For other uses, see Diamond (disambiguation).
"Diamonds" redirects here. For the achievement, see Achievements § DIAMONDS!. For the advancement, see Advancements § Diamonds!.
A diamond is a mineral that can only be obtained from diamond ore, loot chests and suspicious blocks. It is required to craft diamond tools and armor (and therefore obtain obsidian to access the Nether), enchanting tables, jukeboxes and duplicate smithing templates.
Obtaining[]
See also: Tutorials/Diamonds
Mining[]
See also: Diamond Ore § Natural generation
Diamond ore can be mined using an iron pickaxe or stronger. An ore drops a single diamond. If mined by any other tool, it drops nothing. If the pickaxe is enchanted with Fortune, it can drop an extra diamond per level of Fortune, allowing for a maximum of 4 diamonds with Fortune III. If the ore is mined using a pickaxe enchanted with Silk Touch, it drops an ore block rather than a diamond. The ore is found at level 15 or lower, most commonly between -50 and -64; levels -58 and -59 are the preferred levels to mine at since they don't contain bedrock, as it starts spawning at -60.
Chest loot[]
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Diamond | Mineshaft | Chest | 1–2 | 8.9% |
| Bastion remnant | Treasure chest | 2–6 | 15.8% | |
| Buried treasure | Chest | 1–2 | 59.9% | |
| Desert temple | Suspicious sand | 1 | 12.5% | |
| Chest | 1–3 | 6.3% | ||
| End city | Chest | 2–7 | 21.2% | |
| Jungle temple | Chest | 1–3 | 12.9% | |
| Nether fortress | Chest | 1–3 | 19% | |
| Shipwreck | Treasure chest | 1 | 14.1% | |
| Stronghold | Altar chest | 1–3 | 7.3% | |
| Village | Toolsmith's chest | 1–3 | 9.9% | |
| Weaponsmith's chest | 1–3 | 16.2% | ||
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Diamond | Mineshaft | Chest | 1–2 | 8.9% |
| Bastion remnant | Treasure chest | 2–6 | 15.8% | |
| Buried treasure | Chest | 1 | 46.9% | |
| Desert temple | Suspicious sand | 1 | 12.5% | |
| Chest | 1–3 | 6.3% | ||
| End city | Chest | 2–7 | 21.2% | |
| Jungle temple | Chest | 1–3 | 12.8% | |
| Nether fortress | Chest | 1–3 | 19% | |
| Shipwreck | Treasure chest | 1 | 14.1% | |
| Stronghold | Altar chest | 1–3 | 7.1% | |
| Village | Toolsmith's chest | 1–3 | 9.9% | |
| Weaponsmith's chest | 1–3 | 16.2% | ||
Suspicious sand[]
When brushing suspicious sand in desert pyramids, they have a 1⁄7 chance to drop a diamond.
Crafting[]
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Block of Diamond |
Smelting[]
| Name | Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Diamond | Diamond Ore or Deepslate Diamond Ore + Any fuel |
Usage[]
Diamonds are mainly used to craft high-tier armor and equipment, which in turn are also used in making netherite armor and equipment.
Crafting ingredient[]
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block of Diamond | Diamond | ||
| Diamond Axe | Diamond + Stick |
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| Diamond Boots | Diamond | ||
| Diamond Chestplate | Diamond | ||
| Diamond Helmet | Diamond | ||
| Diamond Hoe | Diamond + Stick |
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| Diamond Leggings | Diamond | ||
| Diamond Pickaxe | Diamond + Stick |
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| Diamond Shovel | Diamond + Stick |
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| Diamond Sword | Diamond + Stick |
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| Enchanting Table | Book + Diamond + Obsidian |
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| Firework Star | Gunpowder + Matching Dye + Head or Gold Nugget or Feather or Fire Charge + Glowstone Dust + Diamond |
Up to eight dyes can be added. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients. | |
| Jukebox | Any Planks + Diamond |
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| Smithing Template | Diamond + Matching Smithing Template + Netherrack or Cobblestone or Sandstone or End Stone or Terracotta or Cobbled Deepslate or Blackstone or Purpur Block or Prismarine or Mossy Cobblestone |
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| White Firework Star or Blue Firework Star or Brown Firework Star or Black Firework Star |
Gunpowder + Bone Meal or Lapis Lazuli or Cocoa Beans or Ink Sac + Head or Gold Nugget or Feather or Fire Charge + Glowstone Dust + Diamond |
[Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Education only] Up to eight dyes can be added. One head, gold nugget, feather, or fire charge can be added. Both the diamond and the glowstone dust can be added with any of the other ingredients. |
Trading[]
In Bedrock Edition, expert-level armorer, toolsmith, and weaponsmith villagers buy one diamond for an emerald as part of their trades.
In Java Edition, journeyman-level armorer villagers have a 40% chance of offering to buy one diamond for one emerald. Expert-level toolsmith villagers have 2⁄3 chance of offering to buy one diamond for one emerald. Expert-level weaponsmith villagers always offer to buy one diamond for one emerald.
