How To Find Diamonds in Minecraft 1.20! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide ▫ Tutorial Let’s Play [S3 Ep.6]

Hello everyone my name is pixel riffs and welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide I hope you’re all having a good day I need to craft some new tools especially since today the first thing we’re going to do is go mining looking for diamonds so I’m going to

Craft a fresh one of basically every tool we have then I’m going to grab the arrows we have in here three string and any feathers and Flint I’ve been able to gather feathers will drop when a chicken is killed and Flint can often be found by mining gravel so we’re going to

Combine those with some sticks in our crafting interface to make a few more arrows because if we’re going caving I would like to have a bow the bow is crafted with three sticks and three string very simple recipe we’re going to put that here next to the kind of combat

Section in my Hotbar but bear in mind right now we have very limited ammunition so we’re going to try and use that sparingly we’re going to move our furnaces inside the house we’ll put those in this corner and we’ll get them started on cooking up the food I’ve

Crafted one extra iron pickaxe since we’re going to be doing a lot of digging today and with food in our hands and a fresh bucket of water we’re gonna head back to that cave and if we want more food and ammunition we can maybe kill some chickens as we go it’s worth

Remembering that skeletons will also drop arrows sometimes and that one even dropped a half broken bow in fact that Bow’s got some decent durability left on it to use a bow you hold down the right click button and draw the arrow back then let it fly since our ammo is

Limited I’m going to finish this zombie off with the sword but Bose can be a pretty powerful thing anyway today we are setting our sights a little lower in the cave because we are hoping to find diamonds and diamonds can be most commonly found in the lower layers of

The world as usual I’m going to be checking for other precious resources as I go and covering my back by planting torches around so mobs cannot spawn behind me but I’m not planning on picking up every vein of resources that I see because we need to travel a little

Deeper further down in these cave systems you’ll see the Natural Stone being replaced with this block here this is deep slate and that indicates that you’re getting below the y coordinate of zero in the world and into the negative layers this skeleton is making it kind

Of hard for me to jump down here safely so I think what I’m going to do is Mark on the wall with a couple of torches vertically indicating that this is my exit then I’m gonna jump into this water stream and be ready to attack anything that comes near me or defend myself

Against a creeper by holding out my shield Shields will block all of the damage from creeper explosions at least for now there are rumors that they’re planning to change that in future but for now at least we are safe anyway this darker gloomier environment is where we want to

Be headed because the further down in the world we go the higher the likelihood of us encountering diamonds so if this cave has a couple of offshoots that go a little deeper we will definitely be taking them we can still mine the Deep slate around us in

Fact I recommend doing it because deep slate is a very versatile building block but bear in mind that as you get lower in the world it is actually more likely for Monsters to spawn so we’re going to be facing a lot of mobs down here but

The zombies have formed a conga line and are trying to get to him he’s so I’m gonna try and take them out one at a time before I drop down here there we go now we can take a look at the resources that are actually literally glowing

Underneath our feet right here we have some redstone ore which is going to be very precious to us in the later stages of the game in fact quite early on we can find some good uses for Redstone we are going to be making slow progress in here with all of these monsters around

So make sure to light up the area as you go we will definitely need need some sort of marker that this is our exit so once again I’m going to arrange some torches vertically so that we can see those and as you travel through the cave it might be worth placing some blocks

That aren’t part of the natural cave environment with a torch on this side indicating the direction you should travel to return to your staircase but this Cavern is quite a large one and is going to have a lot of precious resources if we know where to look

There’s already some more lapis ore and you’ll notice the different ore types mixing with the natural deep sleep that’s down here deep slate ores don’t give you any more resources than the regular Stone ores do but some of them are more common and in this corner we have actually locked into something else

That I wasn’t expecting to find in this episode but right here you can see that the Deep slate changes to smooth Basalt this kind of slightly purpley slightly smoother looking block and behind that is the white of some calcite and behind that as we dig through is some amethyst

We have found an amethyst geode being a little bit careful as I step into here because sometimes monsters can generate inside of these geodes but you’ll notice that there are blocks all around the walls which are studded with amethyst clusters and these always grow on these special amethyst blocks with that kind

