Emerald Ore
Renewable |
No |
---|---|
Stackable |
Yes (64) |
Tool | |
Blast resistance |
3 |
Hardness |
3 |
Luminant |
No |
Transparent |
No |
Flammable |
No |
Catches fire from lava |
No |
Emerald ore is the rarest mineral block in the game. It drops emeralds when mined, or itself if mined with a pickaxe with the Silk Touch enchantment.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Breaking[edit]
Emerald ore can be mined with an iron pickaxe or higher. Otherwise it drops nothing. If mined without Silk Touch, the block drops 1 emerald (or more with Fortune).
Block | Emerald Ore | |
---|---|---|
Hardness | 3 | |
Tool | ||
Breaking time[A] | ||
Default | 15 | |
Wooden | 7.5 | |
Stone | 3.75 | |
Iron | 0.75 | |
Diamond | 0.6 | |
Netherite | 0.5 | |
Golden | 1.25 |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Natural generation[edit]
Emerald ore can generate in Overworld in the form of mineral veins. Emerald ore attempts to generate 11 times per chunk in veins of size 1, from altitudes (y levels) 0 to 32, within any type of mountains, or within a chunk that is at least partially occupied by such a biome. As of Java Edition 1.16.4, on average they generate 1.2 ores per chunk.
Usage[edit]
Smelting ingredient[edit]
Name | Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
---|---|---|
Emerald | Emerald Ore + Any fuel |
Note Blocks[edit]
Emerald ore can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sound.
Sounds[edit]
Sound | Subtitle | Source | Description | Namespaced ID | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Block broken | Blocks | Breaking the block | block.stone.break | subtitles.block.generic.break | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
None[sound 1] | Blocks | Falling on the block with fall damage | block.stone.fall | None[sound 1] | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
Block breaking | Blocks | Mining the block | block.stone.hit | subtitles.block.generic.hit | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
Block placed | Blocks | Placing the block | block.stone.place | subtitles.block.generic.place | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
Footsteps | Blocks | Walking on the block | block.stone.step | subtitles.block.generic.footsteps | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
Sound | Source | Description | Namespaced ID | Volume | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blocks | Breaking the block | dig.stone | 1.0 | 0.8 | |
Blocks | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall.stone | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
Blocks | Mining the block | hit.stone | 0.37 | 0.5 | |
? | Blocks | Jumping from the block | jump.stone | 0.12 | 1.0 |
? | Blocks | Falling on the block without fall damage | land.stone | 0.22 | 1.0 |
Blocks | Walking on the block | step.stone | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
Blocks | Placing the block | use.stone | 1.0 | 0.8 |
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
Name | Namespaced ID | Translation key |
---|---|---|
Emerald Ore | emerald_ore | block.minecraft.emerald_ore |
Name | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID | Translation key |
---|---|---|---|
Emerald Ore | emerald_ore | 129 | tile.emerald_ore.name |
Video[edit]
History[edit]
Java Edition | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 21, 2012 | The week before the release of 12w21a, Jeb released a screenshot of himself testing the trading system.[1] At this time, what would become emerald ore was ruby ore.[2] | ||||
1.3.1 | 12w21a | ![]() | |||
The announced ore has been changed to an emerald ore. The texture for emerald ore has remained unchanged, as Jeb forgot to commit the new texture in the snapshot.[3] As this item was not announced before the snapshot was released, most translations call emerald "diamond". | |||||
Emerald ore generates in veins of up to 10 blocks. | |||||
12w21b | ![]() | ||||
An analysis of a 500×500 extreme hills biome with MCEdit gives the following ore distributions:
| |||||
12w22a | Vein size was reduced to 1 block. | ||||
1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 129. | |||
1.14 | 18w43a | ![]() | |||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
0.9.0 | build 1 | ![]() | |||
Emerald ore can be mined with a stone pickaxe instead of an iron one. | |||||
0.12.1 | build 1 | Mining emerald ore now drops experience orbs. | |||
Emerald ore can now be collected with Silk Touch, dropping the block itself. | |||||
Emerald ore now drops extra emeralds with the Fortune enchantment. | |||||
Bedrock Edition | |||||
1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Mining emerald ore now requires an iron pickaxe. | |||
1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ![]() | |||
Legacy Console Edition | |||||
TU14 | CU1 | 1.04 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | ![]() |
1.90 | ![]() | ||||
New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
0.1.0 | ![]() |
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Emerald Ore" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[edit]
- 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[edit]
A comparison of the occurrence of emerald ore to the occurrence of diamond ore.
Ruby[edit]
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.
References[edit]
- ↑ https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/204619936616808451
- ↑ snapshot 12w21a/b lang/en_US.lang: tile.oreRuby.name=Ruby Ore
- ↑ https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/205641953742819328