Lapis lazuli is most common at Y 0. Enter your seed and this Lapis Finder maps lapis ore at 93% accuracy on Java 26.3 and 86% on Bedrock 1.26.62 — best Y level, spawn range and where to find lapis lazuli, on a visual map.
Also called: lapis lazuli finder · lapis ore tracker · lapis locator
Quick answer: Lapis lazuli is most common at Y 0 and spawns from Y 64 down to Y −64. This Lapis Finder marks lapis ore from your seed on a visual map at 93% accuracy on Java 26.3 and 86% on Bedrock 1.26.62.
| Edition | Version | Best Y level | Spawn range | Finder accuracy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedrock | 1.18 – 26.62 (current) | Y 0 | Y 64 to −64 | 86% |
| Java | 1.20.2 – 26.3 (current) | Y 0 | Y 64 to −64 | 93% |
Accuracy is the share of marked hotspots that really contain the ore in your world, shown as a plain number.
| Vein | Edition | How often | Vein size | Where | Blocks touching air |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main veins | Java and Bedrock | 2 per chunk | 7 | Y 32 to −32, most near Y 0 | Placed anyway |
| Buried veins | Java and Bedrock | 4 per chunk | 7 | Y 64 to −64, evenly spread | Always skipped |
The game's own ore settings on Java 26.3 and Bedrock 1.26.62. A vein skips some of its blocks where they would touch air, so caves show less of it than solid rock holds.
Lapis generates in two batches, and the table above shows both. Two veins a chunk form a band between Y 32 and Y −32, thickest at Y 0 and thinning out above and below it. Four more veins a chunk are spread evenly from Y 64 down to Y −64, but those never touch air: you only find them by mining through solid rock, never on a cave wall. The combined sweet spot is around Y 0, near where stone meets deepslate.
The best Y level for lapis lazuli is Y 0. The main lapis batch peaks right around the stone/deepslate boundary, so branch mining between about Y −5 and Y 5 collects the most. You will find lapis at other depths too, just less often.
Bedrock uses the same Y range and Y 0 sweet spot as Java. The finder supports Bedrock 1.26.62 at 86% accuracy — the badge by the page title shows both editions' figures.
Y 0 on both — both editions put the lapis peak at the stone-to-deepslate boundary, and no version from 1.20.2 onward has moved it. Lapis is centred rather than bottom-heavy, unlike diamond and redstone: its range (Y 64 to −64) peaks in the middle, and below Y −32 only the evenly spread buried veins are still generating — so digging on past the diamond levels finds you less lapis, not more, and what you do find is hidden inside the rock rather than on cave walls.
Y-levels, drop rates, smelting and recipes for Lapis Lazuli — straight from our Minecraft catalog, in both editions.
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