I am using a randomly generated, infinite, survival world. There is a team of 5 of us (my nieces / nephews). We are following our normal diamond mining pattern.
Within about 100 blocks of the spawn area, we mined a normal amount of diamonds, hitting about 1 vein each every 5-10 minutes doing branch mines every 4 blocks (3 in between) while standing on lvl 10 (mined to bedrock, then go up 4). Once we got about 100 blocks - 150 blocks from the spawn area this stopped. And I mean completely stopped! We have logged over 50 hours (between the 5 of us), mining at this level using efficiency IV Iron and efficiency III Diamond Pickaxes. Not a single a diamond among us. The only way we seem to find anymore diamonds on this world, is to go back near the spawn zone, and mine again in areas we might have missed. Just as a side note, we've mined more than 100 Iron blocks (ie. not ore, but blocks so 9x100 Ore), 60 something Lapis Lazuli blocks (again, 9x60 ore), 25 Gold Blocks and many many hundreds of Coal and Redstone blocks. We are not going out of our way to actually mine the other ores (except for Gold and Lapis). This is just what was in our way. This is a winter Biome on the ocean.
I have read many forums in the past on branch mining. I've logged thousands of hours on MCPE in previous versions. I've never had this issue. Possible bug? Is there a mod I should maybe download, like an xray mod to look at that world with and see if indeed we are just the most unlucky miners in the universe or there is a bug we should report? Note: This world was generated on an IOS device using version 0.14.1, then we copied it to a Windows 10 machine which we leave running on the LAN all the time so we can all connect to it when we want. Everything else about the world seems pretty normal. We've found 4 spawners (1 spider, 1 cave spider, 1 skelly, 1 zombie), 1 abandoned mine and a mountain biome right next to our snow one. Maybe we'll try walking a good 1000 blocks away and start mining again there. Very frustrating as we've put a lot of time into this world and would rather not scrap it.
I am using a randomly generated, infinite, survival world. There is a team of 5 of us (my nieces / nephews). We are following our normal diamond mining pattern.
Within about 100 blocks of the spawn area, we mined a normal amount of diamonds, hitting about 1 vein each every 5-10 minutes doing branch mines every 4 blocks (3 in between) while standing on lvl 10 (mined to bedrock, then go up 4). Once we got about 100 blocks - 150 blocks from the spawn area this stopped. And I mean completely stopped! We have logged over 50 hours (between the 5 of us), mining at this level using efficiency IV Iron and efficiency III Diamond Pickaxes. Not a single a diamond among us. The only way we seem to find anymore diamonds on this world, is to go back near the spawn zone, and mine again in areas we might have missed. Just as a side note, we've mined more than 100 Iron blocks (ie. not ore, but blocks so 9x100 Ore), 60 something Lapis Lazuli blocks (again, 9x60 ore), 25 Gold Blocks and many many hundreds of Coal and Redstone blocks. We are not going out of our way to actually mine the other ores (except for Gold and Lapis). This is just what was in our way. This is a winter Biome on the ocean.
I have read many forums in the past on branch mining. I've logged thousands of hours on MCPE in previous versions. I've never had this issue. Possible bug? Is there a mod I should maybe download, like an xray mod to look at that world with and see if indeed we are just the most unlucky miners in the universe or there is a bug we should report? Note: This world was generated on an IOS device using version 0.14.1, then we copied it to a Windows 10 machine which we leave running on the LAN all the time so we can all connect to it when we want. Everything else about the world seems pretty normal. We've found 4 spawners (1 spider, 1 cave spider, 1 skelly, 1 zombie), 1 abandoned mine and a mountain biome right next to our snow one. Maybe we'll try walking a good 1000 blocks away and start mining again there. Very frustrating as we've put a lot of time into this world and would rather not scrap it.
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