Coordinates for Y are taken from your characters head. If the sea level is 64 and you are standing on 64, then the space occupied by your legs is 65 and then the space occupied by your head is 66. That is how coordinates have always worked on the PC and that is how they work on the Xbox.
Um, that's exactly what I said?
Unless you're trying to tell me that the top ocean block on the PC version is also layer 64, which is not true, according to the wiki:
Sea level is recognized as layer 62 (i.e. altitude 63), and as of Minecraft 1.2.0, the top of the game environment is layer 255 (i.e. altitude 256)...
... The player can press F3 to see what Y coordinate the player's eye is currently at, with the player's eye located about 1.6 blocks above the layer the player is standing on. For example, a player standing on a shore of an ocean will see their Y coordinate as approximately 64.6.
I don't have the PC version, so I can't independently verify this. But a player standing on a shore of an ocean in the XBox version will see their Y coordinate as 66. So obviously something is different.
Diamond spawns in the bottom 17 layers of the map. This should help everyone. It's from the PC version but should also apply to the Xbox version as well. Just cut the numbers back a bit because of the limited world size but it should still hold true.
after reading this graph i found a vein of eight diamonds at level 5 thanks!
I branch-mine bedrock to Layer 15, according to the map. There is some offset from what the map reports (where is your head? where are your feet? etc), but I've never much cared. This space has consistently yielded quite a few diamonds over time.
I've gotten a lot of experience dealing with lava. What I do now when starting a new branch is stairstep my way up from bedrock until a reported Y=13. I will dig a 3-tall by 1-wide branch until I reach the standard endpoint for all my branches. Then I go back and forth deepening the trench by 1 block each pass, until I hit bedrock. If I encounter lava, I'll block it off with cobble, then dig to the lava above the cobble, and use sand to fill it in. Gravel works too. I've searched and destroyed whole lava lakes this way. After you get used to it, and follow common sense like never mining above or below you (and not walking blindly into a hole you just dug) it becomes routine.
I used to mine at 16, bu now I start at 14. I started a Phoenix mine in my latest survival, ans having gone 60 out nsew I scrounged up 152 diamonds from layers 14,15 and 16.
On PlayStation I've found most of my diamonds on layers 16 and 12. The most I've found in one world on these two layers are 16. It's decent, if you only planning on making a couple of pickaxes, an Enchantment Table, and a sword. I honestly don't know if Xbox 360 will be the same, but I recently bought one so I'm going to try different layers on this console and I will make another post once I've found the best. Happy diamond hunting!
Um, that's exactly what I said?
Unless you're trying to tell me that the top ocean block on the PC version is also layer 64, which is not true, according to the wiki:
I don't have the PC version, so I can't independently verify this. But a player standing on a shore of an ocean in the XBox version will see their Y coordinate as 66. So obviously something is different.
Just to be clear. That's where the 0.6 offset comes from.
I've gotten a lot of experience dealing with lava. What I do now when starting a new branch is stairstep my way up from bedrock until a reported Y=13. I will dig a 3-tall by 1-wide branch until I reach the standard endpoint for all my branches. Then I go back and forth deepening the trench by 1 block each pass, until I hit bedrock. If I encounter lava, I'll block it off with cobble, then dig to the lava above the cobble, and use sand to fill it in. Gravel works too. I've searched and destroyed whole lava lakes this way. After you get used to it, and follow common sense like never mining above or below you (and not walking blindly into a hole you just dug) it becomes routine.
My Suggestions:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-discussion/suggestions/2488679-custom-music-disc
On PlayStation I've found most of my diamonds on layers 16 and 12. The most I've found in one world on these two layers are 16. It's decent, if you only planning on making a couple of pickaxes, an Enchantment Table, and a sword. I honestly don't know if Xbox 360 will be the same, but I recently bought one so I'm going to try different layers on this console and I will make another post once I've found the best. Happy diamond hunting!
Yeah correcting yourself is one thing but replying to your own comment as if it was someone else's is kind of weird.