Gold Ore

Gold Ore

Transparent	No
Luminance	0
Blast resistance	15
Tool
Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Drops	Itself
Data value	dec: 14 hex: E bin: 1110
Namespaced ID	gold_ore

This article is about the ore. For the item, see Gold Ingot. For the mineral block, see Block of Gold. For the nugget, see Gold Nugget.

	“	It's Gold! Striking this magnificent mineral is something of a rite of passage in Minecraft. After spending ages mining through cobblestone and coal, you finally see a shiny gleam winking at you from inside the rocks. A few whacks with your pick later, you've struck gold! (Ore!) Said gold ore can then be smelted into shining nuggets of success. This mineral has multiple crafting uses in the game, like clocks and powered rails. Sadly, the golden mining tools you can craft with it may be powerful, but they also break quickly.	„
		— Tom Stone

Gold ore is one of the rarest types of mineral blocks found underground.

Natural generation

Mineral veins

Gold ore can generate in the Overworld in the form of mineral veins. Gold ore attempts to generate 2 times per chunk in veins of size 9, from altitudes 0 to 32, in all biomes.

Gold ore also attempts to generate 20 times per chunk in veins of size 9, from altitudes 32 to 80, within one of the following biomes, or within a chunk which is at least partially occupied by one of these biomes:

• Badlands
• Badlands Plateau
• Eroded Badlands
• Modified Badlands Plateau
• Modified Wooded Badlands Plateau
• Wooded Badlands Plateau

Obtaining

Gold ore will drop as an item if mined by an iron or diamond pickaxe. If mined by any other tool, it will drop nothing.

Block	Gold Ore
Hardness	3
Tool
Breaking time
Hand	15
Wooden	7.5
Stone	3.75
Iron	0.75
Diamond	0.6
Golden	1.25

Usage

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Gold Ingot	Gold Ore + Any fuel

This recipe awards 1 experience.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	Attenuation distance
	Block breaking	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	Blocks	0.5	0.25	16
	Block broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	Blocks	0.8	1.0	16
	Block placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	Blocks	0.8	1.0	16
	Footsteps	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	Blocks	1.0	0.15	16
	No subtitle	block.stone.fall	(Plays when fallen on from a height)	Blocks	0.75	0.5	16

History

Java Edition Classic
May 23, 2009					Notch says he accomplished adding gold veins in stone.
0.0.14a					Added gold ore.
					Gold ore is found in higher elevations.
					Gold ore is often found in exposed surface-level veins.
October 24, 2009					A texture change was shown.
0.26 SURVIVAL TEST					The texture of gold ore has now been changed.
					Breaking gold ore now gives the player 1–3 blocks of gold when mined.
Java Edition Indev
?					Gold ore no longer drops gold blocks.
0.31		20100129			Before the furnace was added, players had to smelt ore by dropping ore blocks onto fire.
					Gold ore now drops itself when mined.
		20100201-2			Gold ore requires an iron or diamond pickaxe to be successfully obtained.
Java Edition Infdev
20100227					Gold ore no longer generates.
20100320					Gold ore veins now generate, but only in veins of 1.
20100327					Gold ore veins now appear more like they do today.
					Gold ore will now regenerate after the world is reloaded, assuming that the positions of the ore blocks were replaced by stone.
20100330					Gold ore no longer regenerates.
Java Edition Beta
1.6		?			The "ore quadrant" bug, causing different quadrants of the map to have more or less ore, has now been fixed.
1.8		?			The maximum layer for gold has now been reduced by 2, along with some other ores.
Java Edition
1.3.1		12w22a			Smelting gold ore, along with other ores, blocks and items, now gives the player experience orbs when taking the item out of the furnace. One stack of gold ore will give the player approximately 3 levels of experience.
					Inventory sprites for blocks were flipped from left to right, changing to .
1.10		16w20a			20 additional veins of gold ore now generate in mesa biomes between Y=32 and Y=79.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 14.
Texture Update		Version ?			The texture of gold ore texture has now been proposed.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of gold ore has now been changed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.1.0					Added gold ore.
0.3.2					Gold ore can now be mined and processed correctly.
0.10.0		build 1			Gold ore can now generate at any level in a mesa biome.
0.12.1		?			Gold ore now gives experience points when smelted.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of gold ore has now been changed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added gold ore.
TU43	CU33	1.36	Patch 13		20 additional veins of gold ore now generate in mesa biomes between Y=32 and Y=79.
		1.90			The texture of gold ore has now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added gold ore.

Issues

Issues relating to "Gold Ore" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery

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  The original gold ore texture.

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  Gold could generate above the ground in Classic.

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  Gold ore blocks naturally occurring next to a lapis lazuli ore block, a redstone ore block and lava.

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  Gold ore blocks in a cave.

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  Gold ore exposed by a river in a Badlands biome in Bedrock Edition.

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  A large amount of golden ore veins in Badlands biome.

References

Blocks

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