Does netherite spawn in explored chunks?

[Luuk.]

I've been playing in my 1.15 world and I'm trying to find netherite. Do ancient debris spawn in a chunk that has been loaded from previous versions or do I have to go to new biomes to find ancient debris?

 

[texbobcat]

you need to generate new chunks for the netherite to spawn

 

[KOMKO190]

Unfortunately no, Netherite can only be generated in new chunks loaded in the version where Netherite exists as a block.