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Diamonds are one of the rarest and most recognizable materials in Minecraft.
Obtaining
Natural generation
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
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| Java Edition | ||||
| Diamond | Mineshaft | Chest | 1–2 | 8.9% |
| Bastion remnant | Treasure chest | 2–6 | 15.8% | |
| Buried treasure | Chest | 1–2 | 59.9% | |
| Desert temple | Suspicious sand | 1 | 12.5% | |
| Chest | 1–3 | 6.3% | ||
| End city | Chest | 2–7 | 21.2% | |
| Jungle temple | Chest | 1–3 | 12.9% | |
| Nether fortress | Chest | 1–3 | 19% | |
| Shipwreck | Treasure chest | 1 | 14.1% | |
| Stronghold | Altar chest | 1–3 | 7.3% | |
| Village | Toolsmith's chest | 1–3 | 9.9% | |
| Weaponsmith's chest | 1–3 | 16.2% | ||
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Diamond | Mineshaft | Chest | 1–2 | 8.9% |
| Bastion remnant | Treasure chest | 2–6 | 15.8% | |
| Buried treasure | Chest | 1 | 46.9% | |
| Desert temple | Suspicious sand | 1 | 12.5% | |
| Chest | 1–3 | 6.3% | ||
| End city | Chest | 2–7 | 21.2% | |
| Jungle temple | Chest | 1–3 | 12.8% | |
| Nether fortress | Chest | 1–3 | 19% | |
| Shipwreck | Treasure chest | 1 | 14.1% | |
| Stronghold | Altar chest | 1–3 | 7.1% | |
| Village | Toolsmith's chest | 1–3 | 9.9% | |
| Weaponsmith's chest | 1–3 | 16.2% | ||
Mining
Diamond ore mined using an iron or diamond pickaxe will drop a single diamond. If the pickaxe is enchanted with Fortune, it can drop an extra diamond per level of fortune, allowing for a maximum of 4 with Fortune III. If the ore is mined using a pickaxe enchanted with Silk Touch, it will drop itself rather than a diamond.
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
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| Block of Diamond |
Smelting
| Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
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| Diamond Ore + Any fuel |
Usage
Diamonds are used to craft the most durable tier of tools and armor.
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
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| Block of Diamond | Diamond | ||
| Diamond Axe | Diamond + Stick |
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| Diamond Boots | Diamond | ||
| Diamond Chestplate | Diamond | ||
| Diamond Helmet | Diamond | ||
| Diamond Hoe | Diamond + Stick |
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| Diamond Leggings | Diamond | ||
| Diamond Pickaxe | Diamond + Stick |
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| Diamond Shovel | Diamond + Stick |
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| Diamond Sword | Diamond + Stick |
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| Enchanting Table | Book + Diamond + Obsidian |
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| Firework Star | Gunpowder + Matching Dye + Head or Gold Nugget or Feather or Fire Charge + Glowstone Dust + Diamond |
Up to eight dyes can be added. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients. | |
| Jukebox | Any Planks + Diamond |
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| Smithing Template | Diamond + Matching Smithing Template + Netherrack or Cobblestone or Sandstone or End Stone or Terracotta or Cobbled Deepslate or Blackstone or Purpur Block or Prismarine or Mossy Cobblestone |
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| White Firework Star or Blue Firework Star or Brown Firework Star or Black Firework Star |
Gunpowder + Bone Meal or Lapis Lazuli or Cocoa Beans or Ink Sac + Head or Gold Nugget or Feather or Fire Charge + Glowstone Dust + Diamond |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] Up to eight dyes can be added. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients. |
Trading
Villager armorers, tool smiths and weapon smiths buy 3-4 diamonds for one emerald as part of their third tier trades.
Repairing
Diamond helmets, chestplates, leggings, boots, swords, pickaxes, axes, hoes and shovels can be repaired with diamonds in an anvil.
