Overview
In Minecraft 1.21.4, Deepslate Gold Ore is a stone-family block. There is no way to craft it; you have to find it and mine it. A hardness of 4.5 makes it slow going without the right tool.
Anything below an iron pickaxe breaks it without leaving a drop. Breaking it produces Raw Gold. It stacks to 64.
It goes into exactly one recipe: Gold Ingot.
About the deepslate set
How long it takes to break
Deepslate Gold Ore sits at hardness 4.5: 23 seconds per block with your fists, 0.75 with the correct netherite tool.
An iron tool takes 1.2 seconds and a diamond one 0.85, so the jump that actually matters for this block is the one to diamond.
Below iron the block breaks and simply vanishes. Bring the right tier or leave it in the ground.
Each Efficiency level adds level² + 1 to the tool's speed, so a level V tool clears this about 3.8 times faster than an unenchanted one.
| Tool | No enchantment | Efficiency III | Efficiency V |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand * | 23 s | 23 s | 23 s |
| Wooden * | 11 s | 1.9 s | 0.85 s |
| Stone * | 5.7 s | 1.7 s | 0.75 s |
| Iron | 1.2 s | 0.45 s | 0.25 s |
| Diamond | 0.85 s | 0.4 s | 0.2 s |
| Netherite | 0.75 s | 0.4 s | 0.2 s |
| Golden * | 1.9 s | 1.1 s | 0.6 s |
Properties
Blast resistance on Deepslate Gold Ore is 3, so an explosion nearby will usually take it out. It stops light entirely and gives off no light. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal full stack. A pickaxe is fastest here; any other class mines it at bare-hand speed, because the bonus only applies to the class the block is tagged for. Broken normally it drops Raw Gold rather than itself; Silk Touch is what returns the block, and Fortune raises the ordinary drop instead.
- Transparent
- No
- Required tool
- Iron Pickaxe
Where it generates
Overworld gold is scarce and needs an iron pickaxe, but badlands biomes break the rule completely: gold generates near the surface there in enormous quantity, exposed in the mesa cliffs and abandoned mineshafts. Gold is soft and near-useless for tools, yet essential for powered rails, clocks, golden apples, and the gold armour that makes piglins tolerate you. Most players get their gold from Nether bartering rather than the Overworld.
Badlands biomes have a separate, much richer distribution that generates gold in the open from roughly Y=32 up to Y=256, often visible in the terracotta cliffs without mining at all.
- Generation range
- Y -64 … Y 32
- Best Y level
- Y -16
- Densest at
- Y -16
- Dimension
- Overworld
- Experience dropped
- 0–0
Drops
Deepslate Gold Ore drops Raw Gold.
Used to craft
Deepslate Gold Ore is an ingredient in 1 recipes, producing Gold Ingot.
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Frequently asked questions
How do you get Deepslate Gold Ore in Minecraft?
Deepslate Gold Ore generates naturally in the world; breaking it yields Raw Gold.
What tool do you need to break Deepslate Gold Ore?
Iron Pickaxe or better is required; anything weaker destroys the block without dropping it.
Is Deepslate Gold Ore blast resistant?
Deepslate Gold Ore has a blast resistance of 3, so an explosion nearby will destroy it.
How many Deepslate Gold Ore fit in one stack?
Deepslate Gold Ore stacks to 64, so a single double chest holds 3,456 of them.
How long does Deepslate Gold Ore take to break?
With the correct tool at netherite tier it takes 0.75 seconds; by hand it takes 23 seconds.
