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)

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 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)