BEST STRATEGY to FIND DIAMONDS! | Minecraft Bedrock Guide 1.20

It’s been one episode since my last workplace accident let’s not have another one today oh I see you over there you can’t hide from me horse well look at this beautiful horse no no no no no no no no oh no Um that was supposed to be a joke uh whoops I didn’t mean for that it’s been zero episode since the last workplace accident and that’s why today we need to gear up here on the Bedrock guide it’s never a dull moment in order to gear up today I’m going to go diamond

Mining so hopefully we can replace this iron armor with a full set of diamond armor and tools I’ve got two chests sitting on my lawn and both of them have identical contents inside I have five pickaxes one shovel one sword four stacks of torches one stack of food and

One stack of birch planks doesn’t have to be Birch planks but that’s what I had available at the time so that’s what we’re gonna use one of these chests is going to be designated for caving and the other one is going to be designated for branch Mining and I am going to

Determine today whether Branch mining or caving will give us the most diamonds in a one hour session each I also have one water bucket and one crafting table that I’m going to take with me on both trips and because we’re probably going to be venturing far away from here so as not

To interfere with any caves we might have already explored over there I might take a bed with me as well so we can sleep through the night but that really won’t be part of the challenge so here we are the first cave as we get started

I’m going to point out some risks and rewards to both caving and Branch Mining and the first risk for caving happens to be falling in you’re gonna find a lot of deep caves like this one that open up from the surface and it’s super easy to fall into them especially if you’re me

Also you’re gonna find a lot of monsters like we’re saying oh why oh my oh my hello case in point these caves swarming with monsters it’s dark and there’s just plenty of room for all of these things to spawn in here okay there’s a witch there’s two witches great witches are

Super challenging because they have a ranged attack that poisons you just like that their splash potion of poison depletes your health over time until you only have one heart left and if you’re able to run away that’s not a big deal but if you’re surrounded by other

Monsters it could put you in a bad place quickly so we’re just gonna hide up here for a minute and hope nothing sneaks up behind us witches are the worst always and I mean always bring a water bucket with you because you can drop a water

Source on the ground and use it to push the monsters back and in the meantime we can light things up so that nothing else can spawn in while we manage the monsters that are already here and sometimes you just gotta know when to walk away even though they’re pinned

Up against the wall the the witch is just still throwing poison at me you just stay there I’m done with you aside from the obvious fall damage and monsters another risk you might run into when caving is running into a dead end dud of a cave like this one look there’s

More monsters down there but there’s nowhere to go I’ve already spent over five minutes in this cave and it’s time to move on oh look we found another cave with tons of monsters it’s just a spider and a creeper what what’s the Worst That Could Happen come here come here

Well that’s the worst that could happen Okay okay okay I think we’re getting somewhere one of the benefits or rewards of going caving is that you can sometimes find things that are not available anywhere else in the game like driftstone driftstone technically I think you can get from a Wandering

Trader but drip Stone caves you’re not gonna find those anywhere except for in the caves driftstone not only looks cool but it could be used in a variety of ways for example on a previous season High creeper on a previous season of the Bedrock guide I built a drip Stone a

Lava farm and we’re gonna have to do something like that again and the next reward actually is right here it seems kind of obvious but it’s still worth noting when you find a good cave you’re gonna find a decent amount of oars they’re easy to spot just by walking

Around so keep your eyes open and you’ll go home with a lot of good stuff okay okay okay okay allow me to fight this spider with the correct weapon not a bucket oh we found dungeon yes dungeons can spawn in one of a variety of mobs

And give you some loot chests and this is awesome that you can find these while caving technically you could find one of these while Branch mining as well but you’re typically going in a straight line and your visibility is limited to what’s right in front of you so you’re

Less likely to find them so if you want to find a dungeon go caving okay I don’t want to go in but I’m going to because another structure you can find is this thing the abandoned mine shaft a death trap of a maze that weaves all through

The underground and it’s so hard to keep track of where you are you can find diamonds in loot chests so it’s worth exploring That are really valuable as well but you can see the coordinates on this one it’s at level negative eight right here so it’s not very low in the world and so are diamond saturation is a lot lower so I’m not sure how much we’re actually

Going to find here but we’re here so I’m going to explore it oh no oh no oh no well another risk if you’re not careful you might find yourself unexpectedly back at World spawn nearly 2 000 blocks away from all of your gear that’s lying on

The ground I’ll have to come and face to face with another creeper in the world between the live stream and recording this video I think my player death count is up to seven now so basically I’m a professional if you’re a content creator like me you

Have video footage to go look back at and remember where your coordinates are if you’re not a content creator you probably haven’t recorded video footage so make sure you know where you were when you died otherwise all your stuff’s gone 2 000 blocks away I had to walk