Of X shape on you notice that a bud actually grew as we were looking at that one these will grow through several stages almost like the stages of crop growth until they become one of these larger crystals this one here and that one there are ready to harvest when we

Break them with the pickaxe we should get some amethyst shards you can also collect the amethyst blocks that appear around here but you cannot collect these ones with the X shape on them those are budding amethyst blocks and they cannot be obtained they will be destroyed if

You try to mine them but either way we have a little sample of the resources here we’ve got some amethyst and some amethyst shards which can be crafted into more amethyst blocks since that allows you to harvest amethyst renewably calcite is also a really nice block to

Build with I have found and we’ll come back to revisit geodes in a future episode because getting a decent supply of amethyst is going to be something really useful for the future for now it looks like this geode actually leads down into a narrower cave which might be

A safer environment to explore than that large open cabin there are certainly fewer places that zombies and creepers and other mobs could sneak up on us unawares it looks like we have some gold ore right here as well and I should also warn you about stuff like this if you

See gray particles descending from the ceiling that means a gravel block is suspended in the ceiling and since gravel is affected by gravity if you update that block if you change a block next to it that can actually cause the gravel to fall and if you’re standing

Underneath it when that happens you can expect the gravel to fall on your head and you’re in danger of suffocating in it so you should be very careful if you see those particles dangling above you anyway let’s grab this gold ore that will break down into some raw gold which

Will be able to smelt into a gold ingot once we’re back at home and let’s grab this redstone ore as well there’s a larger vein of that hiding in the wall behind it as before it is still our plan to get lower and lower into the world

And this massive hole right here seems to be a great way of doing that however we need to find a way to descend safely we could cut a staircase into the side of the wall here but that’s going to take a a fair bit of time especially

Since the player mines deep slate a lot slower than you mine Stone so instead opposite my torch over here so I do not break the torch I’m going to place a bucket of water and that’s going to allow me to descend slowly from the ceiling down towards the floor I can

Even hold shift if I want to descend a little faster once we’re down here we’ll place a torch on the wall indicating that this is the water stream we need to ride upwards to return to our starting point we’ll also collect some of the Redstone that got washed down here when

We ended up making our descent now I’ll briefly check my coordinates using the F3 screen and here you can see we are at y negative 51. this is about as low as caves will naturally generate in the world you can see lava pouring out of the side here and it’s even possible for

Lava Lakes to generate in some of these lower regions of the world but this is also the area where we are most likely to find redstone ore and diamond ore so we’re going to do a bit of mining around here in the hopes of finding our first diamonds

This lava source pouring out of the wall here is actually something we can collect in our bucket if we want to we can grab a bucket of lava we get the advancement hot stuff for that one while lava is actually really useful for lighting up its surroundings we’re just

Going to replace that with a torch and let the Lava Flow Away into nothing we can always get another bucket of water if we need it it’s also worth noting that down here in the lowest levels of the world coal does not generate at all and that means unless you brought a lot

Of supplies with you you are going to be running out of torches at some point while you’re down here so it’s usually best to maybe bring a stack of logs that you can turn into charcoal at short notice or just mine a lot of coal before

You take your first trip down here to the Deep slate levels now there is abundant Redstone around here but so far we have not found any diamond ore and that’s not entirely a surprise diamond ore has a lower chance of generating exposed to the air so oftentimes you’re

Going to have to mine into the walls of the caves around you in order to find a significant quantity of it with that said I think we have got lucky here and stumbled into a huge vein of iron if you notice the Deep slate iron ore blocks

Here mixing in with this substance here called tough then you have probably run into a huge iron ore vein and you’ll find that these are packed with iron ore if you want to gather large quantities of it manually later we’ll be looking at other methods of gathering iron some

Slightly more automatic ones for example but for now we’re just going to enjoy these skeletons all fighting each other in fact one of those skeletons actually just dropped an enchanted bow which will be our first Enchanted item of this series so I’m gonna grab that make sure

