Tutorials/Diamonds

This explains how to find Diamonds in Minecraft.

Your First Diamond
Steps - 1 Dig down to layer 12-16(See Altitude. ) - 2 Start mining straight ahead(Not down) - 3 Start making 'Ramdom digs' into the walls (Video Here.) - 4 If you see diamonds while ramdom digging,Mine it and mine around a little to look for hidden. - 5 Repeat.

Be sure to look out for lava and other hazards, as they are common at this layer. It is not good if you have, say, a stack of coal, a stack of iron, full iron armor, some redstone, maybe lapis or gold, and a few diamonds, then die to a few skeletons and spiders or some lava.

Another way of finding diamonds is by downloading a texture pack which allows you to see through stone blocks and then go around layer 12. (This is useful but I personally class it as cheating).

Another good tactic is to dig down to 10. Then dig a 2 by 2 tunnel for 50 blocks. Then go back to the beginning of the tunnel. Dig 2 by 2 shafts off of the main shaft. But between shafts, leave 2 by 2 unexcavated. This allows you to see what is in the side of the area you have mined without mining it.

it should look like this from above:

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

E= Excavated O= non-excavated

Notice that you could see all of the area you dont mine, speeding up the diamond finding process.

Just remember to use 2 by 2 tunnels, and you'll be finding diamonds in no time flat!