How do you get Diamond in Minecraft?

Diamond is obtained through mining, Diamond from chest loot, and Diamond from trading with villagers. It is not craftable, but it is an ingredient in 11 recipes.

How many Diamond can you stack?

Diamond at 64 a slot, and Block of Diamond takes 9 per craft, so a full slot is 7 Block of Diamond with nothing left over. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once.

Where do you find Diamond in chests?

Diamond is chest loot in buried treasure (about 53%, 1 to 2 at a time), trial chamber intersection chests (about 22%, 1 to 2 at a time), end city chests (about 20%, 2 to 7 at a time), and nether fortress chests (about 18%, 1 to 3 at a time). It shows up in 15 kinds of chest in total. Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

When was Diamond added to Minecraft?

Diamond was added in the early Alpha development period.

What is Diamond used for?

Diamond is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Block of Diamond, Diamond Axe, Diamond Boots, Diamond Chestplate, Diamond Helmet, Diamond Hoe, Diamond Leggings, Diamond Pickaxe, Diamond Shovel, Diamond Sword, plus 1 other item that call for it.

Miscellaneous

Diamond

A valuable gem mined from diamond ore with an iron or better pickaxe. It is used to craft diamond tools, weapons and armor.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Diamond at a glance

Minecraft files Diamond under Miscellaneous: an item you get from mining, chest loot, and trading with villagers. A single slot takes 64 Diamond, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest.

11 recipes in this catalogue start with Diamond, so it behaves less like a single item and more like a supply you keep topped up. Of the 15 kinds of generated chest that can hold Diamond, buried treasure is the best bet at about 53% per chest. It sits between Cyan Dye and Disc Fragment 5 in Miscellaneous, number 30 of 147 there.

Used to craft

Follow Diamond forward and you land on 11 recipes: 5 in Tools, the rest spread over 2 other categories, Block of Diamond through Enchanting Table. Every name in the list has a page of its own, grid included, with Diamond in it.

How to obtain

Mining
Chest loot
Trading

Cooking

Put Deepslate Diamond Ore and Diamond Ore in a blast furnace or a furnace and out comes Diamond. A blast furnace does one in 5 seconds, a furnace needs 10. Diamond pays 1 experience each time, 64 for the whole 64.

Notes

Also used to craft enchanting tables and jukeboxes, and required to upgrade gear to netherite.

Frequently asked questions about Diamond

How do you get Diamond in Minecraft?
Diamond is obtained through mining, Diamond from chest loot, and Diamond from trading with villagers. It is not craftable, but it is an ingredient in 11 recipes.
How do you cook Diamond?
Put Deepslate Diamond Ore and Diamond Ore in a blast furnace or a furnace and out comes Diamond. A blast furnace does one in 5 seconds, a furnace needs 10. Diamond pays 1 experience each time, 64 for the whole 64.
How many Diamond can you stack?
Diamond at 64 a slot, and Block of Diamond takes 9 per craft, so a full slot is 7 Block of Diamond with nothing left over. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once.
Where do you find Diamond in chests?
Diamond is chest loot in buried treasure (about 53%, 1 to 2 at a time), trial chamber intersection chests (about 22%, 1 to 2 at a time), end city chests (about 20%, 2 to 7 at a time), and nether fortress chests (about 18%, 1 to 3 at a time). It shows up in 15 kinds of chest in total. Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.
When was Diamond added to Minecraft?
Diamond was added in the early Alpha development period.
What is Diamond used for?
Diamond is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Block of Diamond, Diamond Axe, Diamond Boots, Diamond Chestplate, Diamond Helmet, Diamond Hoe, Diamond Leggings, Diamond Pickaxe, Diamond Shovel, Diamond Sword, plus 1 other item that call for it.

Building with it

Diamonds sit deep in the stone and need an iron pickaxe or better to collect. Tools, armour, the enchanting table and the jukebox all want them, and while netherite eventually replaces the gear, every netherite item in the game started as a diamond one.

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