Ore

Ore is a block type in Minecraft. Ores are primarily collected forcrafting purposes, such as for tools and armor. Redstone Ore is used as a type of "wiring" that can be used to create Redstone circuits,compasses, clocks, and other items. Ore can also be combined to create a block of the material's type for iron, gold, diamond, lapis lazuli, and emerald. Blocks are hard to make, as they require nine pieces of material to create. {| class="toc" id="toc" style="font-size:12px;border-color:rgb(170,170,170);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.1875px;"

Contents
[hide]  *1 Availability
 * 2 Ore varieties
 * 3 Finished raw materials
 * 4 Craftable blocks
 * 5 History
 * 6 Video
 * 7 Trivia
 * 8 References
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[edit] Availability
This graph shows the actual amount of ore found in a relatively small but untapped world.Ores extracted down to bedrockExposed Ore veins.In Minecraft Beta, the following is the distribution of ores according to the altitude. (Layers are number of blocks above the lowest layer of bedrock.) Since the beta 1.8 patch, the highest layers that Gold, Redstone, Diamond, and Lapis Lazuli can be found on are now two layers lower.[1]  The graph on the right shows the ore distribution in 1.1. The change to the 256-block worlds in the weekly releases before 1.2 did not affect world generation, as seen in this interactive chart. Redstone has the same layer and line-size statistics as Diamond, but is generated 8 times per chunk as opposed to 1.
 * 1) ↑ Unlike other ores, which are found at a relatively constant rate through most of their range, lapis lazuli's frequency peaks around layer 15, and slowly tapers off above and below.
 * 2) ↑ Instead of multi-block veins, emerald ore is placed in scattered blocks.

In chunks generated prior to Beta 1.6, ore also varies depending on the section of the map it is generated in due to a bug (fixed in 1.6) in the spawning algorithm. In the quadrant southwest of the point (0,0), ore spawns approximately 50% more than in the quadrant northeast of the point (0,0). The quadrants northwest and southeast of the point (0,0) split the difference between the extremes. (See image below) Any chunks generated after Beta 1.6 do not show this disparity as the spawning algorithm has been fixed. The bug fix did not modify any already existing chunks. Ore density by quadrant before Beta 1.6== [edit] Ore varieties==
 * Coal Ore
 * Iron Ore


 * Lapis Lazuli Ore


 * Gold Ore


 * Redstone Ore


 * Diamond Ore


 * Emerald Ore


 * Nether Quartz Ore

[edit] Finished raw materials

 * Coal
 * Diamond


 * Emerald


 * <p style="line-height:1.5em;">Gold Ingot


 * <p style="line-height:1.5em;">Iron Ingot


 * <p style="line-height:1.5em;">Lapis Lazuli


 * <p style="line-height:1.5em;">Redstone


 * <p style="line-height:1.5em;">Nether Quartz

[edit] Craftable blocks

 * <p style="line-height:1.5em;">Block of Iron
 * <p style="line-height:1.5em;">Lapis Lazuli Block


 * <p style="line-height:1.5em;">Block of Gold


 * <p style="line-height:1.5em;">Block of Diamond


 * <p style="line-height:1.5em;">Block of Emerald


 * <p style="line-height:1.5em;">Block of Redstone

<p style="line-height:19.1875px;font-family:sans-serif;">So far, Coal is the only material that comes from an ore that lacks a block.
 * <p style="line-height:1.5em;">Block of Quartz