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

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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!

[@xenno8496]

Okay I know this is for myths...but I don wanna know where to find Diamonds it's Iron I'm after! Have you noticed it got like...UBER rare this update??.....oh wait.....(sigh)aaaaaand this is why you watch the whole video before commenting...hehe

[@magica3526]

2x1 tunnels only expose 6 blocks, not 8

[@arlen7726]

Not necessarily a myth, but there used to be the occasional, uncommon, very-wide-but-fairly-shallow(4-6 blocks at the deepest) rounded ‘lakes’ that would generate in Minecraft labeled roughly as river biomes. I used to love finding those in places like birch forests, Dark Oak forests, or badlands with the terracotta spires around them, and I once built a really fun badlands terraforming project specifically around one of those ‘lakes’. Do they still exist in 1.18 generation? I’m wondering because they’re a natural terrain feature I genuinely enjoyed making use of.

[@michael04__806]

hi

[@MB____]

@@magica3526 8 if you count the ones in front

[@raisin4406]

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

[@jeffmount3958]

I thought the best gold was at -16.

[@raisin4406]

@@jeffmount3958 At 2:22 it does show that the most gold is at y -16, but i just put in what was in the video

[@vanillabarrel7886]

@@jeffmount3958 it is, xsuma just said a mistake.

[@Rikaisan]

@@raisin4406 just correct it for people who would like to use your comment c: It's not about what's on the video, it's about correct information

[@tekno-hm8wq]

thank

[@hjlove757]

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!

[@OrigamiMarie]

I'm planning on going to a mountain to get iron and coal before I go lower, that way I'll be suited up and have lighting!

[@OrigamiMarie]

@Yummy Spaghetti Noodles oh yeah, I don't mine for coal at the first while. I make automated kelp farms and send the output through smokers. All I have to do is occasionally pick up the kelp, craft it into blocks, and put some blocks back into the fuel input for those smokers.

[@TheLeafcuter]

Alternatively, since mobs don't spawn in light at all anymore, redstone torches are actually a viable light source now!

[@Xiteri]

Grow some trees in the big caves and make charcoal, not the most efficient but guaranteed and renewable wood/charcoal/torches

[@heisenbergcollins8153]

@@Xiteri yessirkzbin.info/www/bejne/l2LNaqKtd9qqmrM

[@Metricate]

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

[@ericdculver]

Talking about negative y levels in Minecraft is a new thing, so I think X can be forgiven for this mistake.

[@williammouthfitondeeznutz8733]

Best & easiest gold source is Y level ~256 in the nether :)

[@thepredator3039]

Hi met

[@legiovictorum]

Best gold source is at y 69

[@minecraftonbudget1767]

@@legiovictorum ur sus

[@swordmastersam483]

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.

[@hackarma2072]

I wish there was two level of night vision. I hate to use this potion, it's like lighting up the bathroom in the middle of the night, not a good experience.

[@Bolion23]

A substitute is to use a shader that does this.

[@ivello]

there's also that idea for a shining/torch arrow that you could trow arround and get temporary light sources

[@TheDJLionman]

Optifine has an option called "dynamic lighting" that causes torches held in your hand or thrown on the ground to emit light, mojang should just make this default torch behavoir it just makes sense to hold a torch in my hand, also i played a mod once that used glowsticks which were cool because they lit up the area but they were an entity that despawned when you left the area and you could just throw them all willy nilly if you wanted.

[@swordmastersam483]

@@TheDJLionman It would be a really nice vanilla feature. Until then, [cries in Bedrock Edition]

[@arlen7726]

ABBA caving marathons are looking really interesting now

[@willemvandendolder2556]

Do you just listen to ABBA whilst mining?

[@travonoski5225]

Can’t wait for beef to host another abba again

[@AlexRodriguez-oo9yu]

ABBA rules really brings me back

[@leonkernan]

Me heading into the mines: I have a dream. Finding diamonds: Money, Money, Money!

[@TheMessiahOfPoo]

If you like ABBA then you should check out AAHBBA.

[@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.

[@JacksonOwex]

Yeah but you CAN still do that, it's just not at Y=11 anymore it's at Y=0! There was also better places to get other ores before too it just wasn't really worth doing for many things because you didn't find much else at those levels.

[@heisenbergcollins8153]

@@JacksonOwex yessir kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2LNaqKtd9qqmrM

[@Xiteri]

I love the option of going up/in mountains for iron/coal, especially since non river valleys can already be over Y80+, stone peaks being most exposed, but other biome also work, also the added danger of powder snow early game leather boots help. Or going to dripstone cave as it has a lot more copper for sure. Terrain gen even better in large biomes imo.

[@davarrashayde]

Lets be honest here, people are likely still going to have their iron and copper farms, as well as likely a witch farm somewhere for redstone and villagers for emeralds, the main things people will go looking for is dripstone to start farming that as it is a nice building block that fits a LOT of builds, and the other being the geodes for the amethysts and the calcite blocks (which i'm hoping they make calcite renewable).

[@knyt0]

except copper is borderline useless after mining a bit

[@petersmythe6462]

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.

[@STRIDER_503]

Mining THIS deep is more like suicide in 1.18.2...

