I always wonder how many diamonds some players get when they mine in survival mode. I will tell you right now that I usually don't find more than 5 diamonds in a group. I know diamonds are pretty rare and I wanted to see if the extreme amounts are ever found while mining in survival mode. The reason why I usually don't get many diamonds is because to save time, energy, and pickaxes, I usually mine in caves and whatever I find is whatever I get. My record for the most diamonds ever found was 10 on one of my survival worlds. Sure, it was a super flat world with the tunneler's dream preset on Xbox 360 edition with cheats enabled, but for PC edition I'm gonna have to say around 7 or 8 (I haven't played survival Minecraft on PC edition in a while), but I was shocked to find 10 diamonds in one vein of ore. Usually the largest groups of diamonds are in 2X2 block formations, and this one was a 2X2 block formation with one block on opposite corners vertically on each side of the vein. I have only seen this once, and it is pretty rare for me to find these formations in TU31 these days (I guess I am in the cold spot for 2X2 block formations). The most diamonds I have ever gotten on a single survival world was my first one, which I nearly got a full suit of diamond armor, and a bunch of diamond pickaxes.
I have worked on my survival for years and beat "the end". I have a total of 86 diamonds (thanks to the fortune enchantment). Finding diamonds isn't that hard.
I've mined 7,467 diamond ore in my first world, with 974 diamond blocks crafted, equivalent to 8,766 diamonds (some were mined with Fortune, I've also gotten quite a few from hundreds of abandoned mineshafts):
The number I've used is equally as impressive, with 293 diamond pickaxes crafted alone, requiring 879 diamonds (actually, many of these were bought from villagers, but the game counts buying an item as crafting it. I've estimated that I'd have used around 1,600 diamonds if I had not traded for any items; looking through my screenshots I crafted 155 pickaxes before I started trading for them):
Of course, that is nothing compared to what else I've mined; I've crafted a total of 175,581 mineral resource blocks (excluding quartz), or 1.58 million resources from 1.3 million ore mined (including what I've used would bring this to over 1.7 million resources; the torches I've crafted required nearly 90,000 coal by themselves, plus another 47,000 coal to smelt 358,166 iron and gold ore and cook 17,980 baked potatoes); plus well over a hundred thousand other resources, including over 87,000 rails and 36,000 cobwebs (crafted into wool) from mineshafts and 38,000 moss stone from dungeons (that's around 800 dungeons):
I've even mined 1,556 emerald ore, which the Wiki claims is over 15 times rarer than diamond ore (more of the range of emerald is exposed by caves though), and crafted 120 emerald blocks before I stopped mining it with Fortune, along with diamond (for a time I even mined coal with Fortune; now I mine emerald ore with Silk Touch, making it the only ore to receive any special treatment):
I don't find it too hard to find diamonds. I think the most i have gotten so far is around 52. That's on the current survival world i am playing on right now. Although it may be less than that now because i have been making armour.
Other than my current survival world, i couldn't really tell you how many dimounds i have found all up. Probably quite a few.
I've mined a vein of 9 diamonds multiple times. The most I've ever gotten on one caving trip is 67, and I have almost 8 stacks of diamonds in my current world.
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I looked though some old screenshots and in my last two worlds I mined 1,330 and 1,260 diamonds; excluding my first world (where I found 27 more diamond ore yesterday, bringing it up to 7,494, and crafted 6 more diamond blocks (including diamonds I'd mined before but not crafted into blocks yet, not because I used Fortune) for a total of 980) I've had a total of 6 main worlds which were all played on for a similar amount of time so this means that I've probably mined more than 15,000 diamond ore during the entire time I've played. In the latter of the two worlds I used Fortune to mine everything while caving and made 293 diamond blocks, equivalent to 2,637 diamonds, and used Fortune on three other worlds for as many as 21,000 diamonds altogether. 15,000 ore all mined with Fortune would be over a double chest of diamond blocks...
As before though, that isn't much when you look at what else I've mined... around 1.8 million coal ore, yielding nearly 4 million coal if it was all mined with Fortune (127 double chests of coal blocks)... and around 2.7 million ore altogether (it would take about 14 days straight to mine that much ore with an Efficiency V diamond pickaxe; I've spent around 174 days playing so I haven't actually spent much time mining, perhaps 10% of the time spent caving with most of the time spent walking around).
