Gold Ore

Template:Infobox Item Gold Ore is a naturally occurring Resource in the world. It can be found within Granite.

It appears to be most common in Rainforest, 40-70 blocks under the surface, but can be found in many different biomes.

Gold Ore can be mined and refined to create Gold Ingots.

Appearance

Gold Ore veins have light streaks running through them with a subtle gold color. They look similar to the surrounding Granite and can be easy to overlook.

Location

The information here is based on default ("vanilla") settings and may not be accurate in worlds with custom configurations or mods enabled.

Gold ore always spawns within Granite.

Rainforest

Gold Ore is likely to be most abundant in the Rainforest biome, 40-70 blocks below the surface, where it has a 5% chance to spawn. It is less common (1% chance) 20-40 blocks below Rainforest.

Other Biomes

The Warm Forest, Ice, Cold Forest, Tundra, Grasslands, and Desert biomes all have a chance at spawning gold ore veins, but at a lower rate than in Rainforest. According to game files, gold ore has the following chance of spawning in Granite at various depths:

Warm Forest

• 3% chance, 16-40 blocks below surface
• 1% chance, 0-16 blocks below surface

Ice

• 3% chance, 5-20 blocks below surface

Cold Forest

• 2% chance, 30-70 blocks below surface
• 1% chance, 0-30 blocks below surface

Grasslands

• 1% chance, 0-70 blocks below surface

Tundra

• 1% chance, 0-70 blocks below surface

Desert

• 0.5% chance, 0-25 blocks below surface

Other

• It can also be found above surface within Granite. It has a gold coloured texture on the minimap. this is the easiest way to find gold so far.

This is how gold ore looks like on the mini-map

Gallery

• Gold Ore item details as of Alpha v6.3.1.
  Gold Ore item details as of Alpha v6.3.1.