Ore

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, weapons, armor, and redstone circuits. Refined ore 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.
*, , , their respective deepslate variants, and ores drop 1 unit of their corresponding material.
*, , and their respective deepslate variant ores drop 1 unit of their raw form.
* and deepslate copper ores drop 2-5 raw copper.
* and deepslate redstone ores drop 4–5 redstone dust.
* and deepslate lapis lazuli ores drop 4–9 lapis lazuli.
* drops 2–6 gold nuggets.
* is the exception; it drops itself when mined and must be smelted to obtain netherite scrap.
=== Smelting ingredient ===
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.
=== Note Blocks ===
All types of ores can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sounds.
== Distribution ==
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).
=== Overworld ===
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Stone variant 	 	colspan="2" 	 	 	colspan="2"	 	 	 	 	
Deepslate variant 	 	colspan="2" 	 	 	colspan="2"	 	 	 	 	
Raw resource 	rowspan="2" 	colspan="2" 	rowspan="2" 	 	colspan="2"	rowspan="2"	rowspan="2"	 	 	
Refined resource 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Manufactured product 	- 	- 	- 	 	 	 	 	- 	- 	-
Mineral block 	rowspan="2" 	colspan="2" 	rowspan="2" 	 	colspan="2"	rowspan="2"	rowspan="2"	 	 	
Raw mineral block 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Minimum pickaxe tier required	 	colspan="4" 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Found in biome 	Any 	Any 	 	Any 	Any 	Any 	 	Any 	Any 	
Abundance 	Very common 	Common 	Very common 	Uncommon 	Common 	Rare 	Common 	Uncommon 	Rare 	Uncommon
Total range 	0 to 320 	-16 to 112 	-16 to 112 	-64 to 64	-64 to 320 	-64 to 32 	-64 to 256 	-64 to 16	-64 to 16	-16 to 320
Most found in layers 	44, 95 and 136	48 	48 	-1 	15 and 232 	-16 	32 to 256 	-59 	-59 	236
None at layers 	-64 to -1 	-64 to -17 and 113 to 320	-64 to -17 and 113 to 320	65 to 320	73 to 79 	33 to 320 	257 to 320 	15 to 320	16 to 320	-64 to -17
=== The Nether ===
 	 	 	
Ore block 	 	 	
Raw resource 	 	 	
Refined resource 	 	 	
Manufactured 	- 	 	
Mineral block 	 	 	
Minimum pickaxetier required	 	 	
Found in biome 	Any Nether 	Any Nether	Any Nether
Abundance 	Very Common	Common 	Very Rare
Most found in layers 	10-114 	15 	13-17
Commonly up to layers 	120 	95 	23
Rare on layers 	123-125 	96-116 	22-119
None at or above 	128 	117 	120
==History==
 
 
==Issues==
==Trivia==
*Since it is exclusive to only two categories of overworld biomes (mountains and windswept hills), emerald ore is actually rarer than ancient debris per chunk.
*The texture of ores were changed in 1.17 to make them distinct for color blind players.
==Gallery==
Every Overworld Ore.png|All of the current overworld ores, including deepslate variants.
Deep ores.png|Naturally generated Diamond Ore, Redstone Ore and Lapis Lazuli Ore found in a canyon. Check the image for seed and coords.
Compact Ore Cave.jpg|Multiple ores found in one cave.
Ores in a Ravine.png|Several types of ore in a ravine.
Ksg.png|Some ore being mined.
PercentOfOreByHeight.png|This graph shows the actual amount of ores found in a relatively small but untapped world as of Java Edition 1.12.2.
Ore Layout.png|The pre-caves & cliffs ore textures.
===Caves and Cliffs development===
21w07a Texture comparison.jpg|21w07a texture comparison.
Grimstone ores.jpg|The now and soon texture comparison of the ores and their deepslate variants (Before 21w08a).
Ores in 1.17.png|Normal ores generating within deepslate (before the addition of deepslate ores).
Deepslate ores.png|Early deepslate ore textures.
Ore textures pre-release.jpg|An image showing another texture for deepslate diamond ore which improves on blending the ore texture with the base deepslate.
Grimstone diamond ore pre-release.png|An image showing another texture for deepslate Diamond Ore which improves on blending the ore texture with the base deepslate.
Jappa Ores 1.jpg|More ore texture revisions.
Jappa Ores 2.jpg|More ore texture revisions.
Ore textures pre-release 2.jpg|An image showing new iron and diamond texture.
21w08a Texture comparison.jpg|21w08a texture comparison.
21w10a Texture comparison.jpg|21w10a texture comparison.
21w07a approximate ore distribution.jpg|Ore distribution in 21w07a.
21w08a approximate ore distribution.jpg|Ore distribution in 21w08a/21w08b.
21w10a approximate ore distribution.jpg|Ore distribution in 21w10a.
21w18a approximate ore distribution.jpg|Ore distribution in 21w18a.
==References==
 
cs:Ruda
de:Erz
es:Mena
fr:Minerai
hu:Érc
it:Minerale grezzo (blocco)
ja:鉱石
ko:광석
pl:Rudy
pt:Minério
ru:Руды
tr:Cevher
uk:Руда
zh:矿石