Block of Diamond

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A Block of Diamond, also known as a Diamond Block, is a Block that first appeared in Minecraft Indev, and it can be crafted by putting nine Diamonds in a Crafting Table. Diamond Blocks can only be mined successfully with an Iron or Diamond Pickaxe. To get the Diamonds back, simply put the Diamond Block in the Crafting Grid to split it back into nine Diamonds. Diamond Blocks can be used to power a Beacon.

Diamond blocks can be found in doorless rooms inside Woodland Mansions, and those Diamond Blocks are usually encased in Obsidian or Lava inside said rooms.

Uses

They serve as decoration, compact storage for Diamonds, and a way to power Beacons.

Crafting

Block of Diamond				Diamond x9 (Shapeless recipe)
Diamond	Diamond	Diamond		None	None	None
Diamond	Diamond	Diamond		None	Block of Diamond	None
Diamond	Diamond	Diamond		None	None	None

Mining

A Block of Diamond requires an iron pickaxe or better to harvest, otherwise, it will drop nothing.

Tool
Hardness	5
Breaking time[note 1]
Default	25
Wood	12.5
Stone	6.25
Iron	1.25
Diamond	0.95
Netherite	0.85
Gold	2.1

1. ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds.

Trivia

• In Minecraft Pocket Edition, there was a glitch that if the player renamed 9 diamonds with an anvil, they could craft a diamond block and still keep the diamonds thus, creating infinite diamonds. The same could be done to any mineral that could be crafted into a block. However, this bug was patched.

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