Repairing[]
Diamonds are the repair items for the diamond tier and armor material, and thus can be used to repair the following items in an anvil or grindstone:
- Diamond Helmet
- Diamond Chestplate
- Diamond Leggings
- Diamond Boots
- Diamond Sword
- Diamond Pickaxe
- Diamond Axe
- Diamond Shovel
- Diamond Hoe
Beacons[]
Diamonds can be used to select powers from a beacon. The player must select one of the available powers then insert a diamond into the item slot.
A diamond can be substituted for an iron ingot, a gold ingot, an emerald or a netherite ingot.
Smithing ingredient[]
| Ingredients | Smithing recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Any Armor Trim + Any Armor Piece + Diamond | All armor types can be used in this recipe, a netherite chestplate is shown as an example. |
- Trim color palette
The following color palettes are shown on the designs on trimmed armor:
- (a darker color palette is used when a diamond armor piece is trimmed using a diamond).
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Form | Item tags | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond | diamond | Item | beacon_payment_items | item.minecraft.diamond |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond | diamond | 304 | Item | item.diamond.name |
Achievements[]
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | |||||
| DIAMONDS! | Acquire diamonds with your iron tools. | Pick up a diamond from the ground. | 20G | Bronze | ||
| Enchanter | Construct an Enchantment Table. | Pick up an enchantment table from a crafting table output. | 20G | Bronze | ||
| Diamonds to you! | Throw diamonds at another player. | Drop a diamond. Another player or a mob must then pick up this diamond. | 15G | Bronze | ||
Advancements[]
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Diamonds! | Acquire diamonds | Isn't It Iron Pick | Have a diamond in your inventory. | story/mine_diamond
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History[]
| Java Edition Indev | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.31 | 20100128 |  Added diamonds. Initially, they were referred to as "emeralds".
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| A stack of 100 diamonds can be found inside the Indev house chests. | |||||
| 20100129 | Diamond can be used to craft diamond blocks and diamond swords, shovels, pickaxes and axes. | ||||
| Diamonds can no longer be found inside the Indev House due to all items having been removed from its chests. | |||||
| Diamond can be obtained by smelting diamond blocks. | |||||
| 20100130 | Emeralds from the previous version are now officially known as "diamonds", though this has no actual effect as item names are not yet displayed in-game. | ||||
| Diamond blocks now require 9 diamonds (3×3) instead of 4 (2×2) to be crafted, making them much more expensive. | |||||
| 20100206 | Diamonds are now used to craft diamond hoes. | ||||
| 20100212-1 | Diamonds are now used to craft diamond helmets, chestplates, leggings and boots. | ||||
| Java Edition Alpha | |||||
| v1.0.14 | Diamonds are now used to craft jukeboxes. | ||||
| Java Edition Beta | |||||
| 1.8 | Pre-release | Diamonds are now found in mineshaft chests. | |||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 2 | Diamond ore can now be smelted into diamonds. | |||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 | Diamonds are now used to craft enchantment tables. | ||||
| Diamonds are now found in stronghold altar chests. | |||||
| 1.1 | 12w01a | Diamonds are now found in village blacksmith chests. | |||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | Diamonds can now be traded to blacksmith villagers in quantities of 3–5 for 1 emerald. | |||
| Added desert temples, with a hidden chest room and loot containing diamonds. | |||||
| 12w21b | Diamonds have been changed in the game code from "emerald" to "diamond", due to actual emeralds being added. Diamond's original name during Indev, as stated above, was emerald in the code, and was kept this way until this snapshot. | ||||
| 12w22a | Added jungle temples, which contain loot chests with diamonds. | ||||
| 1.3 |  The texture of diamonds has been changed. | ||||
| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | Diamonds can now be used to craft a firework star with a trail. | |||
| 1.6.1 | 13w16a | Diamond is now used to craft diamond horse armor. | |||
| 13w18a | Diamond is no longer used to craft diamond horse armor. | ||||
| Diamonds are now found in nether fortress chests. | |||||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Diamonds can now be traded to any black apron villager in quantities of 3–4 for 1 emerald, as their tier III trade. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w31a | Diamonds now generate in end city chests. | |||
| 15w43a | The average yield of diamonds have been slightly decreased in nether fortress chests. | ||||
| 15w44a | The average yield of diamonds in desert temple and mineshaft chests have been decreased. | ||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 264. | |||
| 18w10a | Diamonds now generate in buried treasure chests. | ||||
| 18w11a | Diamonds now generate in shipwreck treasure chests. | ||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a |  The texture of diamonds has been changed. | |||
| 18w50a | Diamonds can now be found in chests in village toolsmith houses. | ||||
| 1.16 | 20w16a | Diamonds now generate in bastion remnants chests. | |||
| 1.16.2 | 20w30a | The chance of finding diamonds in bastion remnant chests is increased from 8.6% to 15.8%. | |||
