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Add a diamond ore batch to make exploring tunnel caves and shafting useful

A few snapshots back, diamonds were made much rarer due to the amount of blocks noise caves expose, however, this has left other methods of gathering diamond such as searching tunnel caves and shafting very ineffective

Add one final batch of diamond ore that resembles the current generation. A single vein between levels -44 and -64, with perhaps a 1/2 to 2/3rds chance of generating per chunk, with a vein size of 0-10, with a 50% chance of not generating if exposed to water or tunnel cave air, and a 75% chance of not generating if exposed to air in a noise cave.

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• April 08, 2021 15:15
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  • April 08, 2021 19:42
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  Check the Diamond ore generation on the Minecraft Wiki. This will probably serve what you want. I believe they managed to make exploring the most exciting and desirable way of mining while still keeping a lot of value and balance to strip-mining if you want to do that.

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  • April 08, 2021 21:04
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  From both experience and data I compiled, I know for a fact that diamond is far rarer in the caves and cliffs update, the point of this suggestion is to balance diamond ore generation in a way to make diamond mining as balanced as it used to be.
  
  Approximate diamond ore generation is shown in this chart, with the amount of ores found in each layer of 100 chunks on average.