Redstone Ore

Redstone Ore

Transparent	No
Luminance	Yes (9) (when lit)
Blast resistance	15
Tool
Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Drops	Redstone (4–5)
Data values	See § Data values
Namespaced ID	See § Data values

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.

Occurence

Natural generation

Mineral veins

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 8, from altitudes 0 to 16, in all biomes.

Obtaining

The redstone ore block itself (rather than its redstone drops) can be obtained by mining it with an iron or diamond pickaxe with the Silk Touch enchantment.

Drops/Fortune level	0	1	2	3
4	1⁄2	1⁄4	1⁄6	1⁄8
5	1⁄2	1⁄2	1⁄3	1⁄4
6	0	1⁄4	1⁄3	1⁄4
7	0	0	1⁄6	1⁄4
8	0	0	0	1⁄8
Average	4.5	5	5.5	6

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

Usage

Loot

Redstone ore drops 4 to 5 redstone and 1–5 experience when mined with an iron pickaxe or better. Mining with a Fortune enchanted pickaxe will increase yields.

Block	Incorrect tool	Correct tool	Fortune 1	Fortune 2	Fortune 3	Silk Touch
Redstone Ore	Nothing (100%)	4 (50%) or 5 (50%)	4 (25%) or 5 (50%) or 6 (25%)	4 (16.7%) or 5 (33.3%) or 6 (33.3%) or 7 (16.7%)	4 (12.5%) or 5 (25%) or 6 (25%) or 7 (25%) or 8 (12.5%)	1 (100%)
	No experience	1–5				No experience

Light

Redstone ore will produce light (strength 9) and red particles when clicked, updated, or contacted by any mob (exceptions being a sneaking player and armor stands). This effect will continue 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 will cause it to emit an extra burst of particles per click.

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Smelting recipe
Redstone Dust	Redstone Ore + Any fuel

This recipe awards 0.7 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

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Block	Namespaced ID
Redstone Ore	redstone_ore

Bedrock Edition:

Block	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Redstone Ore	redstone_ore	73
Lit Redstone Ore	lit_redstone_ore	74

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 now 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 will give roughly 10 levels of experience.
					Inventory sprites for blocks have now been flipped from left to right, changing to .
1.7.2		13w37a			The item form of block ID 74 (lit redstone ore) has now 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 now been merged into 1 ID.
					A lit block state has now 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 now 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 will now drop 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 will now emit light and red particles when walked on.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of redstone ore has now 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 now 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 the Bedrock Edition, armor stands will cause redstone ore to have a block update.
• Sneaking over redstone ore will not cause it to produce light.
• Attempting to place a bucket of water on redstone ore will instead cause 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 a 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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