I've mined 7,467 diamond ore in my first world, with 974 diamond blocks crafted, equivalent to 8,766 diamonds (some were mined with Fortune, I've also gotten quite a few from hundreds of abandoned mineshafts):
The number I've used is equally as impressive, with 293 diamond pickaxes crafted alone, requiring 879 diamonds (actually, many of these were bought from villagers, but the game counts buying an item as crafting it. I've estimated that I'd have used around 1,600 diamonds if I had not traded for any items; looking through my screenshots I crafted 155 pickaxes before I started trading for them):
Of course, that is nothing compared to what else I've mined; I've crafted a total of 175,581 mineral resource blocks (excluding quartz), or 1.58 million resources from 1.3 million ore mined (including what I've used would bring this to over 1.7 million resources; the torches I've crafted required nearly 90,000 coal by themselves, plus another 47,000 coal to smelt 358,166 iron and gold ore and cook 17,980 baked potatoes); plus well over a hundred thousand other resources, including over 87,000 rails and 36,000 cobwebs (crafted into wool) from mineshafts and 38,000 moss stone from dungeons (that's around 800 dungeons):
I've even mined 1,556 emerald ore, which the Wiki claims is over 15 times rarer than diamond ore (more of the range of emerald is exposed by caves though), and crafted 120 emerald blocks before I stopped mining it with Fortune, along with diamond (for a time I even mined coal with Fortune; now I mine emerald ore with Silk Touch, making it the only ore to receive any special treatment):
Here are the general stats for the world:
How far have you mined so far?
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Here are renderings of my world; the latter two only show caves that I've explored, with the last one being a full size close-up of the area I've been exploring recently, located near the upper-right of the first two images (the surface was 61.5 megabytes before I resized it to 10%; pretty soon I'll be unable to even make a full rendering of this world, at least not without doing it in two batches, then combining them after resizing):
Even the small area I show full-size has nearly 29,000 torches (a few hundred are in two villages and a railway, otherwise they are all in caves) with over a thousand individual caves and dozens of ravines and abandoned mineshafts; based on their frequencies in 1.6.4 and the area I've explored (46,679 chunks*) I've explored around 18,000 individual caves, 800 ravines, and 300 or more abandoned mineshafts (these are less common near the origin so it is harder to say how many), as well as found 800 dungeons based on the amount of moss stone I've collected (the average dungeon has 48). The total length of all caves has to be around 3,000 km by now, enough to cross the world from north to south about 500 times - when they described the underground as like "swiss cheese" in older versions they really meant it!
*I used this utility on a copy to find the exact number of chunks that contain torches, hence were explored, out of a total of 64,648. On average 1.6.4 has 0.446875 caves, 0.02 ravines, and 0.01 mineshafts per chunk (linearly decreasing down to 0 within 80 chunks from the origin); I've probably explored at least 90% of everything within that area.
If "how far" refers to branch-mining, I only do that when I start a new world; in my last world I dug about 5.2 km of 1x2 tunnels, and found only 85 out of 1,330 diamond ore by branch-mining, and I did more mining than I would do in vanilla since I was looking for a mod ore that is 3 times rarer than diamond when branch-mining (27 out of 158 total; in caves it is about 8 times rarer). To put this into perspective, to find as many diamonds as I've found in my first world I'd have had to dig about 458.5 km of 1x2 tunnel; ironically, I'd have found more diamonds per total blocks mined than I've found by caving since I mine so many other ores (stone is only the third most common block I mine when caving, with coal ore about 2/3 of all ores and half of all blocks).
In Techtropolis, according to the statistics page, I've mined a total of 528 diamond ore since updating to 1.8 (as I believe statistics reset? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it also says I've crafted zero iron helmets and stone picks when I obviously did so back in the earlier days of the world). This averages to around 17 stacks of diamonds when you consider that most of this ore was mined with Fortune III. However, out of that, just over six stacks (approximately 400 to be exact) have been used to craft diamond tools, while 304 diamonds (4.75 stacks) have been used to craft diamond armor.
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I typically go to 8, digging 4 blocks tall, from y8 to y12. My pattern is to start a tunnel and dig for awhile, then go back to the beginning, move 3 blocks over and dig another tunnel in the same direction.
What y level do you dig at? I recommend digging at y11. If you spend hours digging branches you'll have a stack in no time.
I always dig at 11 too. It says it is 12 but Xbox 360 edition goes by eyes position. If you want to get really technical, 11 is actually 10. When they say "eyes position" they mean the height of your eyes. So "lava level" (the point that all caves become lava-filled) is actually at 10, while diamonds can be found up to level 15. I really don't know the significance of the number 31 or the number 62 to be honest with you... you know as much as I do. I also don't know what the significance is in the number 126 or 254 either. Once you get below 5, then bedrock spawns, and the final layer of the game is 0.
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I typically go to 8, digging 4 blocks tall, from y8 to y12. My pattern is to start a tunnel and dig for awhile, then go back to the beginning, move 3 blocks over and dig another tunnel in the same direction.
I move over 2 blocks so I can get each side to see all ores at the level.
