Emerald Ore

Emerald ore is a rare mineral block that generates only in mountains and windswept hills biomes. It drops emeralds when mined, or itself if mined with a pickaxe with the Silk Touch enchantment.
Deepslate emerald ore is a variant of emerald ore that can generate in deepslate and tuff blobs.
== Obtaining ==
=== Breaking ===
Emerald ore can be mined with a pickaxe made from iron or better, otherwise it drops nothing. If mined without Silk Touch, the block drops 1 emerald (or up to 4 with Fortune). It also drops when broken.
=== Natural generation ===
Emerald ore generates in mountains and windswept hills biomes in the form of ore features, from levels -16 to 320, being most common at level 232, and becoming less common toward either end of the range. Emerald ore attempts to generate 100 times per chunk in blobs of 0—4 ores. Emerald ore can be exposed to the sky.
Emerald ore can replace stone, andesite, diorite, granite, tuff, and deepslate. Emerald ore that replaces tuff or deepslate becomes deepslate emerald ore, which is the rarest ore in Minecraft, rarer than normal emerald ore and ancient debris. It only generates between the altitudes of -16 and 8 where deepslate naturally occurs, which happens to be towards the end of emerald ore distribution where it is extremely rare; its limitation to certain biomes further adds to its rarity.
== Usage ==
=== Smelting ingredient ===
=== Note blocks ===
Emerald ore can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sounds.
== Sounds ==
=== Emerald ore ===
=== Deepslate emerald ore ===
== Data values ==
=== ID ===
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== History ==
== Issues ==
== Trivia ==
* Even though emerald ore is rarer than diamond ore, emerald ore is generally found more often in mountains biomes than diamond ore, as the emerald ore blocks are generated in a more scattered fashion.
== Gallery ==
=== Screenshots ===
EmeraldOreCave.png|An naturally occurring blob of emerald ore.
Emerald Above Lava.png|A naturally occurring blob of emerald ore.
Minecraft emerald Ore.png|A blob of emerald ore found at layer 18 in a windswept hills biome.
Room of Emeralds.png|A room with placed emerald ores, including emerald blocks and thrown emeralds.
Emerald Ore occurrence vs Diamond Ore.png|A comparison of the occurrence of emerald ore to the occurrence of diamond ore.
Emerald-Ores.png|Two blobs of emerald ores that generated nearly together.
Emeralds in a Desert Biome.png|A block of emerald ore found in a plains biome.
EmeraldExposed.jpg|A blob of emerald ore found in a mountain biome.
RavineandStornghold.png|Ravine with multiple ores, water and lava falls, and stronghold bridge over it.
Emeraldsclose.png|Multiple emerald ores close together.
=== Development images ===
Villager trading preview.png|The first image of the trading system released by Jeb. The emerald ore can be seen in the top right-hand corner with the original texture.
Villagenhanced.jpg|An enhanced version of Jeb's screenshot showing the original ore texture more clearly.
Emerald Ore 12w21a.png|The old "ruby" texture of emerald ore.
== References ==
Category:Ore
Category:Natural blocks
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