Gold Ore

Gold Ore

• Gold Ore
• Deepslate Gold Ore

Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	3
Hardness	Gold Ore: 3 Deepslate Gold Ore: 4.5
Luminous	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color (Java)	11 STONE

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Gold ore is a rare mineral block found underground that drops raw gold when mined with an iron pickaxe or better.

Deepslate gold ore is a variant of gold ore that can generate in deepslate and tuff.

Obtaining

Breaking

Gold ore drops one raw gold if mined by an iron pickaxe or higher. If mined by any other tool, it drops nothing. Mining with a Silk Touch pickaxe drops itself. It is affected by Fortune enchantment, dropping 1–2, 1–3, or 1–4 raw gold respectively with Fortune I, II, and III.

Block	Gold Ore	Deepslate Gold Ore
Hardness	3	4.5
Tool
Breaking time (sec)
Default	15	22.5
Wooden	7.5	11.25
Stone	3.75	5.65
Iron	0.75	1.15
Diamond	0.6	0.85
Netherite	0.5	0.75
Golden	1.25	1.9
Options
Efficiency	0
Haste	0 JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Natural generation

Gold ore can generate in the Overworld in the form of ore features.

Gold ore attempts to generate in two batches. The first batch generates 4 times per chunk in blobs of 0—13 blocks, from levels -64 to 32. It is most likely to be found around layer -16, becoming less common toward either end of the range. The second batch has a probability of 1/2 per chunks to generate in blobs of 0—13 blocks that generate uniformly between -64 and -48. There is also an extra batch of gold ore in badlands biomes that generates 50 times per chunk in blobs of 0—13 blocks, from 32 to 256 uniformly. Gold ore is also less likely to be exposed to air: 50% of ore blocks from the first and second batch do not generate. The extra batch in badlands generate regardless of exposure to air.

Gold ore can replace stone, andesite, diorite, granite, tuff, and deepslate. Any gold ore that replaces tuff or deepslate becomes deepslate gold ore.

Usage

The primary usage of gold ore is to mine it for raw gold.

Smelting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	[hide]Smelting recipe
Gold Ingot	Gold Ore or Deepslate Gold Ore + Any fuel	1

Piglins

Piglins become hostile toward players who mine gold ore, even if the player is wearing golden armor. Piglins also run toward any gold ores on the ground, and inspect it for 6 to 8 seconds before putting it in their inventory.

Note blocks

Gold ore can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sounds.

Sounds

Gold ore

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e stone sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.stone.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.stone.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.stone.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.stone.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.stone.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e stone sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.37	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	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

Deepslate gold ore

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e deepslate sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.deepslate.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.deepslate.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.deepslate.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.deepslate.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.deepslate.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e deepslate sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.deepslate	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.deepslate	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.deepslate	0.3	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.deepslate	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.deepslate	0.3	1.0
	Players	Jumping from the block	jump.deepslate	0.12	1.0
	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.deepslate	0.22	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	[hide]Translation key
Gold Ore	gold_ore	Block & Item	gold_ores guarded_by_piglins mineable/pickaxe needs_iron_tool	gold_ores piglin_loved	block.minecraft.gold_ore
Deepslate Gold Ore	deepslate_gold_ore	Block & Item	gold_ores guarded_by_piglins mineable/pickaxe needs_iron_tool	gold_ores piglin_loved	block.minecraft.deepslate_gold_ore

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	[hide]Translation key
Gold Ore	gold_ore	14	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.gold_ore.name
Deepslate Gold Ore	deepslate_gold_ore	657	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.deepslate_gold_ore.name

Achievements

[hide]
Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Oooh, shiny!	Distract a Piglin using gold	Give a piglin a gold item while it is aggressive toward the player.	30	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Oh Shiny	Distract Piglins with gold	While aggravated, give a piglin one of these 25 gold-related items in the #piglin_loved item tag:[hide] The player must not be wearing any gold armor. Other gold-related items do not distract the piglin and do not trigger this advancement.

