How to Find Diamonds! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide (1.18 Tutorial Let’s Play) [S2 Ep.7]

Hello everyone my name is pixelriffs and welcome back to the minecraft survival guide i hope you’re all having a good day in today’s episode we’re gonna step outside of our front door but not before i’ve made myself a replacement shovel because this thing is on its last legs

We need a lot more iron and so we are going to go caving today but that’s not the only thing we’re going to go caving for because i have pledged that today we are going to find our first diamonds which might be a bit of a tall order but

I think we’re going to make it happen today because i think it’s finally time to move away from just relying on iron tools and get something that’s going to set us up for the foreseeable future and for that we’re going to return to our spawn beach and we’re gonna head this

Way which i believe is west i’m trying to get the feel of navigating it by the world but at least we have our starter house to come back to and it’s nice and easy to spot over there so if we do get lost we should hopefully stand a chance

Of returning i have not been out across this ocean biome which is a lovely kelp fill ocean that has a couple of nice little drop-offs here and there we’re going to row across this kind of in a diagonal direction and see what’s on the other side i can already see some more

Forests a couple of open plains biomes and a couple of beaches on the opposite side that looks set to welcome us as we approach there’s a bit of dark oak over here as well and yeah it looks like this entire thing is kind of encircled by

Land which should be a kind of nice environment to build something a little bit bigger later on no real surprises in here though i think the only shipwreck i was able to spot had ended up on land back on the beach that we explored the other day so hopefully as we make land

On the other side we should find ourselves some kind of cave environment and it looks like we can at least start with a ravine we’re looking for iron first and foremost and then we’re looking for a place that we can hop down into the lower regions of the world and

It looks like there’s a nice easy waterfall to get us down here so i’m gonna hop right into that and hopefully somewhere down here at the bottom of this ravine we should find some iron there is at the very least a little bit of copper so we can potentially grab

That and bring it with us in fact there’s quite a lot of copper down here not quite what i was expecting i might as well grab enough cobblestone that i can make a furnace while i’m out here as well because we’ll need to smelt up some

Of this especially if we do find some iron but alas i’m not seeing a great deal of iron right now just a little bit of coal and some copper in fact i’m gonna pillar up and get that coal if we can because chances are we all need it

If we find a cave that goes further down into the world let’s explore some of the winding cracks that have intersected with this ravine yep that’s looking promising but i don’t want to drop down there quite yet let’s double back and check out this little cave entrance that

Was over here on the side of the rock i spotted that from over there yeah this looks like a little bit more of a gentle slope down into the caves in both directions so let’s head over here to our left ignoring the copper as we go because we will be getting plenty of

That in due course and yes once again it looks like there is a crack that leads down further into the world i’m still not seeing a great deal of iron though so hopefully as we progress further down in the world we’ll find a bit more of that and in the

Meantime we’ll grab every piece of coal we can find there we go there’s a little bit of iron down here and in fact this might be where we start relying on coordinates a little bit to see where exactly we are on the y axis because if

We take a look right now we’re at y 36 so we’re about halfway from sea level to zero maybe still a little bit higher but this is where you start seeing iron in abundance and once we get down to why 16 that should be the level at which iron

Is most prominent in the lower regions of the world so hopefully we’ll start to encounter a bit more iron ore as we dig down here and we’ll follow this vein of iron down here because it looks like we’ve encountered another lush cave or perhaps even an extension of the lush

Cave environment that we raided as part of our first trip into the dark oak forest and it seems like to the left-hand side over here this actually opens out into a much wider cavern so i’m gonna go right first just so we have a slightly thinner passage to go down

And so we run the risk of running into fewer mobs and it seems like this region of the world is already dipping into the deep slate layers and that’s very very good news in front of us we have some lapis or we’re going to mine that up and

That will give us some precious pieces of lapis lazuli or lapis lazuli depending on how you want to pronounce that lapis is very important to the game it’s part of the enchanting system by which we’ll be able to imbue our tools with a few extra powers and it also

