Minecraft 1.17 Made A Huge Change To Diamonds...

[Music] hey gamers it's me dojolippe here welcome back so i keep seeing versions of this comment all over my comment section diamond generation has changed why level 5 or y level 6 is the new best that's really interesting today we're going to test it if diamond or generation has changed uh yeah definitely that's something we 100 should know about i've come up with a couple tests in today's video we're going to run them and talk about them remember to leave a like to become very cool and subscribe to become even cooler if you've already done both of those things then you're the best so the really strange thing about this change is the fact that the changelogs has absolutely nothing about it diamond generation yeah you know that's kind of a pretty big thing you would think if the update changed diamond generation the devs would definitely say something about it right well wrong this is the official java 1.17 changelog straight from the minecraft website if we do a quick search on diamonds the only change that we have to diamond here is the or texture staying the same so it's not even a change but the changelog doesn't rule it out just because it's not there doesn't mean it's not in the update small changes are made in these updates all the time that actually don't end up making it to the changelog for whatever reason a couple weeks ago i dropped a video talking about how caves changed a little more than you would think for an update that didn't change caves yeah that's the perfect example of this the second half of the caves and cliffs update 1.18 will be making some pretty gigantic changes to the underground the underground is not only getting deeper but the caves inside of it are getting way bigger in the update bedrock is getting moved from y 0 all the way down to y negative 64. and the caves are gonna end up looking something like this uh really check-in to really really dark is just insane best caves that we've ever seen they look amazing of course in a gigantic update that literally moves bedrock uh or generation is gonna have to change ores are gonna generate in completely different spots but that's in 1.18 and 1.17 the caves are still the same mostly and the bedrock is definitely the same minecraft 1.17 actually changed cave generation a little bit the biggest change is probably deep slate deep slit is a brand new type of stone that generates down low in your world down below y16 clearly however that cannot be the only thing that generates below y16 not a chance diamonds also generate below y16 of course and right there that's the problem allegedly at least deep slate and diamonds and a lot of the comments i was seeing about this diamond change stuff there was a common theme deep slate is the reason that diamond generation has changed because deep slate generates in the same area that diamonds generate diamond generation has completely changed in 1.17 is it actually because of the deep slate i'm not too sure but diamond generation has changed is y11 the best spot to find diamonds now or is it actually y5 the first test that we're gonna run today is a branch mining test we're gonna make a brand new world completely random seed i know literally nothing about this world that i'm creating right now here's the world this is what it looks like this is the seed first thing that i'm gonna do in this world is get some gear we're gonna need a pickaxe we're gonna need another pickaxe we're gonna need an anvil we're gonna need efficiency we're gonna need efficiency i'm gonna take this anvil put the pickaxes inside of it with the efficiency and make two efficiency five netherite pickaxes we're gonna use these in the test so here we go i made two pickaxes one pickaxe called like that has efficiency c5 the other pickaxe called sub that has efficiency five they're the exact same thing is it better to mine at y11 or y5 in 1.17 i've come up with a test that should help us answer this question we're gonna run a branch mind test we're gonna run the test three times for each layer so three times at y11 three times all the way down here at y5 when we branch mine at y5 we're going to see all of these blocks down here at y11 same thing but higher up y11 used to be the way to go but now allegedly y5 is gonna be faster back to the pickaxes i need one of them i also get a shovel in case i find dirt the test is gonna be pretty simple i'm gonna branch mine at y11 as soon as i mine the very first block with a pickaxe like that right there i'm gonna start a timer on my phone the timer is going to keep running until i find a single block of diamond it doesn't matter if it's deep slate diamond or if it's just normal diamond ore but diamonds we're trying to figure out how long it actually will take us to find diamonds the amount of diamonds that we find doesn't matter at all it could be eight diamonds it could be one diamond literally doesn't matter we're just trying to see how long it will actually take us to find diamonds aha a cave system so cave systems are kind of tricky i feel like they're kind of cheating but at the same time if i make a branch mine and i hit a cave system i mean i still hit the cave system and i needed the branch mine so i think how we're gonna do it is if there's diamonds like right at my level inside of the cave system i can count those diamonds but if not like let's say the diamonds are way higher