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Zac ChurchillMinecraft Specialist
Expert Interview. 2 December 2020.
With diamonds, you can mine materials like obsidian and ancient debris. However, finding diamonds is not a simple game. Found at the lower depths of the earth, players will fight to the death for them. Luckily, players have discovered efficient ways of obtaining diamonds, which are listed on this article.
Prepare your inventory for branch mining. Branch mining involves digging down to a Y coordinate of between 16 and 5, setting up a home base, and mining in two-by-two tunnels in each horizontal direction. The more ground you cover, the more likely you are to come across diamonds. Having a furnace will allow you to smelt any ore you come across (e.g., iron or gold), meaning you can make a conceptually unlimited number of pickaxes. Crafting table - Requires four wood planks (one wood log). A crafting table in your base will allow you to build more tools and structural items as you dig. Doors - Requires six wood planks. A door will keep monsters out of your home base while you sleep. Wood logs - Wood is one of the two resources you likely won't find in your mine. It will allow you to create handles for your tools and other structural replacements. Aim for at least 64 wood logs. Map (console and PE only) - Requires eight pieces of paper and a compass. The map will track your coordinates and update as you dig downward. Raw meat - The other resource you won't find in your mine. Having meat you can cook while you're in your mine will help keep your hunger and health bars full.
Dig downward to a height of at most 16 blocks. Diamonds occur between the Y-coordinates 5 and 16, though they occur most often between layers 5 and 12. You can check your Y-coordinates by opening your map (console and PE), or by pressing F3 (PC) or Alt+Fn+F3 (Mac). You may want to do this in a zig-zag fashion, since digging straight down might lead to falling through the top of a cavern roof, a mob room (Room with 2 small chest a torch and a mob spawner) or even lava. If you can't make a map or your map isn't working, dig down to the bedrock (unbreakable) layer; this layer marks a height of 4, which means your character is standing at 5 and 6 whilst standing on bedrock.
Set up your home base. To do so, you'll want to hollow out a three-block-tall, five-by-five (at least) space, create a doorway, and place all of your items (e.g., your torches, bed, table, furnace, and chests).
Dig your main tunnel. You'll want it to be around twenty blocks and two blocks wide to start. This tunnel can go straight out of your base's doorway, or you can create a right angle that branches away from your base. You'll be digging perpendicular to this main tunnel, so make sure the first branch off of the tunnel won't go through your base. Place torches every few blocks so that you don't get lost.
Dig a branch on the left or right side of your tunnel. Start with about twenty blocks of length. This branch can be one or two blocks wide; you'll be expanding it eventually. Make sure you dig this branch a few blocks back from the end of your tunnel.
Dig a small branch a few blocks left or right. You shouldn't go past the row of blocks where your tunnel ends, so keep that in mind as you dig.
Dig back to the main tunnel. Once you reach the main tunnel, you should have two equally long, narrow tunnels a few blocks apart from one another.
Mine anything in between the two tunnels. Doing so will clear out a strip of the mine; as you dig, make sure you're looking for diamonds in the ceiling and floor as well. You'll repeat this process until your whole main tunnel has been expanded, then dig further and repeat as necessary. Make sure to dig around the ores in case there's lava. Sometime ores will have lava behind it. If you find lava behind the ore, use non-flammable blocks to stop the flow of lava.
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