Breaks down into blue dye if you put it in the crafting interface although there are also flowers that do that so i’m thinking i’m gonna save that for a little bit of enchanting later on hopping up into this little water pool that’s part of the lush cave it looks

Like the cave heads back upwards so you know what we’re going to double back and we’re going to investigate that larger cabin we saw just a second ago now we can use a water bucket to get down here if we want to i might place it

On this block here and it’s going to break a couple of the plants in the area but we can collect the water source as we go and just ride the water down and that way we can make a safe descent in this cave without having to worry about

Taking full damage and now the waters have receded we can take a look and this cave is absolutely beautiful i love these environments so much the lush caves are gorgeous and already i’m starting to see a few more precious materials popping up in the walls this is our first introduction of deep slate

Ores which were added in minecraft 1.17 there’s an axolotl there as well which are native to these lush caves we’re going to grab the iron from these oars and they work pretty much the same as the stone oars that you see further up in the world but deep slate is a little

Bit harder to mine so that means these ores are going to take a little bit longer to get hold of and chances are the mobs could sneak up on us while we do that so we need to keep our wits about us in this environment though in

This lush cave i think we are pretty safe and we’re going to ignore the axolotl playing in the water for now because i want to take things a little bit slowly when it comes to some of the other mobs in the world but i’m sure we

Will come back here if we want to befriend an axolotl in the near future we are here for resources though we are here for caving and one of the things i’ve noticed is that there is a redstone ore right here it’s deep slate redstone and there’s only a little bit of it but

Once we get down to these levels of the world you’ll also start finding things like redstone and even diamonds if we’re lucky once again i’m going to explore upwards in the cave first i always like to make sure that my back is covered before heading downwards once again just

So any mobs that pop up are potentially limited from spawning if we put some torches around here we shouldn’t have to worry about any creepers creeping up on us and once again there’s a little bit more coal and a little bit more iron that i’m going to grab before i make my

Way further down into the caves okay that little alcove is all mined out i’m going to mine this iron as well quickly and i think before we move on we’re going to smelt some of it so that i have easy access to another iron pickaxe and maybe a couple more iron reserves in

Case we need them for anything else so we’ll quickly set up a new furnace here we’re going to smelt as much of this iron as we care to because we’ve already got some ironing it’s in the inventory they’ll just stack with those and while that’s smelting i’m gonna snack on a

Cooked pork chop luckily i brought a bunch of bread with me from our wheat fields so i’ll have plenty of that to eat and we’ll take a look a little further down into this cave but taking note of where the furnace and the crafting table are so that we know where

To find those later there is a little bit more iron up here in the walls which i’m going to ignore for now because we have enough of it smelting over there a bit of deep slate copper which is one of my favorite blocks actually it always

Looks really nice and as we descend into the world this lush cave opens out into a much more sprawling cavern and i think it is this kind of environment where we can expect to find our first diamonds we’re also finding some of our first gold there are some deep slate gold up

Here let’s see if we can peel up and mine that really quick that’s going to drop some raw gold in much the same way that raw iron drops we’ll need to smelt that in a furnace to get an ingot of gold it looks like there’s a nice tidy

Vein of it here though so we’re gonna grab as much of that as we can might as well take the iron while we’re here we always need a lot of iron in the early stages of the world so it makes sense to grab a little bit of it as we go and

Before we set foot into this cabin i’m gonna quickly run around while there aren’t too many mobs spawning and we’re going to light the area up i can see a skeleton patrolling over there so i’m going to step back a little way make sure there are a couple of torches

Around the entrance here so that we don’t encounter mobs as soon as we make our way back through and we’re going to run back to the furnace so we can pick up the iron i had smelting now i’ve run back to the furnace and i can hear a

Slime somewhere around here and i’m wondering where that is the spore blossom particles floating through the air are kind of misleading me because sometimes if there is a slime in the area it will actually leave some dripping green particles if you’re standing underneath the block i think

The slime is underneath us right now and yes i was right there it is down here in what looks like another offshoot of the lush cave so we’re going to very quickly hop down here so that we can deal with this slime honestly a slime is worth investigating whenever you hear one

