I discovered the best way to find Deepslate Emerald Ore... and it's weird

In this video, I investigate the best biome and height to mine in order to find deepslate emerald ore, and it's a lot weirder than you might think...
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This video was recorded in Vanilla Minecraft version 1.20.4 on the Java Edition of the game; however, most of the information is also true of Bedrock Edition.
Chapters
0:00 Deepslate Emerald Ore
0:38 Biomes
1:07 The Best Biome
2:46 Best Height
3:05 Additional Information
#minecraft #datapack #brevort

[@brevortofficial]

Notes:
- A myth I have heard is that part of the deepslate ore vein has to be in stone; this is not true, though, deepslate emerald ore can generate completely in deepslate or tuff. Emerald ore is more common higher up though, so you are more likely to see it closer to the stone layers, which is where I believe this myth started
- In theory, every mountain or hill biome should have equal rates IF you can avoid cave biomes interfering. However, windswept gravelly hills should be the best bet in avoiding cave biomes.
- Don't get discouraged, even at the perfect height and biome, it's still quite rare.

[@FortuneMCYT]

Very interesting, now I can get a decent number of them to flex on my brother whose mind is always blown whenever I see even one

[@bodovosshenrich1048]

Alternatively, if you have (like me) an older world, with chunks that have been generated during the caves and cliffs update, first part, you can quite easily find deepslate emerald ore around Y 0-15 in any mountainous biome ;-)

[@dawnpath5727]

Banger approach! I'm going to try this!

[@willyouknowwhoiam]

this is so informative woah u deserve more views

[@brevortofficial]

Thank you!

[@thedramaticherbalist]

Well now I know what I'm doing tonight :D
Nice video all around and super informative!

[@brevortofficial]

Thanks, glad to hear you liked it!

[@lnxs]

Great Video! Literally have a stack of them in my HC world. It took a couple months lol (I also got a stack of every sherd)
And I once had an Erosion value below -1 and it had a DeepDark at Y=101.

[@brevortofficial]

That's pretty cool, the highest I have found deep dark was 84
There's a rumor that deep dark can only be below 0, so I'm glad that rumor is getting a little less common

[@lnxs]

@@brevortofficial Sick. Yeah, that rumor should ve pretty easy to disprove. Thanks for your reply!

[@lewismassie]

Interestingly when I play modded the biome mods can sometime generate deepslate and (more often) tuff up on the surface, making deepslate coal weirdly common.
Also, it might be funny to see an Any% speedrun for finding deepslate emerald ore

[@brevortofficial]

Yeah when developing custom biome datapacks myself I have run into that issue, I think coal uses a different mechanic than the other ores for determining if tuff should turn it into a deepslate ore

[@FoXMaSteR001]

I tested and it works, thanks !

[@brevortofficial]

No problem! Glad I could help 🙂

[@on_certainty]

great work great clarity

[@matheuscabral9618]

Wow really good video, informative and consice 👍

[@ThatDumbRabbit]

This is so oddly specific and yet here I am, watching the entire thing

[@themaster4349]

Great video!👍

[@brevortofficial]

Thanks :)

[@enbentz]

Great title 👍🏻😎

[@enbentz]

The video was really well made, great work brevort!

[@brevortofficial]

@@enbentz Thanks! This took several hours to make, despite it being a three-minute video, but I am very proud with how it turned out and how info-packed it is

[@tyhmasuomalainend9069]

I found a normal emerald ore surrounded by deepslate

[@brevortofficial]

That's really unlucky, that likely happened because the block it tried to replace was stone that just happened to be surrounded by deepslate

[@papermachete8071]

What about bedrock

[@brevortofficial]

Should be the same, the only difference is it's harder to tell what biome you're in while being underground on Bedrock.

[@Radar_of_the_Stars]

I'm about to be the richest player in my server