How To Get Emeralds In Minecraft

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Emeralds are the rarest ore in Minecraft, even rarer than diamonds. You can use Emeralds to trade with villagers to get some cool and useful items. This wikiHow will help you find emeralds in Minecraft.

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Gather your resources. You will want at least a full set of iron tools and armor, torches, food, a water bucket, and a sword. If you have better items, take them on your journey, as they will speed up the process.
- If you have any pickaxes with fortune, bring them, as they will increase the amount of emeralds you get per ore.
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Head over to a mountains biome. This is the only biome where emeralds will be found. Mountain biomes are fairly common, so you won't have to go very far.
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Locate a cave that leads downward, or dig a staircase down to level 11. Don't dig straight down, or you may fall in lava. Emeralds can be found anywhere from levels 4-32, but level 11 is best. To see what level you are on, press F3 and look at the y-coordinate.
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Go down to a cave past y-level 32. If you can't find a cave, start digging in a straight line at y-level 11, placing torches for light as you go. You can also make "branches", or little tunnels branching off from the main tunnel.
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Find emeralds. Mine the emerald if there is no lava. Take your reward and either head out of your mine or continue looking for emeralds.
- If there is lava, place blocks around the emerald to prevent them from falling in.

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Where do you find the Extreme Hills?

The Extreme Hills are basically those big mountains that have snow on them. So if you see a big mountain, it's probably an Extreme Hill.
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What kind of pickaxe do I need to mine emeralds?

I'm pretty sure that you need iron or diamond. Use the fortune enchantment to get 2, 3, or 4, depending on the enchantment.
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What can I use emeralds for?

Emeralds can be used to trade with villagers and you can also craft them into blocks of emerald and use them as normal blocks.
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How can you see what layer you are on in the console version?

If you look at your map it has 3 coordinates: X, Y, and Z. Y is how high above the base layer you are.
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Can I find emeralds in Savanna Hills biomes in Minecraft?

Emeralds can be found in mountain biomes. Your best bet for finding emeralds is the Extreme Hills biome, and they tend to spawn close to lava, so try an underground cave system.
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Where can I find emeralds?

The extreme hills biome. It looks like the first picture in the article.
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What do I use emeralds for?

For trading with villagers, or turning them into a block of emerald to use as a normal block.
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Why I can't make emerald tools and armor?

You need the MCPE add-on mod to do this. This only works on Minecraft PE and Bedrock edition, though.
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How many emeralds can be found in one place at a time?

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The maximum amount of single emerald ore blocks you can find in a chunk are 8. If you mean the maximum amount of emeralds from one emerald ore block, that would be 4, but that's only using enchanted picks. Otherwise, you only get one per block. They also only spawn in veins of one.
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How do I get the emerald armor and weapon mod in Minecraft?

Download the app "MCPE Addons", go to the search option and type "emeralds".

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Villagers often will pay for commodities with emeralds. Visit the village to find out what commodities they will pay for and create/find/mine those commodities for trade.
Emeralds can also be found in the chests in Mob Spawner rooms, Jungle Temples and Desert Temples.

Watch out for lava. Never dig straight down and always be careful.
Don't try to steal emeralds from your friends. It won't end well.

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1. Locate an emerald ore underground in an extreme hills biome.
2. Mine emerald ore with an iron or diamond pickaxe.
3. Trade with villagers to earn emeralds.
4. Open chests in villages, temples, and underwaters structures for a chance of finding emeralds.
5. Kill vindicators, evokers, and pillagers to loot emeralds.

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