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钻石是游戏中最受欢迎的物品之一,因为钻石可以被用来制作游戏中最强的工具、武器以及防具。同时钻石也是游戏中最稀有的物品之一,因为只有在最深的岩石层中才能找到它们。正是这一特点使得钻石很难被找到以至于严重的限制了其在游戏中的产量。而本教程的初衷就在于帮助玩家们获得越来越多的钻石供应。
首先你需要一把铁镐(或更高级的稿)来挖钻石。其次还需要一个装着水的桶、一把铁剑、铁质防具,以及其它在矿洞中常用的物品。
寻找钻石
天然生成的钻石矿脉。
钻石可以从钻石矿石中获得。而钻石矿石是一种非常稀有的方块,因为它只会在2~16层生成并且生成几率只有0.0846%。钻石通常是在9层附近被找到,或者是在不高于16层的人工矿洞或天然矿洞中被找到。有两种方法可以找到矿脉:天然矿洞或者自己挖一个。但不管哪种方法,你都需要一把铁镐来挖钻石(当然还有途中遇到的那些金矿石、绿宝石矿石和红石矿石之类的)。尽管这个方法——多使用石制工具来节约铁制工具的耐久,听起来很好,但还是建议只有在铁资源极度短缺时再去使用石制工具。这是因为相对来说铁资源比较常见并且铁制工具的挖矿速度和耐久都要优于石制工具。考虑到铁制工具挖掘速度更快,同一时间内铁制工具挖到的铁除了补充消耗之外很可能不会少于石制工具挖到的铁,而用石制工具的这一段时间内,那些被长期保存起来的铁实际上就等于被浪费了。除了工具你也需要一定量的火把和用于补充火把的木头(你多半会在漫漫挖矿路上找到足够多的煤)。如果你正在探天然矿洞,你会需要那些必备用品的,尤其是防具和武器。钻石偶尔也会在村庄的箱子中被找到。
通过天然矿洞寻找
探查天然矿洞要比挖掘人工矿洞消耗的资源少(除了火把),但是也更加危险和耗时,因为你要探索的是一个充斥着黑暗与怪物的洞穴。通过探查天然矿洞来找钻石矿脉,只要探索所有你找到的天然矿洞(地表有入口或挖出来的都可以)并且一直往下走直到低于15层。通过按F3(调出调试屏幕)可以有助于查看你所在的高度。最好是在12层挖矿因为岩浆主要在10层产生,这意味着你不会被岩浆烧掉你的脚。峡谷和竖井都可以提供上下的捷径——弄出一个人工瀑布可以帮助你安全的上上下下(小心窒息)。找地下岩浆池是一个很好的线索,这意味着你在正确的高度范围,但那里实际上并不是最好的找钻石的地方——除了岩浆本身的危险,那玩意也会占据部分原本应该是矿脉的位置,给你留下更少的钻石矿。(实际上一旦你确定了你所在的高度正确,在周围全都是石头的环境下来挖掘会更好。)如果你确实在岩浆池旁边看到了裸露的钻石矿脉,那果断用一桶水把岩浆池的表面转化为黑曜石或圆石......然后在你挖掘时“让地面保持湿润”。通过这种办法,即使钻石矿脉下面还有岩浆,水也会在岩浆烧毁你新挖出来的钻石之前浇灭岩浆。如果你没有看到裸露的钻石矿脉也不要气馁——钻石作为公认的稀缺资源是有着充分的理由的。你可以在类似的高度探索更多的天然矿洞,或者转用下一个办法:自己挖洞或去村庄箱子那里碰碰运气。
通过TNT寻找
用TNT炸是最快的挖掘方法之一,但是这个方法确实需要你去杀大量的苦力帕并且挖一大堆的沙子。当你得到一大堆TNT时,你可以一次炸一个,也可以一次炸一堆,还可以每5格放一个。
通过人工矿洞寻找
自己挖洞比探矿洞更加安全和可靠,但是会消耗更多的资源用来制作工具。这种方法也会产生大量多余的圆石,虽然有时候这可能被认为是弊大于利。
要挖一条找钻石的人工矿洞,首先要下到会生成钻石的高度。除了沿着已有的天然矿洞下降,你还可以挖一个垂直矿井、采石场矿场或阶梯式矿井来下降到存在钻石的岩层(在你进行以上活动时,谨记基本规则:绝对不要挖你脚下的方块!)。大部分玩家偏爱11层,因为“岩浆流淌在地板之下”。更深一些的矿道很可能在头顶或者更高的地方出现岩浆,但是在11层,岩浆可能会出现在脚下。这或许会阻止你前进,但是可能不会淹没矿道!