History

[hide]Java Edition Classic
May 23, 2009							Notch says he accomplished adding gold ore features in stone.
0.0.14a							Added gold ore.
							Gold ore is found in higher elevations.
							Gold ore is often found in exposed surface-level blobs.
October 24, 2009							A texture change was shown.
0.26 SURVIVAL TEST							The texture of gold ore has been changed.
							Breaking gold ore now gives the player 1–3 blocks of gold when mined.
[hide]Java Edition Indev
0.31			20100124-2119				Gold ore now generates in indev house chests.
			20100128-2200				Gold ore now drops itself.
			20100129-1447				Gold ore can now be smelted by throwing it into fire or lava.
							Gold ore no longer generates in indev house chests.
			20100201-2227				Gold ore requires an iron and diamond pickaxe to be obtained.
[hide]Java Edition Infdev
20100227-1414							Gold ore no longer generates.
20100320							Gold ore features now generate, but only in blobs of 1.
20100325-1545							Gold ore features now appear more like they do today.
20100327							Gold ore now regenerates after the world is reloaded, assuming that the positions of the ore blocks were replaced by stone.
20100330							Gold ore no longer regenerates.
[hide]Java Edition Beta
1.6			Test Build 3				The "ore quadrant" bug, causing different quadrants of the map to have more or less ore, has been fixed.
1.8			Pre-release				The maximum layer for gold has been reduced by 2, along with some other ores.
[hide]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 give the player approximately 3 levels of experience.
1.10			16w20a				20 additional blobs of gold ore now generate in mesa biomes between Y=32 and Y=79.
Texture Update			January 4, 2018				A new texture for gold ore has been proposed.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of gold ore has been changed.
1.17			21w06a				The height limit was expanded down to Y=-64. Gold ores are temporary generating from Y=-64 instead of Y=0.
			21w07a				The texture of gold ore has been changed, now resembling the Nether Gold Ore.
							Gold ore now generates as a triangle spread between Y=-64 and Y=32, peaking at Y=-16. Extra gold ore still generates in badlands.
			February 17, 2021				Henrik Kniberg shows grimstone variant of gold ore.
			February 18, 2021				JAPPA shows updated gold ore texture and grimstone variant of gold ore.
			February 22, 2021				JAPPA shows updated gold ore texture and grimstone variant of gold ore.
			21w08a				The texture of gold ore has been changed again. The deepslate gold ore has been added.
							Gold ore features now have a 50% chance of not generating when exposed to air.
							Gold ore features now generate more frequently.
			March 4, 2021				JAPPA shows updated deepslate variant of gold ore texture.
			21w10a				Tweaked the texture of gold ores.
							Gold ore now generates less frequently.
			21w14a				It now drops raw gold when broken without Silk Touch, instead of itself.
			April 13, 2021				JAPPA shows a new gold ore texture.
			21w15a				The texture of the gold ore has been changed.
							All the changes to gold ore generation in the previous 1.17 snapshots have been reverted, but they can be re-enabled with the Caves & Cliffs Prototype Data Pack.
1.18			Experimental Snapshot 1				Gold ore once again generates the way it did in the 1.17 snapshots without the use of a data pack.
			21w40a				A second set of gold ore blobs now generates below Y=-48.
			21w42a				Increased top height limit of badlands gold generation from Y=79 to Y=256, and increased the number of blobs.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.1.0							Added gold ore.
v0.3.2							Gold ore can now be mined and processed correctly.
v0.10.0			build 1				Gold ore can now generate at any level in a mesa biome.
v0.12.1			build 1				Gold ore now gives experience points when smelted.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of gold ore has been changed.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.57				Gold ore is no longer smeltable.
			beta 1.16.0.59				Gold ore is now smeltable again.
1.16.220 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			beta 1.16.220.50				The texture of gold ore has been changed.
1.17.0 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			beta 1.16.230.52				Added deepslate gold ore behind the Caves & Cliffs Experimental Gameplay.
			beta 1.16.230.54				Gold ore texture was updated.
			beta 1.16.230.56				In the Caves & Cliffs Experimental Gameplay, gold ore blob now generates as a triangle spread between Y=-62 and Y=32, and now generates more frequently.
			beta 1.17.0.50				In the Caves & Cliffs Experimental Gameplay, it now drops raw gold when broken without Silk Touch, instead of itself.
1.17.0			beta 1.17.0.52				Deepslate gold ore and raw gold are no longer behind the Caves & Cliffs Experimental Gameplay.
1.18.0			beta 1.18.0.20				Removed the "Caves & Cliffs" experimental toggle. New gold ore generation are now available through normal gameplay.
							Gold ore generation has now been tweaked to be in parity with Java Edition.
							Unintentionally doubled the amount of additional blobs of gold ore in mesa biomes.
							Deepslate gold ore no longer generates.
			beta 1.18.0.21				Deepslate gold ore once again generates naturally.
							A second set of gold ore blobs now generates below Y=-48.
			beta 1.18.0.22				Increased top height limit of badlands gold generation from Y=79 to Y=256, and increased the number of blobs.
							Gold ore generation height has now been tweaked to be in parity with Java Edition.
			beta 1.18.0.24				Gold ore in badlands biomes are no longer generating in too large of quantities. And its generation has now been tweaked to be in parity with Java Edition.
1.20.30			Preview 1.20.20.21				Increased the blast resistance of deepslate gold ore from 1.8 to 3.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added gold ore.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		20 additional blobs of gold ore now generate in mesa biomes between Y=32 and Y=79.
			1.90				The texture of gold ore has been changed.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added gold ore.

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  The original gold ore texture.

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  Gold could generate above the ground in Java Edition Classic.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 14.

Issues

Issues relating to "Gold Ore" or "Deepslate Gold Ore" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Java Edition

• No open issues found.

Bedrock Edition

• No open issues found.

Gallery

Screenshots

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  A gold ore block occurring near redstone ore and blobs of coal ore.

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  Gold ore blocks in a cave.

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  Gold ore exposed by a river in a badlands biome.

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  A large amount of golden ore features in a badlands biome.

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  Deepslate redstone ore and deepslate gold ore, as seen in 21w08b.

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  Multiple ores, found in a big cave.

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  Ravine with multiple ores, water and lava falls, and a stronghold bridge over it.

Mojang screenshots

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In other media

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  Gold ore as it appeared in Minecraft Earth.

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  Gold ore as it appears in Minecraft Legends.

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  Gold ore as it appeared in MCC x Minecraft 15th Anniversary Party.

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  Cubeez of gold ore.

See also

• Gilded Blackstone

External links

• "Block of the Week: Gold Ore" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, January 12, 2018.