These two are fighting each other so I’m safe and we can open my inventory and take a look at that that is a bow with the power one enchantment which deals a little bit of extra damage with every arrow you fire I think the skeletons have thinned themselves out enough now

That I can step in and we might end up using that bow for a little while since it’s going to deal some extra damage oh and that’s why there are so many skeletons around here we found ourselves a monster spawner well that’s a very good and very bad piece of news for me

Because this thing will keep spawning skeletons until we we get a little further away from it so I’m going to have to back off a little bit and there we go unfortunately we died on our first caving Expedition and of course I slept somewhere else so my bed is Miles Away

We now have a very difficult decision on our hands because if the area around our items stays loaded with the chunks that we load around us in the world those items could despawn before we managed to make it back to them and all of our hard

Work and progress could be lost I think with the level of experience I have we can make it back to that area quite quickly so we’re going to hop down into this cave and I’m going to follow my instincts and any torches I’ve placed to

Try and make it back to that area and collect all of my items thankfully I’ve placed enough torches in these directions and I left my bucket of water up here so that I can make a safe descent into this cave and from here I believe we are not too far away from

That skeleton spawner of course this is quite risky because I don’t have any other equipment on me and I don’t have any food even so if I were to run out of the ability to Sprint okay thankfully we made it back and I’ve come collected all

Of my items up again I get a little bit of experience back but most of the levels have been lost I can quickly gear up again replacing all of the items here on my Hotbar and I should definitely make a few torches because we will need

To light up that spawner to disable it honestly for our first death that could have gone a lot worse now the spawner is around here we’re going to place a torch in the entrance and we’re going to back off for a second just to make sure I can

Eat something before the skeletons come at me again and then once I’m confident I can take them on we’re going to Wade in and deal with this there’s only a couple of skeletons in here now since monsters will despawn if you’re over 128 blocks away from them so I think most of

The skeletons that were in here despawned and this spawner cage here is something actually fairly precious to us right now much like the budding amethyst blocks in the geodes you cannot move these you can only destroy them they will drop some experience when they are destroyed but that’s the only thing you

Will get whereas if we leave this as an active spawner we can convert this into something that will churn out skeletons making it easy for us to kill them to earn more experience and even gather some bones we can effectively farm this spawner for now lighting up the area

Around a spawner will prevent skeletons from spawning anymore so we can safely take the coordinates of this and we will return to it later in the series for now we can take a look in the loot chest and this is our reward we have a bunch of

Redstone here there are some more bones a couple of mob drops I’ll even take the string right now because we don’t have too much of that there are two music discs in here cat and 13 which we’ll be able to play if we have a jukebox I’m

Going to leave the rotten flesh I’ve already gathered in here in exchange for these gold ingots and it looks like the other chest has a bunch more strings some melon seeds and a little bread so I’ll take the food with me I’ll take these bones as well we have a duplicate

Music disc which I will leave here for now despite the death that was a very lucky find so I’m very glad we’ve got that and the spawner should now be safe for us to move on with just one torch lighting it up from the top there and as

We continue down here we get a chance to go even lower in the world we found ourselves at a dead end but right now we’re at y negative 49. I think this seems like a good time to try out a branch mining strategy we’re going to

Dig down in a staircase until we reach the Bedrock of the world and there we go that is our first glimpse of Bedrock this block cannot be mined it effectively forms the floor at the bottom of the world making sure you do not fall out of the bottom of the world

Into the void once we found our first block of that we’re going to place a couple of blocks above that and this is the layer we will probably start to mine at unless we find any more Bedrock blocking our path everything looks good to me so far we are digging at y

Negative 58 which is effectively the lowest coordinate of the world that you could mine in a straight line incidentally it is probably the best position to be in when mining for diamonds since the lower layers of the world have a higher chance of generating diamond ore so we’re going to do our

Branch mining strategy that I explained in the previous episode we’re just going to mine in a straight line and dig tunnels out to either side hopefully finding some diamonds as we go it’s important to stay aware of your surroundings though and I’ve just noticed the sound of lava around us here