up or something then they don't count to be honest i don't really know how i feel about cage systems they're kind of tricky i feel like we'll definitely end up finding more cave systems when we're mining at y11 instead of y5 because caves generate like that so i don't know hopefully we just don't find any diamonds in the cave that would be great now the hallway doesn't have to be one continuous hallway i can turn i do whatever i want it just has to stay at y11 the whole time and then at y5 when i'm doing the y5 test i also give myself night vision so we don't have to worry about running out of torches or anything like that and i set the game to peaceful so i don't have to worry about mobs now from my experience at 1.17 it's painful it's really hard i've been mining at y11 like the whole time and yeah i haven't been able to find any diamonds uh of course in survival yeah it it's bad it definitely seems off diamonds have like 100 for sure seemed way less common three minutes in and i found nothing so far i kind of expected that one though only three minutes oh three minutes and 13 seconds right there diamond number one not of curiosity how many diamonds it looks like we ended up finding uh eight diamonds uh yup yup chunk of eight diamonds okay three minutes 13 seconds at the end of the first test this is what my inventory looks like if you're wondering y11 test number two i move myself off to an entirely different spot so i don't end up hitting my old tunnel uh y11 start the timer right now i feel like that last house was honestly kind of lucky like three minutes that's not bad at all like i could do that i have not gotten that lucky in a while also super glad that we didn't hit a cave system and find diamonds there because honestly i don't know how i feel about it like would that be really fair because caves are less common the deeper you go in fact the deeper we go probably the more likely we end up just running into a lava pit we're gonna have to be careful down low so if i hit a cave system at y11 and find diamonds i mean sure i found the cave system from the branch mine and without the branch of mind i wouldn't have found it but is it fair for the test i don't know hey i found copper that's cool oh there we go two minutes and 35 seconds this is so fast this time 235 test number two at the end of the second test this is what we have y11 test number three back in a completely random new spot at y11 test starts right now so far my luck today has been like really really good like three minutes and then two minutes like that's insane usually i don't get that lucky with diamonds usually it's a really really painful process but but yeah wow like that's not bad at all i wish my survival world could be like this one because whatever's going on over here like this is good this is really good just past the three minute mark now and test number three and so far nothing did find a case system though oh no way hey no way that's sweet that's awesome i found a geode that's sweet six and a half minutes this is way more like him this is way more like my normal look ah there we go there we go eight minutes and 33 seconds two more diamonds completely forgot to check on the last one it doesn't really matter anyways though but it looks like this time we have eight diamonds inventory after the final test uh yep it's a lot uh pickaxe is like halfway gone now these are the times for y11 now it's time for y5 the tests for y5 are going to be exactly the same i started the timer as soon as i started mining and we're going to keep mining until i find diamonds down at y5 y5 and y6 are supposedly the best spots to find diamonds in 1.17 we'll see no matter what ends up happening today why five wins why 11 wins we're running this test three times for each layer that's a tiny sample size to get more accurate results and to actually like experiment on this more i would highly recommend running this test even more times like over and over and over again the more times you run this test the more accurate it's going to get you could also just clear out a big area of space like we're to do next and take a look at it you can count where the diamonds are actually generating that would work too there are honestly a bunch of different tests that you could run to figure out where diamonds are generating most this is just one of them and it's a really small sample size keep that in mind and there we are the very first diamond two minutes and 34 seconds wait that's weird two minutes 34 seconds isn't that uh yeah yeah yeah no it's like literally almost the same that's so weird inventory after y5 test one y5 test number two starts right now now the first time i really started seeing comments about this was on the deep slave video i was talking about finding deep slate there it is 31 seconds 31 seconds i couldn't even say what i was saying 31 seconds all right uh 31 seconds yeah definitely the best time so far inventory after test one other than the sign is that and then that's it why five test number three go i was trying to say that the first time i started really seeing comments about this was on the deep slave video in that video i was talking about finding deepslide at y11 uh just like where you would find diamonds and yeah no i guess that's all changed if this all holds up which i have a pretty good feeling about it to be honest but if it all holds up uh so far from what i'm seeing uh you