With Minecraft 1.18's Caves & Cliffs Part 2 update making such massive changes to how worlds generate both above and below ground, the way in which players found ores was going to need a significant overhaul. In the old system, each ore started generating at a certain depth and then continued generating all the way to the bottom, meaning players could mine at the bottom and find everything.
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The new system changes that. Some ores now
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