You also find that pops up in the subtitles which is one of the reasons I choose to play with subtitles when I’m recording these videos the subtitles will indicate with arrows the direction that the noise is coming from and in this case it warns us not to dig too far

To the right because there will be Lava somewhere over there and that could potentially flood into the tunnel we’re creating so as our branch mine continues we’re going to be a little wary about digging to my immediate right and instead I think we can start some of our

Branch tunnels over here to the left away from the lava noises it’s been a long tunnel so far and our first patch of rare resources is not Diamond but Redstone I’m going to gather it anyway because we will need plenty of that in our future and at this point I’m more

Concerned about collecting these resources than I am with the monster drops so we’re going to leave the spider eye and the gunpowder here we’ll just throw them out of Arm’s Reach so we don’t accidentally pick them up again and we’ll continue mining well our first pickaxe has just expanded itself we are

Probably going to need another one at some stage because we’re doing a lot of mining down here but since we haven’t found any diamonds in this long tunnels so far I think it’s probably time to start mining a few poke holes in the wall over here to our left one strategy

You can employ to make sure you’re getting the most out of your tunnels is to leave a two block Gap and start digging through here because you can see these blocks on this side and you can see the neighboring blocks on this side you stand a pretty high chance of

Uncovering a diamond vein if it’s generated in this area everybody has their own preferred ways of Branch mining though so choose whichever one suits you best and finally after mining a whole lot of tunnels and almost wearing this pickaxe down to a stub we have 22 durability left on it but we

Have finally struck diamond ore and hopefully there are a few more diamond ore blocks hidden in the walls around here yep we’ve got a pretty tidy little vein of them it looks like the lava sounds are right behind me so I’m a little bit wary about digging these up

But we’re going to break our first diamonds we’re gonna Chuck something out of our inventory so we can collect them and there we go the advancement has been made and it looks like this might even be a vein of eight diamonds which is usually the most you can expect to find

In a row but the Bedrock has blocked us unfortunately there might only be seven here as with any all vein it is worth checking around on the diagonals just in case another block has generated on one of the corners but it looks like tragically no that is all we’re going to

Get still seven diamonds is really quite good because we can craft a crafting table while we’re down here Salvage that stick and make a couple of others so that we can craft our first diamond tools we are of course going to start out with a diamond pickaxe that’s going

To replace that iron pickaxe we can Chuck out of our inventory and it’s also worth noting that some of the resources we have here could be compacted down into full blocks allowing us to conserve a bit of inventory space unfortunately we are eight Redstone Dust shy of making

Another block so it’s not going to be quite as compact as all that but having found our first diamonds enough to make a diamond pickaxe and a couple extra we’re actually going to leave the cave now because if we start enchanting our equipment we could end up with the

Fortune enchantment which will allow us to get even more diamonds out of a block of diamond ore so even though it’s exciting being down here and we can rush around trying to find more resources I think this has been a very successful caving trip we have found our first

Monster spawner we have found our first diamonds we’ve managed to craft a diamond pickaxe and we can head out of the cave we’ve had a brush with death but managed to recover and I don’t feel like pushing my luck right now I think it’s probably time to leave this cave

And in the process we can demonstrate how it’s possible to retrace our steps you can already see that I’ve tracked my trail of torches back here to the waterfall where these two torches Point me upwards as before we are following the torches on the right hand side

Finding the right way back we can hop out into the geode and then it should just be a short trip across the cave from here back to that staircase which once again I’ve noticed the Torches indicating that I should head upwards we can ride the waterfall up next to those

Torches back into the stone layers this waterfall will actually lead us right back into the floor of the first cave we explored and it looks like it’s night time outside so I’m gonna pick a nice lit up area to place my bed we’re going to sleep temporarily and then we’re

Gonna head back home to the safety of our brand new house home sweet home I’m gonna set my spawn point at this bed and try not to change it again despite the death though I think we did pretty well and I’m gonna start making some more chests because we

Need room to store all these valuables I’m gonna set up a bit of temporary storage here by the door we’ll probably move all of our supplies into the basement later but for now it’s just going to be good to unpack what we’ve got in our inventory so we came back

