Ore Deposits: Difference between revisions

'''Dry salt lakes''' can only spawn in sedimentary stone top layers in deserts. In a typical temperate spawn location, with a "realistic" banded climate and temperate start, you'll need to travel 13k+ blocks south to find true deserts. Gravel barrens, which you can find in temperate climates, are not hot enough. The dry salt lake will spawn directly on top of the stone in the region, but below the sand or gravel top layers. So it will take some shallow exploratory digging to find them. These dry salt lakes, while much easier to access than salt domes, will not give halite readings on the prospecting pick in Density Search mode, unlike salt domes. They are easier to find exposed in cliff faces, due to geologic upheaval.

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[[Gold]] only spawns in layers of quartz. Following a quartz layer is a good way to find it. [[Ore blasting bomb]]s can be utilized to great effect to clear out quartz.

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Cassiterite is used to make [[Bronze|tin bronze]], one of the three bronze alloys that can be used to advance to the iron working stages of the game. Some traders sell bronze tools that can be used to work iron, but players must still find enough ore to cast a bronze [[anvil]]. Although surface deposits of tin do exist, they are very rare with the default world generation settings.

 

There is a 0.003% chance to come across a massive cassiterite deposit in a chunk. The smallest of these deposits are bigger than the largest of the normal sized deposits.

Sea level in the world can be determined by the Y of the surface of a big lake. Or simply by multiplying the height of the world by 0.4313725490196078 and rounding down.

Called ChildDeposit, deposits using this generator will only generate inside deposts of the given ore. For example, this is used by gold and silver to only spawn inside quartz deposits.