Let’s not do that again the biggest risk of all is finding a single Diamond I’m Diamond caving to haven’t found a single one oh I found really great stuff today but that’s not the point of this video where are the Diamonds oh just as he thought there was no hope

There is hope for diamonds yes no no Diamond not plural singular one Diamond one hour of caving and we’ve found one Diamond I’ve got five minutes to find more please Minecraft don’t do this to me Minecraft did in fact do this to me after a wildly unsuccessful caving trip

Let’s see how we do with Branch mining for diamonds I gotta say the number to beat is gonna be really challenging two diamonds that’s all we need to find in one hour I think we could do that before we get started with the branch mine you might notice it looks a little bit

Different than the last time we were here I spent a couple hours on a live stream digging out a massive hole in the branch mine and then I spent a little bit of time off camera decorating it and it has turned out amazing look at this

Oh yes this looks like a great branch mine I’ve got a crane with no platform on it it’s supposed to have a platform with some materials but I haven’t finished that part yet got some controls to lift it up and down and my oh my that

Hole goes all the way down to bedrock I might have fallen down there a few times we’re fine but over here I’ve got my iron mine and it goes all the way down to Y level 16. and on the opposite side I’ve got the diamond mine which I don’t

Have dug out just yet we need to take care of that and in order to do so I need to dig this drop shoot all the way down to Y level negative 54. and while that other guy is over there digging out the diamond mine let’s read our comment

Of the day Eclipse with a bunch of numbers afterwards says I really like the pace at which you are working and I gotta agree with Eclipse I’m really happy with the pace of this series so far we’re not rushing anything but we’re also not dragging our feet it’s only

Episode five and we’re already going after diamonds with intentionality honestly it could have been super easy to just say you can find diamonds at y negative 54 in a passing statement in like episode 1 and fully gear up by the end of the first episode but if you’ve

Been paying attention to today’s video there’s actually a lot of valuable information to be found by going caving and by going Branch Mining and figuring out what you can find in each of those scenarios so yeah we’re gonna keep a good pace and along with keeping a good

Pace I’m really happy with the quality of content that’s coming out of these videos as well and I hope you are too if you’re enjoying the series just like eclipse make sure to leave a comment for me so while we’re Branch mining let’s talk about a few different risks and

Rewards just like we did in caving the first risk honestly that comes to mind is that breaking your tools now early game I’ve got a lot of iron tools I’m not really concerned about breaking them we can use them until they’re gone and it’s totally fine and we’ll get enough

Materials to replace what we’ve lost but while we’re actually in the mine the risk of running out of tools and having to go back up to the surface wasting more time that’s why I brought along with me a crafting table and some spare planks the planks can be converted into

Sticks and the sticks will help us replenish torches if and when we run out and any pickaxes that we break along the way if we need those as well hey look at that we’re only nine minutes into our Branch mining session and I’ve I’ve already broken another iron pick oh my

We’re burning through these things but let me dig around a little bit more I found one Diamond does the branch mine want to give me two diamonds please said please hey see when you say please good things happen we got two diamonds yes anymore I don’t think so I think

That’s it two diamonds in less than 10 minutes we’ve already beat caving I think it’s safe to say Branch mining wins this one but let’s going anyway I’m not sure that I’ve explained it yet but you’re probably probably asking the question why are you at level negative

54. I mentioned in the previous or mining video that diamonds actually have the highest saturation the further you go down in the world and the world goes all the way down to why level negative 64. so why are we 10 blocks above that well there’s a couple of reasons for

That if we go all the way down to Y level negative 64 we’re going to be competing with bedrock which is an unbreakable block in Minecraft unless you’ve found ways to cheat that and hack around it it’s just not feasible to go down that far to mine for diamonds and

Then as you go up a little bit farther above Bedrock you start running into lava pools at y level negative 54 whenever your branch mining you should run into lava pools with the lava at your feet so basically why level negative 54 is the most efficient and safest location for mining for diamonds

When you’re going through a branch mine so I was just saying that brand mining at negative 54 is pretty safe unless you happen to run into what I’ve just run into and so far I don’t hear any shrieking so I’m going to press on you can hear the sound effects and you can

Probably see the little sonic waves going across the screen we have run into a deep dark and I imagine probably an ancient city and this is the most dangerous place in Minecraft oh hello there’s some skull oh we’re getting close okay that’s the sound I didn’t want to

Hear we’ve made a Shrieker mad and so now I’ve got the darkness effect and we’re one step closer to summoning a warden which I am absolutely not planning to do today this is content for a future episode not the diamond binding episode but I’m gonna poke my head in