By Branch Mining
First, get to layer 10, 11, or 12 as discussed in the previous section. Next, dig a 2-block-high, 4-block-wide, 4-block-long room. After that, make either a 2-block-high, 2-block-wide, or a 2-block-high, 1-block-wide horizontal tunnel (2x2 shows more but 2x1 is more efficient with the ratio of blocks mined to blocks exposed (1:3 instead of 1:2)). Dig the tunnel at least 50 blocks long. Then, dig side tunnels with 4 - 6 blocks in between each (AKA the spacing). This means you get maximum efficiency (ores mined/blocks mined) while maintaining a good amount of thoroughness (ores found in a given area/ores in a given area). Collect all ores found, because ores can connect to other ores (At least collect all the Lapis Lazuli, Iron, of course diamonds, and at least half the Coal). Place torches every 10 blocks (you only need to place them every 13 blocks on the ground or 12 blocks at head level to prevent spawning, but 10 blocks keeps track of how many decameters you have gone). You will find diamonds with this method. Remember to put a double, or large, chest (made by placing 2 chests next to each other) in your 4x2x4 room; you will need to drop off some cobblestone when it hogs your inventory.
Video Tutorial
This video shows you a popular method of finding diamonds, known as "Branch Mining".
- Please note that he/she uses 2 block spacings, when one of at least four is recommended, plus you should dig your branches as long as you want.
- Also note that you should bring a sword, bow, and food (preferably Steak or Pork) in addition to what the video-maker brought.
Mining Diamonds
A diamond gem
Once you find a block or vein of diamond ore, you'll need to mine it to get the diamond gem it contains. Before you do this, though, make sure the area is safe: after all, you don't want to lose any diamonds!
First, if you've located the diamond ore by caving, light up or block off any nearby dark areas so you won't get blown up or shot while attempting to mine. Next, dig away all blocks directly adjacent to the vein, both to expose the whole vein and to make sure the diamonds won't drop into lava and burn. A very effective method of preventing anything from dropping into lava is holding the Shift (crouch) key and W (forward) key, while mining your resource. This will both prevent you and your precious diamonds from falling into possible lava below. If you encounter any lava, get rid of it before you mine the blocks.
Now that it's safe to mine, use an iron or diamond pickaxe to break the blocks. The blocks will drop one gem each, unless your pickaxe is enchanted with the Fortune enchantment (Fortune III, the highest level, will make ore drop as many as four diamonds, and on average doubles the yield of a diamond vein). Remember to dig around diamond veins, as diamonds can form diagonally in the same vein.
Now that you have diamonds, it's best to proceed directly to a safe place to stash them in a chest; this could be your home base or a secure mining outpost. Be careful to make the chest secure from attacks by creepers, or your precious new-found wealth could go up in smoke.
Using Your Diamonds
Now that you have diamonds, you can begin crafting some of the best items the game has to offer.
Diamond Tools
Diamonds can be used to make Shovels, Pickaxes, Axes, and Hoes that work faster and last significantly longer than any other tool. Most players use their first three diamonds to make a diamond pickaxe, the only tool in the game that can harvest Obsidian blocks. Although a Diamond Hoe lasts longer than any other hoe, it grants no speed boost and is generally considered a waste of diamonds, as only a stone hoe is necessary.
Diamond Weapons and Armor
Diamond swords deal the most damage of any sword - eight points - and diamond armor protects the wearer better than any other form of armor. As with diamond tools, they also last longer than swords and armor made from lower-quality materials. A full set of diamond armor requires 24 diamonds.
Other Diamond Items
Diamonds are also used to make Jukeboxes, decorative diamond blocks, and, most importantly, Enchantment Tables, which allow players to convert Experience into valuable tool-improving enchantments. They can also be used as the ore to power a Beacon, but this is unnecessarily expensive and it is recommended to use emerald or iron blocks. If you are playing the Pocket Edition, you can use three diamonds with six iron ingots to craft a Nether Reactor Core.
Maintaining and Expanding Your Supply
Once you've realized how useful your first diamonds are, you'll probably want more. To this end, you'll need to continue mining. If you want to become truly diamond-rich, though, you'll need to do a few other things first.
