Diamond Ore


Obtaining

The diamond ore block itself (rather than its diamond drops) can be obtained by mining it with an iron or diamond pickaxe with the Silk Touch "Flame" redirects here. For the non-solid damage-dealing block, see Fire. “ How does enchanting work in Minecraft? Well, you open a magical book and pick a random spell, not quite sure knowing what it will minecraft enchantment.

Block
Diamond Ore
Hardness 3
Tool
Breaking "Punch" redirects here. For the enchantment, see Enchanting#Punch. The Player punches trees and gets wood (click to view animation). Breaking, digging, punching, or mining is one of the most fundamental activities in Minecraft, performed (by minecraft time
Hand 15
Wooden 7.5
Stone 3.75
Iron 0.75
Diamond 0.6
Golden 1.25
  1. ⃢₆ₑ Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds.

Trivia

  • Diamond, like other ores, is easier to find in caves and empty lava pools, as this gives more surface area.
  • Like other ores, diamond was about 50% more common in the quadrant south-west of the point (0,0) compared to the north-east quadrant. However, this was fixed in Beta 1.6.
  • In some vein formations, ores connect diagonally. Therefore, it is recommended to mine around diamond ore. This also permits checking for lava.
  • Diamond Ore, along with other ores, appears in the background on the achievement page.
  • Diamonds are the second-rarest item in the game, the first being emerald ore, as of 1.3.2, which comes in smaller veins than diamond, usually only 1 or 2 ore blocks.
  • Diamond ore could not be found or placed in Classic as of version 0.30.
  • Diamond ore is the most praised and used ore on Pocket Edition, PC, and the Xbox 360 edition since the ore provides stronger armor, tools and weapons.
  • Like coal ore, Lapis Lazuli Ore, Redstone Ore, and Emerald Ore, Diamond ore doesn`t need to be smelted.
  • Diamond Ore is technically not an ore as it is a precious stone, rather than a malleable material/metal.
  • Diamond Ore can have as many as 10 ores congruent, whereas gold ore only goes up to 9. This, however, is a rarity, and is not always found.
  • Diamond Ore is most popular at layer 11 around lava or ravines.
  • If the player is having trouble finding diamonds, make a strip mine at level 10, and it will cover layers, 9, 10, 11, and 12.
  • Notch has many times considered changing the diamond ore to look the same as Emerald ore, but change its color to cyan instead of green.

Info

Diamond Ore
Diamond Ore.png

Transparency When leaves are opaque (in "fast" graphics), they completely block rendering. When leaves are transparent (in "fancy" graphics), the world behind them is also rendered. Opacity (and its inverse, transparency) are properties of blocks with minecraft

No

Luminance Light (or lighting) in Minecraft affects visibility, mob spawning, and plant growth. Contents 1 Brightness 1.1 Spread 2 Sources of light 2.1 Blocks 2.2 Other 3 Light-filtering blocks 4 Effects of light 4.1 Mobs 4.2 minecraft

No

Blast resistance

15

Tool


Renewable A renewable resource (as opposed to a non-renewable, or finite, resource) is a resource that can be recreated indefinitely in survival without exploiting glitches or using commands. While running out of resources isn t likely to minecraft

No

Stackable

Yes (64)

Flammable

No

Experience Experience First appearances See History Internal ID PC: 2 PE: 69 Network ID PC: none Entity ID xp_orb XP bar visible above hotbar. Experience (EXP or XP for short) can be obtained by gathering experience minecraft

Mined: 3–7
Smelted: 1

Drops See the items that drop from entities and blocks. For drops as in falls, see Fall Damage. Typical drops from a skeleton: experience orbs, an arrow, and bones. Drops are items that minecraft
Data value

dec:56 hex:38 bin:111000

Name See values from the latest PCPersonal Computer version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition minecraft

diamond_ore

Diamond ore is a mineral All of the current ores. Ores are rare stone blocks used to obtain resources. Contents 1 Usage 1.1 As a smelting ingredient 1.2 Further uses 2 Availability 3 Table 4 Video 5 History 6 Gallery minecraft block that is one of the most valuable and elusive blocks Blocks may refer to: Block - cubes that make up the Minecraft world as a whole. Blocks music disc This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you in the game.

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Trivia

Natural generation

Diamond ore only appears below Y level Chart lining up Y-coordinate values (left) to block layers (right). Altitude is a measurement of vertical distance, or distance along the Y-axis. Contents 1 Definition 2 Limits 3 Natural resources and altitude 3.1 The Nether minecraft 16, and can be found in veins of 1-10 . One diamond ore vein generates per chunk; this vein or part of it may be overwritten by generated structures such as caves, leaving you without any diamonds in said chunk. Also, because of the way chunks are populated the vein "belonging" to a chunk can actually be generated in a neighboring chunk leading to some chunks with two or more veins and others with none. There is an average of 3.097 diamond ore per chunk-sized area. The highest concentration of diamonds occurs in levels 5-12. Because of the lava lakes, there is slightly less diamond ore in the middle of that range (around layer 9).

Mining strategies

Chunk of Diamond Ores
Vein of diamond ore

There are many strategies for finding diamonds. Dig completely around the ore to ensure that the diamonds (when dropped) will not burn up in lava.

Usage

Diamond ore drops 1 diamond and 3 to 7 experience when mined with an iron or diamond pickaxe Pickaxe Type Tools Durability Wood: 60 Uses Stone: 132 Uses Iron: 251 Uses Golden: 33 Uses Diamond: 1562 Uses Renewable Yes Stackable No Data values See data values Name See data values Pickaxes are one minecraft . Mining with a Fortune "Flame" redirects here. For the non-solid damage-dealing block, see Fire. “ How does enchanting work in Minecraft? Well, you open a magical book and pick a random spell, not quite sure knowing what it will minecraft enchanted pickaxe will increase possible yields by 1 per level, up to 4 diamonds per ore with level 3.

