Gold Ore

Gold Ore

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Statistics

Type	OreCrafting material
Placeable	✔️ (1 wide × 1 high)
Use time	15 (Very fast)
Rarity	00*
Sell	3
Research	100 required

• Internal Item ID: 13
• Internal Tile ID: 8

Gold Ore is an early game ore which spawns in the Underground and Cavern layers. Its primary use is to make Gold Bars, which can be used to make the Gold tier of equipment, as well as crowns, Thrones, and several other items. The equivalent of Gold Ore is Platinum Ore, which will sometimes replace Gold in a world. Gold Ore has a small chance to appear as a bonus drop from slimes.

Takes 100 ore to duplicate.

Crafting

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Gold Bar	Gold Ore4	Furnace
only: Gold Brick 5	Stone Block5 Gold Ore
only: Gold Brick	Stone Block Gold Ore
Spelunker Potion	Bottled Water Blinkroot Moonglow Gold Ore	Placed Bottle or Alchemy Table
Tungsten Ore	Gold Ore	Shimmer Transmutation

Trivia

• In real life, gold is one of the softest metals, but in Terraria (as lampshaded by the Goblin Tinkerer) it is harder than such heavy-duty metals as iron or steel.
• Even though Gold and Platinum Ore (and Bars) are of nearly equal sell value, 1 Platinum Coin is worth 100 Gold Coins. This is likely because Platinum Ore and Bars were added after Platinum Coins, and also is a reflection to the real-world metals (in this case, platinum would be the higher rank).

See also

• Platinum Ore

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.3.0.1:
  • Changed item texture from File:Gold Ore Revision 1.png to .
  • Changed block texture from File:Gold Ore (placed) Revision 1.png to .

• Desktop 1.2.3: Increased stack limit from 99 to 999.

• Desktop 1.2: Gold will now sometimes not generate with a world, being replaced with Platinum Ore.

• Desktop 1.0.5: Now has a sparkle effect.

• Desktop-Release: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.