Because slime is quite a rare thing to find and it’s quite a rare resource if you’re able to gather some slime balls from a slime like this so we’re going to have our shield at the ready in case we take a couple of hits we’re going to

Swipe at the slime when it’s not jumping at us and then once it breaks down into these smaller slimes we can dispatch those and we’ll get hold of some slime balls from which we got four from those little divided up slimes slimes have kind of three stages that was a large

Slime we ended up breaking it down into some medium slimes and then the small slimes are the ones that actually get killed for experience and slime balls and over here on this side of the cave i’ve spotted something very interesting it looks like there is an abandoned mine

Shaft down here which could be really cool to explore in the next episode but for right now i’m going to ignore that because i still want to go and explore the cave that we saw originally i don’t want to get too sidetracked and abandoned mine shafts have some of their

Own unique things that could be a little dangerous for us if we’re not prepared for them so i’m going to pick up the rest of the iron that i had smelting here in the furnace i’m probably going to hold off on making myself another pickaxe for now but we might need to

Make one as we explore this cave let’s go back to that large cavern and take a look at what we can find over there and you’ll have to excuse me if my camera jerks around a little bit while we’re exploring here because i need to keep my

Head on a swivel a little bit that is one of the things one of the habits i have developed to stop myself getting snuck up on by creepers since they don’t really make much noise aside from very quiet footsteps it is very easy to have a creeper sneak up behind you and blow

You up in a cave like this so i’m trying to keep my wits about me and that might lead to me making some sudden moves so sorry about that it’s just a force of habit at this point now just over there on the wall i’ve spotted our first

Diamonds and this is typically where you’re going to be finding your first diamonds in this most recent minecraft update we’ve got a couple of mobs to fight before we get there though a couple of spiders and zombies which are just routine encounters at this point we

Don’t need to worry too much about them and i’m going to light my way over to these diamonds so we don’t get too much stuff sneaking up on us while we mine them diamonds are found more commonly in the lower regions of the world and right

Now here in this deep slate cavern the lower we go the more chance we have of finding diamonds but there we go we’ve mined our first diamond of the minecraft survival guide and check it out if we mine into the wall a little bit more we find a couple more diamond ore nestling

In the walls whenever you find diamonds it’s quite important to mine out the blocks around them if you have time simply so that you can uncover any veins of diamond that were lurking further into the walls that were just covered up by a block at a diagonal and that means

We’ve got our first three diamonds of the series i’m gonna pop those down into a crafting table and we are going to make our first diamond pickaxe that comes just in time to potentially replace the iron pickaxe although i might wear this one out because there is

Plenty of stuff we can still mine with it make sure you mine diamonds with an iron pickaxe though because without an iron pickaxe the diamond ore will simply break the iron pickaxe is the only thing strong enough to extract those diamonds until you get yourself a diamond pickaxe

Or even a netherrite pickaxe later but we’ll get onto netherright in a future episode now this enormous cavern branches off into a variety of directions and i’m keeping an eye on the upper reaches of the cavern because as you can see up there just to the left of

Our crosshair a creeper is waiting to find a player to drop down onto and i find that any environments like this you kind of need to watch your back a little bit and watch the room above you just in case a creeper drops down on you from

Above if a creeper gets the drop on you it can explode without you really having time to react so it’s often a good idea to keep an eye on those dark spaces while you’re navigating a cavern like this we have already run out of torches though and it looks like i’ll need to

Make a few more thanks to the coal that i have brought with me because these areas are huge and they do need lighting up especially if we want to spot all of the resources that are tucked away into the ceiling here the problem with this cabin layer though is that coal does not

Generate this far down so a lot of the time you will either want to bring a lot of coal with you or bring some logs that you can turn into charcoal using a furnace even bring some trees with you that you can grow in order to make some

More logs that you can turn into some coal just so you can make some more torches basically once you get this far down in the world it is all about preparation and in some cases you might want to stick to lighter environments like lush caves where the glowberries

Will do the illumination for you and you can just worry about claiming the resources you’ll also find there is a greater chance of lava the further down into the world that you go and lava can be a double-edged sword obviously it’s lighting up the environment with a nice

