Mining gems, experience so far

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Been playing since 12pm it’s 7pm now. Have mined around 70 diamonds any tips on finding them would be greatly appreciated. I have used the mining portals, found about 5-10 but then I went back to we’re I found the bulk of my gems. I am trying to stay around Altitude 30 as that’s what a graph I saw showed. I am using an atlas the area im in currently has a ton of yellow. When I find diamonds I usually try to switch directions as I imagine there is some kind of radius that it is generated, maybe? Anyways about 90 gems to go and I can make gem tools!

Just found 4 more blocks I have luck bonus V and all I got was 4 lol. Ah well I made it this far il get what I need eventually.

Near lava and at Altitude 15 has been awesome so far!! Thanks for the tips!

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Andooweem is a Level 2 planet, luck attribute just affect on Level 3 planet, so each diamond seam just drop 1

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Ahhhhhh, no wonder. That’s a shame = Looking forward to new planets now haha.

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if you want found much diamond, you can try to find it under 15 height
Can avoid gravel and sand

craft diamond hammer, dig 3 width 2 height horizontal pit to the edge of the enrichment area, you can find many diamond

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diamond is best found in desert areas a atlas will help to keep you in the area and they are also best found at lava lvl or under. Also I find them at the end of coal’s

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Andoweem is made of diamond.

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Use an Atlas. Put diamond in Atlas. Dig down until you reach alt 9. Dig with a diamond hammer in straight like in YELLOW areas on Atlas.

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I used an atlas with a diamond all day, started around noon ended up with 79, I still need 81. It’s such a grind…

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Diamond Mine Pit!

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Yeah, to be it’s on a tier 2 planet…

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Nice honeycomb you left there!

Once you have gem (especially diamond) hammers mining diamonds becomes much easier. I think the hardest part is trying to find them using pre-gem tools simply because of the time it takes to mine a large enough area 1block at a time.

When I started digging on Andooweem, the only diamonds I’d find were the occasional one at the end of coal or iron seam that I was mining out. Also, it was often 2blocks away from my tunnel -so close and yet so far.

So, being an optimiser, I found a quick way to expose as many blocks as possible using iron tools.

Start out with your atlas, getting down to around lvl 8-10 inside a hotspot, and dig a 2 high room about 20x20. This is the slow part.

Now, you are sure to find all the gems in this area but it takes a long time. My tip is to find all gems in the 3 layers above- you dig up straight vertical tunnels in an offset pattern, meaning that the sides of the tunnels expose every block as far up as you can reach like this:

XXOXXXXOXX
OXXXXOXXXX
XXXOXXXXOX
XOXXXXOXXX

Sorry screenshot not available this week.
It’s the pattern that knights (horsies, ♘ ) move in chess, two forward one left(right). As long as you pick either left OR right, then repeat indefinitely.

Each tunnel exposes the 4 squares next to it, no 2 tunnels expose the same block twice and no blocks get skipped. This gives 100% exposure for 20% mining.

If you’re done with your level, you can extend your room and carry on, or build a staircase to make the top of your tunnels the floor of your next room (about 4-5 levels up) and repeat.

Just a hint to speed up strip mining before gem tools :wink:

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Sorry, I think this all has to do with Aliens.

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Smart.
I usually mine a corridor then turn either left or right, skip 2 blocks and start digging in the opposite direction. Same rule. Exposing as many as possible with less rock breaking. Eventually I change altitude with the same rule of skipping 2 blocks.

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Sometimes I use a pattern where some blocks are not even seen. Because the risk of missing a diamond seam is still small given that they take up several blocks of space.

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So how come everyone keeps saying diamond hammer? I made a few titanium ones that hit harder than diamond (look at the stats). Am I missing something? Diamond hammers also require 1500 power to make and currently I only have enough to make 700 power.

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Diamond hammers hit 3 blocks at the same time (horizontally), as opposed to just one

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WHAT, that’s wild…

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Yup. Emerald hammers hit a nice “+” shape 3 high and 3 wide, but does less damage per swing so breaks less blocks per durability loss. Still my preferred tunneller though as 5 broken blocks expose 13 blocks, and you can walk through this tunnel. With the diamond you can break 6 blocks in the same number of hits, exposing 16 blocks in total. The view / inventory fill gain is marginal (2.6 vs 2.666 blocks revealed per block mined) but thats why I carry both when I go gem hunting

Edit- feels like I should drop a few YouTube videos showing some tricks & tips with gem tools… First figure out how this thing works hehe

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No wonder I saw plus signs underground, I didn’t realize a gem tool was doing it so I was doing it with an iron one haha. Still there are clearly much better ways to look for diamond than I was doing. I look forward bto trying out everyone’s suggestions.

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Have you ever mined up and found lava?