Insane Diamond Mining Method Revealed!

Not too shabby we’ll take them I’m gonna come out of here with ten nine bits all right hold on to you my sweet hello and welcome to my minecraft tutorial this is episode number 9 in my how to survive and thrive series and we are going to find some diamonds today my friends

We’re gonna go do some mining branch mining specifically deep down in the bowels of Minecraft earth and hopefully Foley and hopefully and hopefully we can find some diamonds what’s up buddy that that skeleton up there who really wants to shoot us but he can’t leave their

Shade so he wants to get closer but hey let’s thought let’s help him oh come on come on down here bout there we go whoa whoa oh you’re binding your binding yeah binding all right he’ll burn up nicely and that we can collect his bones and

His arrow and it will just dodge bob and weave watch out kellyco so we have a new calico cat here and I’ve come up with a name Kaliko cuz like colecovision I had a ColecoVision way back when back in the old it was dead days gone ColecoVision

Was an old game console so let’s go see what he left us Kaliko we got a color here yeah we’re gonna give you a different colored collar so I’m gonna bring calico honor a little mining expedition today yeah I’m excited about it too to find diamonds because Coleco

Here has an eye for diamonds but don’t Punk Shh funny joke right see that little Cola right there that’s diamond color so I figured that might help out alright anyway I wanted to show you our our farm we made this in the last episode and all the crops have

Grown up and I did ask in the comments which one of these two would pop first the melon or the pumpkin and it turned out to be the pumpkin so if you answered pumpkin you win a cookie pretty cool stuff oh yeah and I added a here too

We just have extra crops extra seeds and a smoker for cooking stuff and a nice little safe place to get out of the rain and keep our storage pretty awesome now let’s go get some diamonds let’s go Coleco all right guys let’s get ready to roll and go do some diamond mining but

First looks like we have some door-to-door salespeople dropping in holy smokes are out in force today what’d you guys sell in you know what I don’t have time for this I’m sorry just leave a brochure I’ll read it when they get back probably selling vacuum cleaners or something yeah so anyway

Let’s um yeah let’s roll out before we go though I want to change Colicchio’s caller color to the diamond color that will match her eye she has an eye for diamonds as I had mentioned so let’s make a light blue it’s probably about the closest we’re going to get the

Diamond color so we’re gonna turn on cornflower here into blue dye and we’re gonna need a white dye we can get that with bone meal from a bone and then turn it into white die like that put it in here combine it with the blue and huzzah

You get light blue and let’s see how that looks oh it’s perfect it matches her eye and it’s almost diamond color and love it looks lovely now let’s put all this stuff away and let’s make sure we have all the proper tools for mining for diamonds because we’re gonna go deep

Down underground and it’s very dangerous down there so we have all of our armor sword though we’re gonna need picks from mining obviously shovel for digging we’re not gonna need an axe down there most likely the bucket of water is very important in case we run into any lava

Because we’re gonna be down in the lowest levels of mine Krabs is gonna be a lot of lava down there so we can use our water bucket to convert it into obsidian so we can walk on it safely obviously we’re gonna need food because we’re gonna get hungry mining is hungry

Work and lots of torches to light up dark places and an extra bucket in case we want to take some lava and we have assortment of all the stuff here as well so we don’t really need much for branch mining just the bare necessities and now

It’s time to go so come on click Oh click who’s coming with us she can help us sniff out the diamond and also keep some creepers away if there are any creepers come on down so I dug this down here right and I found this um this hole it’s a natural hole

And there’s nothing better than a natural hole because as I have said many times in the past holes and minecraft are awesome because they always lead to adventure so we’re gonna go down here nice and safely we’re gonna make a stair alright we are now down at the bottom

I’m not gonna worry about the iron right now well oh no I was gonna say we’ll fetch the iron later hoo what sounds like there’s a cave down here I can hear bones so that’s a good that’s a good sign if we can find a cave we can just

Kind of wander around in the cave and you can locate diamonds that way but let’s see what level we’re at we’re at level 31 let me point out our coordinates so the XYZ right here marks your coordinates in the world so the one we’re mostly interested in is this one

Right here which which shows us our vertical position in the world we’re on level 31 right now so the lower we go the lower this goes and we’re looking for level 16 and lower that’s where the diamonds are so we’ve got to keep going we got to go lower lower

Lower lower so we’re just gonna mind right in here it doesn’t sound like there’s a cave but I’m not gonna even bother with that I’m just gonna go straight down cuz we’ve got to get down like I said to the lowest levels gotta be at least beneath level 16 oh there’s

A cave here it is alright well we found it we found it and there’s obviously a skeleton down here so we have to be cautious going down let’s close that so I can see what I’m doing and get my shield in because there is definitely a nasty down here could be

