Diamonds!

Tab: MinecraftDifficulty: Easy

Quick answer: Acquire diamonds

Previous advancement: Isn't It Iron Pick?

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.

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