Did Diamond Ore Distribution Change in Minecraft 1.17? [Minecraft Myth Busting 132]

Hello everyone and welcome to an impromptu episode of myth busting as i have heard a rumor that mining for diamonds in 1.17 is better if you do it down at y level 5. and i want to know if this is true or not now of course in minecraft 1.18 there

Are big changes to the underground of the world which is being extended down below y0 and of course this will change the entire game when it comes to mining for diamonds and i will do that research in the future and find out the best level to branch mine for them

But obviously these changes aren’t actually in 1.17 however the introduction of deep slate and deep slate ores may have actually changed the distribution of diamonds so my plan here is just to run a quick test and then compare the data that we get from data i have on diamond mining from years ago

And we’ll compare them side by side and see if anything has appeared to have changed so the big question is how are we going to achieve this as you can see over here i have created a big open area for our experiment and the only blocks that are left inside

Of them are diamond ore and the diamond deep slate ore now if you watch my snapshot videos on this channel you’re probably going to have a moment of deja vu as we’ve done something like this before however plagiarist has now updated and modified the remove pack which removes a large amount of blocks

Around me to take everything out of the world except diamond ore and diamond deep slate or so as we go across here we’re removing all the blocks and you can see that the diamonds down there are getting left behind and you know how it is telling the minecraft game to

Remove an extraordinary amount of blocks over and over again is pretty taxing so it takes a fair bit of time to clear out all of this right here however i want to make this test as as good as i can be by getting a large sample size so i’m going to spend a

Little bit of time here removing some more okay now i’m struggling to see the other side of the border i think we’re good and for this next part we’re going to use a mod known as world edit which can analyze parts of the world and tell us how many

Blocks are inside of it so i’ve come down here to y17 which is above where diamond spawn and i’ve aligned myself so that we’re not going to select any of this stuff on either of these sides then what i do is type slash pause one and this creates a position

Where i currently am and then over here we do a little bit of the same thing again make sure i’m not selecting other blocks and set position two now when i use this command it’s going to tell us the distribution of all the blocks and what we should see

Is a hundred percent of it is air and that’s because we’re at y17 am now looking directly downwards and i’m going to shift the selection we just made in that direction by one block so now we’re selecting y16 and when we run the distribution we will now see that in this

Large area there is a total of 10 diamond ore so i go down by one block again and then i run the distribution and then we see that for the next level there is 65 diamond door and one deep slate diamond door and so now i’m going to go through all of these

Layers one by one and tally up the results okay job done and just to confirm that i had actually counted everything correctly i shifted down to the very bottom of the world where you can see it’s 100 air and so here are the tallied up results we have the y level on this

Side and over here we have all of the diamond ore amounts and clearly there is a large number of them clustered around this area so i went back to my minecraft tutorials playlist in search of this video on mining diamonds and in there i found

This graph which i will point out has a very large sample size of way bigger than what we have in this video and here is the result of our test which has again a lower sample size but clearly around y5 there are way more diamonds and here is your side by

Side comparison actually had to flip the numbers around because i’d ordered them incorrectly but yeah something is clearly different right so does this mean that branch mining at y level five is the best way to go well there is one more thing to be considered the player

Is actually two blocks high and not only that when you create a branch mine like this you are also going to expose the blocks around you so that means that whatever height that you pick you’re also looking at different heights as well these two values right here in the

Middle would have a weight of free because you’d always be exposing three blocks at that level as you went across and then the ones above and below would only have a weight of one so back here in the spreadsheet i’ve created a score or a rating for what

Would happen if we were mining at y15 and so i’ve created this formula where we add the block above our heads the block below our head and then the ones we mine at where we expose free on that layer we’re adding those together and then multiplying that by three so

Now what i can also do is just drag this formula down and it will do it for all of these different levels and then this right here is like a score that represents the highest value that you could be mining at and it appears to be y6 and now you can

See when we put these side by side that things tend to get smoothed out a little bit because you’re not just going to be looking at one layer this also kind of confirms that y6 and 5 seems to be the good spot to get diamonds now so i

Used to mine for my diamonds at y level 11 which has a score of 852 and at y6 should now get 1154 and that is a percentage change of 35 which is quite a big deal so it would seem that mining at y6 is the way to go

So you can take my data and make your own conclusions about what it means i want to leave you with two thoughts though one is that mining at y5 and y6 means you’re going to encounter lava lakes more frequently of course you can dig around them but you might get caught off guard

On occasion and the other thought is sample size some of you might argue that this is not enough i personally think it shows that there is definitely something different and i think it would be a really good idea to do this test on a larger scale so if

Any of you do happen to do that you can always reach out to me on twitter so there you go i hope you enjoyed this impromptu episode of myth busting if you haven’t seen the series before check out the playlist linked below and leave a like while you’re down there if you enjoyed

The video also let me know what you think of this change should it be changed back should we keep this is it a bug let me know your thoughts in the comments down below anyway that’s it bye