More than one nasty Wow oh there he is ha ha I see you in the dark kill Eko stay where you are don’t koneko to get shot got it alright alright it is safe come on down Coleco I’m gonna call your Cal for short let’s continue on down

Here if you do run into a natural cavern then you might as well take advantage of it because it is going down and you’ll save on time and energy and hick right so we’re down level 18 all right so that’s about as far as this goes a

Little 18 we’re super close to diamonds I can smell them so let’s let’s continue on down and we’re gonna make another stair right here until we get all the way down to bedrock well watch out watch out I’m swinging my pick Cal so I’m gonna show you the bedrock we don’t have

To go all the way down to the bedrock because normally when you do your branch mining you want to be around level 10 or 11 which is getting close oh listen redstone very very nice hey who taught that torch now was that you you silly

Cat um it wasn’t you okay my bed let’s grab that redstone that’s our first redstone yay so we can start making redstone ii things but this episode is not about redstone so I’m just gonna grab it and ignore it for the most part but yeah you get redstone dust from

Redstone and that can be used for powering contraptions and all kinds of cool stuff but right now we’re interested in diamonds what diamonds because we want to get into enchanting and making better armor and weapons and that sort of thing so hopefully we can find at least a handful today alright

We’re down on level 8 we’re getting super close to bedrock there we go there’s bedrock bedrock is indestructible in in survival mode you cannot break it that’s the end of the bottom of the world essentially if you do bust through this and say creative mode you’re gonna be in the void and

There’s just than nothing down there so once we reach the bottom we know that we can’t go any farther down so we’re gonna go back up to like I said two levels 10 11 ish she’s right about here so this is 10 this looks good and we are gonna start our branch mining

Okay first things first let us block this off because we’re gonna make a central branch of this of their branch mine or maybe this is just called the main tunnel if you will and we’re just gonna go this way and we’re gonna go two blocks high just so we can stand up at

The very least and we’ll go back maybe 20 25 or so so let’s see I wasn’t really counting 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 24 and 25 alright so we have our main tunnel it’s about 25 blocks long and now we’re gonna dig in on this side and make

A branch off the main drag here so that’s why we call it branch mining watch yourself Coleco I should probably have click Oh simple like I said she’s got a great eye for diamonds I kind of want her involved in this so our first branch is gonna go in we’re

Going to high and just one wide and we’re gonna go down we’re gonna go in for right so 1 2 3 and 4 and then here we’re gonna turn to the left and go for this way 1 2 3 4 and look for diamonds any diamonds no and I’m gonna do the

Same thing over here you know it was put a torch at her feet and then we can see a little better 1 2 3 and 4 and you’re looking for diamonds or gold or redstone or pretty much any ores that that you desire but obviously we’re here for

Diamonds so hopefully we’ll find some eventually but anyway so this is called a poke hole mine or feather mining or herringbone or whatever so we’re just gonna continue again we’re gonna go for one – hello diamonds wow that was quick that’s fantastic now I don’t wanna lose

Count so let’s just keep going three and four and it will put torch here and we’ll do our poke hole as well so one two three the whole point of this is to expose as many blocks as possible with these poke holes right so you can see

Diamonds in the walls and that’s what we got right here so I’m just gonna mine around this and see how many we have right this is a pretty good haul right here to get started sometimes you find one sometimes you find two in this case we’ve got it looks like we’re gonna get

At least six anyway and that’s a great start because there’s a few things we need right off the bat with they’re diamonds and that includes a new pick so we can be more efficient picking that we’re gonna need we’re gonna need a city in two and you can only get obsidian

With a diamond pick and we also want to make an enchantment table which we’ll probably do in a future episode I don’t think we’re gonna get to that today but that does require two diamonds thanks Cal you’re the best I’m so glad we brought Cal in this expedition because

Like I said she does have an eye for diamonds and it even matches look at that what is that like a birthmark it’s a birthmark okay she’s a little shy about that person but I think it’s beautiful it’s actually lovely and it works so we found six diamonds here with

The help of ColecoVision and we got to help go ahead and mined them and we can just use our regular pick right here so you’re ready ready for this I will do the honors stand back and here we go boom oh I got it I got it diamonds yay

And now we have a bunch of new recipes fantastic now some people wait until they have a fortune pic before they grab their diamonds because you can get a better you can get a better yield oh I can’t make the enchantment table right now because I don’t have obsidian so I

Can’t show you the recipe but yeah we can we can put eventually we can put enchantments on our tools weapons that’s one of the reasons we want these diamonds to make an enchantment table right away and there’s one in chairman called fortune and if you have Fortuna on a pickaxe and you

Mine diamonds you can potentially get more than just one from from the ore because right now it’s just a one-to-one ratio with a regular hey so right now we don’t really have much choice who don’t have fortunes though we’re just gonna have to grab what we got here and that

