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I’m looking for copper and I am in an ice biome with a mountain per usual. I know it’s down 20-40 blocks I’ve read below surface level However one thing that no tutorial I have found is clarification on what “surface” level means. Are we talking sea level or the top of the mountain?

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Originally posted by MetallicDragon

It means below the actual surface that the world started with.

Following the highest natural block at any given position, e.g. if the mountain goes down on one side, copper does as well.