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I always wonder how many diamonds some players get when they mine in survival mode. I will tell you right now that I usually don't find more than 5 diamonds in a group. I know diamonds are pretty rare and I wanted to see if the extreme amounts are ever found while mining in survival mode. The reason why I usually don't get many diamonds is because to save time, energy, and pickaxes, I usually mine in caves and whatever I find is whatever I get. My record for the most diamonds ever found was 10 on one of my survival worlds. Sure, it was a super flat world with the tunneler's dream preset on Xbox 360 edition with cheats enabled, but for PC edition I'm gonna have to say around 7 or 8 (I haven't played survival Minecraft on PC edition in a while), but I was shocked to find 10 diamonds in one vein of ore. Usually the largest groups of diamonds are in 2X2 block formations, and this one was a 2X2 block formation with one block on opposite corners vertically on each side of the vein. I have only seen this once, and it is pretty rare for me to find these formations in TU31 these days (I guess I am in the cold spot for 2X2 block formations). The most diamonds I have ever gotten on a single survival world was my first one, which I nearly got a full suit of diamond armor, and a bunch of diamond pickaxes.
I don't even play Minecraft much anymore yet here I am on the Minecraft forums for some reason...
I have worked on my survival for years and beat "the end". I have a total of 86 diamonds (thanks to the fortune enchantment). Finding diamonds isn't that hard.
I've mined 7,467 diamond ore in my first world, with 974 diamond blocks crafted, equivalent to 8,766 diamonds (some were mined with Fortune, I've also gotten quite a few from hundreds of abandoned mineshafts):
The number I've used is equally as impressive, with 293 diamond pickaxes crafted alone, requiring 879 diamonds (actually, many of these were bought from villagers, but the game counts buying an item as crafting it. I've estimated that I'd have used around 1,600 diamonds if I had not traded for any items; looking through my screenshots I crafted 155 pickaxes before I started trading for them):
Of course, that is nothing compared to what else I've mined; I've crafted a total of 175,581 mineral resource blocks (excluding quartz), or 1.58 million resources from 1.3 million ore mined (including what I've used would bring this to over 1.7 million resources; the torches I've crafted required nearly 90,000 coal by themselves, plus another 47,000 coal to smelt 358,166 iron and gold ore and cook 17,980 baked potatoes); plus well over a hundred thousand other resources, including over 87,000 rails and 36,000 cobwebs (crafted into wool) from mineshafts and 38,000 moss stone from dungeons (that's around 800 dungeons):
I've even mined 1,556 emerald ore, which the Wiki claims is over 15 times rarer than diamond ore (more of the range of emerald is exposed by caves though), and crafted 120 emerald blocks before I stopped mining it with Fortune, along with diamond (for a time I even mined coal with Fortune; now I mine emerald ore with Silk Touch, making it the only ore to receive any special treatment):
Here are the general stats for the world:
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Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
I don't find it too hard to find diamonds. I think the most i have gotten so far is around 52. That's on the current survival world i am playing on right now. Although it may be less than that now because i have been making armour.
Other than my current survival world, i couldn't really tell you how many dimounds i have found all up. Probably quite a few.
I've found 3 2x2x2 veins of diamond ore right next to each other, forming a 2 high, 2 wide and 6 long diamond ore vein.
I've mined a vein of 9 diamonds multiple times. The most I've ever gotten on one caving trip is 67, and I have almost 8 stacks of diamonds in my current world.
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I looked though some old screenshots and in my last two worlds I mined 1,330 and 1,260 diamonds; excluding my first world (where I found 27 more diamond ore yesterday, bringing it up to 7,494, and crafted 6 more diamond blocks (including diamonds I'd mined before but not crafted into blocks yet, not because I used Fortune) for a total of 980) I've had a total of 6 main worlds which were all played on for a similar amount of time so this means that I've probably mined more than 15,000 diamond ore during the entire time I've played. In the latter of the two worlds I used Fortune to mine everything while caving and made 293 diamond blocks, equivalent to 2,637 diamonds, and used Fortune on three other worlds for as many as 21,000 diamonds altogether. 15,000 ore all mined with Fortune would be over a double chest of diamond blocks...
As before though, that isn't much when you look at what else I've mined... around 1.8 million coal ore, yielding nearly 4 million coal if it was all mined with Fortune (127 double chests of coal blocks)... and around 2.7 million ore altogether (it would take about 14 days straight to mine that much ore with an Efficiency V diamond pickaxe; I've spent around 174 days playing so I haven't actually spent much time mining, perhaps 10% of the time spent caving with most of the time spent walking around).
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
How far have you mined so far?
I don't even play Minecraft much anymore yet here I am on the Minecraft forums for some reason...
