All the biomes deemed too dark were scrapped from that version to instead allow more marvelous and survival-friendly biomes. The 1.17 version is still available as Terralith Legacy, and the newest version of Terralith, which can also be called Terralith 2.0, made use of the additional WorldGen options of 1.18 to add new terrain types and rework the caves. Terralith was the second project of Stardust Labs and took around 1300 hours spread on almost a year for its creator, Starmute, to understand and operate the new WorldGen tools that were available for Datapacks in 1.17. Alongside this, new structures and features can be found to assist your exploration. The new 1.18 caves were also enhanced with new cave shapes and about 10 new cave types. Released July 28th of 2021, Terralith makes full use of modern worldgen tools to create beautiful landscapes with new terrain types, like canyons and amplified terrain, painted over by more than 70 new biomes, inspired by places all around the world or by fantastical fauna, while also enhancing existing biomes and adding new variants to them. This way you can double-check or improve on my work if you'd like.Terralith ~ Overworld Evolved is a project made to completely revolutionize the Overworld's generation. You'll find links there where you can download the raw data files containing all the ore positions I used to create the graphs, the actual Minecraft world files I analyzed to get that data, and the source code for the tool I used to read the worlds. Here's the full thing:Įxplain the best Y level (height) for mining in Minecraft I invite you to see my full analysis, where I explain why I think these levels are the best, and also provide all the data I used to come to those conclusions so you can decide for yourself. I like being able to see all the data myself and validate it (hence why I did all this in the first place). I don't like having to take people's word though. You can almost completely avoid lava and still find ~89% as many diamonds by using levels -54 through -51. Some sources suggest the range -18 through -15 might be better, and would have slightly less lava.ĭiamond can be found most abundantly at levels -59 through -56, but so can an awful lot of lava. Gold is best mined at -20 through -17 according to my data. Lapis is mined most efficiently at levels 7 through 10, even though there is technically more of it just below Y 0. If you insist on mining for it, dig just below the dirt where stone begins generating. (See the 'Mining Technique' section in the full analysis for more details.)Ĭoal is now best found exposed on the surface or in mountainsides, rather than in a mine. The Y coordinate of you, the player, would be the lower number + 1. In the ranges given below, the first/lower number should be the Y level beneath your feet and the last/higher number the Y level above your head. I used both the official chart, and the data I gathered and graphed from my tool to come up with a comprehensive answer to the question 'how deep should I mine?' These guidelines align pretty well with both the official ore chart and xisumavoid's YouTube video, where he does his own, similar analysis. My own full graph of ore distribution in actual Minecraft 1.18 worlds (lava scaled separately) Even though such a chart does now exist, I thought I'd update my tool and redo my analysis for 1.18 anyway.

I originally created this tool for version 1.16, before any kind of official ore distribution chart existed. In an effort to answer the question of how deep one should mine, I created a tool that lists out the position of every ore block within the generated area of a Minecraft world.

Minecraft 1.18.2 strip mining