Diamond Ore

Diamond ore is a rare ore that generates deep underground, and drops diamonds when mined.

Deepslate diamond ore is a variant of diamond ore that can generate in deepslate and tuff blobs, and is more common than its regular variant.

The diamond ore block itself (rather than its diamond drops) can be obtained by mining it with an iron pickaxe or better, with the Silk Touch enchantment. When mined without Silk Touch, diamond ore drops a single diamond and 3–7XP. The maximum number of diamonds dropped from a diamond ore block can be increased with Fortune. Fortune I gives a 1⁄3 chance for 2 diamonds, averaging 1.33 diamonds, Fortune II gives a 25% chance (each) to give 2 or 3 diamonds, averaging 1.75 diamonds, and Fortune III gives a 20% chance (each) to give 2, 3, or 4 diamonds, averaging 2.2 diamonds.