[@symmetry8049]

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.

[@Heccct]

Water buckets are the most OP item in the game.

[@tomtenak4967]

I can’t pick up water buckets while swimming. I just have a bedrock version weirdness.

[@reece5457]

I have a waterbucket all the time

[@GOAT_GOATERSON]

I use elytra

[@kevinstrout630]

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.

[@gabrielamorim4884]

True, maybe a brightness resource pack/mos too, or just night vision

[@shouldi9283]

Okay the pun got me

[@turtilee5989]

Great point!

[@someonerandom704]

I just wish you could do this with lava too

[@TBPetitP]

@@someonerandom704 Theorically, you can, with fire resist potions, and F3 telling you wich block you are facing, or maybe other method better to know where they are that I don't know...

[@denisbeaudoin4618]

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

[@ChestersonJack]

Same! Not to mention terracotta, flower pots, it’s all so great.

[@denisbeaudoin4618]

@@ChestersonJack I haven’t gotten into terracotta much yet. I feel like it will open a whole new world of customization so I’m holding out 😅

[@ChestersonJack]

@@denisbeaudoin4618 Oh, I feel that. Honestly I’m just a sucker for the glazed terracotta patterns. I made a whole chart in my building experimentation world of all the different patterns you can make with the glazed terracotta blocks depending on how you place them

[@acoderplays5606]

Now if we only had some good way of getting netherite. I looked into this a lot and most methods still sucked. Did come across this one video though that covered more of them than others, even mentioned some the redstone ones, which I really appreciated, they get no love. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2q6qmWdlNNkfMk&ab_channel=SpaceMonkey

[@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 😆

[@cheesedabber]

I mean you can hear lava so you will be able to turn before you reach it and if you don’t lava is very very slow so

[@CZpersi]

When I see lava in Minecraft, my thought is: "hey, fuel for my furnaces!" Lava has become quite a rare substance in my overworld;-)

[@vibaj16]

@@CZpersi Just make a lava farm

[@arfni]

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.

[@jayglenn837]

Depends on what streamers you're watching. Caving is fun & adventurous & nets more resources, but is also deadlier, more unpredictable, & easier to get lost doing. Strip mining, while providing slightly less, leaves you with easily navigable tunnels & reduces your chance of death.

[@arfni]

@@jayglenn837 Oh yeah, I guess what I said can be taken as a generalization of streamers. What I mean to say is that I only ever watched youtubers cave, because no one would make a video with long periods of strip mining. It's just that my perspective has been widened.

[@gustas8048]

Well often you end up fully exploring the caves near you, you I choose to strip-mine till I find another cave system. When I explore it, the cycle continues

[@ahreuwu]

I dislike the "air exposure" changes to diamonds because it basically forces us to strip mine instead of regular caving (which is the main reason they made caves interesting in the first place!). Big caves look pretty now but they only have redstone and a couple of iron blocks. No diamonds because of air exposure, no coal, copper or gold because of the y levels they generate at.

[@sage8727]

@@ahreuwu If they didn't add the air exposure changes diamonds would be way too easy to find imo

[@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

[@heisenbergcollins8153]

Hermitrollkzbin.info/www/bejne/l2LNaqKtd9qqmrM

[@__scored__3775]

true lmao

[@VenetiaTrentalance]

Wdym?

[@redmist6630]

yo is this shit on bedrock yet?

[@RoseSolarium]

@@redmist6630 ye

[@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

[@BlocksRock1006]

Hey man tysm!

[@Octofinite]

Hey, I had a question for you. So whenever i’m strip mining, I usually like to get some other ores too along with diamonds. So is it a good strategy mining at y-0 or y-5? Also, i won’t have to mine deepslate

[@Thod_]

Don’t forget the other diamonds it will expose!

[@Black3ternity]

Awesome. Would appreciate a general guide on how to find every ore or how to setup different branch mines for different resources. Playing on 1.18 since pre3 and I round out the hard way, that Iron is a real commodity and I needed to mine at another level.

[@skylerlehmkuhl135]

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?

[@OrigamiMarie]

It's less than 1/6 the frequency of diamonds compared to the -58 level, so you probably still want to go low if your goal is just diamonds. But if you want a little of everything, it looks like standing at about y=2 or 3 might be decent.

[@crazebanana6432]

You need to remember big caves make diamonds easier to find so I think down low is still better

[@Adeseo]

I think setting up a beacon and insta-mining all the blocks within range is still a viable strategy, but if you wanted to specifically branch mine I’d still go deeper. Beacons don’t super help with branch mining because it takes so long to move one. Without beacons, the time it takes to mine stone vs deepslate is pretty inconsequential with good tools.

[@MrKahrum]

mine across above the deepslate, then do a moss quarry?

[@itay6699]

Love ur profile pic

[@nickschmucker8836]

EDIT: After reading nbLurkerAbove's comment responding to mine I think my actual argument here was wrong because the blocks being mined are also being exposed. ORIGINAL COMMENT: I'd argue that when doing the 2x1 mining technique the blocks exposed at each level is actually just 1:2:2:1 and not 1:3:3:1. That's because as long as you are continuing the tunnel those extra two blocks in the middle level are going to be mine regardless of their quality as such aren't really being exposed. You can think about it by doing a longer mine, like 10 blocks, at each level you'll expose 10:21:21:10, not 10:30:30:10. A similar adjustment would need to be applied to the other configurations you gave as well. A 1x1 tunnel would expose 1:2:1, and not 1:3:1.

