[melaniebeedot]

The technique you've described is well known and a common technique for sure, but that's not where we were seeing areas of concern in your mines. Let me show you.


Here, at Y -33, you randomly mine 8 blocks into a flat deepslate wall with no other ores and happen upon diamonds. Luck?





From there you drop down, not to Y -59, but to Y -52, and head straight over into a patch of diamonds:





Maybe you just tunneled down and stopped randomly at -52 and decided to strip mine from there and got lucky that those diamonds were in your path? 


Except, I noticed as I walked down your tunnel, that the diamonds aren't directly visible in the tunnel walls, yet you happened to stop and mine into the wall/ceiling right where the diamonds were to find them, so I'm wondering how you knew they were there....








Here's another instance where you had been tunnelling straight for quite a while, and then happened to stop and break through solid deepslate straight into diamonds, not leading from redstone, because the redstone ore seen in the picture was found afterwards as you continued your tunnel on






Here's another one, a very long tunnel, and a very lucky stop right through solid tuff to where diamonds happened to be waiting:






Here's another one, where you were tunnelling a 2-wide tunnel downwards for 73 blocks to get to Y -59, but you dug a bit wider through all deepslate to snatch up some diamonds hidden in the wall, 1 block over and 3 blocks back, that there was no way you could have seen from your 2-wide tunnel, which you continued 2-wide afterwards the rest of the way down to Y -59






How about this one, where you start tunnelling down from a cave, straight onto diamonds? Lets call that one luck.






But then from there, you keep tunnelling straight down, until you suddenly decide to staircase off into a nearby cave, what luck! And then, you tunnel 12 blocks into the other side of the cave straight into a pocket of diamonds! Then you back up and make a 90 degree turn and tunnel straight to a deep dark biome. A very lucky day indeed.







Here it is again from another angle, I have a reallly hard time believing this was just luck.

First image is removing all your mining in the area to show a ''before'' look, the existing tunnel that you see there on the right is your friend .n4teglitch who goes on further down below the cave.





Then we see where you came into the picture, from next to .n4teglitch's tunnel, staircasing down right over to the cave and then crossing the cave to tunnel straight into the wall to get to the diamonds, and then back up and tunnel 90 degrees straight over 22 blocks right into a deep dark biome:






None of these instances involve Y -59 or redstone or gold ore veins.


So tell me again how you've never used x-ray?