redstone (as of 1.5) and lapis lazuli. Blocks are hard to make, requiring nine pieces of each material to create, and are mainly recommended for storage purposes or building. Just remember, layer 0 is the lowest layer of Bedrock, so no ores can be found there! They can, however, be spawned very close to the bottom of the map, at layer 1. Certain ores have the habit of spawning at any layer.An ore block looks like a usual Stone block with different coloured shards or gems embedded into it (they are always the same colour on each ore), however some ores like Glowstone are different in that respect.In order to get a drop from an ore, they must have the right type of pickaxe. If they do not, the mining will take ridiculously long and the player won't get the ore.ADVERTISEMENT

Overworld Ores

Overworld ores are ores embedded within stone. The majority of ores are existing ores found in reality. All ores have realistic depths in which they can be found in, however, generation per-biome is not completely as truthful to reality.

Coal Ore

Main article: Coal OreCoal Ore is a very common ore that can be found underground or in rock formations such as mountains, in relatively large deposits. Coal is mined from Coal Ore and can be used as furnace fuel, or crafted with a stick to create torches. Coal ore can be successfully mined using any type ofpickaxe.

Iron Ore

Main article: Iron OreIron Ore is most commonly found underground in small veins. It can be smelted into iron ingots, which can be used to craft many useful items, includingarmor, weapons, tools and minecarttracks. Iron ore can be found at layers 64 to 1. The layers are counted from bottom till top. Iron can only be mined with astone, iron or diamond pickaxe, otherwise a drop will not be obtained.

Redstone Ore

Main article: Redstone OreRedstone Ore is a type of ore found less than 16 levels above the bedrock layer. Added in the third Secret Friday Update, redstone ore is more common than coal if you are at the correct layer. Redstone ore must be mined with an iron pickaxe or better. When destroyed, several piles ofRedstone Dust will appear, a property unique to Redstone.Redstone Dust is currently used in the construction of various traps, mechanisms, and contraptions dependent on simple circuits. After the 1.9. Pre-Release 3, redstone dust can be used for brewing.If there is a block or entitiy update adjacent to a Redstone Ore block, this ore will transform into a technical block calledGlowing Redstone Ore which emits 9 light level and some particle effects (similar to that of a Nether Portal, only red).

Gold Ore

Main article: Gold OreGold Ore can be found deep underground in small veins. Gold Ore can be smelted to make gold ingots which can make a variety of tools and weapons. Gold is a very soft material, and is generally considered a bad choice for crafting due to its low durability and uses. A gold tool has the strength of a wooden tool. It wears out much quicker, despite mining at light speed.Gold is mainly used in decorations. Nine gold ingots can be placed in a crafting square to make a Gold Block as the gold block can turn back into nine ingots, making a practical "storage unit". Otherwise, gold ore are somewhat obsolete compared to other ores. It can only be successfully mined with an Iron or Diamond Pickaxe.  A gold pickaxe can't even mine it's own ore.

Lapis Lazuli Ore

Main article: Lapis Lazuli (Ore)Lapis Lazuli Ore (sometimes called Lapis or Lazuli) is a rare ore block that can be found in abandoned mine shafts or in areas between levels 13 and 14. When mined, it turns into four Lapis Lazuli dyes, which can be used to dye dog collars, woolor a sheep to turn it blue, or create a decorative Lapis Lazuli Block. For a drop, you must mine this with a Stone, Iron or Diamond Pickaxe.Diamonds

Diamond Ore

Main article: Diamond OreDiamond Ore is an extremely rare, valuable ore and is only found very deep underground and in sparse veins (the vein can spawn diagonally). In order to drop aDiamond this ore can be mined by using an Iron or Diamond Pickaxe.Diamonds can be used to create Diamond Tools, which have the strongest durability and uses in the game. A diamond pickaxe is the only pickaxe which can mineObsidian.

Emerald Ore

Main article: Emerald OreEmerald Ore is the rarest ore to date in Minecraft (25 times more so than Diamond Ore, while almost always spawning in only one-block veins). When mined (with an Iron Pickaxe or higher), it drops an Emerald; the only implemented use of Emeralds to date is for trading withVillagers. An easier way to get emeralds is to open a cow or pig farm, and collect your drops and go to the nearest butcher. Remember not to cook them, butcher villagers only accept raw.

Ruby Ore

Main article: Emerald Ore#HistoryRuby Ore was added during the 1.3 snapshots, but was shortly replaced by Emerald Ore. It was scrapped because Dinnerbone was color blind at the time. This ore is currently unexistant, however some mods use this old texture. Ruby and Emerald have an appearance much similar to each other.

Nether Ores

Glowstone

Main article: GlowstoneGlowstone is a material that can only be found in the Nether. When mining glowstone, you obtain glowstone dust, which can be used to recreate glowstone blocks at a ratio of 9:1 (dust to block). Glowstone blocks, when placed, emit light - glowstone blocks will emit a light level slightly higher than torches, equal to that of sunlight. Can be successful with any item, including bare fists.A more efficient way to mine this ore is to use a tool with the Silk Touch enchantment. You'll get the whole glowstone block, which is worth 4 glowstone dust, and also means you don't need to go to the bother of crafting it.Tools can not yet be made with Glowstone.

Nether Quartz Ore

Main article: Nether Quartz OreNether Quartz is a crystal ore found in the Nether appearing in the 13w01a snapshot for the 1.5 update. Nether Quartz is used in making the Redstone Comparator.

Ore Vein

An ore vein is a naturally generated structure found underground that is almost always encased in stone blocks. Ore Veins look like block structures with bulbous bits randomly coming out along it. Sometimes they are just cube shaped, and some of them look extremely odd.