Redstone Ore

Redstone Ore

Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	3
Hardness	3
Luminant	Yes (9) (when lit)
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

This article is about the ore. For the item, see Redstone Dust. For the powered mineral block, see Block of Redstone. For other topics related to "redstone", see Redstone (disambiguation).

	“	You'll most often find redstone deep below the surface, in the bottom 16 layers of the map. Normally it spawns in large veins of 4-8 blocks, each of which will drop 4-5 redstone and some experience when you mine it with an iron or better pickaxe. You'll get more with a fortune-enchanted pick, of course.	„
		— Duncan Geere

Redstone ore is the ore block from which redstone is obtained.

Obtaining

Natural generation

Redstone ore can generate in the Overworld in the form of mineral veins. Redstone ore attempts to generate 8 times per chunk in veins of size 1-8, from altitudes 0 to 15, in all biomes.

Breaking

Redstone ore can be mined with an iron pickaxe or higher, or it drops nothing. If mined with Silk Touch, the block drops itself. Otherwise, the block drops 4 or 5 redstone dust (or more with Fortune, averaging at 6 redstone dust with Fortune level 3).

Block	Redstone Ore
Hardness	3
Tool
Breaking time
Default	15
Wooden	7.5
Stone	3.75
Iron	0.75
Diamond	0.6
Netherite	0.5
Golden	1.25

Usage

Light

Redstone ore produces light (strength 9) and red particles when clicked, updated, or contacted by any mob (exceptions being a sneaking player and spiders). This effect continues until the redstone ore block receives a block tick (averaging 68.27 seconds). This effect does not actually produce redstone power, but the block changes can be detected with an observer or a block update detector.

Subsequent clickings on a redstone ore block causes it to emit an extra burst of particles per click.

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Redstone Dust	Redstone Ore + Any fuel	0.7

Sounds

Java Edition:

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	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	None	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

Bedrock Edition: ^{[needs in-game testing]}

Sound	Description	Namespaced ID	Volume	Pitch
	Breaking the block	dig.stone	?	0.8
	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	?	?
	Mining the block	hit.stone	?	0.5
?	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	?	?
?	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	?	?
	Walking on the block	step.stone	?	?
	Placing the block	use.stone	?	0.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Redstone Ore	redstone_ore	block.minecraft.redstone_ore

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Redstone Ore	redstone_ore	73	tile.redstone_ore.name
Lit Redstone Ore	lit_redstone_ore	74	tile.lit_redstone_ore.name

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
lit	false	false true	If the redstone ore is lit.

History

Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.1					Added redstone ore in Seecret Friday Update 3.
					The mining time of redstone ore takes far longer compared to other ores (4.5 seconds with iron pickaxe).
v1.0.4					Redstone ore now has a name (previously all redstone-related blocks had no official name).
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6			The mining time of redstone ore has been significantly reduced - it now has the same mining time as other ores.
1.3.1		12w22a			Mining redstone ore, along with other ores, now gives the player experience orbs. One stack of redstone ore gives roughly 10 levels of experience.
1.7.2		13w37a			The item form of block ID 74 (lit redstone ore) has been removed from the game. It can no longer exist in inventories, only as a block in the world.
1.13		17w47a			The different block IDs for the redstone ore have been merged into 1 ID.
					A lit block state has been added to redstone ore.
					Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 73 and 74.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of redstone ore has been changed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.1.0					Added redstone ore.
0.4.0					Redstone ore added to creative mode.
0.8.0		build 2			Redstone ore now drops redstone when mined.
0.12.1		build 1			Redstone ore can now be obtained if mined with a pickaxe enchanted with Silk Touch.
0.13.0		build 1			Redstone ore now emits light and red particles when walked on.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of redstone ore has been changed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added redstone ore.
		1.90			The texture of redstone ore has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added redstone ore.

Issues

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

Trivia

• In Bedrock Edition, armor stands cause redstone ore to have a block update.
• Attempting to place a bucket of water on redstone ore causes it to produce light.

Gallery

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  Lots of ore.

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  A vein of redstone ore next to some lava.

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  Multiple natural veins of redstone in to the cave.

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  Redstone ore in a mine with a diamond ore (bottom right) and a vein of iron ore (bottom left) next to it.

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See also

• Mechanisms
• Traps

References

Redstone

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Blocks

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