Here anyway I I’m pretty sure this is an ancient city oh yes yep we’ll come back here someday but it is not this day I’m gone I’m out of here I’m running away see ya wouldn’t want to be a okay look at this I’ve run into my first lava pool

And it’s everywhere the best thing you could do is just drop a water bucket so we use the water bucket during the caving portion to keep mobs away we use the water bucket during the branch mining portion to keep the lava away as long as you don’t place the water

Directly on the lava that will evaporate your water but rather you place it like on the Block right next to it the water will spread everywhere and just convert all of this lava into obsidian which is totally safe to walk on and useful for other things that we will get in another

Episode the other thing I like to do is just poke my head around if I do happen to find a cave I don’t venture too far from the branch because the point of Branch mining is to go Branch mining but if we run into a cave and I happen to

See a diamond nearby I’m absolutely gonna go grab that unfortunately I don’t see any here so back to the branch oh well well well one diamond oh two three three Diamonds oh that makes four oh yes are there any more not gonna get too greedy but maybe nah there’s no more

Four Diamonds is not bad that brings my grand total up to six diamonds which honestly we are just in time the durability on my last iron pickaxe is about to run out but I don’t want to finish mining yet I still have plenty of food I still have plenty of torches so

Oh what am I gonna do I’m gonna take my crafting table and my planks and make some sticks and with those sticks I’m gonna make the world’s first ever diamond pickaxe and this one is special I’m Gonna Keep it just like I did with my wooden tools and my iron tools and my

Stone tools we’re gonna keep this diamond pickaxe forever so as soon as the durability gets low enough that it starts becoming a little bit risky that it’s gonna break on the next hit we’re just gonna stop using it and I just mentioned durability let’s talk about

That for a second each different type of material when you create a tool has a different level of durability and basically what durability means is how many times you can use a particular tool before it breaks breaking a block like we are doing right now counts as one use

Unless it’s a block that breaks instantly hitting a mob like a cow or a zombie counts as two uses so let’s start thinking about the math on this and an iron tool such as our iron pickaxe that we used before the diamond pickaxe gives

The player a total of up to 250 uses so 250 blocks mined on one pick Diamond however this is where it gets really good oh speaking of we found more diamonds Diamond tools give the player up to 1561 uses that would take over six iron pickaxes before we break this single

Diamond pick if there’s any tip that I can give you in this video the second that you find three diamonds convert it to a diamond pickaxe and keep mining you’re gonna go a lot farther and hopefully find a lot more resources especially a lot more diamonds I have

Been mining with this same diamond pickaxe for just about a half an hour now and it’s getting to the point I feel like we should probably swap it out I’ve only got 3 greens left on my timer but I’m bottom craft a chest this is another really good tip

Tip in mind if if you happen to fill up your inventory drop a chest on the side of the branch mine and dump all of the extra building blocks that you don’t need right now and you can come back for them later rather than letting them

Despawn like I normally do do as I say not as I do hi skeleton bye skeleton I think that’s it 10 seconds left to go we’re gonna be fighting these mobs until the end and that completes my Branch mining trip now that I’m back from the branch Mining

And caving experience let me go ahead and do a quick a b comparison of what we got this is from caving one Diamond this is a complete failure if we’re just going off of diamonds alone which is kind of the point of this video but just to make myself feel

Better look we got a bunch of lapis and some gold and some Redstone coal a little bit of iron from the loot chest we got things like melon seeds pumpkin seeds this music disc these two golden apples those will come in handy we get a variety of other resources and most

Notably we actually had some of our original tools left over from the experience they didn’t get fully used that sword oh that got used a lot in comparison to Branch mining including the two Diamond Pickaxes that I crafted we came away with 29 diamonds and a whole bunch of redstone just a little

Bit of iron and some lapis and some gold none of the original pickaxes that I crafted survived they’re all gone but look at that sword in comparison to the sword from caving Branch mining is the safest way to go if you’re looking to avoid monsters so now I’m gonna take my

Pickaxe and the Diamonds that I got from both trips today and the Diamonds that I’ve got stored up from some off-camera stuff that I did before this episode I want to see what all I can craft of course we’re gonna get a full set of diamond armor to replace the iron oh yes

I look good in blue I’ve already got a pretty fresh pickaxe so I’m not gonna craft another one of those just yet but let’s get a shovel and an ax and a diamond sword and look at that I got 13 left over I’m so excited we’re so far

Into the game now we are past all the junky stone tools the mediocre iron tools and onto diamond tools but hey if episode or if you’ve got any tips or tricks to share get to like this video And subscribe if you’re new and don’t go anywhere because there’s more Bedrock guide content on

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