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Peak ore distribution with triangular distributions is one or two blocks lower than intended

When ores generate, the ores with a triangular distribution have a peak that is one block lower than the distribution implied by the chart here: https://twitter.com/henrikkniberg/status/1364635258260455425/photo/1

I generated ore distributions in an Amplified world with seed 1 over an area of 262,144 chunks and plotted the distributions. I expected peaks of ore distributions to be at these Y levels:
Coal: 95
Iron: 31 and 255
Copper: 47
Gold: -17
Lapis: 0
(Redstone, and diamond excluded because their peaks are at the bottom of the world. Emerald excluded because its peak is high in the world.)

What I actually found:

Coal
91:1.7729%
92:1.7859%
93:1.8131% <Highest
94:1.8095%
95:1.7866% <Expected highest
96:1.7799%
97:1.7628%
98:1.7376%

Iron:
28:0.5401%
29:0.5502%
30:0.5535% <Highest
31:0.5434% <Expected highest
32:0.5300%
33:0.5174%
34:0.5055%
35:0.4953%

(The following is not reliable due to insufficient data)
251:0.8123%
252:0.8420% <Highest
253:0.8404%
254:0.8279%
255:0.8373% <Expected highest
256:0.8050%
257:0.8153%
258:0.7685%
259:0.7547%

Copper:
43:0.6514%
44:0.6691%
45:0.6794%
46:0.6798% <Highest
47:0.6686% <Expected highest
48:0.6511%
49:0.6359%
50:0.6214%
51:0.6130%

Gold:
-21:0.3102%
-20:0.3189%
-19:0.3240% <Highest
-18:0.3221%
-17:0.3182% <Expected highest
-16:0.3113%
-15:0.3030%
-14:0.2956%
-13:0.2909%

Lapis:
-5:0.0742%
-4:0.0757%
-3:0.0769%
-2:0.0773% <Highest
-1:0.0755% <Expected highest
0:0.0736%
1:0.0715%
2:0.0696%
3:0.0687%
4:0.0660%

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Comments 1

This is useful input. But the diagram was not intended to be exact (the title says "Approximate ore distribution"). We may tweak these ranges in the future, once we have mountains to test with. But for now this works as intended.

bdm68

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