Smelting ingredient

Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition minecraft Ingredients Smelting The furnace interface. Smelting is a method of producing refined goods in Minecraft, also known as melting, baking, cooking, burning, drying, or producing. It has the same idea as crafting; one must put in acceptable recipe
Diamond Diamond Ore⃂+
Any fuel The furnace interface. Smelting is a method of producing refined goods in Minecraft, also known as melting, baking, cooking, burning, drying, or producing. It has the same idea as crafting; one must put in acceptable









Video

History

Indev Indev Starting version 0.31 (Dec. 23, 2009) Latest version Minecraft Indev (Feb. 23, 2010) Paid Yes This page contains content that is no longer in the game. These featuresSpecial attraction only exist in outdated versions of minecraft
0.31 This is not an official version history or changelog. For the official list, please visit the Minecraft website. For versions 1.11 and prior, please check the Mojang website. For versions prior to Beta 1.8, please minecraft Jan. 29, 2010 This is not an official version history or changelog. For the official list, please visit the Minecraft website. For versions 1.11 and prior, please check the Mojang website. For versions prior to Beta 1.8, please minecraft Added diamond ore. Initially, it was referred to as emerald ore.
Jan. 30, 2010 This is not an official version history or changelog. For the official list, please visit the Minecraft website. For versions 1.11 and prior, please check the Mojang website. For versions prior to Beta 1.8, please minecraft Emerald ore from the previous version is now referred to as diamond ore.
Beta Beta Starting version Beta 1.0 (Dec. 20, 2010) Latest version Beta 1.9-pre6 (Nov. 13, 2011) Paid Yes These versions are available to play in the launcher. Be that as it may, please note that these versions contain bugs. You ll minecraft
1.6 Beta 1.6 Release date May 26, 2011 Development versions Builds Beta 1.6 Test Build 3 Download Client Server Other editions of 1.6 Java Edition ◄◄ Beta 1.5 ◄ Beta 1.5_01 Beta 1.6.1 ► Beta 1.7 minecraft Before, diamond was about 50% rarer in the north-east quadrant of the point (0,0) compared to the quadrant to the south-west. In this update, clay blocks Clay Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 3 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Experience Smelted: 0.35 Drops Clay (4) Data value dec: 82 hex: 52 bin: 1010010 Name clay See the soft minecraft were more rare than diamond due to a glitch.
1.8 Beta 1.8 Official name Adventure Update (Part 1) Release date Sep. 15, 2011 Development versions View all Pre-releases Beta 1.8-pre1 Beta 1.8-pre2 Download Client Server Other editions of 1.8 Java Edition ◄◄ Beta 1.7 ◄ minecraft Diamonds have become about 25% rarer.
Official releaseAnnounce Minecraft 1.0 Starting version 1.0.0 (Nov. 18th, 2011) Latest version 1.12 Paid Yes Website http://www.minecraft.net/ See the official release of Minecraft for the PC. For the version, see 1.0.0. For the first minecraft
1.0.0 1.0.0 Type Release Release date Nov. 18, 2011 Development versions View all Pre-releases Beta 1.9-pre1 Beta 1.9-pre2 Beta 1.9-pre3 Beta 1.9-pre4 Beta 1.9-pre5 Beta 1.9-pre6 Release candidates 1.0.0-RC1 1.0.0-RC2 Download Client (.json) Server Other editions minecraft Beta 1.9-pre4 Diamond ore can be collected with Silk Touch, dropping the block itself. It can also drop extra diamonds with Fortune.
1.3.1 1.3.1 Release date Aug. 1, 2012 Development versions View all Snapshots 12w15a 12w16a 12w17a 12w18a 12w19a 12w21a 12w21b 12w22a 12w23a 12w23b 12w24a 12w25a 12w26a 12w27a 12w30a 12w30b 12w30c 12w30d 12w30e Pre-releases 1.3-pre 1.3.1-pre Download Client minecraft 12w22a 12w22a Type Snapshot Release date May 31, 2012 1] Snapshot for 1.3.1 Download Client Server .exe ◄◄ 1.2.5 ◄ 12w21b 12w23a ► 1.3.2 ►► See the computer edition. For other editions, see minecraft Mining diamond ore drops experience orbs.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.3.2 Added diamond ore.
0.12.1 Mining diamond ore drops experience orbs.
Console Edition This is not an official version history or changelog. For the official list, please visit the 4JStudios forum threads for the Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U or Nintendo
TU1 CU1 1.0 Patch 1 Added diamond ore.

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    Overview

    Immediately after mining the block, the player acquires a diamond, rather than the ore itself. Diamond can be used to make very strong tools and durable armor. However, diamonds are quite hard to find, and are usually located from 0 to 16 layers above the bedrock level. To mine diamond ore, the player will need an iron or diamond pickaxe. To obtain the diamond ore block, it must be mined with a pickaxe with the Silk Touch enchantment on it.

    Often, the player will encounter underground dungeons while digging, and can loot chests within to find diamonds and other ores.

    Mining

    Diamond ores appear at layers 7-13, and sometimes can be found at bedrock layer. There are many popular and efficient ways to find diamond. One such way is to randomly dig around Layer 10, and depending on the player`s luck, they will get 16-34 diamonds with 8-10 iron pickaxes being used and destroyed. It is also a good idea to enchant the Pickaxe with Unbreaking or Efficiency before the player starts to dig.

    Mining a diamond ore itself requires the silk touch enchantment. The ore can later be excavated with a pickaxe with a fortune I, II, or III enchantment for a chance to get more diamonds.