5 things you probably didn't know about gold in Minecraft

Minecraft has a variety of resources inspired by real-life objects. Players can find coal, iron, gold, diamonds, and emeralds by mining in-game.

Gold is the third rarest ore in the overworld. It generates below Y level 32 in veins. Players can find up to 13 gold ores in a single vein.

Crafting gold tools is a waste due to its low durability. But there are many other ways to use gold in Minecraft that make it more valuable.

This article discusses some of the unusual uses and features of gold that players may not know.

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Five things players didn't know about gold in Minecraft

#5 - Gold ore generation in badlands

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Unlike other biomes, gold ore generates at a higher level in the badlands biome. Normally, gold ore is found below Y level 32. But in badlands biomes, gold ore generates between height levels 32 to 79. Due to this, badlands are the best place to find gold ores in Minecraft.

Read: Badland Biomes in Minecraft: Everything players need to know

#4 - Mining gold makes piglin angry

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Piglins love gold so much that they will attack players who mine gold. Piglins can detect a nearby player mining gold. To avoid their wrath, players can block themselves in a room before mining any gold. Piglins grow angry if a player tries to mine the following blocks:

• Gold ore
• Nether Gold ore
• Block of Gold
• Gilded Blackstone
• Deepslate Gold ore

#3 - Found both in the overworld and the netherworld

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Gold can be found in the overworld and as Nether gold ore in the nether realm. No other ore generates in both realms. Players can get gold nuggets by mining nether gold ore, whereas smelting gold ore produces gold ingots in Minecraft.

#2 - Gilded Blackstone may drop gold nuggets

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Blackstone is a beautiful block added in the nether update. It has many variants like stairs, slabs, walls, bricks, polished and gilded. Players can identify the presence of gold in gilded Blackstone from its texture.

Mining a gilded Blackstone with a non-silk-touch pickaxe may drop 2-5 gold nuggets. There is a 10% chance that mining Blackstone will drop gold nuggets. With Fortune III, players can guarantee the dropping of gold nuggets from gilded Blackstone.

#1 - In older versions, enchanted golden apples was crafted using gold blocks

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Newer players may not know that enchanted golden apples was craftable in older versions of Minecraft. Players could craft an enchanted golden apple using eight blocks of gold and an apple.

But the enchanted golden Apple was too powerful, so Mojang had to remove t recipe from the game.