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

The Caves & Cliffs Update Part 2 has changed the world for ever! Mining for resources is different and in this video we figure out the best way to get diamonds in 1.20

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0:00 Minecraft 1.18
0:54 The Other Ores In 1.18
2:45 Ore Generation In 1.17
3:09 Counting Diamonds
3:58 Comparison To 1.17
4:35 Branch Mining
5:18 Trapdoor
5:53 What Height To Mine For Diamonds
6:53 Diamond Distribution
8:13 Lava Lakes
8:39 The Most Important Tip!

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[xisumavoid]

Do you have any myths you want answered about 1.18?
Leave a comment with the #myth and I will read them soon :-) Thanks!

[raisin]

Diamonds Y -58, 2 by 1 strip mining
Redstone = bottom of world
Emerald = mountains
Gold -Y 16- Y -16 or Badlands
Copper Y 48
Coal Y 136
Iron Y 16
Lapis Y 0

Large ore veins:
Copper Y 50 to 0
Iron Y -8 to -60

Tips:
Space out your branch mines (3 blocks or more)
Explore caves, more ores are exposed
Use potions of night vision in caves

[Metricate]

Just a correction. Best gold level is Y-16. Not 16. But very good information here!

[hjlove]

Don't forget that coal is very rare down in the lowest depths so take enough torches or materials to make them when you set off!

[swordmastersam]

I really wish Mojang would add a potion to make ores glow like they did in the original 1.17 minecon showcase. Maybe it would use a glow berry as its active ingredient. I love these new caves and exploring them is great. However, torches are a bit tedious and night vision kills the ambience of being underground. Being able to see by ores would not only make it easier to find ores, it would allow for a more natural feeling experience in the caves.

[IanSlothieRolfe]

While the ore dstribution changes everything, I think its a refreshing change to shake up the mining, and make different strategies for different ores. The old going to y=11 and mining for everything was a bit boring, and eventually the only reason to do it was for diamonds. Now with the copper and iron veins it makes a more realistic experience where it is genuinely going to pay to search for the iron and copper veins. And with all the other stuff in the caves its going to make a real incentive to do more mining and caving in the game, where up til now most people are farming all the resources other than diamond.

[petersmythe]

One thing I will say, I find that mobility, abundant food, a shield, and being able to reflexively block yourself in in the new caves is way more important than what tool you have. Legitimately mining diamonds feels more like an epic chase than a stripmine.

[kevinstrout]

It should also be noted that because diamond has reduced air exposure, aquifers will have way more exposed diamond than normal caves and you don't have to deal with mobs, from what I've found if you can find a deep aquifer and bring a few doors you can be swimming in diamonds in minutes.

[symmetry]

RE: trapdoor trick:

Use a water bucket instead. I never leave my inventory without one.
From climbing, to fall damage cancels or crawling, it is very versatile.

[arlen]

ABBA caving marathons are looking really interesting now

[Blurredfury]

One underrated change that I’m loving is the massive increase in clay… I loved building with brick, and it has made my life amazing now that I don’t have to farm rivers

[InfraSolart]

Before I started watching streamers, I never realized how common strip mining was. I have always gone "caving" which is exploring caves for resources. I think it is more fun and I was under the impression Mojang wanted to encourage caving over strip mining. But I guess it is user preference.

[RoarkCats]

I like the effort into the numbers, I've also been busy crunching these, however, I've used a datapack I made specifically for the purpose of testing realistic 1x1 mining tunnels for diamonds and have actually found that -53 is also a good level to be standing/lying on when mining for diamonds. My method involves "mining" through thousands of blocks artificially and counting the diamonds. This method, for every 2k blocks, produced an average of 27 diamonds while at (standing on) -53, -58 had an average of 28.9, 7% more. These tests simulate mining through 300k-400k blocks at these levels. Taking this into consideration, -58 is the best for pure diamond numbers, but you run into lava. Meanwhile, -53 is the safest and most consistent, you get a bit fewer diamonds, however, unlike -58 you will find caves on -53, which has a chance to make up some of the diamonds with ones you find there.

Edit: number corrections, and stuff

[lqm_lastquartermoon]

As a person who easily freaks out when lava appears in front of my face, I actually never knew where the new lava level was and was mining at -32 when trying the snapshots. Now I know I can mine at -54 to greatly increase the efficiency and still avoid lava! Thanks 😆

[lasmirano]

You know all these experiments and myth busting Xisuma will forget everything when they update hermitcraft to 1.18 and be confused as to why hes not finding diamonds lol

[MrMunchABC]

I love that one of the most efficient ways to mine now is to just *go spelunking.* I always wanted that to be a valid strategy in MC, but it rarely worked for me. The new caves seem like a delight to mine in.

[skylerlehmkuhl]

Given that deepslate takes longer to mine than stone, does that mean that mining for diamonds above y=0 might still be fast since you break more blocks in the same amount of time, even though there's less diamonds to be found?

[casper]

I personally despise the changes made to coal. I like that diamonds spawn more frequently lower down than they ever did before, making for a nice risk/reward of going deep in these big caverns to find diamonds. But not being able to find any coal for torches at all while down there is a massive disadvantage. I just feel like they implemented a change that encourages you to either spend time chopping trees for charcoal before going caving, or going caving in near surface level caves specifically looking for coal. And all I want to ask is, who is going to go mining specifically for coal, I understand going minings for diamonds, but not for coal. So in my mind them making the coal spawns more “realistic” just inconveniences me while I play more than anything. When I go mining I want to explore deep caves, not strip mine near the surface for most coal potential…

[TheWisme]

I went caving for just half an hour in bedrock's 1.18 preview generation and found ~1.5 stacks of diamonds. Caving is extremely powerful now!

[jorgemarquez]

Mining is insane! I love the giant deepslate caves. I found a geode with a zombie spawner inside of it, I found a cave spider spawner, geode and giant iron ore vein all next to each other.