[@kibels894]

Correct, in this case it doesn't change which level to mine at though. -59 already has the best floor and ceiling values. I'd probably mine once at -55 to find the lava and then go back at -59 later, which conveniently is just below. Generally you get the best efficiency by doing 5 blocks between tunnels and doing them on two different levels offset by 3 blocks anyway.

[@lurkerabove2402]

I had this thought as well, but I realized Xisuma is correct: you have to expose a block before you can mine it. If a single diamond happened to be directly in your tunnel you wouldn't ignore it, so the blocks you are mining should be included in the calculations.

[@nickschmucker8836]

@@lurkerabove2402 I think you are actually right, now that I think about it. It does however run into the same issue of placing tunnels too close to each other. It's uncommon for there to be a diamond in the center blocks that isn't part of a vein extending into the edges of the tunnel

[@MrMunch123ABC]

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.

[@vibaj16]

Any diamonds that are next to air have a 50% chance not to generate, so you only see half the diamonds when caving

[@MGSLurmey]

It's always been a valid strategy, because it's just more fun than strip mining ever could be. You don't play the game to gather wealth, after all, you play it to have fun.

[@jorgemarquez8288]

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.

[@isaacbluestone1462]

Here’s what I got over the past few weeks I’ve done a lot of research and testing! y: -59 Diamond and redstone ONLY (won’t run into lava too much) Y -16 Gold and Lapis Mix of everything except copper and coal (Most enjoyable place to mine) Y 48 Copper Y 15 Iron Y 96 Coal Y 0 Lapis Emeralds higher the better

[@Nebagram]

Many KZbinrs, especially Hermits, turn Minecraft into art. X also does this, but he also turns Minecraft into science.

[@xavierc12343]

Is art a type of science, or is science a type of art?

[@heisenbergcollins8153]

@Smit Shilpatul okkzbin.info/www/bejne/l2LNaqKtd9qqmrM

[@nautil_us]

very interesting! I do wonder how much impact the slower mining speed of deepslate has, and how much impact clearing the lava lakes has on the time it takes to find diamonds.

[@casper71]

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…

[@timohara7717]

Well i rhought you whated diamonds not dam coal

[@JellyAntz]

mine in the mountains for coal and iron, and mine for the ones above y 0 to also get coal

[@vibaj16]

It's really not as big a deal as you act. I get more than enough coal for torches mining at y = -55 for diamonds. I've never had to mine specifically for coal. I get more coal than I use for torches. Maybe you're using too many torches. If you're making a 2 by 1 tunnel, you can space them out with 24 blocks between torches and mobs won't spawn in 1.18

[@casper71]

@@vibaj16 unless they changed it, coal didn’t spawn below a certain level, I certainly didn’t find any in deepslate levels. And I was cave dwelling, not strip mining. I am trying to avoid strip mining because it’s a boring waste of time for the most part. This new update is good mostly, it helps me not have to strip mine for diamonds, but coal has been a commodity for me and my friends. We all have difficulty finding coal, because none of us want to mine specifically for coal.

[@vibaj16]

@@casper71 hmm, I didn't think of that. I was probably misremembering. Most of the coal I got is probably from mining out a huge area for my base. If you need torches, maybe make an automatic wood farm (using nether trees, I think it can be fully automatic) and send the wood into furnaces with a carpet duplicator or bamboo farm for fuel, but that's not very early game i guess...

[@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!

[@Shinjis_Shenanigans]

How

[@MarcusGronkowski]

He’s hacking

[@RT-oy7mu]

@@Shinjis_Shenanigans Just roaming through the caves and get lucky enough to find one cave at the bottom of the world and it's also expansive.

[@rudalph529]

@@RT-oy7mu that was just the experimental right because they changed diamonds to have less aur exposure in the final releade

[@Chris.Batchelor]

I mined for about sn hour, and found about almost two stacks of diamonds, over 36 stacks of copper, 12.5 stacks of iron, and 3.5 stacks of gold. Granted I had fortune 3, but still it’s insane.

[@brawley1701]

About night vision. Poppies in a suspicious stew gives flashing night vision for a few short seconds. Enough to give the player a brief view of the caves. If we had gotten bundles in 1.18 stews would have been way easier to bulk store in uncrafted form but it is what it is. Good for seeing into the dark offshoots so you don't get ambushed or miss obvious diamonds.

[@partyinthecloudkingdom]

bulk transportation of uncrafted stews works for things like mushroom stew and rabbit stew, but it wouldnt work for suspicious stew since you need to purchase them from villagers or milk them from mooshrooms. they cant be stored uncrafted

[@brawley1701]

@@partyinthecloudkingdom Not without bundles. If we had bundles we could probably use 1 bundle to get about 32 stews worth in mushrooms and another bundle to gather flowers with on our journeys. Something I've put a lot of thought into, but ultimately inefficient without the bags.

