This is a cluster of diamonds sitting in the ground awaiting me getting a diamond pick with Fortune enchantment. There are three similar clusters strewn throughout my mine. In total, there are about 15 diamonds. At the time of taking this screenshot, I was level 15. Since then I spent all my levels on some crummy 'Unbreaking I' enchantment for the diamond pick I already had.
So here's my question:
Should I go grind in the Nether until I can enchant a pick properly? Or should I just dig up the diamonds now and not worry about Fortune?
EDIT: Thread resolved. I'm going to wait for Fortune. Thanks for everyone's help.
EDIT 2: I'm just going to mine ****. Enough waiting and grinding and getting crummy achievements.
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So you wake up on a beach one day, and remember NOTHING. (Except your degree teachings in Engineering, Wilderness Survival, Metal work, Physics, Tech, Psychology, History, Dynamics, and Blocks.) You mine and build and survive for years and years.
Wait for fortune. And to thebig cat, it is pretty easy to get fortune, i have a fortune III with unbreaking III, and a fortune I with unbreaking II and efficiency III.
A couple of diamonds more or less is of little consequence. If you use your time branch mining efficiently, you will discover more new deposits in the time you would have taken to grind.
I think the only enchantment worth the investment is silk touch. Rest of the enchantments gets you less than the time taken to get the enchantments themselves.
let me put it this way... i got lucky with a level 21/26 (cant remember) diamond pickaxe, giving me fortune 2. I never ever will have problems with finding enough diamond, coal, redstone or lapis.
one small brand new branch mine got me an easy 40 diamonds. off a couple of finds.
Am I the only one that hasn't tested enchantments (orbs not being able to be spawned) and have no idea what Fortune is?
nope, ive tried enchantement a bit but meh. and yeah wtf is fortune? just higher chance of more drops maybe? judging from forum posts this is what i gathered
nope, ive tried enchantement a bit but meh. and yeah wtf is fortune? just higher chance of more drops maybe? judging from forum posts this is what i gathered
Fortune is getting more of something. If you get fortune V, I think you will make your diamond rain once you break the diamond. (You get alot of diamond.)
Mine them and mine some more. Why wait for fortune? I have made a hundred enchants and never got it. But my highest was level 30. I love efficiency enchants, you mine more and get more diamonds that way too. Last night I found 35 diamonds in one hour mining.
I think your best bet would be to find a spawner somewhere and build an xp farm with it. Then make your enchanting table right there and start trying to get your fortune pick. In the meantime might as well mine those diamonds because it will take you a lot of tries even with enchanting at lvl 45+ to get that Fortune III pick. You'll end up with a lot of useful picks in the process though.
What I do is I get silk touches more often so I have a silk touch on me along with my normal pick and when I come across Diamonds I hit them with the silk touch to bring them back home and then hit them with the fortune III. That way I don't risk falling into lava and losing my Fortune III. The XP farm is a must though and should be the first priority. Grinding out legitimately to lvl 45+ is just risky and time consuming and you'll be extremely let down when you go to do an enchant and you end up with just an Efficiency IV and nothing else. Find an abandoned mine and locate a cave spider trap, use Etho's method to build an xp farm for it and you'll be collecting tons of xp and also a lot of wool/string as well.
This is a cluster of diamonds sitting in the ground awaiting me getting a diamond pick with Fortune enchantment. There are three similar clusters strewn throughout my mine. In total, there are about 15 diamonds. At the time of taking this screenshot, I was level 15. Since then I spent all my levels on some crummy 'Unbreaking I' enchantment for the diamond pick I already had.
So here's my question:
Should I go grind in the Nether until I can enchant a pick properly? Or should I just dig up the diamonds now and not worry about Fortune?
EDIT: Thread resolved.
I'm going to wait for Fortune. Thanks for everyone's help.EDIT 2: I'm just going to mine ****. Enough waiting and grinding and getting crummy achievements.
It will be worth it
So you wake up on a beach one day, and remember NOTHING. (Except your degree teachings in Engineering, Wilderness Survival, Metal work, Physics, Tech, Psychology, History, Dynamics, and Blocks.) You mine and build and survive for years and years.
I actually have translated the enchantment language into English. The words mean nothing, however. It's completely random.
I think the only enchantment worth the investment is silk touch. Rest of the enchantments gets you less than the time taken to get the enchantments themselves.
one small brand new branch mine got me an easy 40 diamonds. off a couple of finds.
nope, ive tried enchantement a bit but meh. and yeah wtf is fortune? just higher chance of more drops maybe? judging from forum posts this is what i gathered
Fortune is getting more of something. If you get fortune V, I think you will make your diamond rain once you break the diamond. (You get alot of diamond.)
What I do is I get silk touches more often so I have a silk touch on me along with my normal pick and when I come across Diamonds I hit them with the silk touch to bring them back home and then hit them with the fortune III. That way I don't risk falling into lava and losing my Fortune III. The XP farm is a must though and should be the first priority. Grinding out legitimately to lvl 45+ is just risky and time consuming and you'll be extremely let down when you go to do an enchant and you end up with just an Efficiency IV and nothing else. Find an abandoned mine and locate a cave spider trap, use Etho's method to build an xp farm for it and you'll be collecting tons of xp and also a lot of wool/string as well.
grind