Diamonds!

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Tree path: Minecraft › Stone Age › Getting an Upgrade › Acquire Hardware › Isn't It Iron Pick? › Diamonds! (advancements are independent: they can be completed in any order; the tree only guides progression)

Tree parent: Isn't It Iron Pick?

Advancements are exclusive to Java Edition. The Bedrock Edition equivalent is achievements, which have different objectives.

How to get Diamonds!

1. Go deep: diamond ore generates in the deepslate layers, and the sweet spot is Y=-59, just above the bedrock floor.
2. Bring an iron pickaxe or better. Stone and wood break the ore without dropping anything.
3. Branch mine at Y=-59 or explore the huge caves that open down there, and mine the diamond ore you find.
4. Pick the diamonds up: the moment one sits in your inventory, the advancement completes.

Tips

A Fortune III pickaxe more than doubles the yield of each ore, so enchant before mining a big vein. Diamonds also show up in chests in villages, shipwrecks, buried treasure, bastion remnants and end cities, and a water bucket is essential insurance against the lava lakes at that depth.

Advancements this unlocks

• Cover Me with Diamonds
• Enchanter

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