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Ore/Pre-1.18 distribution

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This feature was present in earlier versions of Minecraft, but has since been removed.

Availability of ores in Java Edition 1.17 and Bedrock Edition 1.17.0:

Coal[a] Copper Lapis Lazuli Iron Gold Redstone Diamond Emerald[b]
Ore block
Deepslate variant[c]
Raw resource
Refined resource
Manufactured - - - - -
Mineral block
Raw mineral block
Minimal pickaxe for drop Wooden Stone Iron
Found in biome... Any Badlands Any Mountains
Abundance Very Common Common Rare Common Uncommon Common Uncommon Rare Very Rare
Most found in layers... 5-52 5-192 13-17[d] 5-54 5-29 5-12 5-29
Commonly up to layers... 128 96 23 61 29 76 5-12 29
Rare on layers... 129-131 ​[more information needed] 31-33 62-63 31-33 77-79 13-15 30-32
None at or above... 132 193 34 64 34 80 16 33
Can replace [e]

Stone
Andesite
Diorite
Granite
Tuff
Deepslate

Stone

Tuff
Deepslate

Notes

  1. ↑ This refers to coal ore blocks spawned in blobs and not as parts of fossils or mansion forges.
  2. ↑ Instead of multi-block blobs, emerald ore is placed in scattered blocks.
  3. ↑ Deepslate variants only generate in deepslate blobs between layers 0 and 16.
  4. ↑ Unlike most other ores, lapis lazuli's frequency peaks around layer 15, and slowly tapers off above and below.
  5. ↑ Deepslate variants replace only Deepslate and Tuff.

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