| 1.17 | 21w08a | Diamonds can now drop and be smelted from deepslate diamond ore. | |||
| 1.20 (Experimental) | 23w04a | Diamonds can now be used to craft smithing templates. | |||
| Diamonds can now be used as an armor trim material. | |||||
| 23w07a | Diamonds now drop when brushing suspicious sand in desert pyramids. | ||||
| 1.20 | 23w12a | The probability for the diamond to generate in the suspicious sand in desert temple has been changed from 1/7 to 1/8. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| v0.2.0 | Added diamonds. They are currently unobtainable and serve no purpose. | ||||
| v0.3.2 | Diamonds can be collected and used to craft blocks of diamond and diamond axes, pickaxes, swords and shovels. | ||||
| v0.4.0 | Diamonds are now used to craft diamond hoes. | ||||
| v0.5.0 | Diamonds are now used to craft nether reactor cores. | ||||
| v0.6.0 | Diamonds are now used to craft diamond armor. | ||||
| v0.8.0 | build 1 | The texture of diamonds has been changed. | |||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | Diamonds are now used to craft enchanting tables. | |||
| Diamonds are no longer used to craft nether reactor cores and are now instead dropped by it. | |||||
| Diamonds now generate in nether fortress chests. | |||||
| v0.13.0 | build 1 | Diamonds now have a chance to generate in desert temple chests. | |||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | Diamonds are now found in minecart with chests in mineshafts. | |||
| v0.15.0 | build 1 | Diamonds can now be found in jungle temple chests. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Diamonds can now be found in altar chests in strongholds, dungeon chests and end city chests. | |||
| alpha 1.0.0.0 | Diamonds can now be found in blacksmith chests in villages. | ||||
| 1.0.4 | alpha 1.0.4.0 | 3-4 diamonds can now be traded to blacksmith villagers for an emerald as part of their third tier trades. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.2.0 | beta 1.2.0.2 | Diamonds can now be used to craft a firework star with a trail. | |||
| Diamonds can now be used to craft jukeboxes. | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.14.2 | Diamonds can now be found inside buried treasure chests and shipwrecks. | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Diamonds can now be found in plains village weaponsmith chests. | |||
| The texture of diamonds has been changed. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Diamonds can now be found in village toolsmith chests and in savanna, desert, taiga, and snowy taiga village weaponsmith chests. | |||
| beta 1.11.0.4 | Armorer, toolsmith, and weaponsmith villagers now buy one diamond for an emerald as part of their fourth tier trades. | ||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | Diamonds can now be found in bastion remnant chests. | |||
| 1.17.0 | beta 1.16.230.52 | Diamonds can now drop and be smelted from deepslate diamond ore. | |||
| 1.20.0 (Experimental) | beta 1.19.70.23 | Diamonds now drop when brushing suspicious sand in desert pyramids. | |||
| beta 1.19.80.21 | Diamonds can now be used to craft smithing templates. | ||||
| Diamonds can now be used as an armor trim material. | |||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | Added diamonds. |
| TU5 | Diamonds are now found in the new mineshaft chests. | ||||
| TU7 | Diamonds are now used to craft enchantment tables. | ||||
| TU9 | Diamonds are now found in village blacksmith chests. | ||||
| TU14 | 1.04 | Diamonds can now be traded to blacksmith villagers in quantities of 3–5 for 1 emerald. | |||
| Added desert temples, with a hidden chest room and loot containing diamonds. | |||||
| Added jungle temples, which contain loot chests with diamonds. | |||||
| The texture of diamonds has been changed. | |||||
| TU19 | CU7 | 1.12 | Diamonds can now be used to craft a firework star with a trail | ||
| Diamonds are now found in the new nether fortress chests. | |||||
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Diamonds can now be traded to any black apron villager in quantities of 3–4 for 1 emerald, as their tier III trade. | |
| TU46 | CU36 | 1.36 | Patch 15 | Diamonds now generate in end city chests. | |
| TU69 | 1.76 | Patch 38 | Diamonds now generate in buried treasure chests. | ||
| Diamonds now generate in shipwreck treasure chests. | |||||
| 1.90 | The texture of diamonds has been changed. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added diamonds. | ||||
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Diamond" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[]
- Unlike in Minecraft, newly mined diamonds in real life are rough, cloudy stones. The largest, purest ones are polished into crystal-clear gemstones, while the rest are used in industry for cutting and grinding.
- Although diamonds themselves are not renewable, all tools, weapons, and armor made from diamonds can be acquired through trading, and are therefore renewable. Other items crafted from diamonds are not renewable.
- In the April fools version Java Edition 2.0, diamond chickens can lay diamonds. This does not exist in newer versions, as this was a joke.
- The item forms of diamonds and turtle eggs have the same shape.
Gallery[]
Naturally occurring diamonds.
Multiple ore blobs.
Diamond ore near Lava.
Another Diamond ore blob near Lava.
10 ore diamond blob.
A blacksmith offering an emerald for a diamond.
Official diamond pendant made by JINX.
Official t-shirt artwork "All Mine" which features a diamond. Made by JINX
4 ways of viewing 12 diamonds in stone form
External Links[]
- Taking Inventory: Diamond – Minecraft.net on February 20, 2019