[@JacksonOwex]

@@brawley1701 I would just suggest carrying them crafted(had crafteR instead) as you would be able to carry more because it's ONE item instead of FOUR!

[@partyinthecloudkingdom]

@@brawley1701 oh for some reason i forgot that you can craft it with flowers, not just milk it from mooshrooms that have been fed those flowers. im not sure how useful the few seconds of night vision you get from sew would be in a large cave though

[@JacksonOwex]

@@partyinthecloudkingdom I was going to reiterate your point but I looked up suspicious stew and apparently they CAN be crafted! I am unsure if the flower type matters for stew type or if it just gives you a random stew every time! BROWN mooshrooms can be fed specific flowers for specific stews, so maybe the same flower will ONLY make that stew, I don't know for certain!

[@croc_moat2327]

You're an absolute legend, 1.18 came out only few days ago and you already give us an amazing strat for mining diamonds and defending us from fake information, I'll send this very helpful video to all my friends rn

[@bone_bellows1507]

I absolutely love your mythbusting videos. They’re so thorough and answer more questions than I had coming in to the video

[@catgirldoll]

Re: trapdoor method Using a water bucket is just as easy, and takes less time (compared to mining the trapdoors) and/or fewer resources (compared to leaving trapdoors behind). You can also avoid using torches, as no hostile mobs will spawn in your 1-high strip mine. Speedrunners use this in any category or situation where they must mine through terrain, including collecting diamonds. If you have a steady supply of bonemeal, I would alternatively recommend bringing along some moss blocks, bone blocks, and an unbreaking hoe. Bonemealing a moss block will convert nearby stone/dirt category blocks into moss blocks, which can then be instamined with the hoe.

[@eshfwog]

Also useful for covering up lava with obsidian, putting out fires, or if you fall down a hole.

[@AhmedEx1.]

Torches..

[@catgirldoll]

@@frankgrimes7388 yes, speedrunners. You know, those people who dedicate hundreds or even thousands of hours towards playing the game optimally...

[@gresh1134]

I really like how diamonds are most common down next to bedrock now. That feels very intuitive in a way the previous distributions wasn't quite.

[@TheRealKeegs]

This is a well-crafted guide, very detailed. Great for new players like myself. I found Diamonds within the 1st 15 minutes on Y58 as you explained. The mining techniques work fantastic!

[@sociallysatanic]

haven't played in a while, but i remember whenever i binged MC i would always go and watch your old Finding Diamonds video as a refresher, and i've been waiting for an updated guide from you what with this update :D you're the best, dude. maybe i'll actually play again soon and check this update out

[@roderik1990]

As far as branch spacing goes, while having a 2 block spacing between tunnels does indeed uncover everything, for optimal time spent digging you want to have the spacing between them at least large than the usual cluster size you'll see. (and yes with the new veins that would mean a spacing wider than the vein itself) And honestly, you might as well use a single long tunnel, instead of multiple shorter ones spaced next to each other. (caveat being that you also might as well make a new tunnel every mining session because walking that tunnel before starting to mine is obviously also a time loss)

[@or2kr]

What I like to do (or more accurately liked to do in 1.16) is to first mine a long way into one direction while placing a torch every 10 blocks, then mining parallel to that with 9 blocks inbetween so that I can connect both long tunnels at each torch without placing more torches. Then maybe do that again but offset 5 blocks forwards and to the side to reach clusters that I might have missed in the large grid, but I usually skip that part

[@meddle333]

@@or2kr Yes! Same! I also like to place my torches in such a way to always point me towards the way out, so anywhere you are in the mine you always know which direction is OUT. lol. I also always intend on laying minecraft track along the main path, but I chronically create new worlds... 🤣

[@Llamamanllama]

On bedrock the trapdoor technique is amazing, even though we can use trapdoor, we can swim into the 1 wide hole. We keep the swimming speed so for bedrock players your can mine super fast

[@Rayvenns]

Ah so I'm not the only one abusing that technique XD

[@andromeda9340]

I use the technique all the time

[@Ashleydc29]

I new to Minecraft so I don't understand the reason why mining 1 or 2x1 blocks is more efficient than 3x3. Wouldn't 3x3 cover more of the wall so you can find diamonds way quicker or rather get a chance of finding diamonds way quicker?

[@Rayvenns]

@@Ashleydc29 not really, as if you mine out one 3x3 you'll be exposing 21 new blocks, while if you mine in a 1x1 with a trapdoor for 9 blocks you'll be exposing 45 new blocks, so twice the efficiency in the same time :D

[@Ashleydc29]

@@Rayvenns ahhh okay so it's a time difference. Got it, thanks :D

[@davarrashayde]

I'll likely just end up mining the same as usual where i empty out entire areas and all...but thanks for letting us know that y-59 (standing on it) is the best level for mining for diamonds...most people though will likely treat the y-55 level you mentioned as their base mone level as they don't want to run into lava, like the old y11 level where you were mining around without having to worry about it falling on you...from the chart at that level the amount of diamonds looked close to the same? I may have made a mistake as they werent showed side by side for long, but that might be the new y11 that people go for all the time because "below that there's too much lava" as i was told by a friend of mine ^_^

[@pigman6954]

i was looking for a video with this exact stuff and this was in my recommended thanks!!!