Is six diamonds six crazy diamonds shine on you crazy diamond so there we go six diamonds and check them out at a lovely they’re beautiful they match your eye so nicely Kelly go vision are you wait give those back okay I thought she was stuffing her pockets all right so uh

Yeah that is how you branch mine and we’re just gonna continue you can get up now go find some more use that special ColecoVision you got dairy cow and we’re gonna continue here and I’m gonna go in again 1 2 3 and 4 and then 4 to each

Side and see if we can see any more diamonds or anything else for that matter and this pick is about to pop let’s go switch it right now switch to our shovel and again this is called poke coal mining and I’m gonna go back maybe one year 25 was some more redstone

That’s nice we’ll take it and see if we can find any more diamonds here and I’m gonna show you another method of branch mining this one again is called the poke hole method where you can where you dig into the sides here and potentially see some morel along the sides the other

Mining is just a regular branch mine where you go for example you go in to again it’s a two by one we’re gonna go back maybe 20 just in a straight line they’re not gonna do any poke holes and that right there is 20 oh I got some

Flint Oh our first Flint in this series I just got some new recipes so now we’re just gonna go so this is like 20 right went 20 and let’s just go this way whew now we’re gonna go this way okay makes more sense so yeah we’re gonna go

Over one two three and four and reason being because now we’re gonna go in here basically skipping two blocks and I’m digging in we’re gonna go all the way back to the main tunnel the hole the reason being is that we’re exposing these two blocks in the center so this

One’s been exposed on this side and now we’re exposing this one on this side and obviously this way I’m gonna do the same thing eventually and go another four about here so these are basically just two by one tunnels with two blocks in between and we’re exposing as many bla hey diamonds

Hello Wow check it out get over here Cal look at that you like it just pushing me ready to go you want to get on it go ahead have a seat so let’s get a good picture huh selfie time I’ll let me get in there let me get in

There yep my fat head can’t get my fat head in there that’s good all right ready say diamonds got it okay I think I got it so we’re gonna go right over Cal don’t even move there girl we’re gonna jump right out over you so there you go

We’re gonna continue on a little two by one here all the way to the end we’re gonna end up back in the main tunnel and it will start another branch so we have six diamonds already so it could actually make more sense to leave these diamonds here for now and then come back

When we have a fortune pic and get more from these diamonds right so a lot of people do that I don’t tend to do that because you know what if I find diamonds I take them there’s plenty of time is out in the world we’ll find more I’m not

Looking for optimum performance in Minecraft it’s just not how I play usually you know when I have the enchanted pick with four tuned then I have the enchanted paper for tuned whatever that happens to be not too worried about it so I think we’re just going to go right ahead and take these

What do we got for one two three and four all right not too shabby not too shabby we’ll take them I’m gonna come out of here with ten nine bands all right hold on to you my sweet yay so that come on so that my friends is is branch mining

Pretty cool stuff and now I’m lost this way all right this way right so Cal is right and I think whoa whoa whoa easy Cal is in a frenzy now she just wants more and more diamonds so we’re gonna continue on here I just keep going and looking for more diamonds this

Really is kind of back-breaking boring work if you ask me yeah I mean it’s it’s efficient and you’ll find probably plenty of diamonds this way but it’s not really my preferred method of hunting diamonds I would much much rather just jump into a hole and or ravine or do

Some treasure hunting and find them that way one two and three right yes because this one we got messed up so we are exposing the two right so yeah this is again another standard branch mining method but I like finding them more naturally and organically frankly but

Anyway let’s have some snake and I think we are done here my picks just about popped we got ten diamonds total in a very short amount of time we’ve got some redstone here as well so pretty cool stuff I think we’re gonna call it quits right here for now folks that is branch

Mining in a nutshell and I don’t think Cal over there is quite done you’re not quite done are you Coleco you want – she wants to use more of that ColecoVision if I don’t know she’s ready to go all right you want to go show off these

Other cats don’t you yeah she does all right let’s go show the other cats what you can do cuz they can’t find diamonds they don’t have an eye for diamonds do they they do not oh look at her go look at Coleco go you just can’t wait to get in there

And rub it in their little noses come on Kelly go this is it’s your 15 minutes of fame you ready hey guys we’re back look what we got while you two is sitting here on your butt’s playing xbox we were playing colecovision down in the depths of Minecraft and look what look

Oakley co-founders with her super duper diamond ColecoVision pretty awesome right huh alright well I think we’re done here for now folks I think I rubbed it in enough we had 10 diamonds is pretty dang awesome for a first run and it didn’t take very long at all and we will we’ll

Come up with a play with these dives in the next episode most lately it was one of you rabbit before the one little llama snatches it up and makes a run for it so yeah I hope you enjoyed this episode and we shall see you next time have a good day bye bye