Warm glow around here but you need to be careful not to stumble into the lava because you’re going to take a lot of damage and potentially die not to mention lava is a destructive force if i throw a couple of things in there those items are gone for good so it’s

Important to make sure you don’t do that with anything you don’t need in this case the zombie flesh is something i’m going to throw away for an example but i might even save some of that for later because there is going to be stuff we can do with zombie flesh further down

The line a couple more creeper encounters in this neighboring cave and at this point i’m not really exploring the caves in a super systematic way these cave environments get very organic and winding and that’s the way i prefer to explore but i’m always leaving torches

Behind me as i go so i’m not going to double back and explore the same area twice we have a little bit more redstone ore that i’ll gather while i’m here and it looks like this might be the last few blocks we mine with our iron pickaxe

Redstone dust is going to be really useful to us later on because redstone is effectively like electrical wiring in minecraft it’s the thing that allows us to power mechanisms and make circuits and that kind of thing and for right now since we’re getting a lot of it in our

Inventory we could use a crafting table to compact it down into entire blocks well that’s not going to save us any inventory space right now once we start to get multiple stacks of redstone dust that will definitely start to save us some space and we might consider doing

That with things like copper gold lapis and a raw iron once we start to acquire a little bit more of that there goes our iron pickaxe it’s time to switch to the diamond one and this cave goes winding on into the depths even more redstone ore here in the walls and

A couple of tight spaces to squeeze through but if we cover every inch of this cave then we can be guaranteed that we’ll have got the most resources we can out of it once you have a more durable pickaxe like this diamond pickaxe which has over 1500 durability it’s about six

Times the amount of durability that an iron pickaxe has you might also want to consider starting a branch mine once we get down into the lower levels of the world digging into the wall and branching out in different directions uncovering some blocks that aren’t part

Of a cave can be an effective way of getting resources and we’ll cover branch mining in more detail a little bit later on for now though i’m going to stick to caving because a lot of the time covering a wider area through caving is going to be an effective way of finding

The resources we’re looking for the advantage to branch mining though is that it’s a little bit safer because if you’re digging the tunnels yourself you don’t have to worry as much about monsters spawning in them whatever strategy you choose the most important thing is to make sure you have torches

To light your way and if we hop down into here there’s another little offshoot of this cave that will take us further down into the world through this patch of tough which is a rock all around us that doesn’t have much in the way of interesting properties but can be

Kind of nice to build with there’s a little bit of lava lighting the end of the cabin here but i think we might have come back around to a lava flow i saw a little bit earlier and for right now we can kind of think of the supply of

Torches as like a timer on our caving expedition here once we have run out of torches that’ll be it we’ll have to make our way back up to the surface or at least to the layers of the world which generate coal so that we can grab a

Little bit more and before that happens i would like to acquire a few more diamonds so i’m going to be following those stretches of the cave which go lower down into the world once we end up in the layers of the world that are completely surrounded by deep slate we

Are in the negative coordinates on the y-axis if we dig down into the floor a little bit from the bottom of that cave which seemed to be at about y negative 50. we’re still going to find a few resources buried here in the earth in fact this might be the region at which

You have the most chance of finding diamonds statistically speaking we’re encountering a bit of gold and redstone oil here but as we go down a little bit further we’re going to start encountering blocks we cannot mine right here that is bedrock and no amount of

Mining with any type of tool is going to break this easily in fact i believe bedrock can be broken over time but it takes a matter of days mining in order to break one so it’s not the kind of thing that we are supposed to break in survival minecraft and chances are since

That was last done it’s been made even more invulnerable but while we’re not supposed to break bedrock hold that thought we may end up coming back to that in a future episode of the series coming back up to this waterfall i have just mysteriously picked up some glow

Ink so that means a glow squid must have spawned down here somewhere not to worry but at least we’ve got that in our inventory now so that we can oh yep there’s a little bit more lying on the ground here maybe we can do something with that a little later as well i’m