Getting a Fortune III Pickaxe
You'll want to mine with the Fortune Enchantment on your pickaxe, preferably level III, for your next diamond vein, to significantly improve the amount of diamonds you get. Alas, this is not something you can rely on, but you can try. If you find a large diamond vein, you have an enchantment table, and are confident you can get a Fortune III, it might be worth waiting and acquiring the diamonds later or mining it with a pickaxe enchanted with Silk Touch and harvesting the ore when you acquire Fortune III. If you see the hint say Fortune III on the table, immediately enchant a diamond pickaxe with it.
Enchanting is somewhat complex, but here is how to bootstrap the equipment needed: You need to start with at least 5 diamonds: The first three will go for a diamond pickaxe. This lets you mine obsidian, and you need four blocks. That plus the other two diamonds will go for an Enchantment Table, but first you need to make a book. In fact, you'll need to make a lot of books, but you can start with one to get the table made.
For the books, you will need leather (from cows), and paper, from sugar cane. For the first book, you'll need just one piece of leather and three of paper (from three pieces of sugar cane). You can probably get those while setting up a cow farm and a sugar cane farm. If you don't already have a wheat farm, make one to breed the cows.
Once you've made your enchantment table, it will let you make small enchantments, but to get Fortune—let alone Fortune 3 -- you'll need to boost the table's power with bookshelves. You will need a lot of bookshelves, which will require a lot of books, in turn requiring a lot of leather and a lot of paper. (You'll also need wood for the bookshelves, so having a tree farm is handy.) See the Enchanting article for details of how to arrange those.
In order to get Fortune III on an iron or diamond pickaxe you'll need to use nearly 30 levels of experience points per attempt, so a Mob Farm will be handy. In versions 1.8 and further, you will need lots of lapis lazuli, while only needing 3 levels per attempt, but you need to be at level thirty, and the enchantment has to be the thirty level one. While advanced methods are possible, it's fairly easy to build the experience by simply camping at a suitably modified dungeon. It should be noted, that mining ores gives you experience too, and thus you may get a level 30 or so just by mining all the coal you find during chunk mining in one chunk. Enchanting books for Fortune III is a bad idea because, as of 1.5.1, there is only a 0.4% chance of getting Fortune III even at level 30. In contrast, a diamond pickaxe at level 30 has a 7.7% chance of getting Fortune III. Please note that this note is outdated since 1.8 changed the mechanics.
Even after all this building and grinding, it's by no means guaranteed you'll get what you want. If you get Silk Touch instead, you can also use that to collect diamond ore instead of gems. When you absolutely need a few diamonds (say, for a diamond sword), you can always place that many blocks and use another pickaxe to mine them... but save the rest of the ore for when you do get a Fortune pickaxe!
You can see what enchantment you will get, and you may get more enchantments on that pick, so if it says Fortune III, enchant it as soon as possible. Don't worry if you don't have enough levels, the enchantment stays the same until you enchant something. If it says something else, don't fret, you can always enchant a junk item (e. g., a wooden shovel) for one level to reset it or enchant an iron pick. Remember, you need thirty levels for a 30-level enchantment, but it will only cost you three! If it says Efficiency IV, you could use a diamond pick if you want. Once you have fortune three, the only time to enchant a junk item is when the hint says Efficiency III. Eventually, you want 3 main picks. One, a work pick, should have Efficiency IV-V and Unbreaking III. Two, a Fortune pick, with all the enchantments of a work pick, but with Fortune III. Third, a silk touch pick, with the same enchantments of a work pick but with Silk Touch.
You can also use an anvil to combine weaker items of the same material, turning 2 Fortune I pickaxes into 1 Fortune II, and 2 of those into one Fortune III. Rename the working item early to cut down on retread penalties, and be careful about combining multiple enchantments—the cost can easily make your pickaxe unworkable.
Once you've got a fortune pickaxe, return to mining as usual, reserving this pickaxe for veins of diamond or emerald. (If so inclined, you can use it on redstone, lapis lazuli, or even coal, but using a fortune enchanted pickaxe to mine coal is considered a waste of durability, although it may be helpful if you want to build with Block of Coal.)
Repairing Tools
Repairing two tools doesn't just add their durability up - it adds some extra uses as well (5% bonus, 12% for anvils). That can help extend your mining trips with non-enchanted tools. Remember that a crafting-grid repair wipes enchantments, so if you want to keep the enchantments, use an anvil. Repairing armor on an anvil with regular diamonds also uses less diamonds, but costs Experience.
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