[@sebastiancastellanos5361]

Loved the video and damn xisuma puts alot of efforts in these videos

[@11darkarcues11]

I've been playing on the release candidates, and though somewhat inconvenient, I really do love this change. I'm genuinely having an easier time keeping stocked up on Diamonds & Iron than I am Coal, since I've basically just been mining around the bottom of the world. Glad to know where I can finally find some coal.

[@vibaj16]

I'm finding that iron seems way less common than it used to be, even mining at y = 16. I used an entire iron pickaxe branch mining at y = 16, and found 0 iron. I had to make an iron farm to be able to have enough iron.

[@icedtea8949]

Angel's Egg!

[@FrostKing104]

Thank you! It's releiving to see such a well done video on it, and so fast too!

[@indiestripper5374]

haven't played minecraft in years and my bf and i just started our first server. He has never played before so I thought I was being super helpful explaining everything I could to him. We have been strip mining at y11 and we are 5 hours in and haven't found a single diamond. After seeing all the changes I figured my information was out of date. Thanks for consistently being the best resource for minecraft for the last decade!

[@ItsBJ]

I never thought Nightvision potions would've been essential in the future. :D

[@raisin4406]

They’re good for exploring oceans tbh

[@cosmos395]

Hey so I recently wrote a math assignment specifically on the chances of finding diamonds per chunk. I learned some really important stuff from this and just wanted to share. So basically the way that I know Minecraft works is attempting to randomly load things in per chunk. I know that biomes are spread over larger areas and have certain rules but per each chunk a diamond ore attempts to spawn usually once. So taking that information I analysed where diamonds could be more reliably found on a specific Y level but then I realized something. If diamonds spawn per chunk then there is technically a higher chance of finding diamonds at chunk borders because you are in the spot between two chunks meaning there are two chances that diamonds can spawn. I analysed the chances of finding diamonds at a chunk border Vs just finding them on the old y 11, and it turned out you will statistically find them more often at chunk borders. Finding this out I calculated what was the best way to expose the most blocks with the least mining and highest chance of finding diamonds. And it turned out to be best to mine in several rows at different evenly spaced Y levels around a chunk's border in comparison to just normal strip mining. And with how Xisuma mentioned the 1x2 strip mining with 3 blocks between each row instead of 2. It is actually better to mine with two blocks inbetween each row as exposing more blocks per chunk leads to a higher chance of finding diamonds as well as the fact that diamonds spawn more often in small ore vein sizes (1x1 or 1x2) especially in 1.18 considering the changes made. I know that I did this for 1.16 but I still think the information can be useful. Thanks for reading! Tldr: The data was calculated over 1000 chunks because I had to manually count how many chunks per 100 chunks had diamonds in it and I used this to calculate and find a higher chance of finding diamonds at chunk borders more effeciently then single Y level strip mining.

[@idiothead5511]

good to know!

[@adumelial]

Xisuma - Great video! I am so glad to see this!? I love your chart also. Feels like I am in college in a Microsoft Excel class? LOLs.. PLEASE, please - can you share where is that Mojang Levels Chart showing the Ores you should hope to find?

[@zer0701]

You know what my dude? You are now my favorite Minecrafter for the simple fact that you called it the correct name: branch mining. Every time I watch videos, even going as far back as the beginning of Etho's chocolate island, people call branch mining "strip mining". When strip mining is what we do when we get a beacon and remove the whole chunks. That stuff bothers me waaay more than it should. So thanks for that refreshment, lel

[@glueguntabletop]

Thanks x for doing all this research for us! And thank you for making good and true content!!

[@TheREALBOJACK]

*_"Mine in a line, standing on -59."_* Got it! 😁👍

[@Hessonite_Dragon_Helen]

Deep, deeper, yet deeper The deepness keeps growing Pickaxes getting stronger Diamond readings negative This next mining expedition Seems Very Very Interesting … What do you two think? (Sorry! I just saw the thumbnail and immediately thought of this)

[@laurakallem5524]

Nice poem!

[@Bread-O5-3]

@@laurakallem5524 I- It's entry 17 from the true lab, not a poem

[@risingstar1309]

Spy glasses are SO helpful for spotting ores! In the sides of mountains, and in big caves.

[@VixYW]

Thanks, it's always good to have this info. Still, we need to think of a good early game strategy for this. When you still have no enchantments, no potions, and only a regular iron pickaxe, is it worth it going all the way down to -58? You will be mining slow on deepslate, most caves you find will be useless without night vision, and you may not be able to replace your pickaxe if you don't find enough iron before it breaks.

[@katlasdahgreat]

As someone who has played quite a bit of 1.18 snapshots, I would recommend going down a cave system first. With the new cave system you mine for hours without finding an end to them all. You find tonnes of stuff. Diamond is harder due them having reduced air exposure. To counteract that issue I would recommend that you explore deep aquifers with doors or a magma block since water doesnt count as air which means that there is a higher spawning rate.

[@vibaj16]

From my experience, I recommend making an iron farm as soon as possible. Even at the best level for mining iron other than in mountains, I went through iron pickaxes without getting any iron. Once you have an iron farm, you'll get far more iron than you'll ever need early game. If you want to branch mine, it might be best to mine above the lava pools, though it seems like they are much rarer, so maybe not.

