Gold Ore

Gold ore is a rare mineral block found underground that drops raw gold when mined with an iron pickaxe or better. Deepslate gold ore is a variant of gold ore that can generate in deepslate and tuff.

Natural generation

Gold ore can generate in the Overworld in the form of ore features. Gold ore attempts to generate in two batches. The first batch generates 4 times per chunk in blobs of 0—13 blocks, from levels -64 to 32. It is most likely to be found around layer -16, becoming less common toward either end of the range. The second batch has a probability of 1/2 per chunks to generate in blobs of 0—13 blocks that generate uniformly between -64 and -48. There is also an extra batch of gold ore in badlands biomes that generates 50 times per chunk in blobs of 0—13 blocks, from 32 to 256 uniformly. Gold ore is also less likely to be exposed to air: 50% of ore blocks from the first and second batch do not generate. The extra batch in badlands generates regardless of exposure to air. Gold ore can replace stone, andesite, diorite, granite, tuff, and deepslate. Any gold ore that replaces tuff or deepslate becomes deepslate gold ore.

Usage

The primary usage of gold ore is to mine it for raw gold.

Piglins

Piglins become hostile toward players who mine gold ore, even if the player is wearing golden armor or under the Invisibility effect. Piglins also run toward any gold ore item on the ground, and inspect it for 6 seconds or 8 seconds before putting it in their inventory.

''New Nintendo 3DS Edition''

Old Gold OreIngame.png|The original gold ore texture. ClassicGoldBlob.png|Gold could generate above the ground in Java Edition Classic.

Screenshots

Picture 13.png|A gold ore block occurring near redstone ore and blobs of coal ore. GoldOre.png|Gold ore blocks in a cave. Gold side.png|Gold ore exposed by a river in a badlands biome. Golden ore in Mesa biome.png|A large amount of golden ore features in a badlands biome. Deepslate redstone and gold 21w08b.png|Deepslate redstone ore and deepslate gold ore, as seen in 21w08b. Multiple ores.png|Multiple ores, found in a big cave. Canyon intersecting a stronghold.png|Ravine with multiple ores, water and lava falls, and a stronghold bridge over it.

Mojang screenshots

File:GoldOre-ingame.jpeg File:Efe bombs a gold blob.jpeg|Efe mining gold ore with TNT