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Diamond is a material in Minecraft, available in Indev, Infdev, and Alpha, primarily useful for making tools. It comes in 3 forms:

Diamond ore
Diamond ore is diamond's natural form, found deep underground, surrounded by stone blocks and sometimes near Lava. Like other ores, it is sometimes found in veins. It's generally considered among the most valuable and elusive blocks in the game. Unlike Iron or Gold, you do not need to smelt the ore to receive the gem inside; you will receive a diamond gem simply by mining it, like Coal and Redstone. You must, however, use an iron or diamond pickaxe to receive the gem; if you mine it with any other tool of any other material, you will not receive a gem, a huge loss.

Diamond gem
A diamond gem, received when you properly mine diamond ore, is an extremely valuable item. The main use of diamond gems is to craft the strongest and most durable tools, weapons, and armor in the game, although one can also be used to create a Jukebox.

Diamond block
When the player has 9 diamond gems, they can create a diamond block by crafting them together in a 3 × 3 pattern on a workbench. The block can later be un-crafted back into 9 diamond gems, by either placing it back on a workbench or using your inventory's crafting space. Like diamond ore, one must mine it with a pickaxe made of iron or diamond, or else you will not receive anything when it breaks. As the block stacks like any other, its primary purpose is storage; rather than having 64 diamond gems in a single inventory slot, one may compress them into blocks to store 64 × 9 = 576 gems in this way. The block itself isn't hard enough to be a cost-effective building material. Its only other use is to provide color in pixel art.

Crafting
Diamond gems can be used to craft a number of things; for tools, weapons, and armor, they can be used in the same way Wood, Gold, Stone, and Iron can be.