Recently, I lost about 15 iron pickaxes, 10 gold ore, and 50 redstone from lava while searching for diamond. I'm quickly learning that the stripmining/branch mining technique is extremely dangerous. Post any tips that you have for effectively mining diamond while staying alive. Thanks! I hope this thread will help others looking for diamond as well.
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Yes, natural caves that go deep almost always have but in my experience I tend to find them near lava I don't know if they really do spawn near lava but I've seen a lot there.
Dig all the way down to adminium layer. that's layer four. count up to layer 12 to 16 and dig 2x1 branches out. And please use search feature in the future as there are many threads about this
sorry didn't read all the way though. make sure you're above layer 11 as I believe that's the lava layer and you should be fine.
I just dig underground my house, then make a 4X4 room, then dig underground until I hit bedrock, after that I mine in two directions for about 20 blocks. I was able to found 8 diamond and a 86 pieces of redstone uses this method.
Also as a side tip, don't use ladders, they eat up wood. I take a few stacks of dirt, and use it to make my way up, to get down, I use shovels.
After dropping down a hole I opened up into a lava lake while branch mining, I now stand in one spot and mine 2-3 blocks forward, then advance and repeat.No more dropping down holes...and to find more diamonds, I agree with the above posters...go to bedrock then mine above it up to 16 levels or so.
Diamond occurs most frequently at layer 10. Coincidentally, this is the same layer lava frequently occurs at, so there is no way to have a low risk high reward setup in minecraft.
Wow! Thanks for the amazing tips guys! I have successfully travelled to the nether and back thanks to these tips! Now to make some sexy diamond armor...
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Have you ever seen thore palls off pollen boken up?
Good idea. That sucks about the diamonds, though.
sorry didn't read all the way though. make sure you're above layer 11 as I believe that's the lava layer and you should be fine.
Also as a side tip, don't use ladders, they eat up wood. I take a few stacks of dirt, and use it to make my way up, to get down, I use shovels.
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So dig in layers 11-16 and you'll find diamond with much fewer lava hazards!
well thats how i mine them anyways, i just rub old spice on my screen