Talk:Emerald Ore/@comment-26428470-20150524054009

Running Minecraft PE 10.4 alpha iOS

I found some in caves in a swamp and in plains but it's possible I made it under a nearby extreme hills biome to find them.

After reading this, I found a extreme hills biome, picked a spot with a lot of sheer rocky cliffs, dug a shaft to bedrock, and started working outwards.

The shaft went straight through solid rock in my case, there were no caves. Using the top bedrock layer as "layer 0" in this case, I have found a good number of emeralds (maybe 30 -40 so far) within maybe 60-70 blocks of the shaft in layers 9-12. My mine is split into floors of 4 layers and they are pretty common on the adjacent floors. I think they occur a little more frequently a seam of Diorite or Andesite, but I haven't tried testing hypothesis.

I don't know if it's just my seed or if they can be this common in other patched of extreme hills. In this case, they have been more common than diamonds and gold.