EquipmentДЄt first, the only equipment youвЂ™ll need (or indeed, have) is a few stone pickaxes, a couple of shovels, a pile of torches, and wood to make more torches. Since youвЂ™ve probably already built a house, why not start in the basement?ДЄt the head of your pit, youвЂ™ll want a crafting table, one or more furnaces, and some storage space. YouвЂ™ll want to start digging in a safe place a well-lit building or sealed cave, because it will likely be night when you come back to the surface. Start from somewhere low down, like a valley floor rather than the top of a mountain. y is your height the game reports both the level of your feet and your eye level, so if you are standing on top of layer 4 your feet will be at level 5 and your eye level will be 6.6. The other way to tell is to press F3 to bring up a messy screen of debug information, including your x,y and z coordinates. Layer 4 has a mixture of bedrock and normal stone. WhatвЂ™s my altitude?Д«edrock is found in layers 0вЂ“4, therefore if you are standing on the highest level of bedrock, you are standing on layer 4. The Minecraft world is 128 blocks high, from the bedrock at the bottom to the highest position youвЂ™re allowed to place blocks. Altitude and Layers WhatвЂ™s all this about вЂlayersвЂ™? Emerald ore is also only found in single blocks, not veins, so you should build your tunnels closer together in your emerald mine.

These things might make your route to bedrock more difficult than described here, but you will want to explore them on the way down.Д®merald ore is only found in вЂњExtreme HillвЂќ and вЂњExtreme HillвЂќ biomes you can tell what biome you are in by pressing F3.

However, there may be other underground structures in the way, such as abandoned mineshafts, cave systems or even strongholds. You will want to get close to bedrock and build your mine there. Redstone circuits, crafting, potion brewing.Д«elow layer 30, most abundant near layer 12.Д«elow layer 30, only in 'extreme hill' terrain.ДЄs you can see from the table above, everything is available in layers 1&endash 16.

ItвЂ™s how you get the precious ores that you so desire: iron, gold, redstone and more, but most of all: diamonds! Buried TreasureДЄnywhere underground, but most abundant below layer 40.Д¬rafting tools and armour and building railways.Д¬rafting, brewing potions, powered rails. Mining is important! ItвЂ™s in the name of game! YouвЂ™ll be doing it a lot.

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