The Best Way To Find Diamonds In Minecraft 1.20 [Minecraft Myth Busting 133]

Minecraft 1.18 has changed the generation of the world forever and it has also changed where the diamonds are this block is now less common than this one and you are probably wondering what’s the best way to find them in your minecraft world should we be mining at

The old bottom of the world where the last of the stone rests or now down at the deep slate level with the giant caves and aquifers of water and lava and we know where the diamonds are because moyang shared this image chart of us upon the release of 1.18 but nonetheless

I’ve decided to conduct my own diamond counting tests to make sure our information is accurate so with my tediously assembled spreadsheet of numbers and my history for diamond mining strategies i will arm you with the knowledge to figure out the best way to spend your time hunting for diamonds

Now before we get into it let’s make quick mention of the other ores in the game as the overworld distribution for all of them has changed dramatically so much so the rarest ore in the game is now actually deep slate coal so if you find one of these be sure to go ahead

And silt touch it and speaking of coal the chart tells us the most common place to find it is around y 136 however you won’t always find terrain at this height and as you go below y96 you will steadily find less and less of the stuff

When it comes to iron y16 is the best however you can find tons more at the top of the world but the catch is again you need terrain to be there to mine it so if you find a mountain high up it’s a great spot for iron coal and emeralds if

You’re in the correct biome copper is best found at y48 and there is even more of it to be found if you’re inside a drip stone cave and you can also find lapis at this level if you’re branch mining because it’s unexposed meaning it will be hidden behind other blocks but

As you can see it is most common at y0 and it should be noted there is a little bit of everything around this level so it’s probably still worth clearing out some terrain with a beacon and efficiency 5 pick using the instant mind technique when it comes to redstone

There is equal distribution below y16 but tons more down at the very bottom of the world and a fair amount of gold can be found down here as well but its best level is why 16 and of course that doesn’t consider that mine shafts in mesas or the badlands biome are another

Great place to go and collect gold and let’s not forget about the large or veins the copper or vein can be found mixed in with granite between 0 and 50 and iron ore veins are mixed in with tough between -8 and minus 60. so anyways here is how the ore distribution

Used to look in 1.17 it is quite the change and we will require multiple mining strategies for different materials but i am not here to go deep on that today we go deep on the diamonds and while i have your attention i’m going to ask you to subscribe if you

Want more quality minecraft content like this and to hit that thumbs up button because i know you’re gonna find this next part super useful the first thing i wanted to do for this video was confirm the numbers from mojang were correct so i used the carpet mod to count the deep

Slate and diamond ore blocks in the world and this was the command that i used to count those ores inside one million blocks i did this at the relevant y levels from 17 all the way down to minus 64. that is a total of 82 million blocks and a little fun fact 56

673 of them were diamond or blocks so i created this chart to show diamond distribution and if we stretch it about a bit it can look like moyang’s chart too so i think theirs is indeed accurate but notice there is a big drop off at the bottom of the world where bedrock

Will replace all the other terrain i also compared these numbers with 1.17 diamond distribution and if we match the values to the new bottom of the world you can see 1.17 had less diamonds on average per layer with around 1 200 at its peak whereas 1.18 has 1 600 that’s

An increase of around a third more sounds great but deep slate is slower to mine so maybe that’s why there are now more diamonds to be found at the bottom of the world so now in order to use these numbers we need to break down the mining technique and where in the world

To actually mine and we’re gonna do that here in my test world so first of all we have to go over exposure which is for each block that you break how many more blocks do you expose as you’ll see in this example when i break these two blocks i expose

Three on this level three on that level there one above and one below but the problem with this is not everyone likes to make one by two tunnels which are more efficient so if you mine an area that’s free by free you’re exposing five blocks at these levels and then three at

The top and bottom and the reason i’m explaining this is because of effort on the left side every block broken will expose four whereas on the right it’s only 2.3 and the higher this number the better which is why i want to also mention the trapdoor technique where you

Can put yourself into a one by one hole and this is basically the best way to mine and personally i find this a bit of a pain because you also got to carry a trapdoor around with you and an axe to break it so if you want to do this it is

Technically more efficient but you will find yourself discovering diamonds and other ores and then you’ll probably end up standing again and have to redeploy the trapdoor for this video though i’m going to focus on the classic two by one so now we need to think about at what

Height in the world are we mining for those diamonds and you already know it’s down at the bottom of the world where we’re gonna find the most but did you consider at these two levels here you will be revealing three times as many blocks and this is really important when

We determine at what level we’re actually going to be mining at so here we are looking at one of my spreadsheets again and as you can see we got some new information added to it this is pretty easy to understand this number is copied across to here and then the next two are

Copied across but multiplied by three and then the bottom one is copied across again and this is because we see three ores at this level above and below we see just one so below each of these i’ve tallied up the total and the highest number would suggest the best place to

Mine and based on the data that i have here that would be at y minus 59 and that can be confusing because in the game the coordinates are going to say minus 58 but we’re talking about the block that is below you which is -59 and

So you might be thinking you now have everything you need to know but believe me we’re not done just yet and that’s because we need to think about how the ores are spaced out in the world and how we need to space out our branch mines so

What you’re looking at here is a regular minecraft world but i’ve stripped out all the blocks except the diamond ore ones and what you’re going to notice is that smaller amounts of diamonds are far more common you can now find them in groups of two or even

Just one on their own far more frequently than in the previous version of the game so if you think of these as five branch mines that we have in a row they are spaced too close together for example if we were to find a group of

Diamonds on the side when we go down our next branch mine we’ve already sort of discovered any clusters of diamonds in this space here so for that reason it is generally a good idea to space your branch mines further apart so you don’t discover where the same diamonds were

Twice and i space mine even further apart than free blocks because i like to use a technique called poke holes which is where you turn to the side and break four blocks turn to the other side do the same thing again but there is much debate about how efficient this

Technique is so i guess the choice is yours but before you choose your technique let’s just think of a few other considerations so apart from the basics like being well prepared bringing an ender chest food and torches the other consideration is lava lakes these still do generate at the bottom of the

World even though there is a new lava aquifer system anyway the height of these lava lakes is y minus 55 and the height of my net that i recommended is lower than this so keep your wits about you you might on occasion run into one

Of these lava lakes and my last tip is probably the most important one when you find a big cave system go and explore it because when we branch mine we’re essentially trying to expose as many blocks as we can to find out which ones are diamonds and these big cave systems

Are just a great way of seeing tons of exposed blocks but as you’ll see here it’s not quite as easy when you don’t have night vision so i think an essential thing to bring with you now are night vision potions so you can see where all the diamond doors are inside

These massive caving systems so that my friends is all the info i have to share with you i hope it helps you find diamonds in your minecraft world and youtube reckons that you’ll want to watch one of these two videos so why not give it a click and check them out

Thanks for watching and i’ll see you later bye