From that trip with a variety of colorful materials we have a diamond pickaxe now and we’re going to save the rest of the diamonds we should at least be saving two of them since two are required to craft an enchanting table so if you wanted to these other two

Diamonds could be made into a diamond sword which would have slightly better attack damage and a lot more durability we also got some Redstone which you can think of as like electrical wire in Minecraft Redstone is used in crafting a lot of mechanical components and stuff that we will need to make Automatic

Farms in the future gold can be used to make tools but the tools are notoriously very bad gold is supposed to be a soft material in real life and not very good for making tools with so gold tools are more of a joke but gold has a lot of

Other users we’ll get into later amethyst is mostly a decorative block but is used in a couple of important crafting recipes you can make tinted glass you can make a spyglass with it to allow you to see things far off lapis as we’ve covered in previous episodes is

Used for blue dye and enchanting a skeleton spawner is also a really important find because we can potentially turn that into a farm for experience which is good because I lost a bit of it whilst I was getting killed by them and since we already have a few

Rare resources down here in the basement I might bring up the copper and the iron and make sure all of that goes in this same chest now I know I said we were going to stop there I know I said we are probably done mining diamonds for the

Day especially since we have the opportunity to get way more of them if we’re able to enchant our pickaxes and get the fortune enchantment but there’s a couple of other things I would like to cover so we’re going to go looking for diamonds anyway so back to the cave we

Go and this time I’m going to gather enough coal that I can make some more torches while I’m down there I can also show you one of the reasons getting diamond tools is such a big deal why diamonds are so sought after in my Minecraft worlds and that is because the

Difference in durability is kind of Staggering our iron tools all have 250 durability our diamond tools now have 1500 six times the amount of durability of an iron tool Diamond Pickaxes also unlock the last few blocks that it wasn’t possible for us to mine with just iron tools we can now acquire obsidian

Crying obsidian and even ancient debris it’s possible to go mining for a lot longer when you have tools that last six times as long and as such diamond tools are probably one of the first sets of tools that are worth repairing and we’ll talk about repairing Tools in a future

Episode as well remember what I said earlier about being aware of noises in your surroundings it sounds like there are a lot of zombies down here somewhere so I’m going to dig towards that noise carefully because anytime you hear three or four zombies in one place there’s always the possibility that there might

Be a mob spawner there in this case it looks like it was just a group of zombies already spawned in a cave but it was worth a try so here are a couple of reasons that it’s worth going caving now before we have the fortune enchantment on our pickaxe number one we don’t

Actually have to mine anything sometimes it’s just worth it to explore to get the lay of the land and even see if there are any underground biomes somewhere in these caves number two because some of the oars will get you experience any of the crystalline oars the ones that don’t

Just drop a raw iron or gold so anything that drops lapis or Redstone or diamonds will give you experience for mining them whereas gold iron and copper will give you the experience from a furnace when you smelt them into usable ingots and in order to enchant our tools we actually

Need to build up the experience levels that you see in the green number above my hot bar so we will actually need to get 30 levels before we can apply that fortune enchantment to our pickaxe anyway at least if we do that the traditional way using an enchantment

Table there are other ways but I’m getting ahead of myself another reason is of course to find things like the skeleton spawner that we found caves can have these occasional useful structures in them which are not necessarily to do with Gathering rare resources but one of the other reasons to continue caving is

That finding diamonds by strip mining I don’t know guys I find it kind of boring whereas rushing through caves and Diving through waterlogged areas in search of diamonds that feels a lot more like Adventure to me that feels a lot more like an expedition and there you go I’ve

Spotted some diamonds down there past this group of zombies and creepers so I’m gonna have to deal with all of them before we can mine the diamonds but hey we found some more diamond ore on the surface this time you see just because doing the strip mining thing is a

Reliable way of finding diamonds eventually doesn’t make it especially fun and it looks like we’ve only found a small vein of diamond here the larger veins will typically generate without all of the blocks exposed to the open air but one Diamond can lead to a bunch

More and like I said we don’t have to mine them yet I can hit F3 bring up the coordinates and save those in whatever way feels appropriate I like to take screenshots but you could always write the coordinates down in a book and keep a log book of the diamonds you found and