Hearing another slime that spawned over here and i can’t help myself i kind of need to go and attack this slime because frankly slimes are rare enough that it’s going to be worth killing these while they’re here and this one’s divided into four oh my goodness this so much opportunity for slimeballs once

Slimes get down to their smallest stage though they can’t actually hurt you but with our sword sweep attack we can attack a whole bunch of them at once which leaves us carrying a whole lot of slime balls actually that’s 19 not bad we have a whole heap of redstone in our

Inventory now and it looks like that could do with condensing down into blocks perfect it came to a multiple of nine which means they could all stack into one inventory space and there’s no leftover redstone dust also though it has been exploring this little offshoot of the cave i think we’re gonna have

More luck with diamonds if we go back out to that broader cavern layer and so i’m going to try and follow the torches on the right to make my way out of here and there we go the entrance was right there we can make our way through the

Rest of this level and hopefully encounter some diamonds as we do when it comes to looking for diamonds specifically in the early days i think open cave environments like this are going to provide your best shot because it is the most amount of exposed blocks

You’ll be able to see and so the sheer surface area out here is probably what’s going to mean the diamonds generate exposed to the open air it looks like we have a zombified villager over here as well and this is just basically a regular zombie for now we’re not going

To be able to do much with it although in future we might end up curing some zombie villagers so that we can start trading with real villagers and it looks like at the end of this cavern by the waterfall there we’ve spotted our second vein of diamonds there is actually a

Little cave below us which we might want to explore and i’m going to light up this shelf of rock here a little better so we don’t end up with other mobs spawning up there let’s grab these diamonds though we’ve got one we’ve got two we don’t even have space for them in

Our inventory right now but i can chuck out the rotten flesh let’s quickly mine around here just to make sure there aren’t any other diamonds hiding behind these other blocks no diagonal veins today doesn’t look like it oh well we got what we came for we have a diamond pickaxe and we

Have two extra diamonds because i think in an upcoming episode we are going to look at enchanting and i think getting the resources for that now is going to be pretty much ideal so we can hop down into this cavern space and see what else is down here i was lured down

Here by the gold ore and blocking the way in this little cave almost indistinguishable from the rock around it we have a patch of smooth basalt and this is going to be very special because this will open out into a geode let’s break the blocks here very carefully though because geodes are

Hollow and dark environments a lot of the time and it seems like mobs could be hiding in here if we aren’t very very careful nope looks like we’re in the clear okay and there’s some diamonds right there as well fantastic well let’s take a look at this because this is an

Amethyst geode an environment filled with crystals and blocks of amethyst and calcite and smooth basalt around the outside if you spot a block that has a slightly different texture as you are caving then chances are you might have stumbled upon a geode this environment is full of beautiful blocks that make a

Lovely tinkling sound as you walk around on them and crystals that once we find the largest of them we can break down for amethyst shards which i might actually chuck out maybe some of the gunpowder or the spider eyes or something like that so i can pick up

Some of these shards we’ll talk about what we’re going to do with those a little bit later for now we’re going to grab the diamonds that i saw in the walls there are only a couple more here but that has got us to 25 levels on my

Xp bar and we have four diamonds to take home and digging around proved even more fruitful because there is one more diamond door hiding in the wall there looks like that’ll probably be it for us though so we have five diamonds to return home with and i think that’s

Probably going to do for now while i would love to stick around and push our luck and see how many more diamonds we could get i think there is a way we can spend our time a little bit more wisely and i’m going to throw out the iron

Shovel here the old iron shovel because i’ve got another one on me and we can pick up some of the blocks from the geode here we’re going to bring home the amethyst the calcite and the smooth basalt along with the amethyst shards and we’re going to make our way out of

This cave but on the way we’re going to be looking around for larger patches of lava you will occasionally find these lava falls flowing down into caves and if we pour a bucket of water on the flowing lava wherever the water and the lava touch they will start to produce

Cobblestone but in much the same way as water lava has source blocks and if i dump my bucket of water in a hole in the ground here i can actually collect the source of the lava for both an advancement and also a bucket of lava that i can place anywhere i want to

