Surface Levels

The Surface Levels
These are the Surface Levels!

The Surface Levels are the vanilla levels of the game. There are multiple levels here.

Level 1: Surface | Class 1
The Surface is well.... the surface! Only coal spawns here and is covered with biomes and many structures.

Surface Trivia
The Surface is about 60,000,000 blocks end to end.

The Surface has the least amount of ores, 1.

Level 2: Hardware | Class 1
The next level is the Hardware Level! This level has 3 ores! Coal, Iron, And Rarely Gold!

This level is made of stone and has MANY caves.

Most people starting Minecraft will go down here for Iron and other ores.

Lava and water can spawn here.

Hardware Trivia
Iron has the most crafting recipes out of any other item including wood.

Caves are usually pretty small at this level.

Ravines from the surface level dip down into this level and rarely into the Rare Ore level.

Level 3: Rare Ores | Class 2
The last level is the Rare Ores Level! This level has 6 ores! Coal, Iron, Gold, Lapis, Redstone, And Diamonds.

This level is made of stone with bigger and more dangerous caves.

Players come down here for Diamonds.

Lava lakes spawn down here and are fairly common, water lakes also spawn but are much rarer. Obsidian can be found down here when lava and water collide, and is where most players get obsidian.

Rare Ores Trivia
Diamond is the most valuable and best ore in the game (for 1.7.10)

Lapis can be used for enchanting.

Redstone can be used to create machines.

It's recommended to strip mine at Y=11 so you can avoid lava lakes.

This is the most dangerous level of the Surface Levels.