Talk:Diamond Ore

Natural generation
Under this specific section is following statement "Diamond ore only appears at Y level 16 and below, and can be found in veins of 3–8...". Are there not veins of 9? RobinEH (talk) 11:15, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

9 and 10! But the page now reads 1-12 which I doubt, does anybody have the knowledge to clarify if veins of more than 10 are possible? (without merging 2 veins.) Hexalobular 1 Jan 2016

Veins with 10 ore can be found in seed "-8246714680227619312" (without citation marks of course) at 377/10/1, 52/8/360, 1066/9/898, 593/12/1023, 312/9/307 and -22/8/-59 (and 9-ore veins at 361/11/-19, 77/12/-487, 1166/12/1374, 1096/9/1270, 1198/13/1266, 769/10/930, 170/7/586, 315/14/284, 331/11/1088, 138/9/944 and -475/12/372) All of these fit into a standard shape of a 2X2X2 cube with an extra ore block on top and another on the bottom (only 1 extra block for the 9 block veins) Screenshots at https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5c6qRTAo-4nSjI2WUhzOXprQkE&usp=sharing Hexalobular (talk) 10:09, 4 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Could these be a result of viens combining? -PancakeIdentity (talk) 00:02, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

No, they would be more random and wouldn't all fit in the same standard shape. --Hexalobular (talk) 01:54, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

We need a better way to refer to specified vein size and actual vein size. I think that it is causing confusion. In the page it says 0-8 vein size but the vein size according to the mineral vein is fixed at 8. Furthermore, the size parameter does not correspond with the max amount of diamonds that should be spawned. Max amount is 10. So, if we want to put a range it should be 0-10. Correct? Guihori (talk) 20:36, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

level
A diamond ore article requires a layer of discovery.hi i,m is to the finland (talk) 11:08, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Clarification for generating 'once per chunk'
Under "Natural Generation", it mentions that diamonds will spawn once per chunk, but it isn't clear if it means a 16x256x16 space (16 in x and z, but extending all of the y values), or a 16x16x16 space (16 in all directions, sometimes called a 'sub-chunk'). This leads to some more confusion because the Chunk page strictly defines a chunk as 16x256x16, but then in the the in-game F3 menu defines a chunk in terms of 16x16x16 and the chunk coords are defined as "x%16 y%16 z%16 in x//16 y//16 z//16", clearly showing that the in-game definition of a chunk is 16x16x16. So if the number of "once per chunk" was determined by looking at minecraft's code/update logs/other official sources, it may follow that definition instead. If the numbers were determined experimentally, then it should be reflected such as "once per 16x256x16 chunk". Given that Diamonds spawn from 1-15, this could present the opportunity for diamonds to spawn twice as frequent as mentioned in the article. --Ximmrspyx (talk) 05:23, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

What? Surely 1-15 fits in the lowest subchunk, 0-15? --Hexalobular (talk) 11:18, 30 June 2020 (UTC)