could definitely find deep slate down at y52 so instead of mining for deep sled at y11 just go down to y5 also i feel like bad oh okay okay uh 151 i was going to say deep sleep it's a bad rep because tough generates down here too and diamond's tough they don't get along uh well 151 after running through the third and final test for y5 this is what the inventory looks like so yeah it's not even close at all uh basically no literally every single y5 time is quicker than the quickest y11 time i don't even have to add these numbers up for you to see that y5 is faster averaging these times out it would come out to four minutes and something averaging these times out over here it will come to one minute and something so way faster like by far for diamonds at y5 that's like that's that's literally insane so diamonds y5 it's not even close it's way faster but again a really small sample size for more accurate results run the test over more times over and over and over uh same exact thing and you'll get even better results so after that one uh originally i was going to run a 10 minute mining test 10 minutes at y11 10 minutes at y5 i don't think we even have to do that though it's not even close i thought it would be way closer so next up moving on i cleared out a gigantic space down here the top of the space is y16 the bottom is bedrock so uh look at this this is in 1.17 with 1.17 generation uh diamonds there are a few diamonds in here right now i'm flying around at y11 and uh generally speaking it looks like a majority of the diamonds are definitely generating under y11 of course you're gonna have some instances where they don't but like for the most part like down there uh down there over there there's some below y11 over here they're just below y11 if i were branch mining just right i would find them but even more down there down low even more over there down low like across the board in this very small area it looks like a lot of the diamonds are actually generating a little lower now just like the last test very small sample size what you would want to do is do this on an even bigger scale to get a better representation but yeah generally speaking looks like diamonds are pretty low now if we were to take things from y11 and move them down to like y5 like we did last time now we're actually gonna end up running into a lot of these diamonds if i were branch mining like those ones right there those ones right there these ones over here in between the redstone and the coal these ones are a little bit higher than y5 but these ones are perfect same thing over and over again diamonds down here y5 diamonds over there y5 big diamond chunk over there y5 yeah now just out of curiosity here i made the exact same world back in 1.16.5 went down to the same exact spot cleared out pretty much the same exact space so this world it was originally generated in 1.16.5 it's in 1.17 now but it was originally generated in 1.16.5 which means no deep slate no tough no deep slate ores none of that stuff the old ore generation 2. now the first thing that i noticed off the bat here uh was the redstone uh i don't know if it's just me or what but it looks like there's an absurd amount of redstone in here like this is crazy second thing that i noticed and the important thing for us today the diamonds seem to be way higher up across the board so right now i'm at y11 if i move things down to y5 uh look at this like diamonds i mean they do generate down low sometimes but way less common like by far or at least that's what it seems there are still diamond chunks to generate down low but it seems like based off of this small sample size diamonds in general generated a little bit higher now in between versions or placement or generation changes completely i wouldn't be able to say find this chunk of diamonds right here write down the coordinates of it in this version go to the updated one and see if it's still there it doesn't work like that they change so very small sample size for both things that we took a look at today the branch mining test and this area but based off of what we took a look at today diamonds are definitely more common lower now what caused this change i'm not too sure was it deep site was it tough uh was it just something else in general i don't know but it looks like if you're looking for diamonds and you're looking for them as quick as possible forget y11 actually y5 y5 or y6 is where it's at now now i'd like to end today's video with a shout out because there was a really really interesting video that i highly recommend you check out after this the king the absolute swelling brain king is zuma void izuma dropped a minecraft mythbusters on the same exact thing and the results were the same izuma also found the diamonds are common at y5 and y6 not y11 anymore with his calculations diamonds got more common in 1.17 too at y5 and y6 they generate more in 1.17 than they did at like y11 and 1.16 so in conclusion for everything here diamonds actually maybe got a little bit easier to find in 1.17 if you're not on bedrock with that bug as long as you know where to look lord zenera husk sound 34 glaivers thank you so much for the support check out that azuma mythbusters video very very interesting i'll see you all in the next one hope you enjoyed like subscribe comment [Music] goodbye [Music] you

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Published: Tue Jun 29 2021