Then once we have access to that fortune enchantment we can come back through here and mine even more diamonds than we would have got on our first caving Expedition there’s another little patch over here by this pillar and once again I’m besieged by skeletons fight each

Other there we go if you get willing to shoot the other one it becomes a lot easier you can wait for one to finish the other off then go in for the kill and inevitably another skeleton gets involved well if we light this area up a

Little bit better we can start to dig around these diamonds as well and I prefer to stay a couple of blocks away from them as I mine just in case a creeper sneaks up on me don’t want them blowing up the diamond ore as well and that’s another single block of diamond

Ore but worth saving the coordinates and since we are still fairly high up in the Deep slate layers it is certainly less likely that we’re going to run into large deposits of diamonds but as I mentioned earlier we get to spot other exciting things like this seems to be

Another offshoot of that huge iron ore vein that I was talking about and there is even a full block of raw iron here in the floor as you gather raw iron you can actually turn it into full blocks in a 3X3 crafting grid so that you can

Conserve space in your inventory kind of like what we did with the Redstone Dust earlier but we just found a full block of raw iron sitting in the Floor of a cave which means we can break that down into more iron ingots that won’t be affected by by Fortune unlike the other

All blocks around it so that is worth us minding and taking home and this is another example of a time when we can save the coordinates and come back to this location in future but this cave seems to go on for miles and I’m looking for a couple of other little offshoots

That lead downwards so that we can potentially find more diamonds in those once again making sure we Mark any areas we drop down with a couple of torches leading vertically so we can get back up or down there I’m seeing one of those Lava Lakes I was talking about earlier

That is a little bit risky potentially but could also lead to some more diamonds since that is going to generate fairly low down in the world unfortunately we don’t have a water bucket on us so we’re not able to pour it over The Lava and turn it into

Something slightly safer to walk on so I’m going to leave that for now but that will potentially be something to explore in future my shield is also getting a little bit low so this seems like a good point to remind people that you can actually make furnaces out of deep slate

Or cobbled deep slate at least you don’t need to have cobblestone on you in order to make a furnace so I can actually smelt some of the iron that I’ve got here we’re only going to smell one or two so I’ll pop a couple of planks in

There and once we have a single Ingot there we can turn that into a fresh new Shield we’ll swap that in for now so that our old Shield doesn’t break on us mid-fight and we can always combine the two of them to get a little bit of durability back there’s a tad more

Redstone here and I think we are close to getting back the amount of levels I lost to that skeleton fight earlier I am down to my last few torches though so we’re probably going to wrap this caving trip up really soon but I might just

Take a quick trip down to the cave where we saw the skeleton spawner and see if there’s any other offshoots of that that I have missed man this place really goes on for miles it’s one of those places that feels like a Cave System instead of

Just a cave you know but that looks like I’ve expended all my torches so it’s probably time to retrace our steps and head back to the house and one last thing while we’re down here if you see any patches of light on the ceiling or the walls like this don’t be fooled by

The fact that this is a slightly bluish substance there that is actually glow lichen which we can Harvest using a pair of shears which I might as well make now since I’ve got the iron on me low like in his organic block kind of similar to

Vines I guess you can Shear them and they produce a very small amount of Light which can sometimes be a really useful thing in caves because it prevents monsters from spawning around it but is also notorious for tricking people into thinking there are diamonds there since it has that kind of bluish

Hue and a glow that I think most people project onto diamond or at this point anyway we’ve made it back to the mouth of our cave and it looks like the sky is brightening into daytime outside so let’s head on back to the house and we can wrap up today’s episode I love

Returning to our cozy little Moss roof starter house now it feels really good to have something proper set up here in front of the mountain and everything but folks thank you so much for joining me on that little caving trip and yes the death was unfortunate but also a good

Opportunity for a lesson I hope you guys enjoyed coming along with me caving good luck out there finding some diamonds of your own that’s it from me my name has been pixarift thank you so much for watching the Minecraft Survival Guide don’t forget to leave a like on this

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