Talk:Diamond Ore/Archive 1

I've been mining for diamond, digging a staircase down until i found some and then digging a horizontal tunnel from there. It seems diamond ore is only present in a thin layer, deep underground. The first tunnel gave me lots of diamond, but I dug a second tunnel a few (~5) blocks lower and I haven't found any diamond there as of yet. Anyone else that had a similar (or different?) experience? -Rick


 * I think it's 5-10 blocks above the Void. --PurpleKiwi 22:06, 3 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Using MCEdit, I flew through the ground for a while and found diamond veins as high as 14 blocks above the bedrock and as much as 6 blocks in a vein. --SgtKlaos 15:03, 14 November 2010 (CST)


 * On a freshly generated world with NO MODS, I found 3 blocks of Diamond about 15 blocks above sea level, and then another vein much farther away, consisting of 7 blocks of Diamond about 10 blocks above sea level. I took the save into Survival Multiplayer, to show my friends. I am not lieing, there are NO MODS. http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/3161/20110102014039.png --Defyant 02:40, 2 January 2010 (CST)

Smelting Ores
So I noticed the [citation needed] tag on the second trivia note saying that diamond ore can be smelted to obtain diamonds. I just entered my world and invedited some stuff in, and I can confirm that Diamond ore is smeltable.

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/7044/20110323074515.png http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/8777/20110323074525.png Timohtep 14:57, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Lava and Diamond
The other day, someone respectable said that diamond only appears within 20 blocks or a lava spring. He said he checked this, and also removed the lava from the seeds or something and then didn't find any diamond. Can anyone confirm this? --Pyro 03:28, 14 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Im not sure about that, but i saw somewhere that there is only 1 diamond vein per chunk.Toadbert


 * On average the game attempts to make one diamond vein per chunk. But random being random... --XipXoom 13:44, 14 November 2010 (CST)


 * I've got a strip mine to bedrock, about the size of a single chunk, and it it I've found at least 6 veins of diamonds, totaling 17 blocks. Definitely just an average. PaperStrike 10:18, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

I can never find diamond, the only time I did, I thought I needed a gold pickaxe. Don`t make that Noob mistake. -Icecat Dec 12 2010

Woot!
Today I found 18 diamond, two veins of 5 and one vein of 8! The way to find it is when your at level five (right where bedrock stops) and go up 5-11 block, as diamond is found level 16 and below, but is most commonly found in level 16-10. ICantThinkOfAGoodUsername 01:18, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Diamond near Redstone
Diamond ore is commonly found behind, beside, or around redstone veins. This is just a personal experience, not a fact. Today i removed on a map everything worthless to compare the distribution of veins (with WorldEdit). There seems to be no relation between any vein to a vein of another kind.

--Tegmen 02:16, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I think this misconception is based on how plentiful redstone is. Odds are when you find diamond redstone isn't too far away, of course odds are if you don't find diamond...redstone still isn't too far away. Dctrjons 02:16, 12 March 2011 (UTC)


 * It depends on how deep you are. It's true that lava is plentiful at the bottom of the map, as is red stone.Dctrjons is correct is saying that where ever the is diamond there will most likely be redstone. There will also be stone, coal, iron, and mobs. Fai 23:41, 21 March 2011 (UTC)