[@souch13]

In the early game as soon as I get my iron tools, I get the majority of my diamonds from hidden treasure using maps found in sunken ships :) so much loot!

[@petermichaelgreen]

I was disappointed to find no discussion in this video of the fact that deepslate can't be instamined in vanilla survival and whether the higher density of diamond ore distribution in the deepslate layers was enough to make up for that downside.

[@DamageMaximo]

it doesn't make up

[@sorrowandsufferin924]

Is it a downside, or is it adding immersion?

[@spencercarruth9706]

Xisuma literally mentioned that deepslate is slightly slower to mine than regular stone….were we watching the same video?

[@pragmaticpolitics1413]

If you have a diamond pick with the enchantments necessary to instamine wtf are you doin? Building a house out of blocks lol.

[@WillowLackett]

Stopped playing Minecraft somewhere around 1.14 Coming back to all this is really something else. Honestly refreshing, though!

[@sonofamitch696]

If you're someone who likes to dig poke holes while mining then this is a good tip I started to do which almost doubled the amount of diamonds I get: When you make poke holes on the sides of your strip mine, you can also dig some poke holes above you. I actually find most my diamonds this way.

[@lilymonet9702]

Ive been having an EXTREMELY rough time finding diamonds in the lush cave biome below my house, are they just more rare in that biome?

[@humanbeing5529]

We can also use water instead of trapdoor. and everybody has a water bucket with them. So that is much better imo

[@astroida4390]

But to get back from the mine you gotta mine the top block all the way back

[@vibaj16]

@@astroida4390 Which means you're exposing even more blocks

[@astroida4390]

@@vibaj16 but takes more time and it’s annoying

[@bernlin2000]

I like the changes, shakes up a very old distribution system. More complex, encourages different levels of mining (which is much more interesting anyhow). Looking forward to messing around with it quite a bit!

[@georgeharris572]

I still set up a mining base at y 11 in 1.18, honestly seems about the same for getting started but it's also nice to know how deep to go if you just absolutely need more than y 11 will produce, but honestly that's only in old worlds (or the instance where I took 2 of my favorite old worlds and adjusted a new world (by generating the surface structures I wanted to save) just to move to 1.18 the day before the update). I still haven't tried a "fresh" 1.18 world yet, but I'm sure I will one night I get bored with my worlds

[@Aj-py8en]

Wouldn't you want to space them 2 blocks apart since smaller diamond veins are more common? Its more likely that a vain of 1-4 would be completely hidden in the 1 block wide dead zone between your strip mines.

[@matthewsmith5169]

This

[@mrcalligraphy2722]

The objective is to get as many diamonds as fast as possible, not to get all diamonds. It’s likely that on a per block mined, this spacing is still more efficient for your time.

[@joshuarosen6242]

They should be spaced apart as far as the largest clusters. It doesn't matter if you miss diamonds but it does matter if you mine blocks but expose fewer new blocks than you would with proper spacing. The amount of space in which you can mine is practically infinite so it's efficiency that is important, not completeness.

[@Aj-py8en]

@@joshuarosen6242 except as long as there's at least 2 blocks between tunnels you expose the exact same number or blocks

[@joshuarosen6242]

@@Aj-py8en But you don't expose the same number of ore groups or new blocks (assuming you mine out all ore you find) which is what matters. There is no point exposing the same block twice. If you find some ore two or more blocks wide, you'd find it in the first tunnel and then in the second, it's already found. The tunnels need to be far enough apart never to encounter the same group of ores twice or you are wasting effort.

[@petersmythe6462]

An interesting question is what the maximum profitable altitude for diamond stripmining is. Especially without enchants, staying above the deepslate layer seems very marginal.

[@vibaj16]

It's at y = -55 or y = -54 (whichever is above lava pools, I can't tell). The deepslate taking longer to mine is not enough to overcome the much higher amount of diamonds down there

[@galaxybolt1748]

I have used pokeholes since I started, so glad to finally see someone other than the people who introduced me to minecraft using it!

[@mo-dev]

I love that you're always rocking variants of the classic doom skin!

[@eolyas1664]

Conclusion: - strip mine at Y 59 - tunnels spaced by 3 blocks - bring water bucket - bring night vision And finally, bring an efficiency 5 pickaxe, because this stuff is hard as hell.

[@gabrielamorim4884]

It's tuff

[@sunshade1710]

it should be Y -59

[@tray2204]

Also, don't forget tons of torches (unless you have a ton of night vision) cause coal doesn't spawn down there

[@abhaysinghchandel8295]

@@gabrielamorim4884 actually good pun!

[@beepbop6542]

@@gabrielamorim4884 Funny that the tuff is actually easier to mine...

[@battlecarrier]

So wouldn't mining at -55 be the best then, because it minimizes slowdowns caused by mining straight into a wall of lava? How much less ore is there at that level?

