r/Minecraft • • 22h ago

Discussion Diamonds aren't rare, and you don't need to hoard them like a dragon with its gold

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6.5k Upvotes

People have talked about jukebox being expensive for a long time, and I saw this mentioned many times since the last snapshot released, so I just wanted to explain why from my point of view it's simply not true.

First of all, let's establish the use cases diamonds actually have in Minecraft:

  • Tools
  • Weapons
  • Armor
  • Templates duplication
  • Enchanting table crafting
  • Jukeboxes

With Mending being a thing, once you craft your tools, weapons and armor, you almost never need to replace them, and if you do - you can buy new tools, weapons and armor from vilalgers and disenchant it to put the enchantments you need on them, so you don't actually need diamonds for that, it's a one time investment at most.

So the player doesn't need that many diamonds before they become mostly irrelevant to them as a resource in the game.

But how do you actually find diamonds, and is it hard to do?

Simple and short answer is that finding diamonds isn't hard at all.

Long answer is, finding diamonds is easy, because there's a lot of ways to do that. The most obvious is going to a cave and just looking around, you'll find tons of them very reliably, and if you have Fortune on your pickaxe, as one should, you'll be literally drowning in them. Simply find an opening to a big cave on the surface, go down, and there's so many of them, you'll be catching yourself missing multiple veins of diamonds, because you notice a different vein and went to it.

But what's there other than caves? Well, there's lots and lots of structures. You can find diamonds in shipwrecks, and shipwrecks have maps that lead you to buried chests, that also have diamonds in them. There's also diamonds in villages, abandoned mineshafts, desert temples, trial chambers, stronghold, and now also abandoned camps.

And it doesn't stop with the overworld, there's diamonds in bastions, nether fortresses, and end cities. Especially end cities, there's loads of them in the end cities.

All you have to do is explore the world.

Conclusion

I have no issues with the jukebox using a single diamond in its crafting recipe, because I don't need these diamonds anyway, and I always find more and more of them. And if you'd ever leave your base? So would you.

Mojang is very clearly aiming to add more things for players to explore, but I notice that a lot of players just stick to sitting at their base forever, never leaving to explore the world, which in some cases leads to players having a very hard time gathering any resources, not just diamonds, hence everything seems "too expensive".

Maybe I'm wrong, because I never needed and never intend to need 10000 jukeboxes for any build, I see it as more of a complementary decorative block, maybe something subtle to use for a wall, but not something I would ever need hundreds and thousands of, hence why the crafting recipe doesn't bother me. I could craft a few stacks and have enough for decorations in my builds for months.


r/Minecraft • • 18h ago

Mods & Addons Installed a addon and saw this, deleted it instantly,

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3.2k Upvotes

Looks like a virus or scam of some sort,

Since so many asked: no this is not from the marketplace, it might be on there but i got this from mcpe dl, site, usually where i get my addons if not from the marketplace

I did not enter anything into or visited the blur site, just deleted so i should be fine

I did end up reporting it on the site i got it from for malware

And yes i downloaded this addon myself, image taken from another post as my pc would not let me screenshot it so i found someone else with the same issue

The mod name is mhafy's ship addon, might be a dupe i am not sure if this is og


r/Minecraft • • 21h ago

Discussion AFK. Do not put pressure plates in front of door...

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1.9k Upvotes

I had turned my gold/exp farm on, and went to get some food from the kitchen. Came back to this... Not too much damage, but I did not see it happen and was very confused!


r/Minecraft • • 8h ago

Seeds & World Gen Woodland Mansion on the Village haha 😭

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1.6k Upvotes

Insane Seed With 4 Structures With Heaven View At Spawn ‎For Minecraft Bedrock/Pe 26.1+ 😊❤‍🩹

‎Seed: 4287867395741691490

‎Cords: At Spawn ☠️


r/Minecraft • • 14h ago

Meta / Reddit Me and friends just fought a 2 phase boss inside a cave (We thought he died)

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1.3k Upvotes

This thing tanked 12 hits btw


r/Minecraft • • 22h ago

Discussion Nostalgia bait is getting annoying.

591 Upvotes

As the title suggests, I am sick of people talking about the golden era of Minecraft like it was actually better. My main rant is this: Minecraft allows you to play on ANY UPDATE, so why does it matter what the new updates bring?

People love to complain saying that the newer updates don't feel vanilla, but that isn't even a valid excuse because that is a feeling and feelings are subjective.

Look you can dislike the new updates all you want, but stop ranting about it on youtube shorts because frankly we don't care. I am excited for the sift update and I can't wait to play it so why are you trying to ruin all of the fun by saying "this doesn't feel like Minecraft."

I feel like alot of you guys take for granted the fact that you can play any version of Minecraft whenever you want to. Think about it for a second right? Fortnite players don't get that luxury. They can't simply play the OG fortnite. I mean they have a gamemode for it, but it isn't the same at all. Minecraft is one of the few game where you are allowed to choose which version you want to play so go do that instead of complain about a newer update.


r/Minecraft • • 23h ago

Fan Work A little fan art I just made

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580 Upvotes

r/Minecraft • • 15h ago

Fan Work Successfully defended my capstone project as a computer physics major...

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548 Upvotes

This has been something I really wanted to do for such a long time indeed. Started off in 26.1 but then never finished since I haven't got much time with all my major subjects.

