I don't know about you guys, but I've been noticing alot more diamonds than i thought i would, because in about 10 minutes underground, i found about 18 diamond. Tell me what you think/found here!
no cuz notch didnt say anything about nerfing ore vein spawning so im pretty sure its just a big coincident
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I get the feeling that Notch has tweaked resource distribution so that you get about the same amount of loot, but it's more clustered. Most coal veins I've encountered since 1.8 are the size of what I'd consider a large vein before; the downside is that the distribution through the ground is more sparse.
I'll fire up earlier versions using the same seed to see if my impressions bear out.
This is likely because you were mining near underground lava springs. Diamonds are easily found near them. You have 70% chance of finding diamonds near or even in the underground lava springs.
Once you get a method down to finding them, they become more common. You just get the sense of where they would be after a while and go to that place instead of playing with the gravel and watching it fall!
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I have mined out chunk-sized..er..chunks.. and have found roughly one vein per every couple chunks.
There are sometimes 3-4 chunks without diamonds. (this could be due to caves or lava.)
This is roughly the same amount that I had found using the same technique in 1.7.
After clearing whole chunks for a while, I have decided to go with the "sweet spot" between layers 11 and 17. This band has the highest ore concentration while remaining above the "lava level" or sweet spot for lava, which is at layer 10.
This is just my mining method, but it seems to be working fairly well for me so far..I have accumulated nearly 50 diamonds using this technique.*
*the total area I have mined so far is 4096m^2 (or by volume, roughly 57,344m^3).
i think it is less rare...
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I think the max is 30 per single chunk :wink.gif:
I'll fire up earlier versions using the same seed to see if my impressions bear out.
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Same.
thanks.
And diamonds are more common now? I have about 2 stacks of iron BLOCKS and I have 7 diamonds.
I have mined out chunk-sized..er..chunks.. and have found roughly one vein per every couple chunks.
There are sometimes 3-4 chunks without diamonds. (this could be due to caves or lava.)
This is roughly the same amount that I had found using the same technique in 1.7.
After clearing whole chunks for a while, I have decided to go with the "sweet spot" between layers 11 and 17. This band has the highest ore concentration while remaining above the "lava level" or sweet spot for lava, which is at layer 10.
This is just my mining method, but it seems to be working fairly well for me so far..I have accumulated nearly 50 diamonds using this technique.*
*the total area I have mined so far is 4096m^2 (or by volume, roughly 57,344m^3).