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
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| PS4 | Other | |||||
| DIAMONDS! | Acquire diamonds with your iron tools. | Pick up a diamond from the ground. | 20G | Bronze | ||
| Enchanter | Construct an Enchantment Table. | Pick up an enchantment table from a crafting table output. | 20G | Bronze | ||
| Diamonds to you! | Throw diamonds at another player. | Drop a diamond. Another player or a mob must then pick up this diamond. | 15G | Bronze | ||
Video
- Note: The video does not show all uses for diamonds in crafting.
Diamond/video
History
| indev | |||||
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| 0.31 | January 29, 2010 | Added diamonds. Initially, they were referred to as emeralds. | |||
| Diamond can be used to craft diamond blocks and diamond swords, shovels, pickaxes and axes. | |||||
| January 30, 2010 | Emeralds from the previous version are now referred to as diamonds. | ||||
| February 6, 2010 | Diamonds are now used to craft diamond hoes. | ||||
| February 18, 2010 | Diamonds are now used to craft diamond helmets, chestplates, leggings and boots. | ||||
| alpha | |||||
| 1.0.14 | Diamonds are now used to craft jukeboxes. | ||||
| beta | |||||
| 1.8 | pre1 | Now found in the new mineshaft chests. | |||
| release | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9-pre2 | Diamond ore could still be smelted into diamond gems, even though there was no silk touch or any way to pick up the ore without mods. | |||
| Beta 1.9-pre3 | Diamonds are now used to craft enchantment tables. | ||||
| Now found in the new stronghold altar chests. | |||||
| 1.1 | Now found in village blacksmith chests. | ||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | Diamonds could at this time be traded to blacksmith villagers in quantities of 3–5 for 1 emerald. | |||
| Added desert temples, with a hidden chest room and loot containing diamonds. | |||||
| 12w21b | Diamond was changed in the game code from emerald to diamond, due to actual emeralds being added. Diamond's original name during Indev, as stated above, was emerald in the code, and was kept this way until this snapshot. | ||||
| 12w22a | Added jungle temples, which contain loot chests with diamonds. | ||||
| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | Diamonds can be used to craft a firework star with a trail. | |||
| 1.6.1 | 13w18a | Now found in the new nether fortress chests. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Diamonds now can be traded to any black apron villager in quantities of 3–4 for 1 emerald, as their tier III trade. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w31a | Diamond is now added to end city chests. | |||
| 15w43a | Slightly decreased average yield in nether fortress chests. | ||||
| 15w44a | Decreased average yield in desert temple and mineshaft chests. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.3.2 | Diamonds can now be collected and used to craft blocks of diamond and diamond axes, pickaxes, swords and shovels. | ||||
| 0.4.0 | Diamonds are now used to craft diamond hoes. | ||||
| 0.5.0 | Diamonds are now used to craft nether reactor cores. | ||||
| 0.6.0 | Diamonds are now used to craft diamond armor. | ||||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | Diamonds are now used to craft enchanting tables. | |||
| Diamonds are no longer used to craft nether reactor cores and are instead dropped by it. | |||||
| Diamonds generate in Nether Fortress chests. | |||||
| 0.13.0 | build 1 | Diamonds have a chance to generate in Desert Temple chest. | |||
| 0.14.0 | build 1 | Now found in minecart with Chest in abandoned mineshafts. | |||
| 0.15.0 | build 1 | Diamonds can be found in jungle temple chest. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0 | build 1 | Diamonds can be found in altar chests in strongholds, dungeon chests and end city chests. | |||
| build 3 | Diamonds now can be found in blacksmith chests in villages. | ||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added diamonds. | |
Issues
Issues relating to "Diamond" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- Diamonds are a well-known item because they are one of the most shown things on merchandise.
- In real life, diamond is very fragile in certain directions, so it is not a good material for suits of armor. They are, however, commonly used for industrial purposes, generally as diamond-tipped drill bits and saw blades. They are usually used for cutting stone and other hard materials.