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Nether Quartz Ore

1Block states
YesItem form

Nether Quartz Ore is a block in Minecraft that players mine with a pickaxe.

Breaking it yields Nether Quartz, and the block itself is also listed among its drops. Players can also use the ore as an ingredient in two different recipes.

Contents (4)
  1. Data values
  2. Natural generation
  3. History
  4. See also

Data values

Read from reports/blocks.json of Minecraft 26.3.

Identifierminecraft:nether_quartz_ore
Numeric default state ID13079
Block states1
State properties0
Item formYes

Natural generation

Biomes whose own feature list places this block, followed from worldgen/biome through placed_feature to feature. Blocks that the terrain itself is made of (stone, dirt, deepslate) come from the surface rules instead and are not listed here.

Placed by the worldgen feature ore_quartz.

History

Worked out by reading the registry of every Minecraft build Mojang has published, in release order.

VersionDateWhat the files show
before 18w01a—Already in the game when Mojang’s data generator first shipped, in 18w01a (3 January 2018). The files do not say which earlier version added it.

See also