I hoarded them. I went back to my castle and stuffed them in a chest. It was quite a while later before I made a diamond pick, and even then I only used it to mine obsidian.
I'm a lot more likely to use my diamond stuff now, though. I always use a diamond sword and I always carry a diamond pick - but I tend to use iron picks just because the sheer amount of mining I do would go through the diamonds ridiculously fast. I'll normally take a few iron picks with me, and use the diamond one as my backup for when I break all of those.
When I found my first diamonds, I marveled at their unique natural architecture. I turned them at different angles in front of a light and observed the beautiful spectrums it created. It was like holding the very essence of Minecraftia in my hands.
Then I destroyed them in my crucible for vis and made a pork sandwich.
Back when my computer couldn't handle minecraft, but I had it bought, I played at the library. I went branch mining (this was my first time playing in 1.5, but I had watched so many videos of MC, I knew all about it) and found 3 diamonds. Made a pick, then mined for about 3 hours straight. THEN I came back with about 34 diamonds and nothing to do with them, as this was 1.5 and you could only make so much. =/ When the library was closing, I realized it was going to all be deleted when the computer was turned off. I didn't play MC again until I got a good computer of my own. :3
It was indev when I found them, I found them by falling into a pit...
I died, I only had a wood pick anyway... But as I looked at my game over screen I saw a vein of 5 exposed diamonds, So I loaded my last save and got an iron pick and MINED THE **** OUT OF THEM ****ERS.
There was actually 2 diamonds HIDING BEHIND THE 5.
...7 diamonds in my first vein, SQUEEEE!!
I made a pick and a sword and stashed the rest and BECAME QUEEN OF THE ISLAND.
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"Only a few find the way, Some don't recognize it when they do. Some don't ever want to..." ~Cheshire cat.
I screamed like a little girl and ran around doing amazing parkour in the cave until a skeleton knocked the sense out of me. And by knocked the sense out of me I mean knocked the sense out of me and ME into lava...
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This thread shall not die! I know CPR! Oh my god, I'm kissing a computer. -SwordStriker
I'm a lot more likely to use my diamond stuff now, though. I always use a diamond sword and I always carry a diamond pick - but I tend to use iron picks just because the sheer amount of mining I do would go through the diamonds ridiculously fast. I'll normally take a few iron picks with me, and use the diamond one as my backup for when I break all of those.
Then I destroyed them in my crucible for vis and made a pork sandwich.
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The following is true, the former is false.
I died, I only had a wood pick anyway... But as I looked at my game over screen I saw a vein of 5 exposed diamonds, So I loaded my last save and got an iron pick and MINED THE **** OUT OF THEM ****ERS.
There was actually 2 diamonds HIDING BEHIND THE 5.
...7 diamonds in my first vein, SQUEEEE!!
I made a pick and a sword and stashed the rest and BECAME QUEEN OF THE ISLAND.
only to find out I had no music discs
Nuff said.
And then I mined them with a stone pickaxe.
"WTF,D3Y D0NT DR0P JUST L41K G4WLDS"
I was really happy, and made a pickaxe, shovel and axe, I believe.