Find Gold in Minecraft

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In Minecraft, gold is useful for such things as making tools and armor. It's not as useful as some of the other materials but it still has its place at the bottom of the durability chart. Here's how to find it.

Steps

Finding Gold Ore (PC or Console)

  1. Equip an iron or diamond pickaxe. You cannot mine gold with any other tool.
  2. Dig down to the right level. Always dig at an angle, not straight down, to avoid falling. Leave a trail of torches behind you if you're traveling through caves.
  3. Check your coordinates. Gold is found only below layer 31. You can check your current layer by pressing F3 on Minecraft for computers, or by checking Make-a-Map-in-Minecraft in the console edition. The y-coordinate tells you which layer you are on. Here are the best layers to look for gold:[1]
    • Layer 28 is the highest and usually safest layer where you'll find the maximum amount of gold.
    • Layers 11–13 are the best places to look for gold and diamond at the same time. Try to avoid digging below layer 10, where lava becomes much more common.
  4. Mine in branches to find gold. Dig a main horizontal tunnel to get started. Mine branches off this main tunnel one block wide and two blocks tall to search for gold. Gold ore typically spawns in groups of four to eight blocks.[2] This means you'll find almost all of the gold if you keep three solid blocks between each tunnel.
    • To find every single gold block (but at a slower rate), keep two solid blocks between each tunnel.
  5. Explore special features. While mining, you might encounter a stronghold, dungeon, or abandoned mine shaft with these features. Each of these can contain chests with gold or more precious items.

Finding Gold (Pocket Edition)

  1. Look for a mesa biome. Mesa biomes look like deserts with red, often striped hills or spires. These biomes have the special features described below, only in Minecraft Pocket Edition.
  2. Excavate at any level. Gold can appear at any elevation in mesa biomes. This makes them the easiest and safest way to find gold in Pocket Edition. Dig branches into the hillsides, or just walk along and scan the cliffs for gold ore.
  3. Search abandoned mine shafts. Mesa biomes also have the only above-ground abandoned mine shafts. These features have minecarts with chests inside them, and about one in four chests contain gold.[3] Beware of spiders as you search.

Using Gold Ore

  1. Smelt gold ingots. Just like iron ore, you'll need to smelt the gold ore in a furnace to turn it into usable ingots. Don't bother making golden tools or armor unless you like the look, since they're weaker than iron. Instead, use the ingots for the special items described below.
  2. Craft ingots into a clock. Place a redstone in the center of the crafting area, with one golden ingot on each side (four total). This makes a clock which shows you the position of the sun or moon.
    • Place an item frame (eight sticks and one leather) on the wall and place a clock in it to make a wall clock.[4]
  3. Build powered rails. Place a stick in the middle of the craft area, fill the left and right columns with gold ingots (six total), and place redstone at the bottom. This powered rail will make mine carts move on their own, if you power it with a redstone torch or powered redstone circuit.
  4. Make gold pressure plates. If you want to start a redstone circuit when something falls on or walks over a square, build a pressure plate with two ingots side by side.
  5. Create golden apples. Place an apple in the center of the craft area and surround it completely with golden ingots (nine total). This will make a golden apple, an excellent healing and protection item that you can eat even with full hunger.
    • You can make a more powerful "Notch apple" in most version of Minecraft by using gold blocks (see below) instead of ingots. This recipe will disappear in Minecraft 1.9.[5]
  6. Make blocks of gold. Flaunt your wealth by filling the crafting table with golden ingots to make a single golden block. This bright yellow cube is mostly used just for decoration.
  7. Break gold into nuggets. A single ingot anywhere in the crafting area will turn into a pile of gold nuggets. These have a few uses:[6]
    • Glistering Melon: Melon slice completely surrounded by nuggets. Used for potions.
    • Golden Carrot: Carrot surrounded by nuggets. Used for potions, food, and breeding/ healing horses.
    • Firework Stars: To make a firework, place any dye in the center and gunpowder to its left. Adding a gold nugget directly below the dye during crafting makes the firework star-shaped instead.

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Tips

  • Zombie pigmen in the Nether have a chance to drop gold nuggets when they die.

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Sources and Citations

  1. ↑ http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Layers
  2. ↑ http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Gold_Ore
  3. ↑ http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Abandoned_mine_shafts
  4. ↑ http://minecraft.wikia.com/wiki/Clock
  5. ↑ https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-91552
  6. ↑ http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Gold_Nugget
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