How do you mine Redstone?

Redstone can be mined just like any other block, though it can only be harvested by an Iron Pickaxe or better. If the block is broken by a lesser tool, or anything besides a pickaxe, it will not drop the Redstone Dust.
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Can you mine Redstone ore?

The most common way of getting redstone dust is by mining redstone ore. Redstone Ore can be found 10 blocks (or layers) above bedrock or in between bedrock. This means it can be found commonly from blocks 5-12, and rarely up to layer 16 or down to layer 2. You will need an iron pickaxe to mine any redstone ore.
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Can you mine Redstone with a stone pickaxe?

With a Stone Pickaxe, you are able to mine Iron Ore and Lapis Lazuli Ore. With an Iron Pickaxe, you are able to mine Gold Ore, Redstone Ore, and Diamond Ore. With a Diamond Pickaxe, you are able to mine Obsidian.
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What level do you have to be to mine Redstone?

Currently, Redstone can be found most frequently anywhere from level 8 to level -64. Obviously, the best place to look for any ores is in a cave. Cheese caves, one of the brand new 1.18 cave systems, always have a lot of ores and are usually as deep as most ores spawn.
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How do you mine Redstone and diamond in Minecraft?

Breaking Redstone Ore

If players use an iron pickaxe, it takes approximately 0.75 seconds to mine a Redstone block. If they use a diamond pickaxe, it takes roughly 0.6 seconds, and finally, using a netherite pickaxe takes only 0.5 seconds to mine.
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What type of pickaxe is needed to mine Redstone?

To mine redstone dust from a block of redstone ore, you must be wielding a pickaxe of iron or higher quality material.
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Is Redstone rarer in Minecraft?

Redstone is a very useful material in Minecraft that can be found deep underground. You can find it in caves or by digging. Finding redstone is special. It's relatively rare, and you can only dig it up with a pickaxe made of iron or a greater material.
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Are diamonds always near Redstone?

Finally, some Minecraft Redditors understand the utility of this discovery. The fact that redstone is guaranteed to generate north of diamonds means that ore spawns are connected in Minecraft.
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What's the rarest thing in Minecraft?

The rarest item in Minecraft is the Dragon's Egg as it generates only once in a Minecraft world. After players defeat the Ender dragon for the first time, the Dragon Egg spawns on top of the exit portal. Players cannot mine it directly using a pickaxe.
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What is the rarest Minecraft ore?

Emerald Ore is the rarest ore to date in Minecraft (25 times more so than Diamond Ore, while almost always spawning in only one-block veins). When mined (with an Iron Pickaxe or higher), it drops an Emerald; the only implemented use of Emeralds to date is for trading with Villagers.
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What is the hardest ore to find in Minecraft?

As of Minecraft version 1.16, emerald ore is the rarest ore in Minecraft, despite tons of newer ores being added. Emerald ore is thirty times more rare than diamonds, and they only spawn in one-block veins, meaning players cannot find multiple emeralds grouped together, unlike other ores.
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Where is Redstone most common in Minecraft?

You'll most often find redstone deep below the surface, in the bottom 16 layers of the map. Normally it spawns in large veins of 4-8 blocks, each of which will drop 4-5 redstone and some experience when you mine it with an iron or better pickaxe. You'll get more with a fortune-enchanted pick, of course.
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How do you sit on a spider in Minecraft?

Because they have good hp and damage and they can also climb walls. To tame a spider you need to wait for day and search for a spider and feed it any type of meat and you would need a saddle to ride it.
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Is Glowstone a real thing?

The nearest thing we have in the real world to glowstone is maybe phosphorus - a chemical element that was discovered in 1669 to emit a faint glow when you expose it to oxygen. This is a chemical reaction like any other, but one that produces light as one of its outputs.
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What is bedrock in real life?

Bedrock is the hard, solid rock beneath surface materials such as soil and gravel. Bedrock can be made of most types of rock, such as granite, limestone, or like this piece of bedrock, sandstone.
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