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| Type: | Item |
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| Physics: | None |
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| Found naturally: | Yes |
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| Renewable: | Yes (Dropped by Enderman -- rare) |
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| Identifier: | diamond |
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Diamonds are gems that are used in many useful crafting recipes.
Obtaining
Mining
One diamond is dropped by diamond ore if mined with an iron pickaxe or above. If the player does not use an iron pickaxe, then diamond ore is unbreakable.
Natural Generation
Diamonds can be found in 21.8% of loot chests in stacks of 1-3.
Enderman
There is a really small chance that a diamond is dropped by an enderman. The chance of this occurring is 1/200, or 0.5%. While this makes the diamond technically renewable, it hardly affects the amount of diamonds that any player has.
Crafting
Nine diamonds can be crafted back from a diamond block.
Usage
Diamonds are really useful, as they are required in a lot of end game recipes.
Crafting Ingredient
The block of diamond is a more compact way of storing diamonds, because one block is holds nine diamonds.
Two diamonds are required in the crafting recipe for the enchantment table.
A diamond is required in the crafting recipe for the monster spawner.
One diamond is required to craft a healing crystal.
Diamonds can be crafted into armor.
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Diamond Helmet
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Diamond Chestplate
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Diamond Leggings
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Diamond Boots
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Diamonds can also be used to create tools.
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Diamond pickaxe
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Diamond sword
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Diamond shovel
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Diamond axe
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Diamond hoe
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History
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Date
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Changes
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| First 30 days
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Unknown
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| First 30 days
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Day 10
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- Diamond is only dropped by diamond ore if collected with the correct tool.
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| First 30 days
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Day 28
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- Diamonds now generate in loot chests
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| 1.8
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Unknown release date
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| 1.23
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Oct 31, 2012
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- Diamonds are now dropped by endermen, making them renewable
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Trivia
- Diamond armor, in real life, would be useless, since the form of particles giving it its crystal texture means it can be cut easily at an angle where it is flat. Since it is a game about blocks any 90' hit would slice your diamond armor in half. Lucky for us this doesn't happen!
- Diamond is the only gem that can be obtained in every dimension, since the enderman has a rare chance of dropping one, and the enderman spawns in the Overworld, the End, and the Nether.
Gallery
A diamond in Mine Blocks.
The player has discovered diamond ore.
See also
