Diamond

A diamond is a mineral that can only be obtained from diamond ore, loot chests and suspicious blocks. It is required to craft diamond tools and armor (and therefore obtain obsidian to access the Nether), enchanting tables, jukeboxes and duplicate smithing templates.

Mining
Diamond ore can be mined using an iron pickaxe or stronger. An ore drops a single diamond. If mined by any other tool, it drops nothing. If the pickaxe is enchanted with Fortune, it can drop an extra diamond per level of Fortune, allowing for a maximum of 4 diamonds with Fortune III. If the ore is mined using a pickaxe enchanted with Silk Touch, it drops an ore block rather than a diamond. The ore is found at level 15 or lower, most commonly between -50 and -64; with levels -58 and -59 are the preferred levels to mine at since they don't contain bedrock, as it starts spawning at -60.

Suspicious sand
When brushing suspicious sand in desert pyramids, they have a $1/7$ chance to drop a diamond.

Usage
Diamonds are mainly used to craft high-tier armor and equipment, which in turn are also used in making netherite armor and equipment.

Trading
$$, expert-level armorer, toolsmith, and weaponsmith villagers buy one diamond for an emerald as part of their trades.

$$, journeyman-level armorer villagers have a 40% chance of offering to buy one diamond for one emerald. Expert-level toolsmith villagers have $2/3$ chance of offering to buy one diamond for one emerald. Expert-level weaponsmith villagers always offer to buy one diamond for one emerald.

Repairing
Diamonds are the repair items for the diamond tier and armor material, and thus can be used to repair the following items in an anvil or grindstone:

Beacons
Diamonds can be used to select powers from a beacon. The player must select one of the available powers then insert a diamond into the item slot.

A diamond can be substituted for an iron ingot, a gold ingot, an emerald or a netherite ingot.

Smithing ingredient
The following color palettes are shown on the designs on trimmed armor:
 * Trim color palette
 * (a darker color palette is used when a diamond armor piece is trimmed using a diamond).
 * (a darker color palette is used when a diamond armor piece is trimmed using a diamond).

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Trivia

 * Unlike in Minecraft, newly mined diamonds in real life are rough, cloudy stones. The largest, purest ones are polished into crystal-clear gemstones, while the rest are used in industry for cutting and grinding.
 * Although diamonds themselves are not renewable, all tools, weapons, and armor made from diamonds can be acquired through trading, and are therefore renewable. Other items crafted from diamonds are not renewable.
 * In the April fools version Java Edition 2.0, diamond chickens can lay diamonds. This does not exist in newer versions, as this was a joke.
 * The item forms of diamonds and turtle eggs have the same shape.