Here are renderings of my world; the latter two only show caves that I've explored, with the last one being a full size close-up of the area I've been exploring recently, located near the upper-right of the first two images (the surface was 61.5 megabytes before I resized it to 10%; pretty soon I'll be unable to even make a full rendering of this world, at least not without doing it in two batches, then combining them after resizing):
Even the small area I show full-size has nearly 29,000 torches (a few hundred are in two villages and a railway, otherwise they are all in caves) with over a thousand individual caves and dozens of ravines and abandoned mineshafts; based on their frequencies in 1.6.4 and the area I've explored (46,679 chunks*) I've explored around 18,000 individual caves, 800 ravines, and 300 or more abandoned mineshafts (these are less common near the origin so it is harder to say how many), as well as found 800 dungeons based on the amount of moss stone I've collected (the average dungeon has 48). The total length of all caves has to be around 3,000 km by now, enough to cross the world from north to south about 500 times - when they described the underground as like "swiss cheese" in older versions they really meant it!
*I used this utility on a copy to find the exact number of chunks that contain torches, hence were explored, out of a total of 64,648. On average 1.6.4 has 0.446875 caves, 0.02 ravines, and 0.01 mineshafts per chunk (linearly decreasing down to 0 within 80 chunks from the origin); I've probably explored at least 90% of everything within that area.
If "how far" refers to branch-mining, I only do that when I start a new world; in my last world I dug about 5.2 km of 1x2 tunnels, and found only 85 out of 1,330 diamond ore by branch-mining, and I did more mining than I would do in vanilla since I was looking for a mod ore that is 3 times rarer than diamond when branch-mining (27 out of 158 total; in caves it is about 8 times rarer). To put this into perspective, to find as many diamonds as I've found in my first world I'd have had to dig about 458.5 km of 1x2 tunnel; ironically, I'd have found more diamonds per total blocks mined than I've found by caving since I mine so many other ores (stone is only the third most common block I mine when caving, with coal ore about 2/3 of all ores and half of all blocks).
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
Only 45. Almost a full year on this world and I'm still pretty bad at the game.
Watch out for the crabocalypse. Some say the day will never come. But it will.
Feel free to drop by for a chat whenever.
If you'd like to talk with me about other games, here are a few I play.
Team Fortress 2
Borderlands series (Borderlands 2 is my favorite game, ever. TPS combat is a lot of fun and makes up for the lower-quality story, in my opinion)
Elder Scrolls series
Warframe (IGN is something like That_One_Flesh_Atronach)
Pokémon series (HGSS forever)
Rocket League
Fallout series
Left 4 Dead 2 (Boomer files always corrupt though)
SUPERHOT (SUPERHOT is the most innovative shooter I've played in years!)
Dead Rising series (Dead Rising 2 is one of my favorite games, and the 3rd was a lot of fun. 1st has poor survivor AI and the 4th is bad)
Just Cause series
Come to think of it, I mainly play fighting-based games.
In Techtropolis, according to the statistics page, I've mined a total of 528 diamond ore since updating to 1.8 (as I believe statistics reset? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it also says I've crafted zero iron helmets and stone picks when I obviously did so back in the earlier days of the world). This averages to around 17 stacks of diamonds when you consider that most of this ore was mined with Fortune III. However, out of that, just over six stacks (approximately 400 to be exact) have been used to craft diamond tools, while 304 diamonds (4.75 stacks) have been used to craft diamond armor.
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Same here. If I don't up the ratio in the world configs, I could spend hours digging and only find a handful.
So many mods, so little time.
What y level do you dig at? I recommend digging at y11. If you spend hours digging branches you'll have a stack in no time.
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I typically go to 8, digging 4 blocks tall, from y8 to y12. My pattern is to start a tunnel and dig for awhile, then go back to the beginning, move 3 blocks over and dig another tunnel in the same direction.
So many mods, so little time.
I always dig at 11 too. It says it is 12 but Xbox 360 edition goes by eyes position. If you want to get really technical, 11 is actually 10. When they say "eyes position" they mean the height of your eyes. So "lava level" (the point that all caves become lava-filled) is actually at 10, while diamonds can be found up to level 15. I really don't know the significance of the number 31 or the number 62 to be honest with you... you know as much as I do. I also don't know what the significance is in the number 126 or 254 either. Once you get below 5, then bedrock spawns, and the final layer of the game is 0.
I don't even play Minecraft much anymore yet here I am on the Minecraft forums for some reason...
I move over 2 blocks so I can get each side to see all ores at the level.
I don't even play Minecraft much anymore yet here I am on the Minecraft forums for some reason...
Yeah, that's what I meant. I dig at the 3rd one over. Sorry, phrased that badly.
So many mods, so little time.
i have no idea
Yeah...
I don't even play Minecraft much anymore yet here I am on the Minecraft forums for some reason...