[@noahanderson8688]

Same thing I thought, just like we wouldn't mine a y=5 before but y=11

[@jkjkrandom]

@@noahanderson8688 that's because I believe y 11 was actually the same that y 5

[@irissupercoolsy]

Then there would be 0.14% of the blocks exposed be diamonds instead of 0.16%. So I think it's really worth it to mine at -55 instead of -59

[@Gojira_Wins]

I'm excited to see how Minecraft Speedrunning changes after this. I'm sure plenty of those guys will be using this video for info on the best places to find their resources. Great video!

[@petersmythe6462]

I often make 1x1 tunnels. They are very efficient and if you carry a trap door with you, easy enough to go through. Main thing to remember is that going back through them is very slow so go in a loop.

[@Dean0ne]

this question might have been asked a lot already but: with the fact that lava lakes will make mining below y-55 more difficult, wouldn't it maybe be worth it to stay above y -55? i mean yes, branch mining at y -58 is going to have the highest propability of finding more diamonds, but when you are slower because of having to block off, or swim through lava (with fire res) then it could potentially be easier and more efficient to stay above lava and just mine at y-54, no?

[@andretroncao]

I think so

[@entropic-decay]

what I typically do for my branch mines, regardless of elevation, is I have an antechamber at the entrance with furnaces, chests, a crafting table, etc. for mining supplies and to store what I've dug up. Coming off this antechamber in each cardinal direction (north, east, south, and west), I have a 3x3 tunnel. Off each 3x3 tunnel, I have a 1x2 tunnel on either side every 2 blocks

[@jordanalex8674]

I'm a seasoned minecrafter, and I didn't know about the branch mining strategy. Already found a bunch of clusters. Thank you!

[@Justmebeingme37]

I love that they added ores to give the option of mining everything insteas of having to set up farms to get enough materials

[@Nugcon]

You don't need trapdoors for 1x1 mining. You could also use water buckets to force yourself into the diving animation. Placing water behind you also makes you run significantly faster :).

[@deamooz9810]

Exactly

[@SpaceFlye]

If case anyone was wondering, the new ideal mining level is now *_69_* levels lower than the previous level 11. (assuming you mine at y: -58 come 1.18)

[@sorrowandsufferin924]

Another reason not to in my book, along with lava lakes.

[@ChestersonJack]

Nice

[@oklol7799]

This was a very very well put together, high quality, and helpful video. Thank you so much Xisuma👍 Now about the moon…

[@MetalMonkey]

I've always done the 2x1 grid with a 2 block spacing. I tried a 3 block spacing and found that I missed something in the middle. I never liked the pokey hole method. The 2 block spacing is even more important now that there are single ores. If you do 3 block spacing you never see the center block and there could be a diamond in there

[@samm6807]

This new update is so incredibly awesome and has made mining a lot more funner

[@jeroen92]

Really? I despise mining deepslate, feels so slow :(

[@jeroen92]

@@Blockboylogan and how am I supposed to get diamonds quickly then? If -59 is the best place to mine at?

[@jeroen92]

@@Blockboylogan what are you talking dude I am talking about before and after the update... Before the update mining was more fun.

[@Hallah22]

@@Blockboylogan lmao i detest people like you who go with “don’t do it then” kinda mentally. I have no idea what you’re trying to go with passing that ‘advice’ around.

[@timohara7717]

@@jeroen92 oh so you dont play minevraft regularly y 17

[@zianitori1565]

is there anything to be said about mining just above the lava lakes as not only are they dangerous but they also take an annoying amount of time to either get through or go around which kind of throws the efficiency of what you're doing out the window

[@redtarget827]

As always you do such an awesome job explaining everything. Thanks

[@stormistorm3889]

With the dive mining technique you can't just use trapdoors, a water bucket works as well and you're more likely to have one on you. Also, the water bucket can help to speed you along on the way back if you place and pick it up behind you!

[@SaturninePlaces]

I think this might be mistakenly calculated, since while you are technically exposing 3 blocks on the same y-level, the one in front of you is essentially meaningless since you'll mine that one next anyway. I don't think this changes much with the calculations, but still something to keep in mind. Every other tip here is top though.

[@timohara7717]

Yea but it still exposes it

[@wizardom]

I generally like these changes, but the "restricted air exposure" (i.e., less probability of finding diamonds and lapis exposed in a cave) is a mistake by Mojang, especially with the deepslate mining being considerably slower. Why incentivize the grind?

[@thegamesforreal1673]

yeah, you'd think the whole point of the cave changes is to make caving worth the risk, and thus incentivize adventure... Yet here we are.

[@seanr6080]

Did you play before the nerf? I am a huge fan of the nerf. To put it into perspective, I found about 3 stacks of diamond *without* fortune in my first 2 hours of gameplay. I literally found diamonds before iron. It’s a little more balanced. Even with the nerf, I still found about 30 diamonds in about an hour and a half without fortune.

[@wizardom]

@@seanr6080 I'm not against the nerf per se, but the specific implementation, where they prioritize grinding through slow-to-mine rock over caving. I'd rather everything got nerfed equally, without the "restricted air exposure" stuff.

[@timohara7717]

Wow no one here is hydrated because they dont know what water is

[@Agapang8888]

In your spreadsheet around 6:20, i would multiple two middle layers by two instead of three, since at the end of the day, when you have a tunnel with the length of n, you would reveal n blocks from top and bottom layers each, and 2n+1 from each middle layer. Basically changing focus from "chance after mining one block" to "chance after the entire process", though it wouldn't change the result.