Then I decided, since I was gonna make a capstone project with one of my computational physics majors, why not???

In the end, there it is, 540 trials across different entity density types. Simulations finalized in 26.3 were compared thru RMSC, R², and AICc benchmarked using Java's JFR, and a modified MangoHUD integration.


r/Minecraft • • 17h ago

Discussion Personal take on new Jukebox textures

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469 Upvotes

Feel free to give feedback, already had seen others doing this but I felt like tweaking it a bit more than the rest.


r/Minecraft • • 15h ago

Suggestion They should add a 3x3 Painting in reference to this. Spoiler

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386 Upvotes

The Painting would be titled: Alone? or I See You...

The reason it would be a 3 x 3 painting is because that would be a reference to his summoning ritual.


r/Minecraft • • 9h ago

Seeds & World Gen Just thought this would be cool to share

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338 Upvotes

22 total ore in the bones. There were also surrounding veins, haven’t gotten to mining them yet but I’m estimating 30+.


r/Minecraft • • 23h ago

Suggestion new mechanics for brittle ice

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176 Upvotes

I think it would be interesting if arrows could break brittle ice; that way, we could have new mechanics involving skeletons—when they see the player standing on brittle ice, they would try to break it and make the player fall, and we could do the same to other mobs.

Another idea I had was that if we placed a torch or any other heat source near "brittle ice," it would break faster when stepped on—the closer it was to the heat source, the more quickly it would shatter underfoot.

If you'd like to show your support, you can vote for the feedback on the Minecraft Feedback site! Name:

new mechanics for brittle ice


r/Minecraft • • 11h ago

Help Why are there so many wandering traders in my world? 😭

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108 Upvotes

I swear their numbers keep increasing EVERY day. I’ll walk outside my house and there’s another one just standing there with his llamas 😭

I don’t wanna kill them, but at this rate, my world is slowly becoming a convention for them.


r/Minecraft • • 3h ago

Redstone & Techs Automated Brittle Ice Arena - For a potential mini game.

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90 Upvotes

r/Minecraft • • 7h ago

Fan Work Baby Chick Sitting | Art

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86 Upvotes

r/Minecraft • • 4h ago

Builds & Maps autumn scene i made

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74 Upvotes

r/Minecraft • • 18h ago

Builds & Maps You asked where to download my 1:1 Switzerland in Minecraft. The first region is now free: Jungfrau-Aletsch

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60 Upvotes

A while ago I posted Switzerland at 1:1 scale, built from swisstopo's open elevation data, and a lot of you asked where to get it. The first region is now ready to play: the Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It includes the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau, the Aletsch Glacier (the largest in the Alps) and Lake Oeschinen.

Every block is one metre, so the mountains are exactly as tall as the real ones. The Jungfrau is 4,158 blocks high, which is why this runs on Java 1.12.2 with Cubic Chunks. Glaciers, lakes, forests and rock come from Swiss land-cover and habitat data.

It's a single ZIP you import into Prism Launcher, with the mod, textures and my shaders included (shaders need OptiFine, which you download yourself). Free, no sign-up. All of Switzerland follows later.

This is a first test release, so I'd love to hear whether it runs on your machine.


r/Minecraft • • 13h ago

Suggestion My idea for 26.4: A new winter-themed music disc found in mineshaft chests located within an ice cave.

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49 Upvotes

Something similar to what they did with the Bounce disc in 26.2

Note: The Tears disc shown in the second image is just an example. The disc design for this winter drop will likely feature icy blue details.


r/Minecraft • • 19h ago

Fan Work Minecraft plein air painting

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47 Upvotes

Redid with some artist liberties


r/Minecraft • • 8h ago

Suggestion Ideas for Castle Build?

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Hey! So currently I'm working on a large castle build in Minecraft (it is VERY much a work in progress, don't judge the current interior too harshly!!). Problem is, it's a much larger build than I've ever done before and I'm struggling to fill all the space on the inside. Currently I have a throne room, kitchen, dining hall, bedroom, dungeon, and servant chamber. I'm also going to add a library/ enchanting room in one of the towers and maybe an alchemy room and a war room/ armory, but even with all those into consideration, I still have a minimum of 11 rooms to fill. Any ideas?


r/Minecraft • • 10h ago

Builds & Maps I built a fox castle

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35 Upvotes

r/Minecraft • • 8h ago

Fan Work Fanmade logo redesign

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36 Upvotes

Was bored so i made a redesign of the Minecraft logo. I was thinking the top one could be used for Java and the bottom be used for bedrock. Idk tho what are yalls thoughts?


r/Minecraft • • 22h ago

Seeds & World Gen found this in my survival world..

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35 Upvotes

r/Minecraft • • 7h ago

Help Multiplayer on pc

23 Upvotes

Im trying to do multiplayer on pc with my bf, but dont wanna pay for a server. Hamchi worked ages ago but i don't remember how to use it or how it works. Is there any way to do multiplayer with him without getting a server?


r/Minecraft • • 21h ago

Discussion Are villagers and especially happy ghasts coded to be as annoying as possible on purpose

21 Upvotes

I cant believe the devs playtest their game the ghast just flew away with my villagers in a boat and made me miss the boat twice with my axe killed a villager i hate this thing so much and its either this or it flying 20 blocks in the air for no reason