Where i’m going to place it right now though is next to the water i just put down because it turns it into obsidian a lava source will turn into obsidian on contact with water and obsidian is a material that we can only break with a diamond pickaxe or

Better the better diamond pickaxe being a netherite pickaxe once the obsidian breaks it drops as an item we can collect it if i throw out something from my inventory are we gonna throw out the glowberries i don’t really want to but i do have some already and we’re going to

Get the ice bucket challenge advancement for picking up our first block of obsidian in order to make an enchanting table which is probably the next step in our progression once we’ve found some diamonds we’re going to need four blocks of obsidian so we will either need to

Find four more lava sources or three more lava sources since we’ve already got one block of obsidian or we’ll need to find a lava lake which can occur down here and will often provide a pretty hefty amount of lava even though our hunt for diamonds is over i’m still

Going to be gathering a bunch of the precious resources as i find them in this cave because having an excess supply of lapis is always a really good idea in the early days we can condense that down into blocks of lapis if we start to get a little bit too much of it

And who knows if we will return to this cave or if we’ll find a completely different cave to explore next time or even explore this same cave in different directions because there are lush caves further that way that look like they promise a lot more resources as well as

A lot more mobs i can see another lava flow in the distance here though so i’m going to run towards that and see if we can steal the lava source as a block of obsidian looks like it’s coming out from the rock here yes there we go that’s

Another block of obsidian to add to our collection and looking at the amount of zombies that are running towards me including this baby zombie i think we’d better make a hasty retreat from this cave and go and find lava somewhere a little bit safer yep there are lots of

Creepers around here as well i really don’t fancy it i think we need to return to our entrance the lush cave over here and there there is the glow squid that we ended up collecting some glow ink from because unfortunately these things will find themselves getting beached in

These caves where they’ve generated in a waterfall and they flow down into here where they end up suffocating on dry land so we can take advantage of that by grabbing the glow ink but there’s not a whole lot else we can do for them unfortunately

Here we are back in the lush cave that we found our entrance in if i switch on the coordinates right now you can see we are at negative two on the y-axis and that is where the stone layers of the world start blending down into the darker more cavernous deep slate layers

Of the world so chances are once you find yourself seeing the join between these two and seeing the deep slate start to take over below that is going to be your best chance of finding diamonds our final challenge here is to find our way out of the cave and i think

It looks like judging by where i left the torches we need to get back up there so i’m going to peel her up using some of the cobblestone that we’ve gathered and we can hop our way out through this officia in the earth following the torches on our way back until we make

Our way to the surface oh and it’s nice to see the sky again mission accomplished mostly we do still need to get hold of a couple more blocks of lava but like i said i think i know where i can find them we can pop down our boat

And go rowing across the ocean where it’s nice and easy to spot our starter house in the distance and looking out from our porch as the sun sets i can see two sources of lava that i’m going to turn into obsidian i have had my eye on

These for a little while they just look so out of place over here and so i think it’s probably for the best if we get rid of them and make the area feel a little bit more natural without these giant lava sources spilling lava out from the

Wall getting to them is going to be a little bit risky because of course we don’t want to fall in the lava but we’ll keep a bucket of water handy i should have really dropped off some of these resources at home but never mind that

Now we’re going to get up onto the wall of this hill we’re going to bridge over to them very carefully i’m going to break out the block above and we’re going to place the bucket of water right there pick it up right away and the lava source has been turned into

Obsidian ready for us to collect we’ll do the same thing on this side here turning that one into obsidian as well the lava will harmlessly flow away and disappear and it leaves behind a little ridge of stone we’ll explore more of the interactions between lava and water later on in the series because

Lava can generate stone cobblestone and obsidian so it’s a really interesting resource when combined with water and now we’ve got the four obsidian we need and there is one more ingredient we will need to complete our enchanting table but that’s something we’ll deal with another time potentially in the next

Episode because i think after a successful caving trip that’s going to be it for this episode of the minecraft survival guide folks i do hope you’ve enjoyed going caving with me and good luck if you head out there into the caves yourself thanks again for watching my name has been pixel riffs don’t

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