[@HolgerCederberg]

Plz make a guide for all the other ores, with the new spawning algorithm I would love to see that!

[@tommyhetrick]

Ah yes the traditional per version mythbusting episode!😂

[@AshnSilvercorp]

you can use water to get back into your 1x1 tunnels too. You should already be carrying one.

[@bigmike.v1274]

Great video X! I was wondering which layer was the best for diamonds. Thanks :)

[@onegalaxytwo]

xisuma how do you do this so well usually u would skip to the end but you got me watching all the way

[@Noah_003]

Ahhh, I love how xisuma handles this. Thanks man

[@andersonwhite2539]

Diamond ore is now rarer than deepslate diamond ore but still not as rare as finding a girl that will also play minecraft with me

[@Deputy_thot]

Me too man

[@jarednthomas]

Nice to see data that confirms what I've found. I've played the snapshots for weeks and the newest build, and I've been consistently finding diamonds between y=-59 and -56

[@frognik79]

It's really easy to build an afk long drop mob farm in the sky for gunpowder and getting sand is easy too, I just make a long 2x1 tunnel at -59 and use TNT spaced 2 apart. What's the best level to tunnel and get mostly large underground caves?

[@letstrywindows8986]

Bruh how many times did I suggest Mojang to add anthracite as a better coal in deep depths

[@timohara7717]

They wont listen because you hacker and spammer

[@letstrywindows8986]

@@timohara7717 how I'm a hacker

[@ryangiese2440]

Tried using the /block_counter command and found it nowhere in carpet so does anyone know what version this is available for because I can't find it anywhere in any carpet mod version

[@heatherreadsreddit8579]

This is very helpful. Thank you!

[@mineland8220]

For the trapdor technique, you could also use water to start swimming and go into the 1 block gap. Works even better with depth strider and if you were caving you probably already had a bucket

[@ThatTrueCJ201]

I actually find a 1x1 to work wonders if you use a Water bucket and swim through it (making the height of the player 1x1). If you time it right, water can also be used in the 1x1 tunnels to accelerate the slow crawling speed

[@ThatTrueCJ201]

@PyryTheBurger I do this in java 😅

[@apeckx5090]

The trap door trick isn't really better in practice. My advice is bring a stack of trap doors so that you aren't wasting time breaking and collecting them. In my experience, the 1x2 mines are faster than the 1x1 mines though

[@Calenardhon314]

I haven't tested it yet, but because of the higher breaking time of deepslate compared to stone it might actually become more efficient to mine 1x1

[@MrKahrum]

yup, or just fill in your holes rather than going into them

[@SSL_2004]

It's way more efficient, Just stay in the tunnel and mine all the blocks, then fill them in so that the Ores come to you.

[@MrKahrum]

@@SSL_2004 back filling your mines and caves after you have stripped them is pro tier mining. Gotta get your underground to be all stone

[@eris4734]

I've tried mining at this level, it's very effective, so long as you're good at dealing with running into lava lakes, which can sometimes be a little frustrating

[@Megabooy1]

When you dig the 4 to the sides do you just have a single space between the 2 ends of the 4x1's? or do you offset them from neighbouring stripmines? Great vid lots of info I will be taking with me on future adventures

[@LightningAussie]

Diamonds are available from treasure chests and diamond gear is obtainable from villagers. #NoCaveLife

[@makelegosgreatagain3755]

mining is more fun then boring trading

[@glowdonk]

@@makelegosgreatagain3755 And much more efficient, too, besides, trading is much more tedious than mining

[@MrKahrum]

@@makelegosgreatagain3755 actually using the resources on whatever is much more funner than either of those. then again, my 'whatever' IS mining... but... do you not have a toolsmith in your mineshaft?

[@makelegosgreatagain3755]

@@MrKahrum uhhh? what

[@musingartisan]

Diamonds are a bit redundant in modern Minecraft. It will be more useful to see a similar distribution videos for actually valuable resources, like Redstone or copper. Even coal is more valuable than diamonds in today's Minecraft.

[@esajpsasipes2822]

Yes you need 24 for armor and then like 15 for tools, some more for enchant table, specialized tools (silk touch pick...) and maybe other stuff. But i think that if you don't lose your stuff you propably won't need more than a stack of diamonds.

[@Lordodragonss]

@@esajpsasipes2822 You dont make tools of diamonds. You trade for diamonds tools.

[@esajpsasipes2822]

@@Lordodragonss and can armor be traded? Diamonds would be useless then, unless you want jukeboxes. Well maybe it's easier to get diamonds and craft stuff and then set up villagers for diamond stuff so that you can make the things back if you died.

[@Lordodragonss]

@@esajpsasipes2822 Yes you can trade for armor. Thats why pure diamonds are worth more than any other diamondmade object.

[@jackdog06]

As a note for the “trapdoor” method. If you’re mining late game you can perform this trick by flying into the hole with Elytra. It’s definitely the best late game Mining method for deep slate areas

[@linajabba9639]

With resperation and water afinity its really fun to dive though the underwater caves and it also gives you pretty good stuff